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PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING
consulting, geophysical scintillation surveys, magnetometer surveys, crop estimation, forest
stock surveys, off shore pollution, road alignment, railroad car clearance surveys, ocean cur
rents, satellite geodesy, crustal movements, terrain models, watershed surveys, earth volume,
tidal currents, stellar triangulation, medical and dental, ice flows, drain tile location, landslide
and soft foundation surveys, water depths, construction material surveys, missile positioning
and altitude, weather predictions, and ocean bottom surveys.
AUSTRALIA
Organizations
GOVERNMENTAL
Civil—The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Elec
tric Authority (SMHEA); Dept, of
Lands South Australia (DSLA); Lands
Survey Branch—Northern Territory Ad
ministration (LSB); Dept, of Lands and
Survey (Hobart, Tasmania) (DSL-H, T);
Division of National Mapping (DNM);
Dept, of Public Lands (Brisbane) (DPL);
Dept, of Land and Survey (Western
Australia) (DLS-WA); Dept, of Lands
(Sydney) (DL-S); Dept, of Crown Land
and Survey (Melbourne) (DCLS).
Military—The Royal Australian Survey
Corps, Dept, of the Army.
industry—Adastra Airways Pty., Ltd. (Syd
ney) (AAP); Australian Aerial Mapping
Pty., Ltd. (Sydney) (AAMP); Queensland
Aerial Survey Co. Pty. Ltd. (Brisbane)
(QAS).
university or institute—Univ. of Sydney
(US); Univ. of Melbourne (UM); Univ.
of New South Wales (Sydney) (UNSW);
Univ. of Adelaide (UA); Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology (RMIT); Univ. of
Queensland (UQ); Univ. of New England
(Armidale) (UNE); Univ. of Western
Australia (UWA); South Australian In
stitute of Technology (SAIT).
Activities
SMHEA—Mapping and surveying from
aerial and terrestrial photographs for the
investigation, design and construction of
hydro-electric projects for the Snowy
Mountain Hydro-Electric Authority; 10
years; scales 1:600 to 1:16,000.
DLSA—Topographic and large scale map
ping; 15 years; scales 1:480 to 1:31,680.
LSB—Providing engineering plans for de
velopment schemes in agriculture, beef
roads, water supply, etc.; just started;
scales 1:31,680 to 1:63,360.
DLS H,T—Analytical bridging by stereo
comparator, stereo-plotting, at scales from
1:480 to 1:25,000; 18 years.
DNM—The Photogrammetric Section of the
Topographic Branch, Division of National
Mapping prepares planimetric and topo
graphic map compilation sheets usually at
small or medium scales from vertical aerial
photography; 15 years; scales 1:2,400 to
1:100,000.
DPL—Aerotriangulation and plotting for
standard mapping at 1:31,680 with 25 ft.
contours and project mapping at various
scales and contour intervals for engineering
purposes; 12 years; scales 1:7,920 to
1:31,680.
DLS-WA—Basic topographic mapping for
standard 1:25,000 to 1:250,000 series in
Western Australia plus engineering and
project mapping for government sources;
10 years; scales 1 :480 to 1:16,000.
DL-S—Production of topographic maps; 11
years; scales 1:600 to 1:25,000.
DCLS—Topographic mapping and determi
nation of quantities; 18 years; scales 1:480
to 1:23,760.
RASC—Production of Australian military
maps; also reproduction of air force and
naval charts; 36 years; scales 1:20,000 to
1:50,000.
AAP—Aerial photography, photogrammetry,
ground survey, aeromagnetics; 33 years.
AAMP—Large scale engineering surveys to
medium scale reconnaissance and topo
graphical plans; 4 years; scales 1:480 to
1:15,840.
QAS—Engaged principally in large scale
plotting work, mosaicking, etc.; 2 years,
scales 1 :480 to 1 :4,800.
US—Teaching of elementary photogram
metry and photo-interpretation to Civil
Engineering students; 30 years.
UM—Course in photogrammetry; 75 hours
of lectures, 150 hours practical work for
Bachelor of Surveying; 14 years.
UNSW—Instruction in photogrammetry in
surveying and engineering degree courses;
13 years.
UA—Brief reference to theory in final year
lectures for civil engineering students (2
hours); 10 years.
RMIT—Education; 8 years