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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