CONCLUSION
The UNAMACE has been established as
an exceedingly useful tool for the extraction
of basic map data from a variety of input
photography. Three are now being operated
by the Army Map Service. A fourth unit is
being used by the U.S. Army Engineer Topo-
graphic Laboratory to evaluate new tech-
niques and procedures,
The Automatic Photomapper currently
is being tested and evaluated by the U.S.
Army Engineer Topographic Laboratory.
It is expected that additional units of this
configuration will be constructed for use
in near-site mapping throughout the world.
These equipments have demonstrated
dramatically that the automatic extraction
of altitude data and concurrent production
of orthophotos is very practical. They will
form the nucleus of an increasingly auto-
mated map production operation.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The UNAMACE and Automatic Photo-
mapper have resulted from automatic map-
ping efforts conducted by The Bunker-Ramo
Corporation since 1960 and from earlier
related activities. The Automatic Stereo-
mapper?, an automated Kelsh plotter, was
operational in 1962. The Automatic Map
Compilation System*, a laboratory equip-
ment having many of the features of the
UNAMACE, was producing good ortho-
photos and altitude charts in 1963.
We have been indeed fortunate that the
small team responsible for these develop-
ments has been able to stay together over
this period. Mr. M. L. Baker, electronic
engineer and now Manager of the Automatic
Mapping Department at Bunker-Ramo, was
project engineer for the Automatic Stereo-
mapping System, for the first UNAMACEs,
and for the Automatic Photomapper; the
success of these equipments attests to his
engineering skill and devoted labors. Mr.
George Miller, mechanical engineer, was
responsible for the precision design of all
of the equipments; these have proven to be
very accurate and remarkably trouble-free.
Mr. Glenn Kimball, electronic engineer, did
much of the detailed electronic design on
both the UNAMACE and the Automatic Map
Compilation System.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sidney Bertram, * The Universal Auto-
matic Map Compilation Equipment,"
Volume XV, Part 4, International
Archives of Photogrammetry, 1965;
Photogrammetric Engineering, March
1965
Edward F. Burzynski, “UNAMACE
Tests,” Photogrammetric Engineer-
ing, March 1967
sidney Bertram, * Automatic Map Com-
pilation," Photogrammetric Engineer-
ing, January 1963
Sidney Bertram, * The Automatic Map
Compilation System," Photogrammet-
ric Engineering, July 1963
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