Modern trends of education in photogrammetry & remote sensing

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Persistent identifier:: 856467936

Title:: Modern trends of education in photogrammetry & remote sensing

Sub title:: ISPRS Commission VI Symposium, September 13 - 16, 1990, Rhodes Island, Greece

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (251 Seiten)

Year of publication:: 1990

Place of publication:: Athens

Publisher of the original:: Technical Chamber of Greece

Identifier (digital):: 856467936

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Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: Education (WG VI/2 and WG VI/7).

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Title:: EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN CARTOGRAPHY. Ferjan Ormeling.

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179 TEACHING CARTOGRAPHY TO NON-CARTOGRAPHERS As a subsidiary subject or as a short-term course for those that that will not have cartographic duties as their main task, two new developments are relevant: the development of desk top mapping and the development of knowledge-based systems in map design. Right now the software market is being provided extensively with map design routines, incorporated in business graphics packages, statistical packages or in their own right. These will allow for the fast and automated production of maps, and as these are applied usually by the non-graphicate (that is those without sufficient idea about the requirements and possibilities of (carto)graphic images, we will have to fear for the victims. It falls to the cartographer to try to cure the patients, and the waiting-rooms of our cartographic laboratories are filled with them. Desk Top Mapping is the current designation of the application of these mapping packages. Advantages of these packages are that maps can be produced without having to call on professional cartographers, that they have a graphical quality suitable for illustrating reports or leaflets, and that they can produce originals for simple colour printing. Drawbacks of the use of desk top mapping software are that, if one does not use the expertise of cartographers, one is liable to make mistakes in the graphical presentation. A first step in teaching non-cartographers the use of these packages, then, is to make them aware of the requirements of the cartographic grammar. Based upon the spatial properties of the data to be represented and the kind of message to be conveyed, specific graphic variables have to be selected and combined in mapping methods. This step can be omitted when special modules are added to the mapping packages that analyse the spatial properties of the data and the communication requirements and on this basis select the proper mapping methods, leaving open only the options to select the shape or colour of the symbols needed. These modules are developed nowadays all over the world, and we hope to be able to convert, as a next project of our commission, one of these knowledge/expert systems to a map design training package for general use. After the initial conceptual training, which only provides answers to the most commonly asked questions, potential desk top mapping users must be made aware of the shortcomings of these packages. The range of mapping methods available on them is reduced, as most of them do not have isoline map or flow line map options. There are no possibilities yet for professional colour printing quality, as there is no option for rota ting screens and thus avoid moiree. Full colour does not present difficulties, but this does restrict the design options. The misconception that in Desk Top Mapping the printing press is incorporated should be actively countered. Another restraint is the availability of topographic databases. For non-professional cartographers (at least that is our experience) an occasionally executed digitizing job is extremely time-consuming and error-prone, so that one is really dependant on what is available off the shelf from software houses. Teaching desk-top mapping was presented here as an example of what cartographers think their partners in the mapping sciences should at least know about cartography. It is to be regarded in the same light as e.g. the knowledge of remote sensing deemed necessary for cartographers. It is by speaking each others language that the mapping

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