Abstract
Field sketching – today and at the beginning of professional military mapping
Highlights
Field mapping is associated with topographic surveying and cataloguing elements of the natural environment on a topographic map on a scales ranging from 1:10.000 to 1: 50.000
Military field mapping refers to the beginning of professional topographic surveying, i.e. military reconnaissance in eighteenth-century Europe
Military topographers use different instruments and materials, e.g. a tablet with GIS-GPS mapping software; GPS receiver with compass; a prismatic compass; a digital or paper field sketchbook; printed fragments of the topographic map placed in surveyors folding frame with pencil; laser rangefinder or surveyor tape
Summary
Military field mapping refers to the beginning of professional topographic surveying, i.e. military reconnaissance in eighteenth-century Europe. Abstract: Field mapping is associated with topographic surveying and cataloguing elements of the natural environment on a topographic map on a scales ranging from 1:10.000 to 1: 50.000. The surveying instrument used for this purpose is mobile devices (tablet) with GIS software with an application making it possible to obtain topographic objects’ coordinates on GPS-receiver.
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