MApmaking Technology

By marissa vaughn

  • The First Map

    The First Map
    The USGS's early work involved conducting ground surveys of the west. The 19th-century cartographers used a classic mapping technique called plane-table surveying.

  • Plan table

    Plan table
    Despite the drawbacks,plan-table surveying remained the main method of mapping until the 1940s, when new technology arrived.

  • Aerial Photography

    Aerial Photography
    In this photograph, a Coast Guardsman prepares to take pictures during a flight.

  • AMNH

    AMNH
    the AMNH used Landsat images to finda new site of dinosaur and early mammal fossils in the Gobi Desert.

  • NASA

    NASA
    the NASA launched the first landsat satellite. The photographs produced from data gathered by landsat 1 and its successors showed earth in way it had never been seen before.