“Editing of Digital Data in the Automated Cartography System at the US Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories” by Shepherd
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- Editing of Digital Data in the Automated Cartography System at the US Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories
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The US Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories (USAETL) for some time has been engaged in automating the mapmaking processes. The objective is to reduce costs and/or decrease production time. For years the state-of-the-art in mapping has required manual methods, all the way from extracting data from photos through final scribing of color separations. Normally, up to two years are required for the production cycle of planning, gathering data, analysis and data extraction. Computers and automatic plotters have the potential to automate many of the heretofore tedious and time consuming manual processes traditionally
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