1-1. General a. The employment of artificial and natural earth satellites in geodetic programs coupled with advances in instrumentation and collection systems has provided the means for rapidly and accurately measuring the earth's size and shape. These earth measurements will pro- vide the basic network of ground control upon which engineer topographic units can prepare maps, charts, and geodetic data and related en- gineer intelligence studies. Future automation of cartographic and reproduction phases of mil- itary mapping, together with the use of elec- tronic distance ranging systems for ground survey measurements, will reduce the time re- quired for engineer topographic units to pro- duce mapping, charting and geodetic (MCG) products (fig. 1-1). m 5 o ft, n û M — ¿ KNOWN a. Ranging System (line-of-sight, light wave) b.
DesignationFM 5-146
EditionJan 1968
StatusSuperseded
Pages106
FunctionEngineering
CollectionHistoric
Public domain (U.S. Government work)