Are You In Need Of A California Aerial Mapping Company?
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by: John Toffey
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 Time: 11:29 AM
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Aerial Mapping - California provides an amazing array of services for creating aerial surveys, maps and pictures of California. These services include aerial mapping, surveys, GPS integration, aerial photography, orthophotography, topographic mapping, and aerial volume studies. California has a wide variety of companies and services.
Aerial mapping companies are used commercially by developers, realtors, planners and civil engineers for various development projects, including environmental impact reports. Surveys are used for small individual boundary issues to the retracing of subdivision dividing lines.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are being installed by government agencies in order to be prepared for major disasters where emergency workers need the locations of important sites such as schools, hospitals and telephone and electrical stations. A GIS combines a topographic map with overlays showing these critical locations. This information can be accessed through units similar to the GPS units now available in many cars for location and mapping information.
Aerial survey information is used by many non-profit organizations doing work on conservation, water use and large scale photographic surveys such as that produced by the California Coastal Records Project. Cal State Northridge, Whittier College, and the California aerial and Acoustic Sardine Survey are examples of agencies that use the services provided by aerial mappers.
Topographic and hydrographic mapping are important information sources created with the assistance of aerial mapping. The commonly known "topo" map, are produced by the United States Forest Service for Forest Service and Wilderness lands. In creating these maps, contour elevation overlays are added to the three dimensional photos. The US Geological Survey uses aerial photographs and satellite information to produce reports. Much of this information is available online.
Aerial photos are distorted by the curve of the earth. In order to correct this distortion, Orthophotography corrects this distortion through computer input so that the photo map shows the same uniform scale as a flat map, but it incorporates the aerial photographs.
Aerial Mapping services are based throughout California. Some are based in areas of specific interest, such as aerial photos of hot air balloon trips and even weddings. Traditional surveying and mapping is provided by companies based from Northern California to the Mexican border.
There is a strong overlap of networks in this field ranging from University programs to NASA and other government agencies such as USGS. Private companies know how to access the important elements of these networks. Many companies have been in business for years going back to the 1940's in some cases. The consumer will be well rewarded by researching and comparing the various companies' demonstrated expertise.
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