Some Preliminary Notes on the Use of the Light Airplane and 35 mm. Camera in Geographic Field Research

Bibliographic Data

ID8375394
AuthorsClifford H Macfadden (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author)
Year1949
Volume39
Issue3
Pages188-200
Publication date1949-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00045604909352004
OpenAlexW2027093108
LanguageEN
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T HERE is considerable agreement among geographers that the inadequacy of available reconnaissance and inventory tools imposes a serious handicap on present-day geographical field research. This lack of tools results in excessively heavy demands both on the time and effort of the investigator, with the general result that geographic research is to a degree restricted. Consequently, there is an ever-pressing need for new kinds of field tools and techniques to supplement those already in use. Since geographical field research centers largely on the study and inventory of areal distributions and pattern associations, it long has been the geographer's hope to be able to view the manifold features of the landscape in their complex totality from vantage positions overhead. New tools and techniques which will furnish the field geographer with the great advantages of direct overhead observations and rapid and free movement are highly desirable. Equally desirable are new tools which will permit him personally to record his data photographically from overhead for future detailed study

Airplane · Cartography · Data science · Field (mathematics) · Geographer · Geography · Operations research · Overhead (engineering) · Aerospace Engineering · Computer Science · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies · Engineering · Mathematics

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