The Surveys of Canada

Winterbotham, H. S. L.

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“…Burchall [49] explores the administrative necessity and relevant costs of linking the disciplines, and later Durward [50] provides a more matured overview of the integrating disciplines. Winterbotham [51], relaying the status-quo in Canada, remarks of the relationship forming between aeronautics and surveying in that jurisdiction, and sees a move beyond hype and despair, towards productive application: "There is everywhere the keenest interest in method and instrument and a marked absence of that sloppy over-confidence or wilful pessimism we have seen sometimes elsewhere in airman and surveyor respectively".…”

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Review of Remote Sensing for Land Administration: Origins, Debates, and Selected Cases

2021

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Conventionally, land administration—incorporating cadastres and land registration—uses ground-based survey methods. This approach can be traced over millennia. The application of photogrammetry and remote sensing is understood to be far more contemporary, only commencing deeper into the 20th century. This paper seeks to counter this view, contending that these methods are far from recent additions to land administration: successful application dates back much earlier, often complementing ground-based methods. Using now more accessible historical works, made available through archive digitisation, this paper presents an enriched and more complete synthesis of the developments of photogrammetric methods and remote sensing applied to the domain of land administration. Developments from early phototopography and aerial surveys, through to analytical photogrammetric methods, the emergence of satellite remote sensing, digital cameras, and latterly lidar surveys, UAVs, and feature extraction are covered. The synthesis illustrates how debates over the benefits of the technique are hardly new. Neither are well-meaning, although oft-flawed, comparative analyses on criteria relating to time, cost, coverage, and quality. Apart from providing this more holistic view and a timely reminder of previous work, this paper brings contemporary practical value in further demonstrating to land administration practitioners that remote sensing for data capture, and subsequent map production, are an entirely legitimate, if not essential, part of the domain. Contemporary arguments that the tools and approaches do not bring adequate accuracy for land administration purposes are easily countered by the weight of evidence. Indeed, these arguments may be considered to undermine the pragmatism inherent to the surveying discipline, traditionally an essential characteristic of the profession. That said, it is left to land administration practitioners to determine the relevance of these methods for any specific country context.

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“…Indeed, Canadian Forces have acquired a remarkable expertise in the development and use of geographical techniques and instruments, maps, air photographs, remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), etc., over the last century. Canadians were among the first to issue field maps to every infantry section during World War I, for example, and the young Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was a leader in the development of cartographic techniques based on aerial photography in the 1920s (Winterbotham, 1926). The Canadian Forces Mapping and Charting Establishment is actively involved today in surveying and map making in several theatres throughout the world.…”

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Canadian Military Geography 1867-2002

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Studies in Military Geography and Geology

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Military geography enjoyed some level of popularity in Europe during the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. In Canada, though, no systematic and deliberate attempt was ever made in that direction. This is largely because most of the thinking in that field was already done by others: Great Britain until World War II, and the US later on. The Canadian Army and Air Force took a large part in the surveying and mapping of the country, particularly in the vast northern areas. The Canadian Forces are still very good at mapping today, but geography is nearly absent from the curriculum at the Royal Military College, and trained geographers are hard to find at the Department of National Defence. This paper's first objective is to present a survey of the relationship between military and geography in Canada since the Confederation of 1867, and then to try to explain the Canadians' disregard for military geography.

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The Surveys of Canada

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Review of Remote Sensing for Land Administration: Origins, Debates, and Selected Cases

Review of Remote Sensing for Land Administration: Origins, Debates, and Selected Cases

Canadian Military Geography 1867-2002

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