Mapmaking and technology

By keckjessie

  • USGS (United States Geological Survey)

    USGS (United States Geological Survey)
    This was mapped by the entire United States. And was founded by Congress for the purpose of "classification of the public lands."

  • 1940 new tech

    1940 new tech
    New technology arrived. Mapping was involved

  • Aerial Photography

    Aerial Photography
    This is when the co polit takea a picture during the flight.

  • Satellite (NASA)

    Satellite (NASA)
    NASA launched the first Landsat satellite.

  • AMNH (American Museum of Natural History)

    AMNH (American Museum of Natural History)
    a team of scientists from the AMNH used Landset images to find a new site of dinosaur and early mammel fossils in the Gobi Desert.

  • New technology

    New technology
    NASA launched another satellite The Earth Observing System.

  • First known map

    First known map
    The first known map was on a clay tablet in acient Sumeria. this is 2300 B.C.