Map

Mapmaking Technology

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  • First US map made by USGA

    First US map made by USGA

    The USGA made its first map as the year it was founded byb congress for the purpose of the "classifacation of public lands."
  • The first known map 2300 B.C.

    The first known map 2300 B.C.

    Made on a clay tablet about in ancient Sumeria.
  • NASA launched the first satallite

    NASA launched the first satallite

    NASA launched landsat which was the first sataalite, the photos gathered by it and its succesors showed Earth in a way it had never been seen.

  • Landsat used to find dinosaur location

    A team of scientists from the American Museum of Natural History used landsat to find dinosaur locations and early mammal fossils in the Gobi Desert
  • NASA launched another satallite

    NASA launched another satallite

    The Earth Observing System (EOS) unlike landsat EOS does not provide high-resolution images of Earth instead it provides precise measurements of Earth's processes, such as air-land and air-sea exchanges of energy, carbon, and water.