A specialized instrument or person that creates maps from aerial photographs and observations.
Combines 'aero-' (air), 'carto-' (from Greek kartos, meaning map), and '-graph' (from graphein, to write or draw). A technical term from early-20th-century cartography and surveying.
Aerocartography transformed mapmaking from ground-based sketching into a scientific discipline—during the Cold War, countries obsessively used reconnaissance aircraft to map every detail of rival territories, making airborne cartographers some of the war's most secret agents.
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