Will AI Replace Cartographers and Photogrammetrists?

Compile data required for map preparation, including aerial photographs, survey notes, records, reports, and original maps.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Delineate aerial photographic detail, such as control points, hydrography, topography, and cultural features, using precision stereoplotting apparatus or drafting instruments.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Prepare and alter trace maps, charts, tables, detailed drawings, and three-dimensional optical models of terrain using stereoscopic plotting and computer graphics equipment.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Study legal records to establish boundaries of local, national, and international properties.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Inspect final compositions to ensure completeness and accuracy.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Revise existing maps and charts, making all necessary corrections and adjustments.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Identify, scale, and orient geodetic points, elevations, and other planimetric or topographic features, applying standard mathematical formulas.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Collect information about specific features of the Earth, using aerial photography and other digital remote sensing techniques.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Examine and analyze data from ground surveys, reports, aerial photographs, and satellite images to prepare topographic maps, aerial-photograph mosaics, and related charts.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Build and update digital databases.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Determine map content and layout, as well as production specifications such as scale, size, projection, and colors, and direct production to ensure that specifications are followed.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Determine guidelines that specify which source material is acceptable for use.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Select aerial photographic and remote sensing techniques and plotting equipment needed to meet required standards of accuracy.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Travel over photographed areas to observe, identify, record, and verify all relevant features.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.