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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...have done road maps and charts for history books and every other sort of map you can think of," he says, "but my whole aim in life has been to close the gap between map and land." To do this Raisz has developed a unique process of making landform maps, which show the exact physical nature of the land, from aerial photographs taken by specially-equipped Army planes. To date he has completed aerial landform maps of Canada and Arabia, and is at work on one of North Africa. Each one of these maps, which he does on contract...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Faculty Profile | 10/9/1951 | See Source »

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