Fundamentos de cartografía en los recursos naturales.

Abstract

The Universidad Santo Tomás, through the Centro de Enseñanza Desescolarizada (CED) and its career of Technology in Renewable Natural Resources, has had the good initiative to include in its curricular program the subject of cartographic foundations to facilitate and speed up the technologist's professional practice in the management of the country's renewable natural resources. With these bases, the student is initiated in such important cartographic culture, necessary to take advantage of the valuable information that the maps and the aerial photographs contain in the matter of the natural resources in general. In addition, this course will help to understand and apply in a clear and precise way all the knowledge received, in the areas of natural sciences, internships and subjects in evaluation techniques of renewable natural resources. It also supports the concepts and surveying techniques that the student must study simultaneously. With the beginning of the knowledge of the aerial photography, we are entering the new era of the remote sensors that the modern man must take advantage of to know with greater precision and opportunity the national geography and its natural resources. With the handling of the maps it will be possible to understand in a clear and precise way the distances, the extensions and the form as they are distributed the physical, economic and human resources of the country.