Alpine Cartography Field School

The winter semester 2020/2021 at TU Dresden is off to a very good start, despite the current Corona situation with its unpleasant but necessary restrictions. The highlight was - without any doubts - the Alpine Cartography Field School (ACFS) that took place between 28 September and 7 October 2020 in Ramsau/Dachstein (Austria). Although the chances were not particularly high, a convincing hygiene concept and low Corona infection rates in both Austria and Germany at that time were the prerequisites that the ten-day field school could nevertheless happen in 2020.

Altogether, 23 students of the international Cartography M.Sc. and three students of the Geoinformation Technologies M.Sc. programmes were exposed to topics like map-reading, field-mapping, cartographic suryeving as well as the peculiarities and special problems of high-mountain cartography. Other topics covered during the ACFS were for example tangible relief/landscape models, mobile weather mapping, laser scanning, panoramic landscape depiction, orienteering, mental maps, glaciology and mobile devices.