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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Ryan Mundt, 633rd Civil Engineer Squadron engineering technician, performs an optical site survey, at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., March 9, 2017. Mundt is a member of the mapping section, which has more than 45,000 drawings that are kept and maintained, to include all on-base facilities and floor plans. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Areca T. Bell)

March 15, 2017

633 CES cartographers: mapping mission success

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Standing in a field under the warm, afternoon sun, a U.S. Air Force Airman breaks his gaze as he squints one eye before looking into a device which resembles an oversized Polaroid camera. U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Ryan Mundt, 633rd Civil Engineer Squadron engineering technician, was beginning to perform an optical site survey, one of the many duties of the 633rd CES mapping section. The camera he looked through is actually a Total Station, a surveying device used by engineer Airmen during the cartography, or map making process.

Richard Olivieri, Air Combat Command Civil Engineering Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Detachment 8 Support GeoBase Team Field lead, briefs approximately 50 fourth grade students during National Geographic Information System Day at Cape Henry Collegiate School in Virginia Beach, Va., Nov. 18, 2016. In 1999, Ralph Nader is credited with the creation of the National Geographic GIS Day as a good initiative to teach about geography and the use of GIS. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Darnell T. Cannady)

Nov. 30, 2016

GeoBase teaches students about GIS

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — National Geographic Information System Day, is a day in the month of November when many specialists hold events to teach the importance of GIS to local communities such as those at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia.