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7 cze 2014 · Military Map: Terrain features - with animations. The document lists five major terrain features: ridge, hill, saddle, valley, and depression. It also lists three minor features: spur, draw, and cliff. Finally, it mentions two supplemental terrain features: cut and fill.
7 lis 2013 · The document provides instruction on intermediate land navigation skills, including how to make sense of direction by setting a course with a compass, tracking your present location on a map, and determining travel distance by calculating it.
30 paź 2014 · This document explains how to use a map scale to measure distances. It provides instructions on using a ruler or piece of paper to follow a route on a map and measure the distance in centimeters. The distance must then be converted to kilometers using the scale ratio shown on the map.
The Map Reading and Land Navigation class will introduce new soldiers to the basic skills needed to perform accurate map reading and land navigation in the field of operations.
Find the two points/ places on the map that you are going to measure the distance. Use any of the item stated above (preferably a strip of paper for straight line distances) to measure the distance between the two places.
The distance between two points is determinate by measuring between points on the map and multiplying the map measurement by the denominator of the RF. 34 DIRECTIONS Direction- is defined as an imaginary straight line on map or ground and expressed as unit of angular measure.
Performance Steps. 1. Identify the scale of the map. The map scale is the ratio (1:50,000) of the distance on map (1 inch) relative to the distance on the ground (usually 50,000 inches). 2. Convert a straight-line map distance to miles, meters, or yards using the map's bar scale (Figure 071-329-1008-1). Figure 1.
