CARTOGRAPHY

Is concerned with all aspects of mapping processes. It has artistic, scientific and technical dimensions. It includes the gathering, storage, retrieval, evaluation, and visualization of geographic information. It also includes the abstraction or generalization of data to suit with defined mapping scale, purposes and viewers or clients.
Since EMA's establishment till 1980s all cartographic input has been done in analogue form. These days the organization is transforming analogue mapping into that of digital mapping. The department is now applying different techniques to retrieve a digital input data. Some of the techniques are digitizing and scanning of the existing maps and producing new maps acquired in the department of photogrammery.
The department has four sections. These are topographic mapping, map revision & editing, atlas and thematic mapping & gazetteers and geographical names study.