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The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
OHS requirements: | are to be in line with applicable commonwealth, state or territory legislation and regulations, and organisational safety policies and procedures, and may include: personal protective equipment and clothing safety equipment first aid equipment fire fighting equipment hazard and risk control fatigue management elimination of hazardous materials and substances safe forest practices, including required actions relating to forest fire manual handling including shifting, lifting and carrying |
Environmental requirements may include: | legislation organisational policies and procedures workplace practices |
Legislative requirements: | are to be in line with applicable commonwealth, state or territory legislation, regulations, certification requirements and codes of practice and may include: award and enterprise agreements industrial relations Australian Standards confidentiality and privacy OHS the environment equal opportunity anti-discrimination relevant industry codes of practice duty of care |
Organisational requirements may include: | legal organisational and site guidelines policies and procedures relating to own role and responsibility quality assurance procedural manuals quality and continuous improvement processes and standards OHS, emergency and evacuation procedures ethical standards recording and reporting requirements equipment use, maintenance and storage requirements environmental management requirements (waste minimisation and disposal, recycling and re-use guidelines) |
Available aerial photographs may include: | photographs, which may be: held by the organisation required to be purchased borrowed from another organisation |
Standards and requirements include: | scale flying height and focal length required percent endlap and sidelap orientation location and number of flight lines required total number of photographs required allowable drift, crab, tilt and image motion camera characteristics, including format, lens quality, shutter speed and aperture, film and filter characteristics acceptable seasons of the year, time of day, allowable present cloud cover and hot spots |
Factors: | to be considered when selecting photography for a project are: colour or black and white date of acquisition scale minimum mappable area actual smallest operational unit area scale of mapping relative to scale of presentation |
Types may include: | project, mapsheet, spot and stratigraphic: of photographic classes, including terrestrial, vertical and oblique of aerial photographic film, including black and white, black and white infra-red, colour, colour infra-red |
Applications | of aerial photographs to natural resource management include: road or plantation design field navigation and interpretation of forest types forest structure environmental processes, such as salinity discharge ecological vegetation communities, such as coastal heathlands land capability classes remnant vegetation (roadside vegetation) diseased vegetation classes, such as Eucalyptus dieback from Phytophthora |
Positioning may include: | orienting and aligning a pair of overlapping aerial photographs for stereoscopic viewing |
Key aspects include: | determining north and flight line path and may include: mapsheet flight orientation photography type focal length film number run number frame number height above sea level photography date |
Forest attributes may include: | topographic features, such as: roads and tracks watercourses ridges and spurs saddles peaks and knobs |
Forest management information: | derived from photo may include: area height species crown cover crown form disturbance aspects to be considered as part of the environmental management process |
Interpretation may include: | basic principles, such as: absolute and relative size and shape shadow tone or colour texture pattern and location association and convergence of evidence |
Guidelines may include: | predetermined classes stratification |
Field verification includes: | accuracy of all mapped topographic information measure of accuracy of associated base topographic or digital base map spatial accuracy of strata measure of accuracy of content of strata |
Maps and plans may include: | cadastral plans topographic maps locality plans site plans maps and plans generated through the use of geographic information systems (GIS) |
Updating | of maps and plans may be: manual electronic (digital) using data transfer technology |
Tools may include: | electronic data transfer technology manual light tables mechanical light tables, including Omnigraph, Kartoflex, Zoom Transfer Scope, Artiscope and Sketchmaster |
Transferring data may include: | rescaling from one source to another transferring from map to map transferring from photograph to map or diapositive to map |