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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 clothingsafety equipmentfirst aid equipmentfire fighting equipmenthazard and risk controlfatigue managementelimination of hazardous materials and substancessafe forest practices, including required actions relating to forest firemanual handling including shifting, lifting and carrying |
Environmental requirements may include: | legislationorganisational policies and proceduresworkplace 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 agreementsindustrial relationsAustralian Standardsconfidentiality and privacyOHSthe environmentequal opportunityanti-discriminationrelevant industry codes of practiceduty of care |
Organisational requirements may include: | legal organisational and site guidelinespolicies and procedures relating to own role and responsibilityquality assuranceprocedural manualsquality and continuous improvement processes and standardsOHS, emergency and evacuation proceduresethical standardsrecording and reporting requirementsequipment use, maintenance and storage requirementsenvironmental management requirements (waste minimisation and disposal, recycling and re-use guidelines) |
Available aerial photographs may include: | photographs, which may be:held by the organisationrequired to be purchasedborrowed from another organisation |
Standards and requirements include: | scaleflying height and focal lengthrequired percent endlap and sidelaporientationlocation and number of flight lines requiredtotal number of photographs requiredallowable drift, crab, tilt and image motioncamera characteristics, including format, lens quality, shutter speed and aperture, film and filter characteristicsacceptable 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 whitedate of acquisitionscaleminimum mappable areaactual smallest operational unit areascale of mapping relative to scale of presentation |
Types may include: | project, mapsheet, spot and stratigraphic:of photographic classes, including terrestrial, vertical and obliqueof 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 designfield navigation and interpretation of forest typesforest structureenvironmental processes, such as salinity dischargeecological vegetation communities, such as coastal heathlandsland capability classesremnant 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 pathand may include:mapsheetflight orientationphotography typefocal lengthfilm numberrun numberframe numberheight above sea levelphotography date |
Forest attributes may include: | topographic features, such as: roads and trackswatercoursesridges and spurssaddlespeaks and knobs |
Forest management information: | derived from photo may include:areaheightspeciescrown covercrown formdisturbanceaspects to be considered as part of the environmental management process |
Interpretation may include: | basic principles, such as:absolute and relative size and shapeshadowtone or colourtexturepattern and locationassociation and convergence of evidence |
Guidelines may include: | predetermined classes stratification |
Field verification includes: | accuracy of all mapped topographic informationmeasure of accuracy of associated base topographic or digital base mapspatial accuracy of stratameasure of accuracy of content of strata |
Maps and plans may include: | cadastral planstopographic mapslocality planssite plansmaps and plans generated through the use of geographic information systems (GIS) |
Updating | of maps and plans may be: manualelectronic (digital) using data transfer technology |
Tools may include: | electronic data transfer technologymanual light tablesmechanical 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 maptransferring from photograph to map or diapositive to map |