In the second half of the 19th century, terrestrial photogrammetry developed towards a geometric measuring technique. Surveys up to the turn of the century were performed by plane table photogrammetry in which the evaluation is relatively expensive
Comparing with other German countries a land survey of Mecklenburg on the basis of scientific fundaments was performed very late, from 1853-1873. The author was F. Paschen. His order net was integrated into the Prussian National Survey. - (IH)