The Kazakh branch of the All—Union office "Agricultural Aerial Photography" has been transformed into the Central Asian aerial and geodetic enterprise "Agricultural Aerial Photography" of the Main Directorate of Land Management of the People's Commissariat of the USSR. The first flight crew, 1940 year

In accordance with the wartime regime, work was carried out to provide planning and cartographic materials to enterprises of the defense industry of the republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan. More than 50 employees of the company went to the front, 13 did not return.

The volume of work on providing the needs of land management with modern planning and cartographic material and the development of an analytical network of grades 1 and 2 are significantly increasing.

The study of a geodetic instrument in the years of development of virgin and fallow lands of the Akmola region, 1953 year.

Field expedition with guides in the desert

Decoders in the Aktobe region

Expedition specialists in Mongolia

On the identification link in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. 1954-1960 year. — Extensive work has been carried out on the survey and creation of planning and cartographic materials for the areas of development of virgin and fallow lands of Kazakhstan and the Altai Territory of the RSFSR. 8021 points of the geodetic and analytical network of the 1st and 2nd categories were built, work was carried out on linking aerial photographs on an area of 770 thousand square kilometers, agricultural decryption on an area of 1.2 million square kilometers.

1961-1969 гг. — Work was carried out on stereotopographic surveys of scales 1:2000 and 1: 5000 for reclamation construction and planning of rural settlements, as well as the first pilot production works on soil and geobotanical mapping, which later became widely used.

Menzular survey, Mangystau, 1965 year

On April 30, 1970 the company was renamed the Kazakh branch  All-Union Institute of Agricultural Aerial Geodesic Surveys (VISHAGI).

1972-1974 year. —  Work has been carried out on surveying the territory of rural settlements on a scale of 1 : 2000, 1 : 5000 with subsequent inventory. 1972 — work began on calculating areas and compiling an explication of farmland.  1979 — the use of space survey materials began. For the first time, a photo map of the Shortandinsky district of the Tselinograd region was made.

Field binding using a GPS device, engineer Plavinsky V.I., 2001. 2000-2002. — a new stage in the development of the enterprise. The introduction of the Talka software package made it possible to master digital methods of processing aerial photography, which made it possible to produce digital mapping and switch to the full technology of automated digital photogrammetric processing of aerospace materials. 2002-2003 — The company started scanning aerial photography film materials in order to switch to digital photogrammetric condensation.

Field binding using a GPS device, engineer Plavinsky V.I., 2001. 2000-2002. — a new stage in the development of the enterprise. The introduction of the Talka software package made it possible to master digital methods of processing aerial photography, which made it possible to produce digital mapping and switch to the full technology of automated digital photogrammetric processing of aerospace materials. 2002-2003 — The company started scanning aerial photography film materials in order to switch to digital photogrammetric condensation.

2004-2006 — creation of large—scale photographic plans of the territories of rural settlements and cities of the republic on a scale of 1:2000.2007 - The enterprise completely switched to digital aerial photography, which made it possible to eliminate outdated technological methods of processing aerial photographs and switch to modern types of technologies.2006-2010 — creation of digital terrain models, modern software products such as ArcGIS, MapInfo Professional, Talka, Easy Trace have been implemented.

2012 — the new Geomatics — PRO software was mastered, which made it possible to process aerospace images of digital terrain models in 3D format. TopCon GR3 GPS equipment has been introduced to provide field survey work, which made it possible to work with GNSS satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo).