Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

Technicians will often be asked these tasks:

• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.

• Identifying, scaling, and orienting geodetic points, elevations, and other planimetric or topographic features, applying standard mathematical formulas.
• Collecting information about specific features of the Earth, using aerial photography and other digital remote sensing techniques.
• Revising existing maps and charts, making all necessary corrections and adjustments.
• Compiling data required for map preparation, including aerial photographs, survey notes, records, reports, and original maps.
• Inspecting final compositions for ensuring completeness and accuracy.
• Determining map content and layout, as well as production specifications such as scales, sizes, projection, and colors, and directing production for ensuring that specifications are followed.
• Examining and analyzing data from ground surveys, reports, aerial photographs, and satellite images for preparing topographic maps, aerial photography mosaics, and related charts.