Agenda

Registration:                    8:00 – 8:30 am

Morning Session:             8:30 – 11:45 am

Lunch (On your own):       11:45 am – 12:45 pm

Afternoon Session:           12:45 – 4:30 pm

Motivation: One System to Rule Them All

   Local ad hoc coordinates are mutually incompatible
   When we want to stitch ad hoc maps together, we discover problems
   Maps cannot depict Earth’s surface without distortion

Geodesy

   Latitude and longitude
   Earth’s shape
   Reference ellipsoids
   Heights: gravity, the geoid, and Gauss
   The Inferno: distances (slope, geodesic, horizontal, topographic enlargement)

Map Projections

   Rectangular, plate carreé
   Conformal and authalic
   Distortions in distances and directions
   State plane coordinates

How to Map in the State Plane Coordinate System

   Directly from geodetic: USACE CORPSCON, NGS state plane tool
   From total-station observations
      • Reductions
      • The forward problem
   Worked-out examples
      • Using total-station data
      • Some interesting case studies

Credits

Professional Engineers
     6.5 CE Hours/PDHs

Land Surveyors
     6.5 CE Hours/PDHs

Geologists
     6.5 Non-Credit CE Hours

Continuing Education Credit Information

This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 6.5 continuing education hours/PDHs to professional engineers and land surveyors in most states, including New York. HalfMoon Education Inc. is a New York-approved continuing education provider (NYSED Sponsor No. 35).

This seminar is also designed for 6.5 non-credit continuing education hours for geologists. Continuing education is not required for geologists in New York.

HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida and New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), and is an approved sponsor for engineers and land surveyors in Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, and North Dakota.

Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.

Speakers

Dr. Thomas H. Meyer, Ph.D.

Professor of Geodesy, University of Connecticut

Dr. Meyer is a professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at UConn’s College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR). He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and he is a fellow and past president (2016, 2019) of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying. Dr. Meyer is a past president (2006-2007) of the Geomatics Society of New England (previously known as the New England Section ACSM) and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Surveying Engineering and Surveying and Land Information Science. Dr. Meyer earned his Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University (College Station, 1998) where he was a research associate in the Mapping Sciences Laboratory. He was named a UConn Teaching Fellow (2015), and he has taught geomatics courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in geodesy, geographic information science, digital terrain modeling, spatial statistics, and global navigation satellite system surveying. Dr. Meyer has authored an undergraduate-level geodesy textbook and numerous peer-reviewed papers about surveying and mapping, and he teaches professional education seminars for surveyors throughout New England and the United States.