Highway Surveying Best Practices
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What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
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Please log into the webinar 10-15 minutes before start time.
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
9:00 am – 4:30 pm CT
Agenda:
Presented by Russell W. Olsen, MS, PLS, RPLS, PS
Highway Survey Safety Practices
- State Department of Transportation (DOT) safety requirements
- OSHA safety requirements
- Railroad safety requirements
- Insurance
- Flag persons
- Notifications
Locating Land Boundaries and Monumentation
- Statutory requirements for highway and roadway boundary location
- Notifications for property owners and railroads
- Requirements for highway and roadway monumentation
- State and local requirements for record filings
Break
Working with Survey Datums and the State Plane Coordinate System
- US foot versus international foot adoption and state requirements
- Low distortion projections
- GPS on benchmarks: how to use control data
Lunch
Working with GNSS Survey Specifications
- State requirements for GNSS surveys
- Calibration of equipment
- Training of surveyors
- Constellation and observation requirements
- Metadata recording
Surveying Geometrics
- State requirements for CADD work products and submittals
- Standards for geometrics
- Measurement data error analysis
Break
Using Photogrammetry
- Requirements for using photogrammetry
- Comparison of photogrammetry and LiDAR
- Integrating photogrammetry into workflows
Webinar Instructions
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Certificates of completion can be downloaded in PDF form upon passing a short quiz. A link to the quiz will be sent to each qualifying attendee immediately after the webinar. The certificate can be downloaded from the Results page of the quiz upon scoring 80% or higher.
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Credits
Engineers
6.0 PDHs
Land Surveyors
6.0 PDHs
PIE - Practicing Institute of Engineering
6.0 PDHs
This webinar offers 6.0 PDHs for professional engineers and land surveyors in most states. Please refer to specific state rules to verify eligibility.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Provider License No. CEA362), Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, and New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00049300). HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for land surveyors licensed in Indiana (License No. CE10600325) and Maryland. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York engineers and land surveyors via its registration with the Practicing Institute of Engineering (PIE).
This webinar has been evaluated for compliance with NYS Mandatory Continuing Education requirements for professional engineers and land surveyors by the Practicing Institute of Engineering and has been approved for 6.0 PDHs.
This webinar has been registered with the Florida Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers for 6.0 continuing education credits. This webinar has been approved by the Missouri Board of APEPLSPLA for 6.0 PDUs. This course has been submitted to the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance for accreditation, which is pending.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the webinar for those who attend the entire course and score a minimum 80% on the quiz that follows the course (multiple attempts allowed).
*On-Demand Credits*
The preceding credit information only applies to the live presentation. This course in an on-demand format is not pre-approved by any licensing boards and may not qualify for the same credits; please consult your licensing board(s) to ensure that a structured, asynchronous learning format is appropriate.
Speakers
Russell W. Olsen, PLS
Senior Professional Land Surveyor with Engineering Design Source, Inc., in Chesterfield, MOMr. Olsen is a Senior Professional Land Surveyor with Engineering Design Source, Inc., a Civil Engineering and Surveying Firm based in Chesterfield, Missouri. Mr. Olsen has more than 30 years’ experience as a professional land surveyor, beginning in the Chicago metropolitan area. He is currently licensed as a land surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Texas.
He has been fortunate to have worked on numerous Highway Department/Department of Transportation horizontal and vertical control surveys, land acquisition and topographic surveys, County Transportation Department Plats of Highway, and Municipal Highway Department surveys.
Mr. Olsen is currently enrolled in the University of Maine Graduate School in the Surveying Engineering Technology Program. He earned an MS in Engineering Technology-Surveying Engineering in 2024 and is currently working on an Eng.D in the same subject at UMaine. He has a BA in Mathematical Sciences. Mr. Olsen has presented seminars and webinars previously with HalfMoon Education on topics including Law and Ethics of Illinois Land Surveying; Locating Land Boundaries on Paper (and on the Ground); Complying with Minimum Standards of Practice; Handling Ethical Issues in Land Surveying Practice; Complying with the Illinois Plat Act; Complying with National Society of Professional Surveyors Creed and Canons. His article “The Changing Mosaic of Professional Land Surveying Licensure Requirements in the United States and its Territories” is to be published in the May 2026 Journal of Surveying and Land Information Science (SaLIS) of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying (AAGS).
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