Highway Surveying Best Practices
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Agenda
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Please log into the webinar 15 – 30 minutes before start time.
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
9:00 am – 4:30 pm CST
Presented by
Russell W. Olsen, PLS
Agenda
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
Requirements for highway and roadway monumentation
State and local requirements for record filings
Working with Survey Datums and the State Plane Coordinate System
US foot versus international foot adoption
Low distortion projections
GPS on benchmarks: how to use control data
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
Using Photogrammetry
Requirements for using photogrammetry
Comparison of photogrammetry and LiDAR
Integrating photogrammetry into workflows
Webinar Instructions
All attendees must log-on through their own email – attendees may not watch together if they wish to earn continuing education credit. HalfMoon Education Inc. must be able to prove attendance if either the attendee or HalfMoon Education Inc. is audited.
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
Land Surveyors:
6.0 PDHs**
Engineers:
6.0 PDHs
**No credit for NJ engineers or land surveyors
Continuing Education Credit Information
This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 6.0 PDHs for professional engineers and land surveyors in most states.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Provider No. 0004647), Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700) and North Carolina (S-0130). Most other states do not preapprove continuing education providers or courses.
This course has been approved by the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Landscape Architects and registered with the Florida Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers (#10411).
This course has been submitted to the Tennessee Board of Examiners for Land Surveyors for accreditation, which is currently pending.
This course is not approved for New York engineers or land surveyors.
Visit this course listing at www.halfmoonseminars.org for updates on pending credits. Completion certificates will be awarded to participants who complete this event and earn a passing score (80%) on the quiz that follows the presentation (multiple attempts allowed).
Speakers
Russell W. Olsen, PLS
Senior Professional Land Surveyor with Engineering Design Source, Inc. in Chesterfield, MissouriMr. 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 has a B.A. degree 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; and Complying with National Society of Professional Surveyors Creed and Canons.