State Plane Coordinate System: Transition to NATRF2022
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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.
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Agenda
Webinar instructions will be emailed 24-48 business hours before the date of the webinar.
Please log into the webinar 15 – 30 minutes before start time.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
11:00 am – 3:30 pm CDT
Thursday, May 29, 2025
11:00 am – 3:00 pm CDT
Agenda Day One:
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 | 11:00 am – 3:30 pm CDT
Presented by Todd Horton, PE, PLS
State Plane Coordinate System Fundamentals
- Geodetic datum elements
- Reference ellipsoids
- Shape of the earth
- Earth-centered, Earth-fixed cartesian coordinates
- North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83)
- Development history
- State and national adjustments
- State Plane Coordinate System fundamentals
- Map projection concepts
- Understanding the Lambert Conformal Projection
- Understanding the Transverse Mercator Projection
- Scale factor and elevation factor
- Inherent system distortion
Agenda Day Two:
Thursday, May 29, 2025 | 11:00 am – 3:00 pm CDT
Presented by Todd Horton, PE, PLS
Updating the State Plane Coordinate System
- Geoid science
- Ellipsoid height and orthometric height
- Past and future model evolution
- North American Terrestrial Reference Frame 2022 (NATRF2022)
- Fundamental changes from NAD83
- Low distortion projections
- National Geodetic Survey goals
- US Survey Foot deprecation
- Implementation timeline
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
7.5 PDHs
Land Surveyors
7.5 PDHs
PIE - Practicing Institute of Engineering
7.5 PDHs
Continuing Education Information
This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 7.5 PDHs for professional engineers in land surveyors in most states. Please refer to specific state rules to determine 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. This webinar has been registered with the Florida Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers for 7.5 PDHs and has been approved by the Missouri Board of APEPLSPLA for 7.5 PDUs for land surveyors.
HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York engineers and land surveyors via its course approval with the Practicing Institute of Engineering.
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 7.5 PDHs.
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
Todd Horton, PE, PLS
Owner of Meridian Geospatial Consulting, LLCMr. Horton has provided technician training and continuing education seminars for the land surveying industry since 2005.
Mr. Horton served in the US Air Force and with the Illinois Department of Transportation in planning, design, construction, surveying and maintenance of civil engineering projects including commercial structures, airfields, utility systems and highways. He joined the full-time faculty at Parkland College in Champaign, IL, where he taught land surveying and construction management courses for 25 years. He founded the land surveying associate degree program at Parkland College in 2001.
Having retired from full-time teaching, Mr. Horton has joined Farnsworth Group Inc. as a part-time senior project land surveyor. You can reach him at todd@meridiangeospatial.com.
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