Agenda

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022
9:00 am – 4:30 pm CDT (incl. a 30-min break)

 

Presented by
Thomas H. Meyer, Ph.D.

Agenda 
Why use the SPCS 
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 SPCS 
Directly from geodetic: USACE CORPSCON, NGS State Plane Tool
From total-station observations reductions
Worked out examples

Summary Comments

 

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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.

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