Using the State Plane Coordinate System
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Agenda
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Monday, March 14, 2022
9:00 am – 4:30 pm CST
Presented by:
Dr. 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
• The forward problem
Worked out examples
• Using total-station data
• Some interesting case studies
Summary Comments
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Credits
Land Surveyors:
6.5 PDHs
(Pending in TN)
6.5 Florida CE Credits
Professional Engineers:
6.5 PDHs
Continuing Education Credit Information
Using the State Plane Coordinate System
This webinar is open to the public and offers 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers and land surveyors in most states. Land surveyor course approval is currently pending in Tennessee. No credit is offered to land surveyors licensed in Delaware, New Jersey, New York, or Rhode Island, or for engineers licensed in New York.
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has assigned this course number 10223 for Florida surveyors.
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).
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for land surveyors licensed in Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland and North Carolina (S-0130).
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.