Description
Hours of Credit: 8 Continuing Education Hours
Course Description: Part 1 of the foundations of geodetic surveys in the United States. This course covers early geodetic instrumentation, the creation of the Survey of the Coast by Congress, and evolution of measurement technology into the twentieth century.
Outline:
- Early Geodetic Surveys and Instrumentation
- Creation of the Survey of the Coast by Congress
- Laying the Foundations of the Networks
- Field Measurement Techniques
- Continent-Wide Triangulation and Leveling
- Gravity Surveys
- 20th century Coast and Geodetic Survey Program