Description
Hours of Credit:
8 Continuing Education Hours
Course Description:
Part 2 of the foundations of geodetic surveys in the United States. This course covers the integration of computer technology, updates to the North American Datum, and the GPS revolution.
Outline:
- Early Geodetic Computer Technology
- Intervention of World War II and the effect on Geodetic Surveys
- EDMIs lead to new Equations
- Tellurometers and Geodimeters
- Creation of a Worldwide Network
- Geoid Studies
- Landmark Special Purpose Surveys
- The GPS Revolution
- NAD Revisions and Updates