Eric Colburn, PLS

Tag: Topographic

  • DatuGram™3D Video Tutorials – Geo-referencing Images (Importing/Marking Control Points)

    DatuGram™3D allows 3D geodetic measurements at sub-cm-level geodetic accuracy with regular cameras. Using DatuGram™3D, field work of topographic and as-made surveys is made easier, faster and at higher geodetic accuracy. Watch the Datumate LTD – DatuGram™3D Video Tutorial

  • Datumate LTD – DatuGram™3D Video

    DatuGram™3D allows 3D geodetic measurements at sub-cm-level geodetic accuracy with regular cameras. Using DatuGram™3D, field work of topographic and as-made surveys is made easier, faster and at higher geodetic accuracy. Watch the Datumate LTD – DatuGram™3D Video

  • NGS Enabling Historical “T-Sheets” to be Accurately and Efficiently Geo-referenced

    NGS Enabling Historical “T-Sheets” to be Accurately and Efficiently Geo-referenced

    NGS Enabling Historical “T-Sheets” to be Accurately and Efficiently Geo-referenced Historical Topographic Sheets (“T-Sheets”) produced by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey are referenced to various horizontal datums in use over the two hundred years since the first Survey of the Coast in 1816. To use these maps to document coastal change, a conversion has…

  • The National Land Survey of Finland Opens Topographic Datasets 1 May 2012 For Free Use

    The National Land Survey of Finland Opens Topographic Datasets 1 May 2012 For Free Use

    The National Land Survey of Finland Opens Topographic Datasets 1 May 2012 For Free Use The Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry issued a decree on 21 December 2011 on the fees of the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS). The decree prescribes that the NLS will open its topographic datasets to the public on 1…

  • Maptek New Mid-range I-Site 8400 Laser Scanner Released

    Maptek New Mid-range I-Site 8400 Laser Scanner Released

    New Mid-range I-Site 8400 Laser Scanner Released Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 Mining technology specialist Maptek unveiled the new I-Site 8400 laser scanner at Intergeo in Germany at the end of September. Built at the Maptek I-Site manufacturing facility in Adelaide, South Australia, the I-Site 8400 has been launched following the international success of the long range I-Site 8800.  The…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup November 20, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup November 20, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-20 Leica Viva GNSS Video Geographic and Land Information Society Board Votes to Continue GLIS as a Separate Organization Trimble Offers Custom Topographic, Aerial and Hybrid Map Prints Esri Press Book Presents Latest Crime Mapping and Analysis Methods NSPS and ACSM Action…

  • Trimble Offers Custom Topographic, Aerial and Hybrid Map Prints

    Trimble Offers Custom Topographic, Aerial and Hybrid Map Prints

    Trimble Offers Custom Topographic, Aerial and Hybrid Map Prints

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 30, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 30, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-30 Atlas Machinery Supply Ltd. Expands into the Construction Market with Leica Geosystems Canada Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 23, 2011 Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-23 NASA and Japan Release Improved Topographic Map of Earth Gatewing X100…

  • NASA and Japan Release Improved Topographic Map of Earth

    NASA and Japan Release Improved Topographic Map of Earth

    PASADENA, Calif. – NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth on Monday, produced with detailed measurements from NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The map, known as a global digital elevation model, was created from images collected by the Japanese Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or…

  • Gatewing X100 Product Video 2011

    Gatewing X100 Product Video 2011

    Here’s an informative video from Gatewing highlighting their Gatewing X100 product. About the Gatewing X100 From Gatewing: The X100 is the result of a thorough and multidisciplinary engineering process. It has been designed with two main goals in mind and with due consideration for the demanding field worker. It carries a camera payload, flies in…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 18, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-18 USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection Now Online Sokkia Releases NET-AX Series of Automated Total Stations for 3D Monitoring LightSquared Video to Debunk Several GPS Interference Myths-Facts or Propaganda? Defense Department Seeks to Protect GPS Operations Against LightSquared Network House Aviation Subcommittee…

  • USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection Now Online

    Examining Our Past: Historical Map Collection Now Online Nearly 90,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available online. The Historical Topographic Map Collection includes published U.S. maps of all scales and editions, and are offered as a georeferenced digital download or as…

  • Survey Database Point Groups-AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 Professional Land Surveyor Video

    In this installment of my Professional Land Surveyor Video series, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 for Land Surveyors: Survey Database Point Groups, I will show you how to: Create Survey Database Point Groups. Select Survey Database Points to populate your Survey Database Point Groups. Use Survey Database Point Groups to filter points you insert into and remove from…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Video-AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 for Land Surveyors: Create a Surface From a Point Group

    In this installment of my Professional Land Surveyor Video series, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 for Land Surveyors: Create a Surface From a Point Group, I will show you how to: Create a Point Group specifically for project surface points. Create a Surface. Use the Point Group to define the Surface. Watch the video after the jump

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: How To Setup and Use Surface Styles To Edit Surfaces Efficiently

    In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I will show you How To Setup and Use Surface Styles To Edit Surfaces Efficiently. This technique increases your CAD drafting and AutoCAD Civil 3D Surface creation and editing productivity by employing proper template setup and reducing switching between Toolspace Tabs and drilling down through what…

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Create A Surface From A Point Group

    In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I’ll will show you how to Create a Surface From a Point Group. There seems to be a lot of confusion as to how to create a Surface in AutoCAD Civil 3D which is a task you will no doubt use often in your professional land surveying practice.…

  • Engineer Troops Survey Liberty for New Maps

    Multi-National Division Baghdad Story by 1st Lt. Michael Lind BAGHDAD, Iraq – A temporary increase in the number of Soldiers moving through Camp Liberty is expected as the U.S. military transitions to a responsible drawdown in Iraq.This increase means plans to improve facilities and security; an impossible task without updated maps. Troops of the 621st…

  • China’s Xinjiang Bans Classified Topography Map Trading

    As reported by China’s Xinhua, there is now a ban on topographic map trading, both online and offline, of classified topographic maps in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. This is according to said northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region authorities in a joint notice according to local officials. ” topography map entitled “classified”, published during the Culture…

  • The GeoInformation Group Announces UKMap Programme – Mapping Your Way

    The GeoInformation Group Announces UKMap Programme New large-scale mapping for the UK Cambridge, 1 June 2009: The GeoInformation® Group today announces a ground breaking and innovative new mapping programme. UKMap® is the UK’s first commercially funded, large-scale topographic mapping and address database created completely independently of the Ordnance Survey®. Started more than two years ago,…

  • Price for USGS Topo Maps Rises

    The price of the popular USGS 1:24,000 scale topographic quadrangle map – often called a “topo” or a “quad” – will go up $2 per sheet to $8 beginning today March 16, 2009. Larger format (“poster”) maps will go up $3 per sheet to $10. These prices were last increased 7 years ago.