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Course Descriptions
Course Descriptions

Thursday, January 20, 2022
When it’s Time to Go: Protecting
Consumers When Retiring or Selling
Math for Land Surveyors NY LS/PE: 1.5; NH .25; VT 1.5; NJ 1.5
NY LS/PE: 2.0; NH .5; VT 2.0; NJ 2.0 William E. Beardslee, LS, PE, PP
Lemuel Morrison, LS 11:00am – 12:30pm
8:00am – 10:00am As surveyors age, retirement from a large company or
This session is intended for both new entrants to the surveying selling the business in a small company become major
field and more established practitioners who want to better topics. Protecting the privacy and rights of the consumer
understand the results from software. While attendees are are very important for many reasons, including retaining
expected to have a working knowledge of basic survey math the client for the future of the company. The Consumer Bill
functions, a brief review will be provided, including the of Rights requires a consumer to receive competent
following: basic geometry, trigonometry, coordinate geometry, professional services, which includes protection of their
bearings and azimuths, curve functions and statistics. The privacy and continuation of professional services through a
attendees will be provided with real-world survey problems transition. The options for transition will be discussed,
which will need to be solved. along with the importance of timely notification to
This is a hands-on session where the attendees will spend consumers of the transition. Assembling a transition team,
preparation for a transition, and important items for
the majority of the course working thru real-world survey selection of suitor will be discussed.
problems. The mode of solution will be Excel and how to
apply the functions. Each attendee should have access to a GNSS & Geodesy
method of calculation (e.g. Trig calculator, or a computer) NY LS/PE: 1.5; NH .25; VT 1.5; NJ 1.5
that they are familiar with. Access to a computer with Excel Nicholas B. Ford, LS
(or similar) is strongly recommended. The outcome of this 11:00am – 12:30pm
course will include worksheets the user can keep for future
reference and application. This course is designed to give a basic understanding
between the relationship between GNSS aka GPS and
Got a Drone, Now What? geodesy. Topics covered will include how GNSS operates
Mapping with your UAV to solve for positions, basic concepts of geodesy such
NY LS/PE: 2.0; NH .5; VT 2.0; NJ 2.0 as ellipsoids; geoids; and projections, and how GNSS
Jeffrey Hatzel utilizes these concepts to generate a position on the face
8:00am – 10:00am of the Earth.
The rapid emergence and proliferation of drones is having a Professional Ethics:
profound impact on our lives and nowhere is this seen more Protecting Your Profession
clearly than in the field of mapping. Both 2D and 3D mapping NY LS/PE: 1.5; NH .25; VT 1.5; NJ 1.5
projects stand to benefit from the on-demand data collection Richard C. Brooks, LS
capabilities of this versatile technology. In this presentation, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
we will explore several map-based workflows that take
advantage of UAV-collected data for visualization and Professional Ethics is the study of ethical principles and of
analysis. Beginning the presentation, we will process ethical problems in the professional world. This
overlapping drone-collected images to generate a three- presentation will serve as an introduction to moral
dimensional reconstruction of a target area using the philosophy aka ethics. By understanding the concepts of
principles of photogrammetric analysis. The resulting 3D point ethics and how to apply its principles to a problem the
cloud is the raw material upon which countless geospatial practitioner will more easily be able to choose the correct
procedures are based and as an illustration of the inherent course of action to solve a professional problem.
potential of this data format, we will follow a series of Professional behavior will be discussed within the
workflows that utilize this data. After classifying and filtering framework of the five fundamental principles and applying
the points to isolate those representing ground, we will create them to NYSAPLS Ten Canons of Ethics. The attendee will
Digital Terrain Model (DTM) from which we will generate better understand how the application of the principles and
vector contour lines and calculate pile volume. UAV hardware theories of ethics can lead the professional to the morally
is rapidly improving even as the costs continue to drop. For correct course of action.
those of us in the mapping industry, this technology is quickly
becoming a valuable and accessible addition to our
geospatial toolbox.

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