DaveD Posted December 2, 2009 Posted December 2, 2009 On Wednesday, Dec 12, 1-5 pm ET, I will be giving a webinar presentation on the Fundamentals of the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS). This program is free of charge and is intended to provide surveyors, engineers and other geospatial professionals with a better understanding of the nature of the U.S. geodetic datums, how they are realized (e.g. passive and active control stations) and where we are headed with the modernization of our national framework. Any geocacher who is interested in learning more about what the marks you find represent is welcome to register at the site linked below: Fundaments of the National Spatial Reference System Quote
foxtrot_xray Posted December 2, 2009 Posted December 2, 2009 Cool, Dave. I'll be listening while I work. Quote
+Astro_D Posted December 2, 2009 Posted December 2, 2009 Sounds quite interesting! I'll have to check my calendar, but I think the afternoon is empty! Quote
+buckmeadows Posted December 3, 2009 Posted December 3, 2009 Confusion reigns in this household, for our calender indicates that December 12 falls on a Saturday. Thanks Quote
Gnikhog Posted December 3, 2009 Posted December 3, 2009 Confusion reigns in this household, for our calender indicates that December 12 falls on a Saturday. Thanks According to the link provided by DaveD, the webinar is being run on Wednesday, Dec 9th. The topic holds an interest for me so I plan to be a participant. Quote
DaveD Posted December 3, 2009 Author Posted December 3, 2009 Oops - Sorry, December 9th is the correct date. Quote
+shorbird Posted December 3, 2009 Posted December 3, 2009 Unable to participate because of scheduling conflict, but still interested in the material. Will there be a summary of the points discussed available afterwards? Quote
+buckmeadows Posted December 3, 2009 Posted December 3, 2009 Thanks for sweeping away the dust of confusion...Wednesday, PM...I'll be here. Quote
foxtrot_xray Posted December 10, 2009 Posted December 10, 2009 Dave - Thanks for the webinar! I learned a lot, especially about the X,Y,Z and the flattening and ellipsoidal height. (Which I remember coming across in my NGS-GPX program while projecting reference marks.) I am looking forward to any others you guys will be putting on. The strangest part, I will admit, was hearing a train roll by outside, and then about 5-10 seconds later, hearing the same train in my headset. Crazy. Quote
+Astro_D Posted December 10, 2009 Posted December 10, 2009 Darn, I forgot about it. I was busy dealing with a blizzard and delayed and finally, canceled flights! Quote
DaveD Posted December 10, 2009 Author Posted December 10, 2009 The presentation with the audio overlay should be posted to the NGS web site in a couple of weeks. Other upcoming NGS programs that will be presented by webinar can be seen on our Corbin training facility web page -- NGS Corbin Facility Quote
foxtrot_xray Posted December 12, 2009 Posted December 12, 2009 Dave, What is the certificate that was sent out? Is that for some kind of 'official' training, or required learning thing? Quote
DaveD Posted December 12, 2009 Author Posted December 12, 2009 We provide certificates of training for those attendees that may have continuing education or professional development requirements to maintain their license to practice. This is usually very important for surveyors and engineers. Quote
+pgrig Posted December 12, 2009 Posted December 12, 2009 Also, even if you are not a surveyor or an engineer, possessing one of these certificates will excuse you from extreme ridicule if you make an especially dumb mistake in a post to the Forum (like screwing up the difference between east and west declination and how that gets translated to different sorts of compasses ). I'm for sure holding on to my certificate.... Quote
foxtrot_xray Posted December 13, 2009 Posted December 13, 2009 Also, even if you are not a surveyor or an engineer, possessing one of these certificates will excuse you from extreme ridicule if you make an especially dumb mistake in a post to the Forum (like screwing up the difference between east and west declination and how that gets translated to different sorts of compasses ). I'm for sure holding on to my certificate.... Hah! I could use that then, due to a few dumb mistakes of my own. Great, thanks for the tip! Quote
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