(all papers are in pdf format)
MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2004
8:00 am – 9:30 am
A
Compass to the Developments of Spatial Data
Standards
for the 21st Century
8:00 am – 9:30 am Room 108
Moderated
by Harold Moellering
United
States Geographic Information Standards: International, National and Federal Presenters
and papers: Norman Andersen, Julie Maitra, and Dr.
Charles Roswell. 1) International Standards, The World of Standards, 2) ISO/TC
211 Geographic Information,3) INCITS L1 – Geographic information and key USA
activities and 4) Federal Geographic Data Committee Standards Efforts and Links
to INICTS L1.
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/AndersenCompData41904.
pdf
Geodesy and Surveying
8:00 am - 9:30 am Room 109
Research
on GPS Derived Orthometric Height: A Case Study,
Wusheng Hu, Transportation College, Southeast University, Nanjing, P.R. China , Qifeng Gao, Fu Jian Bureau of Design, Pu Tian, P.R. China, Coventine Fidis, Shanlong Kuang, American Surveying
Consultants, P.C., Dixon, Illinois.
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/HuGeoSurv41904.pdf
Options
for a Single Zone projection for GIS Systems in Illinois,
Christopher
F. Pearson, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS),
Illinois State Geodetic Advisor, David Mick, Illinois Department of Natural
Resources.
Paper # 2: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/PearsonMickGeoSurv41904.pdf
Traverse
Adjustment Using Microsoft Excel Solver,
Sayed R. Hashimi, Professor, Surveying Engineering Department, Ferris
State University, Big Rapids, MI.
Paper # 3: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/HashimiTravAdjustment41904.pdf
National Ocean Service
(NOS) Part 1
8:00 am - 9:30 am Room 201
Height Modernization, Juliana
Blackwell, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS)
New
National Tidal Datum Epoch Adjustment Part 1,Tom Landon, Center for Operational
Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS).
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Public Lands and GIS
8:00 am- 9:30 am Room 202
The National Integrated Land System
is Used to Develop and Distribute the Public Land Survey System,
Leslie Cone,
Bureau of Land Management, Denver, Colorado
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/ConePublicLandsGIS41904.pdf
Issues regarding geographic metadata
standards in GIS interoperatibility.
Steve Ramroop, PH.D., Assistant Professor, Troy State University,
Troy, Alabama.
Paper # 2: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/RamroopPublicLandsGIS41904.pdf
Surveying
the Prehistoric Past (ETSU)
8:00 am- 9:30 am Room 203
Surveying the Past, the Prehistoric
Past at the Gray Fossil Site in East Tennessee. Jerry W. Nave, MS, PLS, Assistant Professor,
Department of Technology and Geomatics, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City,
Tennessee.
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/NaveSurvPrehisPast41904.pdf
Reconstructing the Past:
Applications of Surveying and GIS to Fossil Localities.
Dr. Steven
C. Wallace, Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Geology, East Tennessee State
University, Johnson City, Tennessee.
Paper # 2: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/WallaceSurvPrehistPast41904.pdf
10:00 am – 11:30 am
Panel Session – GEOID 03
10:00 am – 11:30 am Room 109
Assessment of the New National Geoid Model GEOID03.
Moderated
By: Daniel R. Roman Ph.D., NOAA’s National Geodetic
Survey, A Panel Discussion with William Henning, GWS Inc., John Hamilton,
Terrasurv, and Yan Min Wang, Ph.D., NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey. The recently released
national geoid model, GEOID03, replaced the previous
national model, GEOID99. A brief presentation regarding the new model's
production and development will be followed by assessments of the model's
utility and accuracy from non-governmental members of the panel.
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/RomanGEOID0341904.pdf
Panel
Session – World, National and Federal Spatial Data
Standards
in the USA
10:00 am – 11:30 am Room 108
Moderated
by Harold Moellering. A panel discussion with Norman
Andersen, Charles Roswell, Julie Maitra, and David Danko.
Paper # 1:
http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/AndersenCompData41904.pdf
National
Ocean Service (NOS) Part 2
10:00 am– 11:30 am Room 201
New National Tidal Datum Epoch
Adjustment Part 2.
Tom Landon,
Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS)
National
Readjustment of North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83), David Doyle, NOAA’s National
Geodetic Survey (NGS).
GIS
Applications
10:00 am – 11:30 am Room 202
Applications of GIS in Choosing the
Best Habitat of Chinese Crude Drug Atractylodes Lancea.
Huang Luqi, Guo Lanping,
Lv Dongmei, Institute of
Chinese Materia Medica,
Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing.
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/LanpingGISAPP41904.pdf
Multidimensional Data Modeling for
Feature Extraction and Mapping.
E. Lynn Usery, U.S. Geological Survey, University of Georgia
The Research and Development of
Urban Basic GIS Based on Geomedia.
Niu Deli,
Huang Qun, Xi Qin, Wang Cui,
Institute Of Surveying and Mapping, ZhengZhou City,
P.R China.
GIS
& Surveying (ETSU)
10:00 am– 11:30 am Room 203
GIS Applications at the Miocene Age
Fossil Site in Gray, Tennessee.
Kent M.
Burdick, Department of Technology and Geomatics, East
Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
A Methods Proposal for the Recovery
and Documentation of Historical Boundary Mounuments
of the Virginia and Tennessee Compromise Line
Jason Henry
Connelly, Graduate student, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City,
Tennessee
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/HenryGISSurv41904.pdf
Teaching Surveying Online: Some
Experiences,
Dr. Marian M.
Clark, PLS, Program Coordinator for Surveying and Mapping Science, East
Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee.
Paper # 2: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/ClarkGISSurv41904.pdf
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Vendor Sessions 1
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Room 109
How Things Work.
Moderated
by Joe Paiva, Geomatics. Instrument
Association of America (GIAA)
Speakers
and topics include: Steve Crain, Crain Enterprises – Tripod maintenance for
stability, Roger Hoglung, Trimble – Reflectorless EDM technology, John Florio,
Sokkia – Total Station Tilt Sensors, Joseph Paiva,
Nikon – Reflections on prisms, Automatic level compensators, Andrew Hurley, Leica – RTK GPS communications links.
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National Ocean Service
(NOS) Part 3
1:30 pm– 3:00 pm Room 201
The products and services of the
Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services or COOPS.
Gerald Hovis, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
(CO-OPS).
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/HovisNOS341904.pdf
Commemorative Monuments Part 1.
David
Doyle, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS).
Future of GIS
1:30 pm– 3:00 pm Room 202
Bureau of Land Management Homeland
Security San Juan Basin Demonstration Project.
Jason G. Racette, Cadastral Surveyor, Bureau of Land Management, Washington,
DC, and Bob Johnson, Senior Vice President, Premier Data Services, Englewood,
Colorado.
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/RacetteFutureGIS41904.pdf
A Strategic Investment in the
Advancement of Training of Student Land Surveyors.
Kurt B. Wurm, Ph.D., PLS, Assistant Professor of Surveying
Engineering New Mexico State University, and Thom Maestas,
PLS, US Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office.
Paper # 2: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/WurmFutureGIS41904.pdf
Future
Directions for Surveying (ETSU & Others)
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Room 203
Surveying Curriculum: A Successful
Approach for Passing the NCEES Fundamentals of Surveying Examination.
Doug
Ritchie, Graduate student, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City,
Tennessee.
On the Selection of an Interpolation
Method for Creating a Terrain Model (TM) From LIDAR data.
Tarig A.
Ali, Ph. D., Department of Technology and Geomatics,
East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee.
Paper #1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/AliFutureDirSurvey41904.pdf
A Report on the Activities of
Commission 6 (Engineering Surveys), of the International Federation of
Surveyors (FIG),
Cecilia
Whitaker, ACSM Delegate to Commission 6, Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California, USA, with Adam Chrzanowski, Canadian
Centre for Geodetic
Engineering,
University of New Brunswick, Canada, Svend Kold Johansen, Ministry of Transport, Denmark, Gethin Wyn Roberts, Institute of
Engineering Surveying and Space
Geodesy,
The University of Nottingham, UK, and Alojz Kopácik, Department of Surveying, STU Bratislava, Slovakia, Stathis Stiros, Patras University, Patras,
Greece, and Maria Tsakiri, National Technical
University, Athens, Greece.
Paper # 2: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/WhitakerFutureDirSurvey41904.pdf
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Mapping and Map
Projections
1:30 pm– 3:30 pm Room 108
Defining Numeric/Graphic Value
Transformation Lines for Choropleth Mapping. Robert G. Cromley,
Department of Geography, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Connecticut Method of Oblique
Cylindrical Projection and Its Application Study in Traffic Engineering.
Sha Yuejin, Hu Wusheng,
Zhang Yingyi, Transportation College of
Southeast
University, Nanjing, P.R.China
Paper Maps Interface for Geospatial
Information in a Location Based Service.
Rex G. Cammack, Department of Geography, Geology, and Planning,
Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri.
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/CammackMappingandMapProjection41904.pdf
FGDC and the ACSM Community.
Tim Trainor, US Census Bureau.
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
NGS and the Tennessee
Surveyor
3:30 pm– 5:00 pm Room 201
Commemorative Monuments Part 2.
David
Doyle, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS)
Getting What You Need from NGS
Geodetic Control.
J Ross
Mackay, NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS).
Kentucky Geodetic Advisor Standards
of Practice: The Tennessee Experience,
K. Max
Billingsley, PLS Member- Tennessee Board of Examiners for Land Surveyors
Note: A draft of the final revision to be
submitted for rulemaking will be provided as a handout at the presentation
onsite.
Paper #1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/BillingsleyNGSTN41904.pdf
GIS Certification and
Professional Education
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Room 202
GIS Certification and Professional
Education: Impacts and Opportunities
Rebecca
Somers, Somers-St.Claire, GIS Management Consultants
Paper #1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/DiBiaseGISCert41904.pdf
Engaging Stakeholders in Program
Planning for an Online Master of GIS Degree Program.
David DiBiase, The Pennsylvania State University
GIS Certification and its Impacts on
Surveying.
Josh Greenfeld, NJIT.
Law Enforcement and Surveying
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Room 203
Accident Investigation Surveys.
Emergency Management related to
Tennessee Highways.
Lt. Johnny
Savage, Tennessee Department of Safety
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3:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Vendor Sessions 2
3:30 pm – 6:00 pm Room 109
How Things Work.
Moderated
by Joe Paiva, Geomatics Instrument
Association of America (GIAA) Speakers and topics will include: Steve Crain,
Crain Enterprises – Tripod maintenance for stability, Roger Hoglung,
Trimble-Reflectorless EDM technology, John Florio, Sokkia-Total Station Tilt Sensors, Joseph Paiva, Nikon-Reflections on prisms, Automatic level
compensators, Andrew Hurley, Leica-RTK GPS communications
links.
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4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Panel
Session – The U.S. National Committee for ICA
and the
ICA Experience
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Room 108
The U.S. National Committee for ICA
and the ICA Experience – A Panel Session.
Moderated
by Judy Olson
A panel
discussion with Aileen Buckley, Brooks Pearson, Joshua Comenetz,
and Rex Cammack
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NOT SUBMITTED
TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2004
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Legal Aspects of Surveying
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Room 102
Survey Monuments and the Law.
Chuck Karayan, L.S., Senior Transportation Surveyor, California
Department of
Transportation.
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/KarayanLegalAspect42004.pdf
Permitting and Right of Way and the
Relationship to
Surveying and Mapping.
Kimberly Hinote, IRWA Member, DES Resource Groups, Inc.
Paper # 2: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/HinoteLegalAspect42004.pdf
Surveying Utilities and
Natural Resources
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Room 104
Survey and Mapping Requirements for
Oil & Gas Exploration and Drilling & Reclamation.
Mike
Burton, Tennessee Oil and Gas Commission
Resistivity & Ground Penetrating Radar Method for Underground Utility Location.
Dr. Rene
Henry Rodriguez, GECOH Exploration, Inc.
PAPER NOT SUBMITTED
Municipal GIS
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Room 202
The Next Generation GIS/LIS – A
Surveys Information System Integrated within a GIS.
Michael F.
Weir, ESRI, Redlands, California
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/WeirMunicipalGIS42004.pdf
GIS on a Budget for Small to
Mid-Size Water and Sewer Utility Districts.
James R.
Garrett, P.E., Robert G. Campbell & Associates, Knoxville, Tennessee
Paper # 2: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/GarrettMunicipalGIS42004.pdf
Photogrammetry Solutions
1:30 pm– 3:00 pm Room 203
A Simplified Total Station System
Check to Determine Performance Characteristics,
Dr. George
G. Kampmann, Anhalt Universoty of Applied Sciences, Dessau,
Germany,
and Dr.
Joseph V.R. Paiva, Kansas City, MO
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/PaivaPhotogrammetry42004.pdf
Remote Sensing and Spatial
Information Technologies for Transportation Decision Making.
Dr. Charles
O’Hara, MSU/Engineering Research Center, Starkville MS and Lonnie Hearne, SimWright Inc., Franklin, Tennessee.
Paper #2: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/OharaPhotogrammetry42004.pdf
Improving the Geospatial Data
Extraction and Analysis Process Using Stereo Imagery Datasets.
Lonnie
Hearne, SimWright Inc., Franklin, Tennessee.
Paper # 3: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/HearnePhotogrammetry42004.pdf
Panel Session – Floodplain
Management
1:30 pm– 3:00 pm Room 103
Inter-Agency Roles in Floodplain
Management (Part 1).
Moderated
By: Wendy Lathrop, PLS. Federal and state agencies play a role in floodplain
management, even in community activities. Representatives from Tennessee Valley
Authority, Federal Emergency Management Agency, US Army Corps of Engineers,
Tennessee Department of Transportation, and Tennessee Department of Environment
and
Conservation will address their organizations' missions, objectives, and
regulations, illustrating interaction through examples of projects involving
multiple agencies.
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Historical Surveys
1:30 pm– 3:00 pm Room 201
Historical Boundary Retracement Using GPS and GIS,
Barry
Savage, PLS, Cleveland State Community College.
Paper#1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/SavageHistoricalsurveys.pdf
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
GIS and the Small Business
Room 102
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Using ArcView
to Manage a Surveying Company in South Texas.
Robert L.
Young, PLS, Frontier Surveying Company, Corpus Christi, Texas.
Paper #1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/YoungGISSmallBus42004.pdf
Panel Session – Floodplain
Management
3:30 pm– 5:00 pm Room 103
Inter-Agency Roles in Floodplain
Management (Part 2)
Moderated
By: Wendy Lathrop, PLS. Federal and state agencies play a role in floodplain
management, even in community activities. Representatives from Tennessee Valley
Authority, Federal Emergency Management Agency, US Army Corps of Engineers,
Tennessee Department of Transportation, and Tennessee Department of Environment
and
Conservation will address their organizations' missions, objectives, and
regulations, illustrating interaction through examples of projects involving
multiple agencies.
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Panel Session- CORS
3:30 pm– 5:00 pm Room 104
Enhancing CORS
Moderated
By: Richard Snay, NOAA’s
National Geodetic Survey (NGS). A panel Discussion with Gordon Adams, Miranda
Chin, Michael Cline, David Crump, Mark Eckl,
Donald Haw,
Julie Prusky, Tomas Soler,
and Neil Weston, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey
(NGS). A panel of speakers will give short presentations discussing ideas for
enhancing the National & Cooperative Continuously Operating Reference
Station (CORS) program. The audience will be invited to share in the discussion
after these presentations.
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GPS,
Mapping, and GIS
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Room 202
Establishing a Community-Wide GPS
Base Station.
Paul Baxter,
Ph.D., Associate Professor and GIS Program Coordinator, Pellissippi
State, Knoxville, Tennessee Implementation of the National Map Road Database, Bryan
Weaver, University of Georgia, Athens,
Paper #1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/WeaverGPSMappingGIS42004.pdf
Business GIS: Applicable and
Obtainable.
Gabor Barsai, Digital Information Systems, Inc., Columbus, Ohio.
Paper # 2: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/BarsaiGPSMappingGIS42004.pdf
Advanced Data Types
3:30 pm –
5:00 pm Room 203
Mapping for All Seasons &
Generating 3D by Combining Airborne and tripod-Mounted LiDAR
Data, Ben Fister, GRW, Inc., Jeff Padgett, GRW, Inc., Albert Iavarone, Optech, Inc.
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/FisterAdvDataType42004.pdf
Paper #2: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/IavaroneAdvDataType42004.pdf
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21,
2004
8:00 am – 9:30 am
Panel Session - GIS
8:00 am- 9:30 am Room 209
The state of GIS activities in
surveying State societies (Part 1).
Moderated
by Joshua Greenfeld, New Jersey Institute of Technology
and Gary Jeffress, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. The objective of
this session is to bring together
leaders
representatives of GIS committees from national, and perhaps international,
surveying associations. Each representative will report on the experiences and
activities of their committee. Following these presentations, an attempt will
be made to create a common agenda for a coordinated national effort to bridge
between GIS and surveying.
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Foundations for the Future
8:00 am-
9:30 am Room 210
Work Patterns in Geomatics.
James A. Elithorp Jr., Ph.D., P.L.S., Director of the TSU Geomatics Program, Troy State
University,
Troy, Alabama.
Paper #1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/ElithorpFoundationsforFuture42104.pdf
Validating Specialists, or Foxes,
Henhouses, and Professions.
Chuck Karayan, L.S., Senior Transportation.
Surveyor,
California Department of Transportation.
Paper#2: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/KarayanFoundationsforFuture42104.pdf
10:00 am –11:30 am
Panel Session – GIS
10:00 am – 11:30 am Room 209
The state of GIS activities in
surveying State societies (Part 2).
Moderated
by Joshua Greenfeld, New Jersey Institute of
Technology and Gary Jeffress, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. The
objective of this session is to bring together leaders representatives of GIS
committees from national, and perhaps international, surveying associations.
Each representative will report on the experiences and activities of their
committee. Following these presentations, an attempt will be made to create a
common
agenda for a coordinated national effort to bridge between GIS and surveying.
PAPER NOT SUBMITTED
Foundations for the Future
10:00 am– 11:30 am Room 210
Surveyors in Turmoil,
Jessie Hummel,M.B.A.,P.S.M., Survey Manager, Mehta &
Associates, Inc.
Paper # 1: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/HummelFoundationsforfuture242104.pdf
Training for the Bureau of Land
Management’s Cadastral Surveyor.
Tim Kent,
BLM, Oregon State Office.
Paper # 2: http://www.acsm.net/sessions04/DixonFoundationsforfuture242104.pdf
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
GIS tools and Procedures
for Parcel Mapping
1:30 pm– 3:00 pm Room 209
Moderated by John Bean, Paul Smiths
College
A GIS Consultant’s Viewpoint.
Steve
Anderson, Applied Geographics A Surveyors Viewpoint,
A GIS Vendors Viewpoint.
Phill Caron,
University of Connecticut
A GIS Vendors Viewpoint.
Terry
Bennett, AutoDesk, Inc.
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Surveying Practices -
Subdivisions
1:30 pm– 3:00 pm Room 210
Retracement Surveys of Simultaneous Conveyances (Part 1).
Joe Curd,
Jr., CPS, The purpose of this session is to provide the professional land
surveyor with an overview of the principles of boundary surveying involving
simultaneous (subdivisions) conveyances. The seminar will consider the
establishment of subdivision boundaries, control of conflicting elements, establishment
of streets and proration.
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3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
GIS activities in the
State of Tennessee
3:30 pm– 5:00 pm Room 209
Maine Technical Source - Moderated
by Matt Wellslager,
Speakers
include: Mark Tuttle, Director of GIS Services, Office for Information Resources, Tennessee Department of Finance and
Administration and Dennis Pedersen, GIS Managers, Office of Local Government,
Comptroller of the Treasury.
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Surveying Practices -
Subdivisions
3:30 pm– 6:00 pm Room 210
Retracement Surveys of Simultaneous Conveyances (Part 2).
Joe Curd,
Jr., CPS The purpose of this session is to provide the professional land
surveyor with an overview of the principles of boundary surveying involving
simultaneous (subdivisions) conveyances. The seminar will consider the
establishment of subdivision boundaries, control of conflicting elements, establishment
of streets and proration.
PAPER NOT SUBMITTED