Class Zoom Meeting Room - where we'll meet if you have questions outside of class, email or call to set up an appointment, then click to join.
Supplementary Text - Geodesy for Geomatics and GIS Professionals, 2nd ed., by J.A. Elithorp, Jr., and D.D. Findorff, ISBN 978-1-58152-658-5, available from XanEdu.com. This is a bit expensive, I suggest you check out the copies in the library if you can get them delivered; I'll be able to lend one copy, and can perhaps look for alternative sources. I'll cover relevant formulas in the lecture notes, you should borrow my or the library's copy to decide if you really need this book. Since we only do a partial read of the text, it might be best for most of you to use borrowed copies.
Turn in assignments via the course Canvas site. It should also show up when you log in to canvas.umn.edu
Week 1 - Overview, Course Mechanics
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Week 1 - Sept. 6
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Topic Overview, Course Mechanics
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Slides Lecture slides, Example Traverse Calculations
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Supplements Plane trig. formulas, |
Assignments No homework
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Week2 - Plane Surveying
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Week 2 - Sept. 6
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Topic Plane Surveying, Calculations
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Slides Continue last weeks slides
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Supplements Same as last week
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Assignments Plane surveying calculations, based on last week's lecture homework
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Week 5 - 2 and 3D Coordinate Transformation
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Week 5
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Topic 2D and 3D Coordinate Transformation, read Chapter 7
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Supplements Plate tectonics video A perspective on the need for coordinate transformations - Tom Scott on different latitude/longitude systems
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2D and 3D transformation homework
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Week 6 - Conversion Between Ellipsoid Models
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Week 6
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Topic Conversion Between Ellipdoid Models, read Snay papers
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Supplements
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Homework - Horizontal Datum Shifts, only do parts 1 & 2
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Week 7 - Datum Transformation, Geodesy and GNSS
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Week 7
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Topic Datum Transformation Applications, Geodesy and GNSS, Read Chapter 12
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Supplements NOAA video 4
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Homework, horizontal datum shifts,
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Week 8 - Basic Map Projections
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Week 8
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Topic Map Projections
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Supplements
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Update? - coordinates for point features in Arc - import Excel, calculate geometry videos, add to homework
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Week 9 - Projections and Datum Transformations in ArcGIS
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Week 9
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Topic Projections and Datum Transformations in ArcMap UTM, State Plane, and County Coordinate System
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Lecture Slides, Projections in ArcMap, Lecture slides, UTM Projections Lecture slides, State Plane Projections in Minnesota
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Supplements Excerpt Chapter 3, same as last week
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Projections and Datum Transformations when using ArcMap MN data used in description above, as a compressed file Homework - Datum Transformations, Projecting UTM and State Plane coordinates for Minnesota Videos
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Week 10 - Leveling
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Week 10
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Topic Height systems and measurements, leveling
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Supplements
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Week 11 - Gravity
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Week 11
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Topic The Earth's Gravity Field, read Elithorp and Findorf Chapter 4, & Meyers papers
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Slides
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Supplements
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Assignments Homework - VDatum
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Week 12 - Thanksgiving, no class
Week 13 - Sea Level Datums, Great Lakes Datum
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Week 13
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Topic Local Mean Sea Level Datums,
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Slides
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Supplements IGLD85 NOAA webpage,
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Assignments NOAA Water Level Measurement Stations
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Week 14 - NATRF2022
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Week 14
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Where we are, Geoid modernization and impacts on Re-read section on NATRF2022 in Bolstad, Chapter 3
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Replacing the NAVD88, NGS Webpage Excerpt,
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No assignment
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