Draft Agenda for Digital Leveling Class

November 18th, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET

• History of Geodetic Surveying in the U.S., includes a short film
  • Past and present need for Geodetic Leveling
  • Why Geodetic Leveling is important with height modernization
• Geodetic Leveling theory
• Modern Geodetic Leveling equipment and techniques
• Setting up a project
• Station descriptions: WinDesc

November 19th, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET

• Short film: 200 Years of NOAA
• Digital levels for Geodetic Leveling
• Basic operation of currently accepted instrumentation
• Need and practice of hand recording metadata
• Break up into groups for hands-on leveling
  • Observe and store data
  • Take turns running instrument and rods
  • Three brands of instruments available:
    • Leica
    • Topcon
    • Trimble
  • Download/backup data

November 20th, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET

• Process data: Translev
• Submitting data to NGS