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Example of hardware equipment for forest inventories: GPS and laser rangefinder for mapping connected to a field rugged computer. A timber cruise is a sample measurement of a stand used to estimate the amount of standing timber that the forest contains. These measurements are collected at sample locations called plots, quadrants, or strips.
This 1988 BLM map depicts the principal meridians and baselines used for surveying states (colored) in the Public Land Survey System. The Public Land Survey System ( PLSS ) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat , or divide, real property for sale and settling.
Wood (formerly, Wood's Store) is a small unincorporated community in northeastern Franklin County, North Carolina, United States, [1] on North Carolina Highway 561 east of Centerville Settled in 1893, Wood was incorporated as a town in 1917. [ 2 ]
Survey of India, India's central agency in charge of mapping and surveying; Ordnance Survey, a national mapping agency for Great Britain; U.S. National Geodetic Survey, performing geographic surveys as part of the U.S. Department of Commerce; United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, a former surveying agency of the United States Government
The 655th Engineer Topographic Battalion was activated at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin on December 17, 1943, as a technical unit for mapping and map reproduction activities, with the original squad consisting of 28 men and 1 officer transferred from the 650th Engineer Topographical Battalion, and 5 other officers drawn from other units. [1]
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A geodetic control network is a network, often of triangles, that are measured precisely by techniques of control surveying, such as terrestrial surveying or satellite geodesy. It is also known as a geodetic network, reference network, control point network, or simply control network.
Position resection and intersection are methods for determining an unknown geographic position (position finding) by measuring angles with respect to known positions.In resection, the one point with unknown coordinates is occupied and sightings are taken to the known points; in intersection, the two points with known coordinates are occupied and sightings are taken to the unknown point.