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CDS Field Day
July 9, 2009
Come see how we do Field to Finish at our Field Day in Austin Thursday July 9, 2009.
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Greetings!
WOW! We began planning an event here in Austin next week (Thursday July 9) to show how you can move a project from Field to Finish and expected a small turn out. We have over 20 people signed up now and have moved to another venue to accommodate everyone! For a map to the new location please click here.
This really gets me excited, and it will make me work harder for all of those coming. This should be one of the best classes/seminars we have done yet and I thank everyone who has signed up. If you have not paid yet, remember to either call and put the fee on a credit card or bring a check with you at the time of the event, all payments must be made before or at the time time of arival.
I want to wish you a very happy and safe Independence Day. Enjoy the time away from work, enjoy the BBQ and the beer, but most of all spend time with the ones you love.
"O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the
war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued
land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then
conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: 'In God is
our trust.'
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the
land of the free and the home of the brave!"
Sincerely,
Paul M. Carlson
"Democracy is two wolves and a
lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting
the vote!"
~Benjamin Franklin
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Tech Report
 To localize, or not to localize...that is the question.
First, why do we even need to localize (or Calibrate as some
call it)? GPS works in WGS-84. Often survey control data is in some other
local datum such as NAD83. Where WGS-84 is an ellipsoid and vertical data is tied
to some geoid model, local datums are planar. The purpose of the
localization/calibration is to tie the ellipsoid and planar datums together
with a "best fit". This is particularly true for vertical where the
geoid model will likely not have enough resolution to give high accuracy for
vertical measurements.
Often times the Localization is also used to
"align" your data and the ground together, or make the data you have "fit"
the real world conditions. The majority
of ALL construction companies using GPS should be localized on their sites
because even if the original survey is done on the grid, the design and
subsequent data is often not done on the grid and is often times not even in
any true coordinate system. The
localization allows you to say, " I do not care what the difference is, this coordinate
from my drawing is located "HERE" on the ground. By assigning 4,5 or even 6 of those points to
ground locations you gain that best fit which translates and rotates the ground
and the data together so that you are now calibrated or localized on your site.
In SurvCE you can localize during the base setup by beginning
from a known position. This creates a
one point, or single point localization from the base. Your rotation will be to geodetic north, but
your coordinates are now translated and scaled appropriately. You can also do your localization using the
rover. If we were on a GPS RTK network
for example we could localize all of our control using our rovers and now have
the data "fit" the ground.
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Altus News
The APS-3 features the AsteRx2 GPS/GLONASS dual frequency receiver
from Septentrio, the latest entrant to the high precision positioning market. With
Internal UHF Radio, Internal GSM, Removable SD Storage for RAW logging,
Bluetooth and more bang for your buck why would you pay more for another
system? With single receiver prices
starting at $17995 with a data
collector and accessories shouldn't you be looking at Altus?
Download the brochure here.
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Autodesk News
Simplified Upgrade Pricing Begins March 16, 2010
Autodesk is introducing a new, streamlined upgrade pricing model on
March 16, 2010. Under our current upgrade pricing model, the price of
your upgrade depends on which product release you own. After March 15,
2010, your upgrade from any of the three previous software releases
will cost 50 percent of the price of a new license, no matter which
release you own. Learn more here.
Autodesk University 2009 December
1-4 Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas, NV.
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Carlson News
Carlson 2010 Software Release
The 2010 Carlson product
line is planned to be released later this summer and features more than 400
improvements including improved layout manager and field text, the merging of
C&G and Carlson Survey into one powerful program, smart annotation, the ability
to produce edge-of-pavement profiles, linkage with HydroCAD (in Carlson
Hydrology), ultra-large PointClouds, and the ability to produce pdf reports to
name as few. Purchase Carlson Survey, Carlson Civil, Carlson Hydrology, Carlson
GIS, or Carlson Mining now and get an automatic and free update when 2010 is
released.
Call our office for pricing and to place orders for Carlson Software and Carlson Software Maintenance at 877-335-4016.
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