North Dakota GIS Conference 2006: Presentations
Surveying and GIS: Survey Grade Data within GIS - The ArcGIS Survey Analyst
Presented by: Aaron Norby, PLS N.D, S.D, TX. and Chris Carlson BLM GCDB Project Coordinator, Kadrmas, Lee and Jackson, Inc., GIS Group, Bismarck Office
» PowerPoint Presentation (8.3Mb ppt)
Surveying and GIS are becoming more and more reliant on each other. With urban growth into rural areas, the need for high quality GIS data as a basis for mapping efforts for a city or county GIS department is an increasing challenge. In addition, current data collection efforts may not suite future needs. Though the advances of data gathering technology have substantially improved through the use of GPS mapping grade receivers and high resolution orthophotography, much of the data collected is not utilized with a survey grade control network and many may elect to entirely recollect data later if higher precision is required. The ESRI ArcGIS Survey Analyst ArcGIS Extension bridges the different worlds of the mapping sciences. Survey quality data through the BLM Geographic Coordinate Database (GCDB) project and GPS survey grade data will be featured with a detailed look at the Survey Analyst illustrating techniques to link legacy databases to survey control, how spatial integrity is managed using the extension, and a look at the future with the new Cadastral Editor for release with ArcGIS 9.2.
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