NOAA's Corbin Training Center offers classes online and at the training center on OPUS Projects. manager training for Geodetic Digital Leveling, and many more.

Past Classes and their presentations
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/corbin/past_classes.shtml

and Upcoming Classes
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/corbin/calendar.shtml

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos040.htm

http://www.surveyingcareer.com/

http://www.profsurv.com/magazine/article.aspx?i=70959

Their standard unit of measurement is the vara (33 1/3”). They also use a League, a Labor, a Sitio in their descriptions. What is most interesting is that land was formed under Spanish Law(1720-1821), then Mexican law(1821-1836), then Texas as a Sovereign Nation(1836-1845), then as part of the US. With each change they respected the previous laws so when you look at a deed, you have to see what year it was granted.

-Derek Zeman

These areas have some evidence of cypress logging but I beleive many of the trees are very old like the attached live oak pic taken last year.

-Joe Stokes

Witness Trees, what others think about them.

Witness trees are living links to our history
http://www.caller.com/news/2011/mar/30/witness-trees-are-living-links-to-our-history/

Witness Trees
http://www.witnesstrees.org/home.html

Civil War Witness Trees
http://thewitnesstree.net/witness-trees.html
http://www.bivouacbooks.com/bbv2i1s4.htm

http://oxfordlandsurveying.com/what-is-land-surveyor/

http://www.npca.org/parks/mount-rushmore-national-memorial.html?adwords=1&gclid=CMmo0MTL-q0CFUSo4AodGgsQvQ

http://www.vfcc.edu/aboutVFCC/?p=showthinkAboutIt&id=89

Wildlife Conservation

How Relevant is Illinois Central Railroad These Days

Florida's State Lands Authorization.pdf

http://www.floridabar.org/DIVCOM/JN/JNJournal01.nsf/Articles/8D98D298C0060C0785256B110050FFB7

Most of our records can be accessed online at: Public Records Search and Choose Public Search

or the direct link is: http://205.166.161.12/oncoreV2/Search.aspx

Attached (Plat-transcript-key.pdf) is a key to transcript recording book and page for older plats that were once part of Palm Beach County and Dade County but are now part of Broward. You have to use the transcript numbers to get them online as they are not listed using their original recording info. (example: Florida Fruit Lands Company Subdivision No.2 PB 1, PG 102 PBCR would be listed under “Palm Beach Plats” PB 1, PG 1 ; PB 1, PG 2; PB 1, PG 3 ; PB 1, PG 4).

Thanks to Eric Augusto, PSM

Do you understand the difference between relative accuracy and positional accuracy?

This is more important than you think.

Cadastral Survey Accuracy Standards.pdf

Surveyor's Guidebook on Relative Accuracy

http://microstationtoday.com/microstation-tip-corner-survey-foot-versus-international-foot-whats-the-difference/

http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/GEOMETRONICS/docs/Footvs.Feet.pdf

http://vterrain.org/Projections/sp_feet.html

http://gis.pima.gov/data/about/units.htm

http://h-e.com/sites/h-e.com/files/tech_docs/de_sbe94.pdf

http://www.reubique.com/clarke.htm

http://www.archive.org/details/geodesy01clargoog

USGS Global Positioning System
http://water.usgs.gov/osw/gps/index.html

GPS (and GLONASS) Satellite Tracking
http://edu-observatory.org/gps/tracking.html

http://www.machinecontrolonline.com/newsletter/01DEC2010.htm

NOAATRNOSNGS60.pdf

Geodetic Base point for NAD 27

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Datum
http://wikimapia.org/8808554/Meades-Ranch-Center-of-48-States
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds2.prl?retrieval_type=by_pid&PID=KG0640
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/brs/cgind31.htm

http://gis.pima.gov/data/about/nad27problem.htm

NAD-27-to-NAD-83-Issue-Paper.pdf

http://www.eriecanal.org/maps.html

then.pdf and now.pdf

The now is based on a survey recorded in US PB 3 pages 1-84 Collier County Florida Public Records.

Feb-FUNDAMENTALS-OF-NSRS-OUS.pdf

http://www.wvbike.org/west_fork_trail/benchmark.html