Abstract
View PresentationHigh Accuracy, Survey-Grade GIS
Track: Integrating Survey Data and GIS
Author(s): Robert Jones, Aaron Ford
Through the use of ESRI’s ArcMap, an Intranet application, patent pending, was designed and developed as a high-accuracy, survey-grade GIS to unify CAD drawings in unconnected and arbitrary coordinate systems within a common spatial environment. To automatically and rapidly perform coordinate transformations on the fly of any number of unaltered CAD files and associated point databases, the application simultaneously accesses multiple GPS program databases in addition to the CAD files and point databases to be transformed. The applied transformations preserve the critical element of distances as measured on the ground. Spatially unifying with high accuracy all surveys within a GIS environment, while maintaining ground distances, brings a new dimension and economy to surveying, civil engineering, and land planning. The result is an extraordinarily elegant and robust link between existing survey data, GPS, GIS, and the National Spatial Reference System.
Robert Jones
R.A. Smith & Associates, Inc.
Survey
16745 West Bluemound Road
Brookfield, WI 53005
US
Phone: 262-317-3281
E-mail: robert.jones@nsae.com
Aaron Ford
R.A. Smith & Associates, Inc.
16745 West Bluemound Road, Suite 200
Brookfield, WI 53005
US
Phone: 262-317-3388
E-mail: aaron.ford@rasmith.com