Sunstar Virgil Lopez February 8, 2011 MANILA — Environment Secretary Ramon Paje has ordered concerned agencies in his department to adopt a standard reference for all surveying and mapping activities starting this year. Paje issued the directive in consonance with Executive Order No. 321 issued in 2004 which sets the year 2010 as the deadline [...]

Trimble announced today that it has been selected by the National Development and Reform Commission, which is led by the China Earthquake Administration , to supply Global Navigation Satellite System Continuous Operating Reference Station receivers for the Crustal Movement Observation Network of China .

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An early 20th century shipwreck located in a NOAA National Marine Sanctuary is added to the National Register of Historic Places. And the National Geodetic Survey celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Continuously Operating Reference Station program.

This manual covers the use of engineering surveying techniques for establishing and/or extending project construction control. Accuracy requirements, standards, measurement procedures, calibrations, horizontal and vertical datum transformations, data reduction and adjustment methods, and engineering surveying techniques are outlined. The primary focus of this manual is on conventional (i.e., non-GPS) horizontal and vertical survey techniques using traditional ground survey instruments–transits,