NE Land Surveyor case studies
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The Fundamentals of Surveying (FS) Exam is one of the NCEES surveying examinations, listed alongside the PS Exam and the PLSS Exam on the surveying exams page of ncees.org. NCEES describes licensure as a path that ensures individuals practice in a manner that protects the health, safety, and welfare of the public by satisfying qualifications in education, work experience, and exams, and notes that engineers and surveyors must typically pass two exams to become professionally licensed. The NE Land Surveyor case studies are 5 cases and about 2,818 words.
1Missing Quarter-Section Corner and a 44-Year Fence
A retracement survey is requested for a parcel described as the North 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of Section 14, T6N, R2E, 6th P.M., containing 78.4 acres by county records. You recover the original 30-inch limestone at the SW corner of Section 14 with a faint 'T6N R2E' chiseled on it, but the quarter-section corner on the west line is missing.
705 words, about 4 min2Construction Layout With a Prism Constant and a Benchmark That Will Not Close
A contractor is laying out a 120-ft by 80-ft pre-engineered metal building on a 2.3-acre commercial lot. Project control is two brass caps, CP1 and CP2, 650 ft apart on a local grid.
566 words, about 3 min3Grid vs. Ground: A 2,640-ft Baseline and an 18-ft GIS Shift
A 2,640-ft section-line baseline is measured with GNSS RTK in NAD83(2011), Epoch 2010.00, and reduced to the State Plane Coordinate System. The grid distance is 2,639.66 ft.
502 words, about 3 min4River Cross-Sections With a Moving Water Surface
You are mapping 3.2 miles of the Platte River for a bridge replacement. The project datum is NAVD88, but the river stage changes 2.4 ft during the day.
514 words, about 3 min5UAS Mapping of an Active Gravel Pit: RMSE vs. 95% Confidence
A 40-acre gravel pit expansion is to be mapped by UAS photogrammetry for a 1-ft contour site plan. You fly a DJI Matrice 300 RTK with a 45 MP camera at 250 ft AGL, yielding about 1.1 cm GSD.
531 words, about 3 min