Draft Agenda for Digital Leveling Class 

May 13th, 1300 hrs - 1630 hrs

• History of Geodetic Surveying in the U.S. Includes a short film
  • Past and present need for Geodetic Leveling
  • Why Geodetic Leveling is important with height modernization 
• Geodetic Leveling theory 
• Modern Geodetic Leveling equipment and techniques 
• Setting up a project 
• Station descriptions: WinDesc

May 14th, 0830 hrs - 1630 hrs

• Short film: 200 Years of NOAA
• Digital levels for Geodetic Leveling 
  • Basic operation of currently accepted instrumentation 
  • Need and practice of hand recording metadata 
• Break up into groups for hands-on leveling 
  • Observe and store data 
  • Take turns running instrument and rods 
  • Three brands of instruments available: 
    • Leica 
    • Topcon 
    • Trimble 
• Download/backup data

May 15th, 0830 hrs - 1200 hrs

• Process data: Translev
• Submitting data to NGS