WGS 84 is used by DoD for all its mapping, charting, surveying, and navigation needs, including its GPS " broadcast " and " precise " orbits.

In the ' 70s, Lesney began to seek contact with collectors, sending representatives to collectors ' meets, providing information to the various collectors ' clubs, and informally surveying collectors ' needs.

Even before the department was formally established, Howe's representatives were surveying the country for essential war needs, with the department soon accumulating huge reserves of strategic materials.

Now, most states insist upon basic qualification of a degree in surveying, plus experience and examination requirements.

First, upon graduation, the candidate may be eligible to take the Fundamentals of Surveying ( FS ) exam, to be certified upon passing and meeting all other requirements as a surveying intern ( SI ),( formerly surveyor in training ( SIT )).

Furthermore, how well individual surveying parties actually met the requirements or recommendations at the time, also varied.

He then set about the purchase of equipment for his own requirements and for the surveying office.

In June 1807 Thompson crossed the Rocky Mountains and spent the summer surveying the Columbia basin and continuing to survey the area over the next few seasons.

2009 compared transcriptional profiles using short-oligonucleotide microarrays ( Affymetrix Porcine GeneChip ) to survey differentially expressed genes between parthenotes ( 2 maternal genomes ) and control fetuses ( 1 maternal, 1 paternal genome ) An intriguing study surveying the transcriptome of murine brain tissues revealed over 1300 imprinted gene loci ( approximately 10-fold more than previously reported ) by Illumina RNA-sequencing ( RNA-Seq ) technology from F1 hybrids resulting from reciprocal crosses.

After the civil engineer looked over the site of the proposed road and determined roughly where it should go, the agrimensores went to work surveying the road bed.

The basic principles of surveying have changed little over the ages, but the tools used by surveyors have evolved tremendously.

The day before the battle, William himself had a narrow escape when he was wounded in the shoulder by Jacobite artillery while surveying the fords over which his troops would cross the Boyne.

In the 10th century, al-Sufi first described over 1, 000 different uses of an astrolabe, in areas as diverse as astronomy, astrology, horoscopes, navigation, surveying, timekeeping, prayer, Salah, Qibla, etc.

The London Natural History Society has been surveying Bookham Commons for over 50 years, making it one of the best recorded sites for wildlife in south east England.

Hopkins ' interest in surveying spilled over into an interest in astronomy and other scientific endeavors as well, which was illustrated by an event when he was much older.

The Public Land Survey System ( PLSS ) is the surveying method used historically over the largest fraction of the United States to survey and spatially identify land parcels before designation of eventual ownership, particularly for rural, wild or undeveloped land.

The following is a list of the more commonly required landscape and surveying items that were either required or requested be noted, over much of the nineteenth century.

In plane geometry, and in particular, area surveying, Green's theorem can be used to determine the area and centroid of plane figures solely by integrating over the perimeter.

Thus over time the army became a place to learn the technical skills of engineering and surveying.

Although he had served in the steam-assisted Conqueror over ten years previously, this was his first paddle steamer, and in a further departure, she was employed in surveying duties on the east coast of Australia.

The M53 at Bidston Moss viaduct has undergone extensive surveying over the past couple of years due to it being built on boggy area.

Tilting level, dumpy level or automatic level are terms used to refer to types of leveling instruments as used in surveying to measure height differences over larger distances.

The wide disparity among these estimates underscores the difficulty of accurately surveying the religious view of a nation of over a billion people and the lack of reliable data.

* Harbour security boat ( PBI )-4 newly built 80 ton class harbour security / patrol boats, and more are planned in order to take over the port security / patrol duties currently performed by the obsolete Shantou, Beihai, Huangpu, and Yulin classes gunboats, which are increasingly being converted to inshore surveying boats and range support boats.

Delano resigned because of evidence that his son, John Delano, had been given partnerships in surveying contracts over which the Interior Department had control.

His surveying work took him all over the country and he was in much demand from landowners wishing to improve their estates, or exploit the minerals they held.

Ogilvie sent Moore and Skookum Jim Mason over this low altitude pass while he continued with his surveying work on the Chilkoot Pass.

The number has varied slightly over the years, both due to improvements in surveying and mapping by the Ordnance Survey, and due to realisations that several fine mountain ridges had more than one Munro.

Finally, in 1881, as a result of ongoing friction with his hosts over the question of land sales, and a general amnesty being granted to the rebels, Tāwhiao emerged and laid down the King Movement's arms and by 1883, after successful negotiations between the government and Wahanui, Rewi and Taonui, the King Country was made accessible to Europeans and opened to road surveying, but with a prohibition on the sale of alcohol throughout the district.

Leonard Digges is also sometimes credited with independently inventing the reflecting, and probably the refracting telescope as part of his need to see accurately over long distances during his surveying works.

The US engineers began surveying the colony for the construction of an airfield that was envisioned as taking over most of the West End of the Island.

It was during this time he greatly refined and expanded his mathematical, astronomical and surveying skills under the tutelage of Hudson's Bay Company surveyor Philip Turnor.

For surveying mappings, frequently Real Time Kinematic GPS is employed, tying in the unknown points with known terrestrial points close by in real time.

Upon surveying judges and jurors of approximately 8000 criminal and civil trials, it was discovered that the verdicts handed down by both parties were in agreement 80 % of the time.

By the time he had finished, he was adept at algebra, geometry, land surveying, and English.

Its many uses include locating and predicting the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars, determining local time given local latitude and vice-versa, surveying, triangulation, and to cast horoscopes.

He was sent to northern Sweden to do surveying, and in his spare time he constructed a heat engine which used the fumes from the fire instead of steam as a propellant.

The name at the time of surveying was Lodi, but when the township was organized in February 1874 it was called " Belleview ," as was the railroad station.

Apart from the speed of surveying advantage, the rationale at the time of the grid's adoption in this and other cities remains obscure.

He proposed worldwide standard time zones, designed Canada's first postage stamp, left a huge body of surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Royal Canadian Institute, a science organization in Toronto.

Whether or not he intended to pursue land surveying at this time is unclear.

Prior to this time, topographic mapping was largely a function of individual field engineer units using field surveying techniques or copying existing or captured products.

" Sadly we have no record of the words actually used by the police constable as he stood sternly surveying the scene in the Wynnstay Arms, Ruabon, on that May night in 1876 ; but what they amounted to was that even if the gentlemen were busy forming the Football Association of Wales it was past closing time so would they mind forming it somewhere else … "

For the next several years, Maverick spent a great deal of time away from home, either surveying frontier lands or traveling to New Orleans on business.

A significant difference between the surveying methods of George Stephenson and Joseph Locke was that, because Stephenson had started his career at a time when locomotives had little power to overcome excessive gradients, he avoided such gradients at all costs, often adding many miles to the line of the route, whereas Locke had more confidence in the ability of modern locomotives to climb these gradients.

In 1972 the purpose-built Wandsworth Road site opened, providing space for the Polytechnic's Faculty of the Built Environment, which at the time was the biggest and most comprehensive faculty in Europe for teaching built environment subjects such as surveying, town planning, architecture and other property related professional disciplines.

She then spent some time in surveying and naval duties between Ceylon, India and Rangoon.

For two years he carried out a variety of engineering tasks, including surveying and building railroads, and at the same time gained experience and an understanding of the subject.

At that time, engineering courses were limited to such fields as architecture and surveying, until 1924 when Trinity College was renamed to Duke University.

He also spent time studying the skills of drawing, surveying, and architecture.

Muhammad XII reined in his horse and, surveying for the last time the Alhambra and the green valley that spread below, burst into tears.

As William Jessop was surveying the Nottingham Canal at the time, he was aked to survey the Grantham route as well, and a bill was put before Parliament in 1792.

Stuart returned to his trade as a private surveyor, spending more and more time in remote areas, and moving to Port Lincoln for several years before moving again to the northern Flinders Ranges where he worked for the wealthy pastoralists William Finke, James Chambers, and John Chambers, exploring, prospecting for minerals, and surveying pastoral leases.