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2019 Chapter Officers President: Rich Fultz
Vice President: Will Paul
Secretary: Mike Dorsey
Treasurer: Rich James
Chapter Director: Tristan Higgins
Chapter Director: Rich James
Alt. Chapter Dir: Will Paul
Alt. Chapter Dir: Rich Fultz
2019 Chapter Committees By-Laws Committee: Keith Spencer (Chairman)
Education Committee: Keith Spencer (Chairman)
Membership Committee: Rich Brown (Chairman)
Monument Pres Committee: Mike Quartaroli (Chairman)
Newsletter: Rich Brown (Editor)
Professional Practices Committee: Mike Quartaroli (Chairman)
Website: Keith Spencer (Web Master)
2019 Chapter Programs Public Outreach Committee: Zachary Wong (Coordinator)
Workshops: Rich Brown (Coordinator)
May 2019 Volume 9, Issue 3
THE PRISM Date: May 22, 2019
Location: Perko’s
901 North Carpenter Road, Modesto
Speaker: Gary Poland, GSP Consulting
Topic: Photogrammetry 101
Date: June 26, 2019
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Perko’s
901 North Carpenter Road, Modesto
Speaker: TBD
Topic: TBD
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Announcements THE PRISM RECEIVED AWARD The Prism was awarded CLSA’s Newsletter of the Year for 2018 at this year’s State CLSA Conference at the Silver Legacy Resort in Reno, Nevada. 2019 LAWS AND REGULATIONS NOW AVAILABLE The 2019 Laws and Regulations are now available on the BPELSG website, at the following address: https://www.bpelsg.ca.gov/laws/index.shtml
Central Val ley Chapter - Cal i fornia Land Surveyors Association www.cal i forniacentralval leysurveyors .org
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Table of Contents
Page 2 Classes, Training &
Education
Page 2 Editor’s Message
Page 3 Monument Obituaries
Page 4 National News
Page 6 State News
Page 9 Classifieds
Page 12 Pictures of the Issue
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Classes, Training, and Continuing Education
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CAD Masters - Civil 3D for Surveyors (2-Day Course) June 3-4, 2019 Sacramento Register here
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Editor’s Message
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I sit here, kids playing in the other room, wife baking fresh cookies, wondering if any words of advise or thoughts will reach someone that could benefit from it. Will it make you stop and think about something, or do you just skip over this section and continue on with your busy day?
With every edition that is sent out, I struggle with getting my thoughts down into sen-tences that make sense and are not just random words put in a line to look pretty and make people scratch their heads, saying “What did he mean?” Can I just write down Blah, blah blah! Will anyone notice and comment?
The whole point I am trying to get across is that, “Are we really to busy to stop and pon-der a thought, take in a sunset, or sit and watch your child’s event? We need to stop and
reevaluate our priorities and move forward like we it was intended for to do.
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Monument Obituaries By Mike Quartaroli, PLS
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National News Shoot the Moon By Jerry Penry, P.S.
July 20, 1969, 20:17 UTC. “Houston, Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed.” Neil Armstrong calmly communi-cated these words from the surface of the moon to those patiently waiting on earth. Six hours later, Armstrong exited the lunar module, Eagle, and stepped onto the lunar landscape at 02:56:15 UTC on July 21, 1969. Edwin “Buzz” Al-drin joined Armstrong 19 minutes later on the Mare Tranquillitatis, while command module pilot Michael Collins piloted Columbia in lunar orbit. Apollo 11 was deemed a complete success—they had made it.
Determining the distance to the moon during all phases of its orbit was a critical aspect in getting man to its surface. In the 2nd Century BC, Greek astronomer Hipparchus is believed to be among the first to determine the distance to the moon with some degree of accuracy. His method observed how shadows worked over a long period and determined that when a spherical object is placed in front of the sun, the length of the shadow generated would always be 108 times the diameter of the object itself. Another early method to determine the lunar distance, known as lunar parallax, involved simultaneously measuring the angle be-tween the moon and a chosen reference point from multiple locations.
A somewhat similar method, known as meridian crossing, involved lu-nar transits observing the moon as it crossed the meridian from two different locations. Repeated measurements by this method were made between 1905-1910 to determine the angle of elevation at the moment the specific lunar crater, Mösting A, crossed the meridian. Observation stations for this work were located at Greenwich and at Cape of Good Hope, which share nearly the same longitude. The calculated distance by the meridian crossing method had an uncertainty of about 20 miles and became the definitive lunar distance value for the next half century.
In 1957, earth-based measurements to the moon began being made by radar at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory while using a 50-foot diameter radio dish. An expanded program with the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958 increased the intensity of radar measurements to the moon. On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy stated the goal should be to land a man on the moon and safely return by the end of the decade. Soon thereafter, an experiment in 1962 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known as laser rang-ing, measured the round-trip time that laser pulses reflected directly off the surface of the moon.
Because the United States and the Soviet Union were both intensely exploring space, the ground-based measure-ments to the moon were continually being refined. Rocket technology for both countries had been bolstered by the
capture of German equipment and scientists during WWII. By utilizing this technology, a series of probes were sent by both countries toward the moon during the Soviet Luna pro-gram and the American Pioneer pro-gram. The first manmade object to reach the moon occurred on Septem-ber 14, 1959, when the Soviet Un-ion’s Luna 2 purposely crashed upon the surface, prompting the United States to accelerate their space explo-ration with their Ranger program. This program involved nine space-craft sent to the moon with an objec-tive to obtain close-up photos of the surface between August 23, 1961, and
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Training the Next Generation of Land Surveyors By Joe Deal
State News
If you find yourself with less time ahead in your career than behind you, I hope to inspire you to share what you have learned along the way with someone new to our profession. All of us have something we can share with the younger generation of surveyors under our charge.
I began my career as a summer engineering technician with the County of Orange Survey Department. I worked at the Fruit Street yard in Santa Ana, California. I was attending Whittier College and needed a summer job. My Aunt worked for the County Surveyor at the time and told me about a summer job program working in the Survey Depart-ment. I asked my aunt what surveyors did, and after a brief description, decided it sounded like a great opportunity. I worked the summer of my freshman year and then quit to go back to school in the fall. I was studying Education and hoped someday to be a teacher and coach. Little did I know how my plans would change.
At the end of my second year of college, I was excited to spend another summer working as a Land Surveyor. I really did not know what we were doing everyday but enjoyed working outdoors and the camaraderie of working on a sur-vey crew. Towards the end of my second summer, I was approached by a supervisor who asked if I would be interest-ed in a fulltime position and possibly a career as a land surveyor. I spent a good ten minutes thinking over the offer, and then decided, “Hey, why not?” That was the beginning of my career in the Land Surveying profession over thirty years ago.
I spent the next ten years working at the County of Orange. I was fortunate in that period to be trained by some of the sharpest “old school” land surveyors I’ve known. This was a pivotal time in the industry. It was the start of the personal computer age, the beginning of public use of the Global Positioning System and the advent of huge strides in technology used in Total Station instruments. The County Survey Department invested in each of these and spent a great deal of time and effort in training and implementing the new tools.
As I look back on my career, I am grateful for the various par-ty chiefs I worked for. Back then, we were all on rotational crew assignments. You would spend a year working on a crew for a particular chief, and then be rotated to the next chief. I was fortunate to work with a mix of chiefs, each with varying types of experience. Some were experts in high order control networks while others were mainly construction surveyors, building roads and bridges. Some led GPS Crews, and others performed hydrographic surveys in the Harbor.
I realize now how important my training was when I look back at what a formative time this was. I was fortunate to work for some of the older chiefs who still did things in con-ventional ways. They did not embrace the new technology as quickly as some and still insisted we learn to do things manu-ally. I remember calculating stations and offsets from a roll of plans using my HP41 calculator. One of the chiefs loaded in a survey program with a card reader and walked me through the programs daily. However, he insisted I do the calculations long hand, and encouraged me to understand what the calcu-lator program was doing.
Similarly, we would calculate each day’s work for construction staking while sitting in the survey truck. We would read aloud our calculations and double check one another. We would perform conventional level runs and use the appropri-ate hand signals to relay our readings to back and forth. We also did hand calculations on the fly as we would ray out ref-erence points along a proposed sloped roadway and then do slope staking from station to station.
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Training the Next Generation … cont from page 6
As time passed, I took more classes at Santa Ana College. The college had a great Survey Program and most of the guys I worked with took one or more of these classes. I eventually took the Land Surveyor in Training exam. I had young kids by that time and it was a busy life, working all day and then taking classes at night and on Saturdays. I eventually left the County after ten years and took a position at a small Land Surveying & Civil Engineering firm where I now work. The firm was started by a Civil Engineer who also was able to practice as a Land Surveyor. Later, the firm was managed by two of his sons and a friend of theirs from high school. I came to the company and started out on a two-man crew before becoming a Party Chief with my own crew. Several years later, I left the field to be-come the Survey Coordinator at the firm. With time I took and passed the California Land Surveyors Exam and be-came a full licensed land surveyor.
As I look back on my career, I am thankful for the surveyors who took time to train and mentor me each day. I re-gard myself as a good mix of the old school and new school methods of the profession. If I were to go out on a limb, I’d guess that most of the people who end up in the profession, did so by chance. They had a friend or family member who was a surveyor who influenced them. I have not met many surveyors whose initial goal in life was to become a land surveyor.
As I look to the future, I feel obligated to share my knowledge of the profession with the next generation of surveyors. We all have an obligation as professionals in our industry to pass on what we have learned from our mentors to the next generation. With that in mind, I offer the following observations on how we might begin to do just that.
Click here for complete article Reprinted with permission from
California Surveyor Magazine
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March 21, 1965. Ranger 4 became the first spacecraft from the United States to touch the surface when it unintention-ally struck the far side of the moon on April 26, 1962, as the result of an onboard computer failure.
With sufficient measurements to the moon, the next objective for NASA under the direction of the Jet Propulsion La-boratory was to soft land an unmanned spacecraft on the surface with the Surveyor program. This feat, however, was also first achieved by the Soviet Union on February 3, 1966, with their Luna 9. The Surveyor program launched seven spacecraft between May 30, 1966 and January 7, 1968, to land on the moon and also obtain lunar and cislunar photo-graphs. Surveyor 1 achieved the first successful soft landing for the United States on June 2, 1966, by setting down within 9 miles of its intended target.
Despite the initial success, the Surveyor program was not without two signifi-cant mishaps. During the midcourse maneuver for Surveyor 2 to land at the intersection of the moon’s equator and guide meridian (Sinus Medii), one verni-er engine failed to ignite resulting in its crash. Radio signal with Surveyor 4 was lost minutes before touchdown so it was believed to have exploded before reaching the surface. Five of the Surveyor spacecraft, however, successfully achieved soft landings on the surface and remain there today. An estimated 87,000 images were taken by the Surveyor spacecraft and transmitted back to earth. Years later, the astronauts of Apollo 12 were able to walk to the site of Surveyor 3 and remove some of its parts.
The final program by NASA that preceded the Apollo program, and was concur-rent to the Surveyor program, was the five unmanned missions of the Lunar Orbiter program from August 10, 1966, to August 1, 1967. This program was designed to take high-resolution images at specific sites in preparation for the upcoming Apollo landing locations. The Lunar Orbiters achieved a 99% success of mapping the surface at a resolution of 200’ or better. Images were simultaneously transmitted back to earth and all five spacecraft were intentionally commanded to crash upon the moon’s surface.
Shoot the Moon, cont. from page 4
Click here for complete article Reprinted with permission from American Surveyor Magazine
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