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    CartoMobile iPhone/iPad App: Optimize Ground Survey Data Collection for Airborne LIDAR Accuracy Assessment
    CartoMobile iPhone/iPad App: Optimize Ground Survey Data Collection for Airborne LIDAR Accuracy Assessment
    CartoMobile iPhone/iPad App: Optimize Ground Survey Data Collection for Airborne LIDAR Accuracy Assessment
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    CartoMobile iPhone/iPad App: Optimize Ground Survey Data Collection for Airborne LIDAR Accuracy Assessment

    By James W. Dow

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    This ebook describes an approach (using mobile computing devices such as smart phones and tablet computers) to maximize the effectiveness/efficiency of ground survey crews while collecting ground points (coordinate data) along a LIDAR-scanned corridor and/or area. For electric power transmission rights-of-way, most of the work is carried out in rural or remote territories – off the grid - with no access to the internet. Knowing the route (especially the boundaries of the route) is of paramount importance to the ground surveyor charged with collecting point coordinates necessary and sufficient to prove/disprove the vertical (and horizontal) accuracy of the LIDAR data.

    This ebook is written for the benefit of land surveyors in general; but, more specifically for land surveyors who support the quality assurance efforts of LIDAR data providers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames W. Dow
    Release dateApr 10, 2016
    ISBN9781311959454
    CartoMobile iPhone/iPad App: Optimize Ground Survey Data Collection for Airborne LIDAR Accuracy Assessment
    Author

    James W. Dow

    James W. Dow Chief Executive Officer, Aerotec, LLC Years of Experience: With this firm– 16 years; With other > 25 years Education: Mississippi State University: BS/Aerospace Engineering – 1970 MS/Aerospace Engineering – 1972 Relevant Qualifications: Mr. Dow was an original founder of Aerotec, LLC (airborne remote sensing) in 1996, having retired from the Alabama Power Company. Mr. Dow is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential engineers in the United States regarding CAD/CAM/CAE technology and LIDAR “filtering” software development. Mr. Dow has over twenty-five years of experience in application software development and support for a variety of industries that include military defense, aerospace, forest products, construction, communications, and electric utility. Mr. Dow’s experience spans all aspects of information management methodology/technology from strategic planning for network-infrastructure through design, engineering, construction, implementation, and support of mission critical computer application systems across multi-company/multi-state political and geographic areas. He is an internationally recognized authority in a wide variety of industries. In 1979, Mr. Dow co-authored an internationally acclaimed book entitled “The Guide for the Evaluation and Implementation of CAD/CAM Systems”. He played a key role in bringing several successful European CAD/CAM software products to the U.S. marketplace. From 1990-1995, Mr. Dow was employed by the Alabama Power Company Information Resources Department as -Manager of Application Services - Staff of 57 (1992-1994) and -Manager of Information Resources Plans & Projects – Staff of 30 (1990-1992). From 1974-1990, Mr. Dow was employed by Southern Company Services, Information Resources Organization in the following capacities: -Manager, Nuclear Plant Information Systems Staff of 35 (1987-1990), -Manager, Information Resources Strategic Planning Staff of 4 (1983-1987) and -Manager, Supervisor, Programmer Staff of 20 (1972-1983). From 1972-1974, Mr. Dow was employed by Lockheed Georgia Company, Wing Design, as a Stress Engineer in the Structural Design Department. There he performed structural analysis, fatigue analysis and basic material research related to the engineering and design of aircraft structures to include the C-5, C-141, C130, JetStar, L1011, and Hummingbird (VTOL aircraft.) During 1972, Mr. Dow worked as a Scientist/Instrumentation Engineer for the US Naval Weapons Laboratory in Dahlgren, Virginia. He conducted basic research in gas dynamics to simulate nuclear blast wave environments at the Conical Shock Tube Facility. The research was related to the survivability of anti-ballistic missile systems, primarily the SPRINT missile. Mr. Dow’s military experience encompasses the following: -Commissioned Officer (2nd Lieutenant), US Army/Armor, 1972; continuing through -Georgia Army National Guard: Commander, Company B, 1-108 Armor, Cedartown, Georgia (9 years of service). Mr. Dow’s educational background is as follows: -BS, Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University (1965-1970) Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Engineering undergraduate research assistant; research publications include “Skin Friction Drag on Infinite Yawed Wings” (helicopter blade aerodynamics) Cooperative education program (Lockheed Georgia Company) -MS, Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University (1970-1972), Graduate research assistant (NASA Redstone Arsenal/Huntsville, Alabama) for the MSU Mechanical Engineering Department Master’s Thesis: “Mass, Energy and Vorticity Transport in Turbulent Boundary Layers” -Virginia Polytechnical Institute (1972); Advanced Graduate Studies - Advanced Particle Dynamics Mr. Dow is a U.S. Citizen. Mr. Dow was inducted into the Mississippi State University’s Engineering Hall of Fame in 1998. Mr. Dow was the primary inventor associated with the following patents: •Method and System for Direct Classification from Three Dimensional Digital Imaging (LIDAR). US Patent No. US 7,046,841 B1, May 16, 2006. •Method and Apparatus for Direct Detection, Location, Analysis, Identification, and Reporting of Vegetation Clearance Violations. US Patent Numbers: US 8,374,431 B2, February 12, 2013 US 8,724,900 B2, May 13, 2014 US 9,536,313 B2, January 3, 2017 US 9,947,109 B2, April 17, 2018 •Method and System for Developing Non-traditional (non-linear and non-parallel) Gently Curving Camera Trajectories for Collecting Digital Aerial/Terrestrial Photography for Construction of 3D Topographic Models Using Structure-from-Motion (SfM) Techniques, Patent Pending March 2018.

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      CartoMobile iPhone/iPad App - James W. Dow

      CartoMobile iPhone/iPad App:

      Optimize Ground Survey Data Collection for

      Airborne LIDAR Accuracy Assessment

      By: James W. Dow

      Copyright 2016 James W. Dow

      All Rights Reserved

      Smashwords Edition

      Credits:

      Editors:

      James W. Dow/Aerotec, LLC – CEO

      Gaige Paulsen/ClueTrust® – President (CartoMobile®)

      Photographer:

      James W. Dow/Aerotec, LLC - CEO

      Illustrator:

      James W. Dow/Aerotec, LLC - CEO

      Epigraph

      You will have courage because you still have hope.

      You will be protected and will rest in safety.

      You will lie down unafraid, and many will look to you for help.

      Job 11:18-19, Bible

      About the Author

      James W. Dow

      Chief Executive Officer, Aerotec, LLC

      Years of Experience: With this firm– 18 years; With other > 25 years

      Education: Mississippi State University:

      BS/Aerospace Engineering – 1970

      MS/Aerospace Engineering – 1972

      Relevant Qualifications:

      Mr. Dow was an original founder of Aerotec, LLC (airborne remote sensing) in 1996, having retired from the Alabama Power Company. Mr. Dow is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential engineers in the United States regarding CAD/CAM/CAE technology and LIDAR filtering software development. Mr. Dow has over twenty-five years of experience in application software development and support for a variety of industries that include military

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