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• Standards of Practice - 2024 Changes

  • Start
    19 Oct 2024
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    8:30 AM
  • End
    31 Dec 2025
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    11:30 PM
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  Course Title: Alabama Standards of Practice

  4 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

  Approved for Alabama & Florida.  Note:  this course qualifies for the state requirement for licensed land surveyors of 4 PDHs for standards of practice every 2 years.

  Instructor: Jason Bailey with panel members Steve Strickland and Thomas Brooks

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate.

  Summary: An in depth lecture and attendee participation and discussion of the current Standards of Practice for Surveying in the State of Alabama effective January 1, 2025. The discussion will analyze the updates made to the Standards of Practice in 2024.

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• Ethics for Surveyors 2024

  • Start
    20 Oct 2024
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    12:00 PM
  • End
    31 Dec 2024
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    11:30 PM
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  Course Title: Ethics for Surveyors

  1 Professional Development Hour (PDH)

  Approved for Alabama & Florida.

  Instructor: Kevin Hinkle

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate.

  Summary: An updated presentation focusing on the different types of ethics and the grey area within professional ethics. This fulfills the state requirement for licensed land surveyors of 1 hour of Ethics classes each year. 

  
  

  
  

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• High-Resolution Surface Mapping with Airborne LiDAR

  • Start
    21 Oct 2024
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    31 Dec 2025
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    8:00 PM
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  Course Title: High-Resolution Surface Mapping with Airborne LiDAR

  3.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

  Approved for Alabama and Florida.

  Instructor: Dr. Mix Xu

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate.

  Summary: In this session, we will explore the fundamental principles of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology, including how it works, data acquisition methods, and data processing techniques. We will also discuss the various applications of airborne LiDAR, such as topographic mapping, forestry management, urban planning, and disaster risk management.

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• Writing Boundary Descriptions, Rules, Suggestions

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    22 Oct 2024
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    18 Oct 2025
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    8:00 PM
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  Course Title: Writing Boundary Descriptions, Rules, Suggestions

  3 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

  Approved for Alabama and Florida.

  Instructor: Dick Elgin

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate.

  Summary: Learn how the boundary description must succinctly, clearly, with specificity and certainty describe only one tract that neither causes nor creates gaps or overlaps. This is a high standard. In this presentation the rules, suggestions, specifications and best practices for boundary descriptions are given, along with examples.

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• Surveyors Notes for Plats

  • Start
    22 Oct 2024
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    18 Oct 2025
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    8:00 PM
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  Course Title: Surveyors Notes for Plats

  3.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

  Approved for Alabama and Florida.

  Instructor: Dick Elgin

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate.

  Summary: A compiled set of standard plat notes that further explain what the plat shows (and doesn’t show). Notes that help defend the surveyor. Example notes provided.

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• SPCS 2022

  • Start
    23 Oct 2024
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    31 Dec 2024
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    8:00 PM
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  Course Title: SPCS 2022

  2 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

  Approved for Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee.

  Instructor: Dr. Bill Hazelton

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate. 

  Summary: Working with the Alabama SPCS 2022. This workshop will present the details of the proposed Alabama 2022 SPCS. The means of undertaking co-ordinate conversions between national and state systems will be discussed. Methods for traversing on the SPCS with geodetic precision will be discussed, as well as how to integrate GNSS observations into surveying. Vertical measurements will also be discussed, especially integrating them into other measurements.

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• Setting GPS Control on a Project

  • Start
    23 Oct 2024
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    31 Dec 2025
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    8:00 PM
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  Course Title: Setting GPS Control on a Project

  3 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

  Approved for Alabama and Florida.

  Instructor: Robert Martin

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate.

  Summary: You will learn how to process static files and adjusting your network to tighten up the project control.

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• Land Surveyor Mock Trial

  • Start
    23 Oct 2024
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    10:30 AM
  • End
    31 Dec 2025
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    8:00 PM
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  Course Title: Land Surveyor Mock Trial

  3 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

  Approved for Alabama and Florida.

  Instructor: Jeff Lucas

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate.

  Summary: This mock trial is loosely based on the case of Dowdell v. Cotham, a case involving neighbors who for over 20 years lived in happy-peaceful-coexistence, until one of the neighbors hired a surveyor to survey his property. After that—well—let’s just say that things were never the same. This seminar will explore the world of civil litigation through a mock trial based on a real-life boundary dispute case. Through audience participation, volunteers will play the roles of attorneys, landowners, lay witnesses and expert land surveyor witnesses; the seminar leader plays the role of judge. The remainder of the audience will be divided into jury pools, each with a foreman spokesperson. The size and number of juries will be determined by the size of the remaining audience. The trial will include elements of Dowdell v. Cotham, with features of other boundary dispute cases utilized as appropriate. The trial will be held and the juries will deliberate. Following deliberation, each jury will then render their verdict, and discuss their reasoning. Each jury will be required to field questions from the trial participants and other juries, and defend their verdict. This seminar is designed to demystify the litigation process and explain the rules of engagement that will be used in court. Volunteers will be required to play the roles of the attorneys, the parties and the witnesses. OBJECTIVES: To enhance professional competency and improve practitioner’s knowledge of the law as it relates to the practice of land surveying.

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• Standards of Practice

  • Start
    23 Oct 2024
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    11:00 AM
  • End
    31 Dec 2026
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    11:30 PM
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  Course Title: Standards of Practice for Surveying in the State of Alabama

  4 Professional Development Hours (PDHs). Note: this course qualifies for the state of Alabama requirement of 4 PDHs in Standards of Practice every 2 years.

  Approved for Alabama & Florida.

  Instructor: Milton Denny

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate.

  Summary: An in depth lecture and attendee participation and discussion of the current Standards of Practice for Surveying in the State of Alabama effective January 1, 2017. The discussion will analyze the definition of Surveying (Rule No. 1.02), Surveying Standards for field and office (Rule No. 1.03), Vertical Control and Topographic Surveys (Rule No. 1.04) and the Miscellaneous Section (Rule 1.05). The discussion will also cover the different types of surveys and the accuracy requirements for field and office work, monumentation of corners, and the preparation of legal descriptions. Attendee participation is encouraged and real world examples will be presented and discussed.

  
  

  
  

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• Workforce Development

  • Start
    23 Oct 2024
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    11:30 AM
  • End
    31 Dec 2024
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    8:00 PM
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  Course Title: Workforce Development

  1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

  Approved for Alabama and Florida.

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate.
  
  

  In today's rapidly evolving job market, it is essential for educational institutions and workforce development professionals to equip graduates with the necessary skills and knowledge to meet the rising demands of the workforce. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the strategies and best practices for creating, developing, and deploying graduates.

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• Title Insurance and Boundary Surveys

  • Start
    23 Oct 2024
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    11:30 AM
  • End
    31 Dec 2024
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    8:00 PM
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  Course Title: Title Insurance and Boundary Surveys

  3.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

  Approved for Alabama and Florida.

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate.
  

  The two most important documents relative to the ownership of property may be the Title Insurance Policy and the Boundary Survey. But what do these documents actually do for the property owner? What does the title policy actually cover and what doesn’t it cover? Does the survey of the property create any assurances for the landowner? What is the role of the ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey? These documents and other related matters will be discussed in order to answer these and other important questions.

  OBJECTIVES: To enhance professional competency and improve practitioner’s knowledge of the law as it relates to the practice of land surveying.

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• Least Squares Adjustment

  • Start
    24 Oct 2024
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    03 Jan 2026
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    8:00 PM
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  Course Title: Least Squares Adjustment

  3.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

  Approved for Alabama and Florida.

  Instructor: Dr. Bill Hazelton

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate.

  Summary: This workshop will discuss the basic theory supporting least squares adjustment, and what it requires for inputs to a least squares adjustment. Setting up the data for an adjustment and correctly reading the output from an adjustment will be covered, with examples. ‘Things that can go wrong’ and ‘Traps for young players’ will also be discussed, so that practitioners can avoid common flaws in least squares use.

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• Filling Available Survey Positions with Technology

  • Start
    24 Oct 2024
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    31 Dec 2025
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    12:00 PM
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  Course Title: Filling Available Survey Positions with Technology

  3 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

  Approved for Alabama and Florida.

  Instructor: Robert Martin

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate.

  Summary: A course that focuses on utilizing tech tools to streamline and enhance survey position recruitment. The goal is to improve efficiency, accuracy, and reach in the hiring process.

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• Being on the Witness Stand

  • Start
    24 Oct 2024
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    31 Dec 2025
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    12:00 PM
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  Course Title: Being on the Witness Stand

  3 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

  Approved for Alabama and Florida.

  Instructor: Thomas Brooks

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate.

  Summary: The surveyor is frequently called upon to testify in court about a survey. This course is designed to help the Professional Land Surveyor prepare for court and have a concept of what to expect while in the courtroom. Understand the various ways you can be called to testify. Be able to work with a client, attorney, or Judge to prepare for court. Understanding presenting yourself in a professional manner in the court room.

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• Constitutional Workshop

  • Start
    25 Oct 2024
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    12:00 PM
  • End
    15 Oct 2025
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    11:30 PM
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  Course Title: Constitutional Workshop 

  1 Professional Development Hour (PDH)

  Note this course credit is only approved for Alabama

  Instructor: Thomas Brooks

  After registering, you will receive an email with instructions for watching the recording and submitting to receive your PDH Certificate.

  Summary: This course will explore the details of current constitution and by-laws of the Alabama Society of Professional Land Surveyors. It will discuss how the society helps to promote best practices among the surveying professionals thereby protecting the pubic. If will also discuss the future of the constitution and by-laws and possible changes. Participants will get a preview of suggested changes.

  
  

  
  

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