How to build a workstation.

General

Designing and building a workstation may be a daunting task for many of us. Simply knowing what is needed to meet required goals may even be confusing let alone the differing architectures and price points. It may be asked then, what advantages are there to building a...

Calculating distances along a spheroid.

Calculating Distances By Hand, Coding, Math

Getting around: In this installation of Calculating Distances by Hand, spherical distances are examined. This will be another function of calculating an arc distance, however, this installation deals with arcs at unknown angles. The basics of the final calculation is...

Calculating Distances By Hand (Part 2)

Calculating Distances By Hand, Coding, Math

Calculating the center point of an Arc. Finding yourself on a random point on an arc you may want to begin to find out some information about your location so that you can do some planning and coordination to reach your end goal at the unknown location marked below as...

A look at calculating distances by hand.

Calculating Distances By Hand, Coding, Math

Throughout my life I have come across a variety of reasons to calculate the distance between points. Some have been basic linear distances, some as complex as finding a distance between two points on a geodesic ellipsoid. Below are a list of formulas and tools to...

Photogrammetry – A Field Guide

PhotoSimulations

Field Data When gathering field data to be used in PhotoSims there are a few important guidelines to follow that will help produce quality cost effective deliverables.  One of the most important aspects is the photograph of the location/structure to be used. Let’s...

Photogrammetry- An Introduction

Calculating Distances By Hand, General, Math, PhotoSimulations

This segment of calculating distances by hand will work with perspective and projected geometry. In particular this segment will discuss obtaining accurate distance calculations from the use of photographs. For these calculations to work, a few control points are...