Pub. 14 2019 Issue 1

23 Issue 1 2019 / UCLS Foresights www.ucls.org W e held a meeting in Price for the Book Cliffs chapter. The topic was Drones Overcome Prob- lems Between Flight to Plat. The meeting was taught by Hal Mar - shall to help surveyors learn how to use drones. The drone is a good tool in your toolbox. Hal taught what proj - ects are best for using the “drone tool” and when the “drone tool” is not a fit. They discussed drone models, apps for capturing photos, software processing the photos, and software to capture points for CAD. They also discussed some of the apps and software that are buggy and what the best apps and software to use are. Most of the photo processing programs are geared to GIS and processing in coordinates UTM or State Plane; Hal taught the surveyors how to process the photos to a local ground coordinate. The point clouds are too large and it takes too much time to use when you only need cer- tain points out of the photo. The best software solution was discussed to capture the points that you want us- ing the DSM. t Friday, August 2nd, 6 p.m. Ledgestone Hotel Vernal, UT W e held a meeting in Vernal for the Book Cliffs chapter. Brent Bateman from the Utah State ombudsman office was the speaker. The topic was new court rulings related to property law. This meeting mostly discussed the state law about subdivisions. Brent has revisions for the law, discussed themwith the surveyors and will talk to the recorders. The law needs to be updated. If an owner wants to change a lot line in a subdivision, the whole subdivision plat has to be amended and all of the owners need to sign. T hat is impractical. The surveyors had good comments about the Brent's proposed revisions. t Book Cliffs Chapter Meetings Friday, April 26th, 6:30 p.m. Ramada Price, UT By Harold Marshall, Book Cliffs Chapter President