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September 2015
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
REGION
EWS
GIS—THE BASICS SERIES: HELPFUL HINTS AND BEST
PRACTICES
A
SPRS Florida Region will host a series of seminars. Presented by Al
Karlin, Southwest Florida Water Management District, these three
seminars will take place this month. Be sure to register at the link below.
C
reating
C
ontours
from
L
idar
D
ata
Thursday, September 10, 2015 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
Contours from Lidar – We have found that many of our inter-
nal clients still prefer to see contours rather than interpret a
DEM, DTM or TIN surface. This is a 20 minute discussion of
how contours are generated using software available at the
District and how we recommend smoothing contours.
To registration:
E
xporting
E
sri
C
ontour
S
hapefiles
to
A
uto
CAD
Thursday, September 17, 2015 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
We have found that many of our external clients and consul-
tants cannot use contour data provided as Esri shapefiles.
Many small engineering firms request that we provide the
contour data in AutoCAD format. This 10 minute presenta-
tion goes through the steps to take contours from either Esri
shapefiles or a GeoDatabase and properly attribute the data
for AutoCAD.
To registration:
C
reating
M
ap
P
ackages
Thursday, September 24, 2015 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
Saving Map Documents and Map Packages in ArcGIS 10.2.2
– We have found that many of our consultants and external
clients do not have access to the databases that we have, so to
provide them with our Map Documents required us packaging
data. This is a 10 minute discussion of how to put together a
Map Package.
To registration:
Alvan Karlin, Ph.D., GISP –
received his BS from Rutger’s University, New Jersey, and in 1978, his Ph.D. in Theoretical Biology
from Miami University, Ohio. Karlin did a post-Doctoral Fellowship at Florida State University before taking a position in the
Department of Zoology at the University of Arkansas. While on the faculty at the University of Arkansas, he held positions in the
Departments of Zoology, Computer and Information Science, and Engineering Technology.
In 2000, after 20 years of service with the University of Arkansas, Karlin moved to Florida. Where he did consulting work for the
private sector before taking his current position with the Southwest Florida Water Management District where as the Senior GIS
Scientist, he directs the District’s Lidar data collection missions.
Florida Region
