Additional Free Educational Resources

To jumpstart your day and keep sharp on survey principles check out, there are two Daily Survey Quiz questions. Sign up for them by clicking these links:

Both gentlemen put a lot of effort into doing this so please support them by participating and maybe pitch in a few bucks using their donation links.

Mentoring Mondays (https://mentoringmondays.xyz/). A free weekly online seminar which meets Mondays at 4:00 pm Pacific.  Experts from all over the country presenting a variety of surveying topics. Meetings (over 100 so far) are recorded and available for viewing on the website.

Wisdom Wednesdays (http://wisdomwednesdays.xyz/). Another free online seminar which meets every other Wednesday at 4:00 pm Pacific. This is a book-club meeting: at each meeting a chapter of a surveying book of consequence is discussed. It makes for some lively discussion and constructive learning.  Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location was the first book reviewed followed by Legal Descriptions by Wattles. The Fall 2024 session has started and is dicussing The Pincushion Effect by Jeffery Lucas. Want to join in and save 25% on the book cost? Check out the Wisdom Wednesdays website for more info.

Surveying and Mapping textbook at the Open Textbook Library. This book provides an introduction, at academic level, into the field of surveying and mapping. The book has been compiled based on hand-outs and readers written for the third-year course Surveying and Mapping, in the bachelor program Civil Engineering at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). 

The Nature of Geographic Information is an excellent open geospatial textbook offered by the Department of Geography at Penn State University. 

Also at Penn State, the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences offers GPS and GNSS For Geospatial Professionals online class that has a lot of good material. 

The NGS Testing and Training Center is an excellent source of free geodetic material. NGS offer webinars which are recorded and included in its video library as well as some online lessons, access to presentation materials, and technical assistance. That's in addition to the Publications Library where you can view and download documents. If you can't find a publication in the Library, send an email to the Librarian - the Librarian's been able to track down some old documents for me.

Many historical PLSS publications are available at the BLM/NTC Knowledge Resource Center Library. A slightly larger collection has been assembled by Arizona's BLM Office. Both are excellent resources, particularly if you're researching original Instructions.

Other

Although not free, geolearn (https://geolearn.wcea.education/) offers many reasonably priced short presentations on a wide range of surveying topics. Account creation is necessary to view their course catalog.

For those seeking CST certification, review courses are available at Learn CST (https://learncst.com/)

updated 10 Oct 2024