UTM | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Sat, 01 May 2010 23:37:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Mapping the Pratt Mammoth excavation using GPS and basic surveying technology https://boneblogger.com/mapping-the-pratt-mammoth-excavation-using-gps-and-basic-surveying-technology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mapping-the-pratt-mammoth-excavation-using-gps-and-basic-surveying-technology Sat, 01 May 2010 19:54:25 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1206 The discovery of a partial mammoth skeleton in 1999, and its subsequent excavation in 2000, provided an opportunity to implement several innovations in the on-site mapping of the excavation and relating the excavation to real-world coordinate systems. What follows is a basic primer on what we did. The mammoth specimen was found during the excavation […]

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]]> UTM https://boneblogger.com/utm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=utm Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:13:17 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=156 In a couple of previous posts we have examined latitude and longitude in some detail, and explored in what format the numbers might be displayed on your handheld GPS unit. Here we will explore another commonly used coordinate system: UTM. Latitude and longitude work well, but since they are all based upon circles, and because […]

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