In This Issue: • Developing our Future Workforce • Continental Mapping Stays on Leading Edge of Available Technology with Software, Training • Capability Continues to Expand • Welcome New Employees! • Upcoming Conferences

1. Developing our Future Workforce
Continental Mapping Continues Outreach to Community
Continental Mapping
Stays on Leading Edge of
Available Technology with
Software, Training
As part of our continuing effort
to improve our methods and stay
on the cutting edge of technology,
Continental Mapping brought in
GeoCue associates Robert Graham
and Martin Flood to train some
of our staff on the finer points
of LiDAR data processing using
GeoCue and TerraModeler data
processing tools. Staff members
from both our Indiana and
Wisconsin offices participated in
two 3.5-day sessions.
“GeoCue allows us to efficiently
process large LiDAR data sets,
enabling us to quickly identify
various characteristics of certain
LiDAR data-types manually, and
then let the software drive the
majority of the post-processing
workflow,” stated Senior Project
Manager Frank Taylor, CP, from
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Continental Mapping wrapped up
its involvement in the Sun Prairie
Chamber of Commerce’s Business
andEducationPartnershipProgram
for the school year by hosting the
8th grade social studies class from
Sacred Hearts School at our main
office for a tour and educational
presentation.
The Business and Education
Partnership Program links
classrooms in the community with
local businesses to increase the
students’ awareness of different
career choices available to them in
Sun Prairie and beyond. In addition
to the on-site visit, Continental
Mapping President Dave Hart and
Project Manager Candice Kasprzak
also visited Matt Van Effen’s social
studies class earlier this year to
discuss careers in geography,
cartography, and GIS.
During the class’ visit to our office,
thestudentslearnedaboutmapping
production as well as 3D imaging.
They even got to sit down in front
of our softcopy photogrammetric
workstations, view real mapping
imagery, and make an attempt at
“putting the dot on the ground”
as we say in the business. The
students were split into teams,
and a competition was held to see
which team was the most accurate.
Some teams did very well. As for
some others… well, we can’t all be
photogrammetrists!

2. Leading Edge continued...
Continental Mapping’s Indiana office.
“Using this workflow, along with the
necessary user expertise and input,
large amounts of land-based features
can be efficiently identified from
the LiDAR data, and elevation data
are quickly extracted for the project
area. GeoCue software also provides
an excellent quality assurance tool to
ensure that data sets are processed to
the client’s specifications.”
Digital Imagery Processing
Continental Mapping recently
completed a large mapping project
using data collected by the Intergraph
Digital Mapping Camera (DMC).
Data were integrated seamlessly into
our existing software infrastructure
at both offices, and the project was
completed quickly and efficiently by
cooperating teams in Wisconsin and
Indiana.
Continental Mapping is also making
headway on acquiring the appropriate
tools needed to process data from
Leica’s ADS40 digital imaging sensors,
including the capability to handle
ADS40 second generation data from
the SH51 and SH52 sensor heads.
Unlike the DMC, which provides
digital imagery in a format similar to
digitized film photography, the ADS40
uses line scanning capture technology
to create its imagery, and therefore
requires a different processing
workflow. Leica representatives are
providing guidance on getting set
up for ADS40 data sets, and we are
looking forward to expanding this
capability soon.
LiDAR data viewed in GeoCue software
showing a 500’ tall radio tower rising above
the tree line
Welcome New Employees!
Continental Mapping is pleased to welcome two new
employees to our Sun Prairie office. Courtney Daniell
joins us from the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional
Planning Commission in Lebanon, New Hampshire,
where she was a planner. Eric Lane is a recent geography
graduate from the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse.
Both will be working as GIS and image analysts in our
Federal Division.
See Us at Upcoming
Conferences
Continental Mapping will be
at several conferences
in the coming months.
Please look for us
at the following...
Indiana Association of
Cities and Towns
October 12-15
South Bend, Indiana
ASCE/SAME
Engineering Conference
October 15
Davenport, Iowa
SAME Great Lakes/Ohio River
Regional Conference
August 26-28
Huntington, West Virginia
Minnesota GIS/LIS
Consortium Conference
October 1-3
Rochester, Minnesota
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3. Capability Continues to Expand
Continental Mapping has been busy this year expanding
our reach and our technical capabilities. In addition to
takingonincreasinglydifficultprojects,we’vebeenadding
new tools to stay up to date with changes in mapping.
International Experience
Continental Mapping has worked on several mapping
projects in Panama through a partner company. Projects
have included the photo-identification of control points
and coordination of survey with a team in Panama,
1”=400’ scale planimetrics, 2-meter contours, and a .25-
meter ortho. This is Continental Mapping’s third year
working in Panama, and we look forward to expanding
our presence there in the coming year.
Continental Mapping Principals are Oregon Licensed
Photogrammetrists
Continental Mapping principals David Hart and
Christopher Gross were granted licenses as Professional
Photogrammetrists by the State of Oregon Board of
Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying in March
of 2008.
Very High Accuracy Corridor Mapping Requires
Helicopters, New Aerial Acquisition Systems
Continental Mapping is currently involved with a number
of multi-modal transportation corridor and energy
corridorprojectsthatrequireveryhighaccuracymapping.
Project requirements include vertical accuracies of 0.1’ in
some cases. These projects required us to implement a
number of project design and technology changes that
include the use of helicopter based acquisition, LiDAR,
and digital camera systems. So far in 2008, Continental
Mapping has completed hundreds of miles of mapping
of highway, rail, and energy corridors, with hundreds of
miles to go.
Precise Point Positioning Technology for Minimizing
Ground Control
Continental Mapping began implementing precise
point positioning (PPP) techniques for some projects.
Combining precise point positioning with airborne
GPS allows us to substantially reduce, and in some
cases eliminate, the need for ground control. While
this technique does not work for all projects, it gives us
another tool for project areas that are difficult to access or
for regional scale projects.
Municipal Mapping
Continental Mapping recently completed an
orthophotography update for the city of West Bend,
Wisconsin. In 2006, Continental Mapping created city-
wide orthophotography at a 4” pixel resolution and
delivered 1”=100’ planimetric update mapping and
2’ contours to NSSDA standards. This spring, the city
requested updated imagery for its GIS, which Continental
Mapping was able to provide. Approximately 30 square
miles of photography was collected at a scale that allows
for mapping at a later date.
ASPRS Remote
Sensing Symposium
November 17-20
Denver, Colorado
SAME Small
Business Conference
December 8-12
Memphis, Tennessee
GEOINT Symposium
October 27-30
Nashville, Tennessee
ILGISA Fall Conference
November 5-6
Lombard, Illinois
Wisconsin Land Information
Association Fall Meeting
October 16-17
Green Lake, Wisconsin
League of Wisconsin
Municipalities
October 22-24
Stevens Point, Wisconsin
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Headings • Issue 2 2008
Ground control survey in Panama

4. For further information on these features
or general inquiries, please contact:
Continental Mapping Consultants, Inc.
Wisconsin Office
121 S. Bristol Street, Suite 201
Sun Prairie, WI 53590
608.834.9823 phone
608.834.8534 fax
Indiana Office
201 W. Main Street, Suite 300
Plainfield, IN 46168
317.244.1800 phone
317.536.2606 fax
info@continentalmapping.com
www.continentalmapping.com
In This Issue:
• Developing our Future Workforce
• Continental Mapping Stays on Leading
Edge of Available Technology with
Software, Training
• Capability Continues to Expand
• Welcome New Employees!
• Upcoming Conferences
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