UTM Workshop objectives are to provide a basic understanding of the UTM coordinates, their advantages and limitations. Also to describe the special challenges faced in high percision long-distance GPS highway surveys. All workshops/courses are led by professional engineers with many years of consulting, teaching and modelling experience. MDH provides on-site training workshops for individual organizations and also invites clients to travel to our head office in Saskatoon, SK for private in-house training. If you are interested in attending a UTM workshop and/or a short course, please email us.  Outline for the Site Characterization Workshop is as follows- Introduction Background Geographic Coordinates Astronomical Coordinates Relationship between Astronomic and Geographic Coordinate Systems History of Earth's Radius Measurements Convergency between Meridians Properties of an Ellipse Geodessy Introduction Reference Ellipsoids The Geoid Coordinate Conversions between Ellipsoids Map Projections Introduction Map Properties Map Projections National Topographic Systems UTM Map Projections The "Universal" Transverse Mercator (UTM) Projections NTS Maps National Topographic (NTS) Canadian System Application of UTM Coordinates Conversion from Geographic to UTM Coordinates Conversion from UTM to Geographic Coordinates UTM Scale Factor Example Problems   © MDH Engineered Solutions, 2006