The Northern Kentucky Chapter of KAPS will be hosting an in-person spring seminar led by Ben Shinabery, PLS, Luke Woodyard, PLS, EIT, and Jason Harris on April 11, 2026 at Riegler Blacktop's Training Room in Florence, KY. All times are Eastern.
Breakfast Snacks Provided
8:00 - 10:00 "Incorporating Laser Scanning into the Modern Survey Workflow" by Ben Shinabery, PLS (2 PDH)
For hundreds of years, land surveyors have been graphically communicating land descriptions, boundaries, and topographic features by using survey plats. Land surveyors have well developed skills outdoors finding property boundary evidence, measuring azimuth and distance, locating stakes, monuments, buildings, drains and ridge lines. We have been trained to calculate traverse closure, area, relative positional accuracy and ground scale factors; but in many cases, we have not learned effective ways to collect more data from 3D Laser scanning to create high-resolution on surveys of more than just the ground surface.
Laser scanners are useful for more than just buildings or bridges. They collect the contextual information of a survey site existing conditions from terrestrial scanners on a tripod or from an aerial platform from a drone or manned aircraft. Survey workflow can be enhanced for all kinds of survey projects: ALTA Land Title Surveys, Topographic, Utility, Bridges, Roadways, Tunnels, Historic Preservation, Mapping, Building Information Models, and more.
How can I use a scanner for topographic surveys? What kind of information helps locate utilities? What kind of so ware can handle laser scan information? When should I use a scanner on projects?
These and other questions will be answered by a Kentucky land surveyor who has been using scanning since 2012 in a two hour information course. CAD tips and tricks will be given for multiple CAD platforms to help format and render pointclouds all types of surveys. Learn how to take your survey to the next 3D level to be noticed by your colleagues and clients.
10:00 - 12:00 "3D Survey Scanning a Billion Dollars of Bourbon in KY" by Luke Woodyard, PLS, EIT (2 PDH)
What happens when you put 9,000 tons of liquid gold into a 7-story wooden structure built decades ago for one purpose: to age the smoothest bourbon in the south. In 1964, Congress declared bourbon “America’s Native Spirit” and everyone knows that if it’s not distilled in Kentucky... it’s not really bourbon. Billions of dollars of assets age in the rickhouses along the “Bourbon Trail” in central Kentucky and those assets need to be protected. In years past, these rickhouses were monitored by large plumb strings hanging on the interiors of the structures to reveal the inevitable movement of the wooden beams. How much deviation and sag is difficult to tell when four strings are all you can count on. Starting in 2019, Qk4 began using laser scanning technology to capture the exact conditions and vertical deviation of bourbon warehouses for several sites in rural Kentucky for structural analysis. These high-resolution scans provide not only the relationship of the roof line to the foundation but the fine details of wall deflection and sag. With the interior and exterior details of these wooden vaults, structural engineers can know better how to protect one of Kentucky's great industries.
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Provided
1:00 - 5:00 Trimble by Jason Harris (4 PDH)
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