Pathfinder Office

Description

Software to assist in interpreting, correlating and plotting GPS unit data.

Used for: uses include verification of stream buffer zones, locating roads, outcrops ponds, or other features relative to permit boundaries; inventory groundwater discharge locations, outcrops, etc.; mapping of AML site locations and acreages; measuring the size of minesite disturbance areas, etc.

Used by: Geoscientists, inspectors hydrologists, and engineers who collect spatial information such as over-burden toxicity, water quality and quantity, geology, topography, etc., and those engaged in reclamation design and AOC evaluation.

Additional Information:
Website - http://www.trimble.com/pathfinderoffice.html

Uses

• Locate and accurately map any site location or entity.
• Measure overland distances.
• Survey site features.
• Map pond locations, nesting sites, or archaeological sites.
• Map stream reaches and drainages.
  

Uses by Discipline

AML Reclamation Specialists

• Map new AML features and record data digitally in the field.
• Navigate to old projects.
• Map areas of subsidence troughs and surface fractures.
• Map new complaints relative to underground mine maps.
• Measure distance of subsidence features from residences.
• Archeology & Historic Preservation.
• Navigate to known archeological sites.
• Map new significant sites.
• Verify buffer distances from sensitive sites or properties.

Biologists

• Navigate to known wildlife habitat or test plots.
• Map occurrences of sensitive species.
• Verify buffer distances from sensitive habitat.
• Map and record data for sampling plots.
• Track local migration routes.

Engineers

• Determine areas of bonding increments.
• Measure lengths of active highwall and pit areas.
• Verify areas of permitted disturbance.

Geologists

• Navigate to geologic sampling sites.
• Determine areas of exposed acidic material.
• Map drill hole locations.
• Determine active pit areas.
• Map sampling points and record geologic data digitally in the field.
• Determine areas of bonding increments.
• Measure lengths of active highwall and pit areas.
• Verify areas of permitted disturbance.

Hydrologists

• Map stream reaches and ephemeral drainages.
• Locate discharge points.
• Navigate to NPDES sampling sites and monitoring wells.
• Map locations of stream gages, weirs, and other hydrologic structures.
• Verify locations of permitted hydrologic features such as diversions.
• Map sampling points and record water quality data digitally in the field.

Inspectors

• Navigate to inspectable units.
• Navigate to NPDES sampling sites.
• Locate flyrock and measure distance to the blast site.
• Locate seeps and poor-quality water discharges.
• Map locations of rills and gullies.
• Map locations of potential off-site disturbance.
• Map highwall lengths.
• Determine areas of impoundments, spoil and topsoil piles, and re-seed areas

Soil Scientists

• Map areas for soil classification.
• Navigate to test pits and holes.
• Map location of new test borings and record soil horizon data.

Installation Instructions

Pathfinder Installation Instructions

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Contacts for Software Help

Bob Welsh OSM-WR - (303) 844-1400 EXT. 1478
Thomas Mastaller OSM-AR - (412) 937-2108
Lois Uranowski OSM-AR- (412) 937-2805