Cave Surveying

The Auriga Project
Information on developing an electronic surveying tool to make cave surveying easier and less error-prone.
http://home.nikocity.de/andymon/hfg/auriga4.htm

BCRA Cave Surveying Group
Covers all aspects of cartography including instruments, techniques, technology, data recording, data archiving, software, drawing up and presentation. Sponsors biannual field meets and projects. Includes contact information.
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/surveying/csg.html

Cave Data Exchange Format Working Group
Aiming to establish a hardware and software independent format for the transfer and archiving of speleological data.
http://www.cavexml.uis-speleo.org/

Cave Survey Data in XML
The proposal and ongoing effort to establish XML based standards for the representation of cave survey data.
http://www.psc-cavers.org/xml

Cave Surveying Discussion Group
Post a question or browse the archives.
http://lists.tartarus.org/mailman/listinfo/cave-surveying

Cave Surveying Notes
A detailed paper on the treatment and minimising of errors in surveying.
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/surveying/surveynotes.html

CaveScript XML
A cave survey and map data format for storing all information about a cave survey or an entire cave map.
http://www.speleonics.com.au/cavescript/index.html

Cavesurvey.com
Underwater cave survey techniques, links to cave survey computer programs, and cave survey projects in Florida and The Bahamas.
http://cavesurvey.com

CaveSurveys.com
Worldwide cave survey database, with limited viewing of surveys and links to the survey publishers.
http://www.cavesurveys.com

Compass Points
The Journal of the BCRA Cave Surveying Group.
http://www.chaos.org.uk/survex/cp/

3D Modeling of Phreatic Karst Caves
An analysis of cave geometry modelling methods by Todd R Kincaid, USA.
http://research.gg.uwyo.edu/kincaid/3dcave.htm