Cave Surveying

The Auriga Project - Information on developing an electronic surveying tool to make cave surveying easier and less error-prone.

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.

Cave Data Exchange Format Working Group - Aiming to establish a hardware and software independent format for the transfer and archiving of speleological data.

Cave Survey Data in XML - The proposal and ongoing effort to establish XML based standards for the representation of cave survey data.

Cave Surveying Discussion Group - Post a question or browse the archives.

Cave Surveying Notes - A detailed paper on the treatment and minimising of errors in surveying.

CaveScript XML - A cave survey and map data format for storing all information about a cave survey or an entire cave map.

Cavesurvey.com - Underwater cave survey techniques, links to cave survey computer programs, and cave survey projects in Florida and The Bahamas.

CaveSurveys.com - Worldwide cave survey database, with limited viewing of surveys and links to the survey publishers.

Compass Points - The Journal of the BCRA Cave Surveying Group.

3D Modeling of Phreatic Karst Caves - An analysis of cave geometry modelling methods by Todd R Kincaid, USA.