Abbreviations
Like most professions, Surveyors, Engineers, & Geodesists have their own language and abbreviations for things. Below are many of the abbreviations which may be encountered when using or hunting benchmarks.
AZM: Azimuth
BOR: Bureau Of Reclamation
Caltrans: California Department of Transportation (Also see CDH, CDOT)
CDH: California Department of Highways (Also see CDOT, Caltrans)
CDOT: California Department of Transportation (Also see CDH, Caltrans)
CPost: California Post
DOI: United States Department of the Interior
DOT: Department of Transportation
DWR: Department of Water Resources
FCBCM: Fresno County Brass Cap Monument
GE: Geodetic Engineer
GLO: Government Land Office
NAD27: North American Datum of 1927
NAD83: North American Datum of 1983
NGS: National Geodetic Survey
PE: Professional Engineer
PLS: Professional Land Surveyor
PLSS: Public Land Survey System
RCE: Registered Civil Engineer (Note: in the State of California, a Civil Engineer licensed prior to 1982 can practice Land Surveying.)
RE: Registered Engineer (Also see PE)
RM: Reference Monument
SSTTRR: Section Township Range - the breakdown system of the Public Land Survey System
TBM: Temporary Benchmark
TTRRSS: Township Range Section - the breakdown system of the Public Land Survey System
USC&GS: United States Coast & Geodetic Survey
USBPR: United States Bureau of Public Roads (Also see CDH)
USGS: United States Geological Survey