- (a) Parcel boundaries intended to meet the standard may be produced utilizing heads-up digitizing techniques.
(b)
- (1) Within the Arkansas Digital Cadastral Mapping Standard, heads-up digitizing methodologies refers to georeferencing scanned paper maps and tracing the relevant parcel boundaries to create the parcel features.
(2) Heads-up digitizing methodologies used may include but are not limited to:
- (A) Stream mode; and
- (B) Arc/node mode.
(3) Heads-up digitizing shall be performed utilizing the following recommendations:
- (A) Capture scale shall not fall outside the range of one to one thousand two hundred (1:1,200) to one to three thousand six hundred (1:3,600);
- (B)
(i) Projection shall be Arkansas State Plane North or Arkansas State Plane South.
(ii) See Definitions, 15 CAR § 282-205, for projection for each county;
- (C) Datum shall be as specified for the State of Arkansas in Arkansas Code § 15-21-306;
- (D) Units shall be United States Survey Feet;
(E)
- (i) Source shall be digital ortho-imagery:
- (a) (a) Not more than five (5) years in age;
(b) (b) Meeting industry-recognized standards for radiometry;
(c) (c) A minimum of one foot (1’) resolution; and
(d) (d) Having a minimum positional accuracy plus or minus three and nine-tenths feet (3.9’).
- (ii) The Arkansas Digital Orthophotography Program imagery is recommended; and
- (F) Heads-up digitizing method should only be used where clear visual ground evidence of ownership is present on the ortho-imagery, i.e., fence line, tree line, grass line, etc.