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Predictions… (end of yr 2013 post, add yours)
I predict:
That every surveyor will have a drone, or access to very high resolution local photography, that can be used extensively. It will allow wetland determination from the air, due to colors and light spectrum.
That within 100 yrs the standard surveyor’s robot, will walk on it’s own, set up more stable than our modern tripods. And, it will be able to set survey markers. It will have a GPS in it, and it will scan the area with it’s own internal metal detector. It will also use GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) to scan for old markers, that are non metallic. Like Rock piles and old broken off fence post holes. It will work day, and night. It will take pictures, when it sets monuments. Or finds them. It will notify you of existing monuments, when it goes to set them.
Within 100 yrs, our standard field crew will consist of robots, on a regular basis. Not occasionally, but it will be standard.
It will contain a jackhammer, to set nearly impossible mons. It will have solar panels, to assist in keeping it charged.
It will also be able to interface with the truck, so the truck will also be driven by robotics, and computer.
And, humans will become less, and less needed. The PLS will stay in his office, except very occasionally, to personally inspect, or get his robot more survey monuments. Or to perform maintenance. Grease it. Get it a new drill bit, to drill for monuments.
I will be gone to the happy hunting grounds (Or surveying grounds) in the sky. Others will see this. I will be gone. But the next few generations of surveyors will see much change.
My neighbors brought us 25 trout, (a gang went fishing, and got cold, and they did not feel like cleaning them) I smoked them all night. I get a trout a day for a few days. Good for me. (Yay…. clap clap clap!!)
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Fish more. Sing more. Big Help got saved at church on Sunday. Came home, and shared it with his sisters, and now my oldest 4 are born again.
I have blown off work today, and we are going to try to replenish the trout supply. It’s hard to eat too much trout.
Nate
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