little adventure in Africa

Cool Stuff there Yazeed. where abouts are you?

Great pictures!! Have you tried fishing out there?

Great pictures. Can you share more about the What & Why of the project?

:good: :good: :good: Cool!

Its in Angola

I am not a big fan of fishing, but many of my friends are!
If you like fishing, this is the right place to go!! especially that there is no yet commercial fishing there. every time my friends were going fishing they came back with huge fishes...

these are several different jobs that I did in Angola in the years 2008-210

the one with the boat: it is a flooded valley (40kmX40Km). the area was effected badly for many years because of this, many diseases (Malaria) as well the agriculture. I was requested to measure a profile of the river. you can also see the picture with the 'local' boat, when I am near some sort of concrete monument, this monument is actually was the column of the bridge that was above the river, I could see the bridge under the water. by the way, the locals there warned me about crocodiles and hippopotamuses! (I would be happy if I met them 😉 )

the pictures near the sea where there are old ships, it is kind of grave yard of very old ships, I was there because I was looking for old monuments. so I can transfer the old coordinate system into WGS.

the other pictures, measuring ground control points for Orthophoto.

I have more pictures I will send later...

thanks for sharing!

Thanks Yazeed for taking us there. Though based on your fifth photo it was definitely not cool.

yeah.... I was so exhausted then. Imagine to walk all day long and then to climb that cliff with all the materials on the back!!! but this is what land survey about:-D

I'm going to make a wild guess that you were around N12-15-27.66, E013-38-23.24

I am gonna go with 'no'. the site was under the equator line.
check these coordinates: 8°37'59.94"S, 13°24'28.88"E

I see foggy's problem, that same boat happened to be in his location when that google snapshot was taken.....

Thanks for sharing those pictures.

Well of course you were south of the Equator! (I was just testing you ) 🙂

Oh, that Angola! and that other ship graveyard!

Wow, is anyone else stunned by the junkyard of ships floating around, or beached?

Makes me feel good about paying taxes here in the USA.

Take a look at N25-02-54.7, E066-43-05.83 in Pakistan, T he largest ship graveyard
in the world.

Kind of a litter bug paradise!

I count 16 ships?

> Take a look at N25-02-54.7, E066-43-05.83 in Pakistan, T he largest ship graveyard
> in the world.
>
> Kind of a litter bug paradise!

Interesting to say the least. Here is a link to the top 10 ship graveyards.

http://www.marineinsight.com/marine/environment/10-largest-ship-graveyards-in-the-world/

Thanks for sharing your adventures here Yazeed.
It looks as surveying in Angola is really an adventure.

The setup on top of the building was not really clear to me, is that a Trimble total station with a gps-antenna mounted on top?
Do you use 2 controllers then, one for logging data and another for the total station? Did not see this setup before.

Did you say you have more pics? 😉

Christof.