I was local to our office, just been surveying a boundary. Switched on the radio as I got back into the car and the news was just breaking - no detail...
@gigharborsurveyor Not really off topic - we have done a couple of jobs to provide high resolution imagery to determine ground cover. The biggest pro...
@gigharborsurveyor I can't make much comment - Quest are supplying data and a fixed wing UAV to the military - nothing sinister as far as I know, but...
@scott-ellis Nice shiny tripods - part of a seven tripod survey for monitoring movement on a pumping station - all stations set-up in one go, so the ...
John, Depending upon exactly what the job is, one of the QuestUAV fixed wing aircraft may be what you need. We use a standard Q200, but they do high a...
@rj-schneider The paint we use is made by AkzoNobel under their brand name International - Toplac. It's a form of enamel paint and they do specific p...
@scott-ellis Yes, really nice and shiny; the cow s*** just falls off them! We've kept more or less to the original Wild/Leica colours - yellow for th...
I should have said - mine are GST20's, except for 4 GST70 centre pods.
@scott-ellis They should last much longer! My first ones, 1980, are still going strong and probably have another 20 years life left in them. The top ...
To clarify, exact time is essential - load changes can cause substantial movement in seconds. I once observed a 275kV line drop by over 0.3m in a ten ...
We've used the Sony A6000 from our fixed wing UAV to fill in face detail on buildings, etc. It's a bit trial and error, but if the air photography alr...
I'd have posted earlier, but I was out using our pair! To get over the refraction bias we still generally do the run each way when we can. Probably mo...
Try lifting drain covers when the kids are around. Be sure to let them see what floats past.
Agreed, parents are the biggest hazard, followed closely by the teachers. We've tried to educate the local architects to plan in advance (some hope) a...
A few years ago we were surveying a number of existing filling stations (=Gas station in American) for MOBIL Oil. Carried out the days work, processed...
Excellent - a practical approach always trumps (note: small t) theory.
Don't you believe it. 47 years after "metrication" I go down the woodyard for a sheet of plywood and come back with one which measures 2.44m x 1.22m (...
A trust you are cutting better than a hundreth of a foot, or its going to be a very wobbly stand! (it will certainly be "least" square!)
Not being a *rough* Canadian, my pace IS a yard. So 100 ft has always been 33 steps plus a shoe length. 30 metres becomes 33 steps minus a shoe length...
Depending on the type of work being undertaken you can build in some extra "cover" in your quotation and on the drawing. Where appropriate we include...