The steam shouldn’t affect the laser measurements too much, hopefully, as I don’t think anyone has calculated a coefficient for this scenario. Notice that the scanner is placed well outside licking distance. That comes from years of experience, well one incident when my traverse prism was licked over.
Category: Land Surveying
Topographical Survey, Lowick, Ulverston
The 3D scanner can be useful to capture inaccessible areas like this embankment, avoiding the surveyor having to scramble around the banking and hanging from branches with the detail pole. Scan registration can be tricky in a scene like this, but luckily out of shot are some out buildings, providing …
Land Survey, Carlisle
Golf course land survey for a lodge development. It looks fairly quiet today, so hopefully I won’t get hit by any missiles.
Land Surveyor, Glenridding, Penrith
Snow up Helvellyn! I have dragged myself and skis up to the Lake District Ski Club before now. Today I am surveying in the low lands for a drainage diversion scheme.
Topographical Survey, Lake Windermere
Through the telescope I can see people eating sandwiches on the top Gummer’s How which I have walked up many times. I am actually here to map an intricate paving layout, so it can be removed then replaced after fixing a leak.
Land Surveying in Kendal
A lidar drone might measure the banks easier than this, but I would still need the survey pole to measure the bed levels. Often there is no substitute for The Total Station. This survey is recording bank erosion and the undermining of a footbridge.
Land Surveying in Dowbiggin, Sedbergh
Garden surveyed for barn renovations works, Dowbiggin, Sedbergh. View of Aye Gill Pike in the background.
Land Surveying, Cautley, Sedbergh
Surveying around a cottage for extension works. Yarlside in the background on a great for surveying day.
Land Surveying near Heysham
Sunderland Point on a fine day, measuring a plot for small development works and to prepare an accurate Land Registry title plan.
Land Surveying, North of Nelson
Land surveying, a green field in Kelbrook for a proposed housing development. Local resistance is already mounting.
