Surveyor Blog
Building Survey, Great Salkeld, near Penrith
![Green industrial sheds set in woodland. In the yard there is a blue pickup vehicle. Adjacent the nearest corner is a yellow tripod with a blue laser scanner operating. On the tin wall is a red fire equipment box.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/building-survey-great-salkeld-penrith-01-1024x768.jpg)
3D scanning to draw up existing plans of these industrial sheds. While the scanner is highly accurate, precise sizing of the universal beams and columns is checked with a set of calipers where I can reach.
Land Survey, Ingleton
![A survey pole with controller attached in the foreground, while the total station on a yellow tripod is on the other side of the road tracking the pole. Behind the total station is a gate and a pickup parked in a green field.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/land-survey-ingleton-01-768x1024.jpg)
Surveying farm land outside Ingleton. The total station on the tripod is tracking the prism on top of the survey pole and communicates with the controller. I instruct the controller to record a measurement where I see fit to build the survey point measurements I need to produce a map.
Farm Survey, Newton, Near Clitheroe
![3D scanner on a yellow tripod in front of a concrete wall, on the other side but with its head over just out of licking reach, is a cow paying an interest to what's going on.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/farm-survey-newton-01-1024x768.jpg)
![3D scanner on a yellow tripod inside a cow shed. The cows are separated by a concrete wall but are looking over to see what is happening.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cow-shed-survey-clitheroe-01-scaled.jpg)
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.
Church Survey, Buttermere
![Blue 3D laser scanner on a yellow tripod measuring a stone church with mountains in the background under grey cloud.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/church-survey-buttermere-2-scaled.jpg)
Another historic church, scanned and photographed for record purposes.
This is a low resolution model created in Capturing Reality
Church Survey, Lowick
![Blue 3D laser scanner on a yellow tripod measuring a rendered church outside the porch.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/church-survey-loweswater-768x1024.jpg)
Combined with photography, this data captures a highly accurate record of this historic building at a point in time. The information can be used for planning maintenance and to check structural integrity over time.
Church Survey, Blackburn
![](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/church-survey-blackburn-01-768x1024.jpg)
![3D scanning surveying instrument on a tripod within a stone enclosed spiral staircase. There is a blue rope loop hanging over the scanner.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/chruch-survey-spiral-staircase-blackburn-01-768x1024.jpg)
If I thought it was tight getting around and up the spiral, getting from the roof into the vault void was even tighter. Not to mention the wind.
Topographical Survey, Lowick, Ulverston
![3D Scanner on a yellow tripod sited on an autumn leaf embankment overlooking a gushing stream with a pine tree hanging over.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/topographical-survey-lowick-ulverston.jpg)
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 hard fixed objects in the scene.
Land Survey, Carlisle
![Yellow traverse prism on yellow tripod on the rough adjacent a golf course hole green.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/land-survey-golf-course-carlisle-1024x768.jpg)
Golf course land survey for a lodge development. It looks fairly quiet today, so hopefully I won’t get hit by any missiles.
Measured Building Survey, Sedbergh
![Blue 3D scanner on Yellow tripod in front of a wooden gate. In the background is a sandstone railway viaduct with a black iron centre section.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/measured-building-survey-sedbergh.jpg)
I am scanning the barns behind me, but what a view from the backyard. Waterside Viaduct on the Leeds to Morecambe line, that would be handy, but alas it was closed in 1966.
Land Surveyor, Glenridding, Penrith
![Surveyor working on his rugged handheld computer placed on a Yellow box on a patio. There is a total station on a Yellow tripod behind him. In the background is a mountain bathed in sunlight.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Land-Surveyor-Glenridding.jpg)
![GNSS receiver on Yellow Tripod looking up a mountain valley. A small building and a Blue tractor are in the nearby.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/land-surveying-glenridding-1-scaled.jpg)
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.