POB Point & Shoot 2018
POB’s new Point and Shoot gallery showcases jobsites and eye-catching field views submitted by our readers throughout the year 2018. To submit your own entry or see more Point and Shoot submissions, click here.
Setting control for a breakwater survey Lake Michigan, Chicago, Illinois. Photo taken from the boat on a cold January day.
Source: Brian Lounsbury
While setting out primary control for +1m dollar homes with an incredible view, a storm was skirting by us. The storm brought fog so quick and dense that we often found ourselves unable to survey with the Trimble S7 robot. As the storm moved, it brought this incredible cloud formation.
Source: W. William Carper
I was performing a topographic survey to expand the dairy farm area in the Clemson University animal research area and was trying to determine the size of a pipe in a catch basin. Apparently the cows became interested in what I was doing and came over to watch.
Source: Johnny Kinsey
Cutting through the fog - marking the section line so the farmer knows where to lay out his crop.
Source: Jonathan Wright
Hydrographic Survey under a bridge for a walking path in Guntersville, Alabama.
Source: James E. Alexander
“Wild” horses visit a survey site in Nevada.
Source: Michael Detwiler
On a project in Buenos Aires, scanning with an RA-10.
Source: Cesar Toro
While surveying a project in Dothan Alabama I see the Oscar Mayer vehicle passing my base setup and just enough time to catch a picture!
Source: Jeremy Andrews
Working on a reclamation project in Mule Canyon Mine, a closed mine east of Battle Mountain, Nevada.
Source: Cory Smith
Staking a house for excavation, we found one of our monuments being used to hold down the port o potty.
Photo by: Scott Lyttle / Source: Sterling Bennink.
1,360 Acres of land in the valley of Los Moreno, measured in two weeks.
Source Jose Esteban
Construction of a memorial to the battle of victory in the valleys of Aragua, Venezuela.
Source: Jose Esteban
When you assume responsibility of managing a large project from the natural terrain and can control more than 105,000,000 cubic feet of excavation with aerial photography combined with ground control, you feel like a father does for his son in the best moments of his life. In Venezuela, the largest and most modern baseball stadium in the South American region is built with tiered levels and a capacity for 37,000 spectators. In addition, it has all the main grandstand and the side bodies to form a half moon shape. It will not have bleachers in the central garden so that the spectators can have a better view. It will also have a screen of 197 x 82 feet.
Source: Jose Esteban
Found this quarter corner marked backwards, no this image is not mirrored. Doing a retracement survey to locate stones that were set in the 1870's after a fire on Antelope Island. State Parks service was going to disk and reseed the burned areas. Old PLSS stones were in jeopardy of being destroyed so we set T-posts near the stones.
Source: Bas Bouwmeester
While working on a topographic survey of the Anacostia River in Washington DC, a large raven decided to land on our instrument setup!
Source: Jacob Mueller.
It's been a dry winter thus far, but of course when you need to work outside it snows! Our site was a topographic mapping project for a power substation and 1 mile access road which we surveyed both on the ground and with an unmanned aerial system.
Source: Michael Detwiler
A boundary survey in the wilderness of Hancock, MA.
Source: Brian Koczela
Surveying building facades near downtown Indianapolis. Great view of the city!
Source: Jay Scanlon
Documenting a historical bridge in southern Indiana.
Source: Jay Scanlon
"This was a cell site survey in the parking lot of Mount Hood Meadows Ski Resort in 2016.
LDC architects and engineers regularly design and develop cell sites all over Washington and Oregon for a multitude of carriers.
My job as lead surveyor is to establish GPS control and perform detailed topographies of the entire design area with overlap, including locating transformers and existing power sources. With my Leica MS50, I often scan the existing antenna inventory on the towers (if applicable), from three angles for very accurate reproduction aiding in precise placement of future antenna."
Source: Lee Anderson
"New Headframe layout over existing shaft in Timmins, Ontario. Using a Topcon GT-1003 on a rather unsteady platform, but a surveyor’s gotta do what he’s gotta do to get it done. Took a few station setups to finally get the accuracy I required."
Source: Ryan Talbot
Sectional breakdown to verify location of ROW for Old Shumway Road, Taylor, Arizona.
Source: Myron Jasmann.
Surveyors with Southwest Geographic Services work on an ALTA of a scenic property in Sedona, Ariz., called Tlaquepaque.
Source: Farrah Etcheverry