POB Point & Shoot 2019
POB’s new Point and Shoot gallery showcases jobsites and eye-catching field views submitted by our readers throughout the year 2019. To submit your own entry or see more Point and Shoot submissions, click here.
During a traverse to a quarter section corner in the redwoods of Humboldt County, we came across this stump, which is completely hollowed out with only the exterior remaining. Reminded us of how long these trees live and how short our lives really are.
Source: Phil Gutierrez
Hilo gets a lot of rain, but it's in Hawaii, too, so the chance for a rainbow is always there. The Field Operations Division of NOAA / CO-OPS installs and maintains the national network of tidal measurement stations that collect the data used to determine sea level datums, monitor tsunamis, and publish the predicted tide and current tables. We do second order, class one levels between our sensor and a benchmark network to check sensor stability and publish elevations on the benchmarks.
Source: Mark Bailey
Scanning at Tomb of Ti, Saqqara, Egypt.
Source: Vladimir Bruna, Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Cairo.
A two-laser crew on an extensive remodel of a resort in Hawaii on 15 acres, 11 levels, 150' of grade change and operating at an occupancy of over 80%.
Source: Hannah Robles, Spatial Acuity
Back at the surveying field office at the end of a day of line cutting circa 1976. Bench Marks stacked up behind me.
Source: Joseph Stokes, City of Orlando
While vacationing in Bejing, China, we came across this utility marker.
Source: Rosanne Frandina
CESI performed surveying and mapping of 20 miles of designated areas onshore and offshore at Ocean Isle Beach, Carolina Beach, Kure Beach, Masonboro Island, and Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
Source: David Haywood
On the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee.
Source: Bill Hacker
On the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee.
Source: Bill Hacker
On the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee.
Source: Bill Hacker
On the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee.
Source: Bill Hacker
Surveys of existing storm water infrastructure and erosion gullies carried out at Obompka, Delta State, Nigeria. The survey information was utilized to generate the topographical maps as well as the Digital Terrain Models (DTM’s) on which the proposed works will be designed.
Source: Adeoye Durodola
Monitoring a new swimming pool that is sinking. I'm using my FARO S350 LiDAR for extreme accuracy. Also running conventional surveying measurements from further away from the pool.
Source: L. Paul Cook
Frosty morning topo of rock quarry, Umatilla County, Oregon.
Source: Troy Alderson
The sky’s the limit - Photo taken by crew member, Jacob Schmutz. Collecting ground control points for a UAV topo project in Page, Arizona.
Source: Kelly Schmutz
Nyfeler Associates was hired to assist with footer layout in February 2019 for a National Science Foundation building expansion project located about 700-miles from the South Pole.
Source: George Nyfeler
Part of a residential property survey in Philadelphia.
Source: Jonathan Tabas
Summer mountaineering trip to bag the highest points in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. This picture was from Montana's highest peak, Granite peak.
Source: Derek Logan
We are doing an extensive drone mapping job in northern Guinea. This is what many of the river crossings involve.
Source: Chris Kirchoff
We did a site visit on the hopper dredge Liberty Island, where they were dredging the ocean floor and placing sand on the coast line as part of beach replenishment. We rode out to the dredge with the surveyors so they could collect the data from the previous evening.
Source: Ronald Humphress
Bill TenBusch saw this surveyor while visiting the crowded streets of Kathmandu after a Mt. Everest trekking trip.
Source: Bill TenBusch