exactly, most of my work -even survey - is one and done, except for this one job, where it just keeps coming back every ~5-10 years as the property gets resold and they want to update the alta plan to the new owners...we've done the plan over 7 times in the past ~25 years
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Unrelated, but I have a question for ya. We just hired a new guy in our Portland office that I'm very excited about. He got hired into Natural Resources, and has about 20 years of enterprise GIS experience, in both implementation and analysis (including multispectral). Very capable guy, so I'm going to teach him how to do everything that I do (instead of just the flying, like everyone else) once he's licensed. I'm working on an updated guide for him, and I'm doing the mission planning/GCP layout right now.
Here's my standards, and I'm curious how they compare to what you do? I think you typically set minimal control, though.
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Ortho-only - 5gcps or 4 per Quarter-Quarter (40 acres), whichever is greater
3D - 9gcps or 6 per quarter-quarter (40 acres), whichever is greater
different styles 
the largest site we did was 100 acres and i just wanted to know where the fences of the paddocks were..i used 4 gcp's for that job just to get the scaling right.
most of our site are 40 acres or less(usually under 10), and i want at a minimum 3 traverse points visible to the drone(what we call GCP's) since nothing we do is tied to a state plane coordinate system (usually/typically) i fiddle with the state plane co-ords for the site until the distances match up correctly (to the nearest 0.05')-model to survey. survey says 1200.53' from nail to nail, gcp on the model has to match up to about that, give or take 0.05' we typically use the drones just for topography currently. it may expand more as we progress- and my son is interested in civil/survey and is entering college next year so in a few years will be taking a photogrammetry course.
the largest site we did was 100 acres and i just wanted to know where the fences of the paddocks were..i used 4 gcp's for that job just to get the scaling right.
most of our site are 40 acres or less(usually under 10), and i want at a minimum 3 traverse points visible to the drone(what we call GCP's) since nothing we do is tied to a state plane coordinate system (usually/typically) i fiddle with the state plane co-ords for the site until the distances match up correctly (to the nearest 0.05')-model to survey. survey says 1200.53' from nail to nail, gcp on the model has to match up to about that, give or take 0.05' we typically use the drones just for topography currently. it may expand more as we progress- and my son is interested in civil/survey and is entering college next year so in a few years will be taking a photogrammetry course.
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FLIR ONE Gen 3 Thermal Camera for Smart Phones | FLIR Systems
Thermal camera for iphone. It isnt a depth sensing IR camera, which is what Id want.
Thermal camera for iphone. It isnt a depth sensing IR camera, which is what Id want.
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DARPA’s New Brain Chip Enables Telepathic Control of Drone Swarms
The US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has created a brain-computer interface that enables a person to control everything from a swarm of drones to an advanced fighter jet using nothing but their thoughts and a special brain chip.
Pretty cool tech. Think they will ever let this into the public domain?
The US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has created a brain-computer interface that enables a person to control everything from a swarm of drones to an advanced fighter jet using nothing but their thoughts and a special brain chip.
Pretty cool tech. Think they will ever let this into the public domain?
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umm of course in about 50 years.
fyi city of boston just put all their surveying dept notes online. ~2000 or so note books of survey data. it is all downloadable for free. my work just bought a new cloud server (qnap 4bay -4 TB of space)
and i am currently downloading ALL of the files over the next week or so(with the index so that work can have an inhouse DB of all the notebooks.
in about 50 years.fyi city of boston just put all their surveying dept notes online. ~2000 or so note books of survey data. it is all downloadable for free. my work just bought a new cloud server (qnap 4bay -4 TB of space)
and i am currently downloading ALL of the files over the next week or so(with the index so that work can have an inhouse DB of all the notebooks.
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(Just realized I put this in the wrong thread.)
Tons of solar projects lately, for some reason. Solar and schools.
I make PDFs showing the mapping boundaries and control network, along with estimates, that I give to the project managers when they're bidding on projects. This 3d model has the same map minus the text, then draped over the terrain. Making flat pads for the legend and scale bar is a pain in the ass. These things are turning out to be really valuable when we're competing on a proposal.
Oregon Solar Site 3D Model
Tons of solar projects lately, for some reason. Solar and schools.
I make PDFs showing the mapping boundaries and control network, along with estimates, that I give to the project managers when they're bidding on projects. This 3d model has the same map minus the text, then draped over the terrain. Making flat pads for the legend and scale bar is a pain in the ass. These things are turning out to be really valuable when we're competing on a proposal.
Oregon Solar Site 3D Model
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I have zero problems with this. In 99.99% of cases, someone isn't going to be injured because a drone was shot down. Let them do it, and take it to court after if there's an objection.
It's pretty scary how easy it would be to turn a $400 drone into a weapon, and it doesn't take that much learning to get there. These things do need more regulation, but it'd be nice if someone born after 1950 was brainstorming the implementation.
Anyways, just finished this one up today. Dispute between engineers and grading subcontractor. I just gave the surface and ortho to the engineer, made this other stuff to give him an idea of what else we can do (and save the time it takes to downsample something in order to get it into CAD). They're not "polished".
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We've been talking about these at work the last 2 days. Survey manager on the other side of the state said that the Trimble rep is going to give us a demo as soon as they get the first shipment.
It should let us cut back on a lot of the GCPs on large sites, but mainly it'll be nice for the other departments. The Natural Resources group will get a lot of use out of it as long as it's able to connect to the CORS via 4g and not require a base station.
Yeah looks cool, as you can see I am playing around with the mapillary embed. Are there other embeds you are wanting? Give me a list now while I am engaged in the process.
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I don't think I'll end up using mapillary much. Not a fan so far.
Esri embeds would be great. Looks like you have those working now.
Pix4d. Sketchfab. I think that's about it?
I will poke at those other two, Mapillary isn't working right because of a few reasons and I don't feel like troubleshooting it
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