One of the reasons that the money does not increase as the is more work for less Surveyors is that there always seams to be someone out there running a “Map Factory”. This type of person will always lowball a price to get the work. Then he will divide his time using the formula: I have 10...
If a 100-year storm occurs 5 times in 20 years the definition would need to be revised? No. Climatology is based on much longer cycles that 20 years. If you flipped a coin 20 times and it came out heads 12 times you wouldn’t revise the probability of getting heads on a coin toss to 60%.
Projects that Photogrametry can be used for is quit vaied. We use them mostly for gathering data for engineering projects. We are a county Highway Department so we need existing data on the placement and elevation of existing features along our roadway corridors.
We have also flown our whole...
If you are going to be doing a lot of this now and in the future I would recommend purchasing CadOverlay form Autodesk. It will not only automate the insertions of Orthos with the world files it will be of great help with the digitizing. If not you can look at the world files to figure out the...
If we are talking about merging survey data into a GIS shape file the survey data will probably be at least an order of magnitude above the accuracy of the GIS, possibly more if the GIS polygons were created form old taxmaps as the often are. So there is probably no reason to go father that a...