Lidar control network...Alaska
...For the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline...
A Journey from Prudoe Bay to Canada via Delta Junction.... and Delta Junction to Valdez
with four surveyors...
The EM 50 Urban Assault Vehicle....
Alaska pipeline coming outa ground from under the road.....now I know they didn't fly no LIDAR to build this thing....they must of just went out there and...built it...customizing as they go?.....1,500,0000 barrels per day.....
Receiver charging station......a little tight....how many receivers can you put on one outlet before before something goes click bam?
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This fish eye wide angle lens make my fingers look like some super weird gecko/human synthesis mutation but the focus intent was on this cool rock...full of gold flashy eye catching mica type mineral ...
RTK'ing check shots for the Lidar fly over.....odd thing really....the Lidar will hit one square metre of land with eight shots over thousands of square miles....our random shots with on the ground RTK is the Lidar check...
You drive drive drive for 60 miles....set up a base...drive another 30 or 60 miles or so to set another couple statics.....take some random RTK...drive back to recover receivers and drive forward again or backwards or back and forth...leap frogging the EM 50 to next RV pullout....
Right now i'm the driver....so I use cameras , ipods, and newspapers to combat the boredom...
One RV...two chase cars...
A few remote sensing problems at the start ...Doug's looking for the cure...Jesse has found the cure...
Sept 21..... Now in Fairbanks...the end of metropolis starts tomorrow as we push forward to Deadhorse so as to work back over a few days and hopefully avoid the weather....The RV can only go so far to Coldfoot.....so we will be bunking in the pick up truck and ...some how....some how...