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HAPPY BIRTHDAY FUKCFACE!!!!
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Lucky guess...
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04-20-2010, 10:19 PM
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Happy birthday Sid, how old are you now? 19?20?21?
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04-20-2010, 10:23 PM
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04-20-2010, 10:24 PM
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I was once that age you speak of, back in the days.
I may not look it anymore but I damn sure still feel like it! Have a good day Sid, don't let the ones with herpes kiss you....
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Happy B-day, Sid!
No offense in any way, but I think that is a troublesome age in so many ways. Personally, I think I have not reached a true well being until I passed forty. I am a bit strange however. Have a nice one!
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04-20-2010, 10:57 PM
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Good morning guys.
My motto since I was Sid's age has been: You are never too old to have a happy childhood. I may be getting older but I refuse to grow up.
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04-21-2010, 06:12 AM
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We do topographical surveys for a lot of surveyors. We can take stereo photos of a property and make 2 foot contours way cheaper than they can do it from the ground. If the property is 20 to 30 acres or more or very remote or rugged we can save them a ton of time.
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04-21-2010, 06:19 AM
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Good freaking morning guys... I overslept and missed my chem class. Not cool since we have a test Friday...
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04-21-2010, 07:54 AM
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Glen,
Not really, I have the degree, that's all. I did do five years of hydrographic surveying for a dredging company, echosounding, density surveys of the sea/river beds, volume calculations, stuff like that. Long hours, days weeks, lousy pay in comparison. But all that survey stuff is in the past, topographic surveyors don't make a lot of money either doing a lousy job. Now I don't make a lot of money doing something I like more. (I'm a superintendant for a jetgrouting company) I guess the topographical surveys you do from the air would be a little more exiting than standing behind a total station all day, rain or shine. At least you get to fly AND get paid properly! Sid, shame on you Birthdayboy, now go to your room!
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Happy Freaking Birthday
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04-21-2010, 08:57 AM
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We recently had one surveyor measuring a refinery and tank farm. He had to calculate the volume of each tank and if the berm around it was sufficient to contain a major leak. He spent a few weeks doing some measurements in 100 degree heat. When he was ready to go to the next area he hired us to make one flight, and had the data back in two weeks and not a drop of sweat and no sunburn. We have one client that is wanting to buy a competitors waste water disposal pit. The current owners will not let him on the property. We fly over once a month to photograph what is going on. He probably knows more about that pit than the current owners.
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19 farking pages. And the (female dog) read the first two and gave me a 100.
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morning guys, THURSDAY.
And I'm in an exceprionally good mood today! Glen, If you do volumetric calculations, you must scan for height as well. How do you do that? Laser? how is height referencing done, altimeter gauge, RTK, laser as well? Roll and pitch correction? Do you get decent accuracy? When I was still surveying, that technique was upcoming but IIRC it was done mostly from helicopters. Flying over a company and giving that info to third parties? Isn't that some kind of industrial espionage? (Probably not or you would not be posting it here, I guess)
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Good morning, fluffers.
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04-21-2010, 10:43 PM
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God morgon, Doc.
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morning and night slackers... I've got the early shift tomorrow....
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G-Man, it is all done with stereo photography. No lasers or smoke and mirrors. We shoot three exposures of a pile of whatever, only the middle exposure is right over the pile. There are big white X shaped targets on the ground that a surveyor gives us a X, Y & Z location. We then lay in the base terrain map or we can assume the ground is flat. The software we use brings in all the images and while wearing 3D glasses the image has depth. Think of Avatar only working with 3 gigs of data for just one image. It is easy to measure the elevation of any point. Working in one or two foot intervals the software calculates the overall volume.
I found this link with a story about the process. LANDFILLS: Photogrammetry Digitally Calculates Landfill Volume The process has been around for years, even before computers.
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04-22-2010, 05:54 AM
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Morning Gents.... Time for Sid to go to work...
Oh and the joys of living out in the sticks... There are 3 ponies in my front yard today.... Dad gets to deal with that.... |
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