GPS Surveying

Gravity Line Layout

Gravity Line Layout

Introduction

The Team’s hard work paid off and we won the contract on a large gravity station survey. Now we actually have to pull it off. I’m the “computer guy” on the team and what they usually need early on is a dataset of GPS points covering the area of interest, and an estimate of the number of stations, which translates into number of survey days, and cost to the Client.

The Great Canadian Diamond Search

The Great Canadian Diamond Search

Introduction

How often does your job take you beyond your comfort zone. How often do you stand in the ski hut at the bottom of the hill putting on your boots and imagine swooshing down the infamous Kamikaze $\blacklozenge$ run. And then when you get there and look over the edge you say to yourself “What was I thinking, I must be out of my mind to do this”.