Global Positioning System
The surveyors use the most modern GPS equipment to carry out surveys of open land including quarries, open cast mines, waste sites and parcels of land that are to be developed. GPS lends itself to rapid data capture of large areas of land for major earthworks, forestry, survey control and river sections.
The surveyors use the GPS for a wide range of tasks including flood risk assessments, quarry design, infrastructure surveys and setting out level pegs and profiles for earthworks from digital terrain models.
GPS does not perform as well in the built environment but is still used to provide survey control for land surveying using total stations and reflectorless distanced measuring for building surveys.
Contact: Steve Walker or Paul Redman