This year's CSG field meet will be in Yorkshire on Sunday 18th April, at the YSS.
We will be covering the new craze of fully-electronic surveying with DistoX and PDAs. You will be able to try out the kit, learn the techniques and find out the pros and cons, before forking out for your own kit (most people who try it do...). We'll also look at the process of turning the results into real surveys.
And we'll be doing some experiments with generating surveys from video camera footage, in order to determine whether this technique is practical without spending 10 grand on boujou4. The more lights, cameras, expertise and computing people can bring the better for this.
On Saturday evening there will be the opportunity to look in more detail at the techniques for tiling surveys on top of online mapping/aerial photos, following on from the talk at the symposium.
We're staying at the YSS, Helwith Bridge (i.e about 40m from a fine pub), with the cave technology symposium on the Saturday.
Training in any aspect of surveying is available if you ask in advance (so we can bring the relevant kit and someone who knows how to use it). All survey-related tasks are of interest so if you have something you want to show or discuss or test, do please bring it along.
<Details re food, sleeping, registering, etc will follow, when I find out myself.>
I hope some of that sounds interesting enough that a few of you will come along. Last year's meet in Wales was great.
We will be covering the new craze of fully-electronic surveying with DistoX and PDAs. You will be able to try out the kit, learn the techniques and find out the pros and cons, before forking out for your own kit (most people who try it do...). We'll also look at the process of turning the results into real surveys.
And we'll be doing some experiments with generating surveys from video camera footage, in order to determine whether this technique is practical without spending 10 grand on boujou4. The more lights, cameras, expertise and computing people can bring the better for this.
On Saturday evening there will be the opportunity to look in more detail at the techniques for tiling surveys on top of online mapping/aerial photos, following on from the talk at the symposium.
We're staying at the YSS, Helwith Bridge (i.e about 40m from a fine pub), with the cave technology symposium on the Saturday.
Training in any aspect of surveying is available if you ask in advance (so we can bring the relevant kit and someone who knows how to use it). All survey-related tasks are of interest so if you have something you want to show or discuss or test, do please bring it along.
<Details re food, sleeping, registering, etc will follow, when I find out myself.>
I hope some of that sounds interesting enough that a few of you will come along. Last year's meet in Wales was great.
