Photos of Surveyors at Work

Photos of Surveyors. CNC Surveying business owner Tim Conway (in yellow hardhat) explains scanning process to contractors and another surveyor (white hardhat)

Survey total station set up over a recovered section corner. Rugged forest surveyor looks down the section line while keeping notes in an orange field book.
Survey total station set up over a recovered section corner. Rugged forest surveyor looks down the section line while keeping notes in an orange field book.

Military surveyor checks level in field where road and building are to be constructed.  Notes are kept for later use in the office.
Military surveyor checks level in field where road and building are to be constructed. Notes are kept for later use in the office.

Bureau of Land Management surveyor sets up Global Positioning System receiver.
Bureau of Land Management surveyor sets up Global Positioning System receiver.

Bureau of Land Management surveyors recover a cadastral corner in a fence line.
Bureau of Land Management surveyors recover a cadastral corner in a fence line.

Iron Pipe with section corner cap from GLO General Land Office, now called the Bureau of Land Management, a federal agency in the  US Department of Interior.
Iron Pipe with section corner cap from GLO General Land Office, now called the Bureau of Land Management, a federal agency in the US Department of Interior.

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US Forest Service surveyor at a Global Positioning System control station set high on a mountain in Alaska.
US Forest Service surveyor at a Global Positioning System control station set high on a mountain in Alaska.

  • Surveyors see many things usually not visible to the public. We are called upon to measure existing conditions and layout proposed construction in some of the most unusual conditions. While “safety comes first” we have interesting days.
Under side of bridge over creek.
Under side of bridge over creek.