It all begins with just a handful in April. Those have babies and the babies have babies and so forth and so on. How many generations are there in one summer? Who knows, but by the end of August there is a spider web on every branch. Wearing a bill cap is a necessity. Imagine blundering into a web and having the spider dangling before your eyes, or looking down at your shirt to see one crawling up towards your neck. By the end of he day I am covered in webs.
The good news is I finished another page this weekend - eight hours on Saturday and six on Sunday. The area west of the inholding is done, including the beaver swamp. It's about 200 meters long and 150 meters wide. Most of the long, wide flat area is light green and almost featureless. A nice creek meanders through it. The lidar contours are indispensable for mapping that creek. As long as he drop is 2 feet or so, the lidar picks it up. I used to have to do this by pace and bearings.
And what is this thing? More important, how did it get out in the middle of the woods with no roads anywhere around? It's a meter tall and three meters long, made out of that hard black plastic. There's some sort of gate at one end. It looks like a standpipe for a pond. I suppose it could have floated down the mighty Chattahoochee in a flood - it's about 150 meters from the river.
Another milestone - once I get caught up with the drafting, I will have enough map to run on. My plan is to finish the first deliverable for the orienteering club before Christmas. Next area will be north into the Chattahoochee Bend. Much different terrain - open fields, pine plantations, and flood plain.
Aerial survey is a geomatics method of collecting information by using aerial photography or from remote sensing imagery using other bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as infrared, gamma, or ultraviolet. It can also refer to the chart or map made by analysing a region from the air.
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