Apologies for the lack of blog entries over the past week and a bit. We've had issues with the wi fi connection in the hotel, so we're having to use the wi fi in a nearby bakery! Still, needs must. Anyway here's a quick summary of what we're done so far:
Monday - Wednesday: Reconnaissance.
After arriving on Anegada via ferry on Monday we spent the first day driving round the island locating some of the known control points. Anegada is a beautiful island with some somewhat secluded survey controls, chief among which being a point on top of the islands fire station! Tuesday and Wednesday were spent observing some of these control points, to allow for an easier transformation from Wgs84 coordinates to the local Puerto Rico datum. We spent an hour on each of these sites, and we hope they will allow us to better locate our base station for the post processed kinematic baseline survey. On the Wednesday afternoon we chose the point for our base station, shown below it is located on flat open ground behind the secure office.
Thursday -Friday: Baseline Survey.
On Thursday we began the kinematic survey of the coastline, we are using a post processed method with an occupation time of two minutes on each point. On each morning we start the base station and leave it recording throughout the day, we have been achieving on average 40 points a day, and we're getting quicker as we get to grips with the bi pod! We hope to carry on the baseline survey for the next couple of weeks before moving on to coastal detailing.
On Friday afternoon we experienced a flat on our truck. This hampered the afternoons plan for data collection as it was on the otherwise of the island. But following the quote of the day by Winston
Churchill ' a pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity whilst an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty', we decided to survey the coastline outside the hotel, making the most of the situation.
We hope to get wi fi, next Friday but we will try our hardest to keep the blog updated between now and then. We hope to post again soon, watch this space!
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