'You can't get much better than that' - Mike Adamson

Earlier this morning we had received a step by step guide in order to create the all important Puerto Rico datum provided by our contact at Leica, Dave Dawson. We quickly put this to good use by processing our 'whole area' LSS plot of Pomato Point.

Pomato Point LSS plot

After the LSS processing, and with the help of Mike, we checked our baseline data against the photogrammetric data from 2002.  We found that all our control points matched closely to the known points from the 2002 data and that our baseline "...doesn't get much better...". Thanks to Mike for the help, we hope that the rest of the post processing runs as smoothly as this. 

In the afternoon Mike managed to arrange a last minute meeting with Christopher Williams a Technical Planning Officer at the Department for Disaster Management (DDM) in Tortola. In the meeting Christopher was keen to know what was involved within the expedition and methods we used to gather the data. We have arranged for the DDM to receive a copy of all the results and a copy of the final report when completed. He was also interested with this being the start of a long term monitoring project of the island involving local community and for future expeditions to return.