Infinity Land Surveying recently completed this large scale (641acre) boundary and topographic Survey on the Western slope of the Taos Mesa in Taos, NM.
Our seasoned field crew tied the horizontal and vertical control to NGS first order, A stability positions. Once the control points were collected, 19 Aerial Targets were set around the perimeter of the project to provide geometric control and coordinates to our flight crews. The static data was then post processed and reduced to the NM State Plane Coordinate System (Central Zone). All remaining project data was collected in this format.
The next step of the project was the Boundary Survey. This step was very time consuming as the Title Report revealed a rats nest of historical documents, Outdated Surveys, Spanish Land Grants, Water Rights, Easements, and Court Cases.
Once all of the neighboring surveys were drafted up in auto cadd, our CADD operators rotated and translated the polygons to try and make them fit/align with each other. Next they calculated search coordinates and sent a .csv file to the field crew. The field crew uploaded the .csv file in to their data collectors and spent the next 4 days collecting over 56 found monuments (all of which were called out in previous Surveys). They dug through Snow, ice, mud, frozen rocks, and even water to find these ever so important monuments.
The final Boundary Survey is being drafted up as I am typing this and we have just received the orthophoto. Can’t wait to put it all together for delivery.😉 Let us know if you have a similar project and we’d be happy to sit down and go over job details and pricing. CHEERS!!