Importing Field Data

Importing Field Data In the past, surveyors used special bound notebooks for recording observations in the field.  Thus, the task of turning all of those observations into feature coordinates was time consuming and laborious.  Modern surveying instruments have on-board data recording capabilities; alternatively, a separate (wired or wireless) data collector minicomputer may be used.  These …

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Field Measurements

Once control points have been established, surveyors use their instrumentation to measure the positions of existing site features.  As we move around the site, we place a prism pole at each feature for the observation. A survey prism is a retroreflector designed to precisely refract laser beams such that they reflect backwards and return directly …

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Alewife Cove Topographic and Bathymetric Survey

We are the survey firm of record for an exciting project along the Long Island Sound shoreline. In 2019, Franklin Surveys performed a comprehensive topographic and bathymetric survey of the waterway corridor and provided the base mapping for the project.  This project, on the Waterford / New London town line, is part of an effort …

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Survey Site Recon

Reconnaissance After reviewing the research records, the field crew mobilizes to your property to start examining the site and setting up instruments. Modern survey crews carry magnetic locators (commonly, metal detectors) to help in the search for evidence which may be located underground. In some cases, old metal fences are eventually consumed by trees, but …

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Existing Conditions Mapping of Yantic Woolen Mill

Existing conditions mapping of the old Yantic Woolen Mill in Norwich, CT Franklin Surveys provided existing conditions mapping services including boundary, topographic, wetlands, and utility surveys of the old Yantic Woolen Mill, also known as the Hale Mill, in Norwich, CT. This was in support of a proposal to turn it into a luxury hotel. …

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East Hartford Flood Control System

Kevin Franklin, Project Manager and Franklin Surveys Provides the East Hartford Flood Control System With High-quality Land Surveying Services

The Hartford Flood of 1936
The Hartford Flood of 1936

Kevin Franklin has been the Project Manager for land surveying services over the course of 2 years for the East Hartford Flood Control System.

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