Boyette Booster Station Survey

This Tampa Bay Water task order assignment is an 11.5-acre boundary and topographic as-built survey being completed utilizing a variety of modern survey technologies. RTK GPS was utilized for the site control and property documentation location. Digital leveling techniques were utilized for the vertical control and site benchmarks. For terrain modeling and planimetry, a combination of fixed-wing UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) and static LiDAR was employed in a data fusion process. Additionally, RTK techniques were being applied for any infill areas. This project was the first project for Tampa Bay Water utilizing an unmanned aerial system for mapping purposes, representing a shift in the way this agency will approach similar mapping projects in the future. As part of the QA/QC process for this project, comparisons were made between the static LiDAR-derived point cloud and the UAS-derived imagery-based point cloud. This enabled the technicians to use the best available data when creating the ground surface model and also allowed for QC of the 2D features for the developed portions of the project site.