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This time, the September picture is something a bit different. It is not a specimen of our data, but a photographic documentation of our surveyors during their work in the terrain, which is often quite difficult.
Surveyor operation in the field does not consist only in surveying a part of the Earth surface and objects on it. They also have to deal with logistic issues; primarily how to get to the given location and to get there as fast as possible. They search an ideal route in their office and they find out the character of the area in question from aerial images. But that is all that can be prepared beforehand.
In terrain, various pitfalls await that will force them to find another way. These are primarily closed swing gates, fallen tree trunks, unpaved roads impassable due to heavy machinery movement and in some countries even occurrence of mine fields or military bases. Then it is turn for roads that even an experienced farmer or a forester in a suitable vehicle would not use.
Therefore funny situations happen in which the geodesist on a field road loses a registration plate of his vehicle in a mud puddle and only notices this loss after having driven 10 kilometres further (see Photo 1: A registration plate lost on a field path, Slovakia 2011). Other times, an entire vehicle is left in mud and one has to walk on his own 10 kilometres before finding a tractor or a cow J to get the vehicle out (see Photo 2: Suzuki Vitara in mud, Macedonia 2009). And the biggest disappointment are roads that appear to afford passage but the vehicle gets stuck in them after first several metres (see Photo 3: Nissan Pick-up on a newly opened forest road, Slovakia 2011). And try to move almost two tonnes of iron drowned in mud up to the "belly" on your own.
