Dioptra and HDR’s Boise office have teamed together to complete a railroad bridge replacement project located on Interstate 15 in Inkom, ID.  Dioptra will provide all surveying services including right-of-way and centerline determination along will all public and private survey monuments, 3D scanning of the railroad tracks and roadway, and all supplemental topographic surveys a ...

Dioptra and HDR's Boise office have teamed together to complete a canal bridge replacement project located on SH-25 in Jerome, ID.  Dioptra will provide all surveying services including right-of-way and centerline determination along will all public and private survey monuments, 3D scanning of the 5-lane SH-25 for approximately 1600 feet, and a bathymetric survey of the canal b ...

Mark Hokanson grew up in Eastern Idaho and loves all that the outdoors has to offer.  This love of the outdoors has lead him to pursue a career as a Land Surveyor and is excited to join the Dioptra team.  He went to college at Idaho State University and received his Associate Degree in Civil Engineering Technology in 1998 and received his PLS registration in 2009.  Mark's prior ...

Adam Thayer was recently awarded another scholarship to assist in his college education.  Adam was awarded one of 6 scholarships offered by the Idaho Society of Professional Land Surveyors (ISPLS).  ISPLS awarded over over $8,400 in scholarships to students across Idaho as part of their 2016 scholarship program. ...

Adam Thayer was recently selected as a recipient of the Slovoj (Dr. Ing. Desider E.) Scholarship, awarded on behalf of the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) Foundation. The NSPS Foundation awarded over $25,000 in scholarships to students across the country as part of their 2016 scholarship program. Adam has been with Dioptra since May of 2016 and recently began ...

Dioptra helps with ITD District 5’s First Mobile Mapping Project Dioptra teamed with R.E.Y. Engineers out of Folsom, CA to assist in its first Mobile Scanning/Mapping project for the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) District 5 in Bear Lake County (Caribou County Line to Nounan Rd.). Dioptra was tasked to set 110 mobile scanning targets and provide coordinate and elevation ...

Dioptra recently sent Gwen Inskeep and Stewart Ward to sunny Anaheim, California to attend Hexagon 2016.  Hexagon provided hands-on training and breakout sessions to learn new methods of collecting data and new ideas to implement our HDS 3D scanner on a variety of projects.  New ideas for deliverables and upcoming product advancements were also taught during the conference.  Th ...

Dioptra is excited to announce that as of December 2015 we are an accredited business with the Better Business Bureau.   This accreditation is a symbol of our dedication to provide quality service to all of our clients.  Dioptra strives to be an honest and trustworthy business and to provide its clients and customers with the service and respect they deserve and expect. ...

Dioptra is excited to announce that Gwen Inskeep has passed the Fundamentals of Surveying exam.  Gwen took the exam in Monday April 6th in Pocatello, ID.  Gwen has been with Dioptra since 2013 and manages our 3D scanning projects and recently became certified in OPUS Projects.  Gwen is working towards becoming a Licensed Land Surveyor in Idaho and hopes to take the Principles o ...

Dioptra is excited to announce that they have added two (2) Bentley products to their line of drafting software.  Dioptra has purchased Bentley Power InRoads v8i Select Series 3 and Bentley Descartes v8i Select Series 5. Bentley Descartes gives Dioptra drafters the ability to classify point clouds, model point clouds, and draft directly to a point cloud without the need of add ...