LibreBefore, during, after. One stamped set per span or parcel, ready for the invoice.
Line clearance gets paid on proof. LibreCam stamps every photo with GPS and time, keeps each span or parcel in its own record, and hands the utility forester a link instead of a hard drive.
A span, documented from the first look to the cleanup
Pre-work, work, post-work. The same three shots on every span, so the forester can audit a circuit without driving it.
Pre-work
- The span as found, wide, with the conductor and the vegetation in frame
- Clearance violations close up — limbs in the wire, growth into the zone
- Access: the gate, the easement, the road in
- The customer notice or door hanger, where the program requires one
- Hazard trees outside the zone, photographed before anyone cuts
Work
- Crew working, with the equipment and the setup in frame
- Cuts as they're made — trim, removal, mowing, herbicide
- Wood and brush handling: chipped, stacked or hauled
- Anything the crew couldn't do, and why, said as a voice caption
- Damage to the property, shot the moment it happens
Post-work
- Clearance achieved, from the same spot as the pre-work shot
- Cleanup and the site as you left it
- Access restored: gate closed, ruts repaired
- Tap Generate: the span or parcel report, every photo stamped
- Share the link with the utility forester
Clearance you can't prove is clearance you did twice
Vegetation programs pay contractors on proof of work, and some public contracts now spell the proof out: a time-stamped before, during and after set per parcel, with GPS, on one page, with every invoice. When that set is missing, the span gets re-audited, re-driven or re-cut, and nobody gets paid until it's settled. The photos are taken; what goes missing is which span they belong to. LibreCam gives each circuit its own project, keeps each span or parcel together with tags, and stamps every photo with GPS and time. Before/after pairs line the pre-work shot up with the clearance achieved, and a checklist keeps each span open until the shots the program asks for are there. Crews in the right-of-way shoot offline and sync at the truck.
Same circuit. Two very different audits.
"The photo was never taken"
In a 2014 audit of the Western Area Power Administration's Rocky Mountain region, the Department of Energy's Inspector General found one sampled task order with before and after pictures for only 44 of its 70 line segments, and another with none. The controls were generally in place; the pictures weren't. Most programs are never audited that closely, but every forester asks the same question: where's the picture?
Circuit 4417 — 62 spans, closed
Every span with a pre-work shot, the crew working, and clearance achieved from the same spot, GPS and time on each. The checklist showed which spans were still missing a shot before the crew left the circuit. The forester audited the circuit from a link on Friday afternoon.
Built for line clearance crews and the foresters who audit them
Before and after from the same spot
The pre-work shot and the clearance achieved, side by side on the report. The pair is what the forester signs off on.
Tags by span or parcel
Tag each span, parcel or work order and pull its whole set in one filter, months later, when the invoice is questioned.
A checklist that shows what's missing
Pre-work, crew working, post-work. If the program asks for three photos, the span shows open until all three are there.
A report per span or parcel
Select the span, tap Generate. A PDF with every photo stamped with GPS and time, in the order the program asks for.
The forester opens a link
No app and no login on the utility's side. See who has opened it, and revoke it when the cycle closes.
Offline in the right-of-way
No signal at the back of the easement. Photos and captions queue on the phone and sync when the crew gets back to coverage.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Keep each parcel together with a tag or its own project and the report puts its photos on its own pages, each stamped with the date, time and GPS. If the utility has a required form, attach the LibreCam report to it.
No. It doesn't measure the distance from conductor to vegetation. It shows the span before and after from the same spot so the forester can see the clearance, and a voice caption can carry the measurement your crew took.
Yes. Share a link per circuit or per cycle. It opens in a browser with no app, you can see who opened it, and you can revoke it when the cycle closes.
Yes. Projects are per circuit, tags are per span or parcel, and share links are per project. One utility's forester never sees another utility's work.
Photograph them before anyone cuts, tag them as hazard trees, and voice-caption why. If the removal needs the property owner's or the utility's approval, the photo set is ready to send.
Nothing. LibreCam is free for every crew member, every general foreman and every forester who reviews the work. The free plan is the product, not a trial.