Hello guru's
I need to produce ellipsiodial elevations, I performed the survey with Trimble TSC2 / Survey Controller software.
I originally surveyed it in state plane coordinates and NAVD88, I was thinking that I could just change the job file properties and uncheck the geoid so that no geoid was applied...this approach does not seem to be working.
Since I rarely if never work with ellipsoid altitudes I am hoping to get some input on the subject from the gurus here.
Any thoughts or advice?
Is there an option for Latitude, Longitude, and ellipsoid heights? Convert to State Plane later?
The "raw data" in your [trimble].dc file should be dX,dY,dZ in either feet or meters (depends on how you set the job up). The Base Station Coordinate is USUALLY in Lat/Lon/Eh.
You can extract all of this stuff (along with Base Station HI, and Rover [Rod] heights) out and solve the whole shoot'in match pretty easily.
Now obviously TGO/TBC SHOULD be able to do all of this for you with a push of a button...the trick is... figureing out WHICH BUTTON!
Loyal
Loyal is quite right... all coordinates are stored internally as ECEF. Survey Controller allows the user to configure how the coordinates are displayed.
To create an output file directly in the TSC2 that displays ellipsoid heights:
Step 1 - Download Style Sheet "PWGS84 format" from Custom Export Style Sheets page on the Trimble support site.
Step 2 - Copy the file "PWGS84 format.XSL" into the Trimble Data folder on the TSC2
Step 3 - Open your GNSS job on the TSC2
Step 4 - On the TSC2: Files > Import/Export > Export custom format files
Step 5 - Select "PWGS84 format" as the file format and select your preferred coordinate type (ECEF/Degrees-Minutes-Seconds/Decimal Degrees).
Step 6 - The coordinates will be exported to an ASCII file in the Export subfolder in your selected format. If you picked DMS or DecDeg, the ellipsoid height of each point will also be shown.
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Alternatively, you can simply go to Point Manager and click the display type to show you WGS84 coordinates.
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Trimble Style Sheets
Thank you for the kind words Tom.
Style Sheets seem to be a hidden treasure with Survey Controller and Access. For those that what to learn how to build their own, they can download any of the custom style sheets from the link I provided and open them in a text editor to see how the sheets are structured.
It is a skill worth learning.
If you download it into TGO then you'll have the SPC along with the LLH.
If you need it in the field (I can't imagine why) then change your view settings to WGS84 and you'll see LLH while working in the SPC environment.