I've watched a few videos about that system, too.?ÿ ?ÿFrankly, it looks like another in a long line of what I like to call a "surveyors full employment act" as it will invariably be misused and require an expert to fix the screw ups.?ÿ?ÿ
While watching the video, the measurement of parking spaces had me wondering if it could be applied to an ALTA locating parking stripes and other such items.?ÿ
Their website say the distance measurements have an accuracy of 5%.?ÿ So a parking space could be off by?ÿ about half a foot.?ÿ Seems like it would be easier and more accurate to use a drone aerial photo.
Their website say the distance measurements have an accuracy of 5%.?ÿ
The claim is actually 0.5%. Which, if real, would be only a few hundreths across a parking stall.
I think it has potential.?ÿ I have wanted to see an inertial device for surveyors for a long time.?ÿ time is the enemy of inertial devices, as they tend to "drift" over time.?ÿ It would help to move it in a smooth manner (not like in the video where he bashes it on the concrete).?ÿ I can see it being useful for searching for property corners.
The claim is actually 0.5%. Which, if real, would be only a few hundreths across a parking stall.
Great.?ÿ I misread the decimal.
So it might be very handy for an easy way to locate non-critical planimetric features around a site.
In that case, it might have been very useful on one project I did in the common area of a large subdivision.?ÿ I located some hiking trails once using a resource grade GPS unit.?ÿ I wonder if this unit might have been able to be used by hitting a couple of control points at the trailhead and then using the pole as a walking stick and just pausing occasionally then tie back to the control on arrival back at the start (or hit some boundary markers just a short ways off the trail).
Looks interesting. I would say it is inevitable that the future of surveying is a single device on a pole and nothing else (no ts etc.) that can go anywhere on the planet and get survey grade accuracy indoors and outdoors. There's more to being a surveyor than collecting the data so not worried here.
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?ÿ I wonder if this unit might have been able to be used by hitting a couple of control points at the trailhead and then using the pole as a walking stick and just pausing occasionally
Maybe, if by "occasionally" you mean every 5 or 6 seconds.
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I can see it being useful for searching for property corners.
The "stopping every 5 or 6 seconds" thing seems like a productivity-killer to me.
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It likely drifts after any more time to be accurate (relative to the last shot).?ÿ ?ÿIf it could be made about 50 times more accurate after about an hour in its reference frame, then we would be talking.
