As I kid, I LOVED going to SURVEY conventions. My favorite part was the EXHIBITS.
The EDM's, the Total Stations. The fancy stuff. I'd go home dreaming of not dragging a tape... LASER distance... in a few seconds!
Intergeo is going on in Germany. (I'd have loved to have gone... but I have wife, family, and commitments)
I am a little mad though, because I ASSUME that new stuff is available, and I don't know what it is.
Mark Silver seems like a nice enough guy, but, I don't drink. And his cheery beer-ey report was short on technical data. 🙂 (I'm happy for you, but not me!)
We are surveyors. We need informations. (Wink) More data. What's new?
I want a scanner. One that does NOT send out huge clouds of coordinates. Stuff that does scanning in a directional line. FAST One that allows a user to do a directional sweep. And only picks up a few coords. Shoots a PROFILE view, of a road cross section, or a creek, or wherever it's aimed.
Has compass inside, and simply lets you observe a GPS shot, then a series of radial side shots, picking up only profile shots.
I don't know if ANYBODY has done this yet... but we need that.
I'm a dreamer. A visionary. I want to know what's out there now, and I want to know cobble and re-combine, to make a new and useful tool.
The Arkansas conference is fixin to start in NW Arkansas...
Gotta get a map done.
Nate
BOTH of those are total Stations. The MS60 is a Leica Total Station. the SX10 is a Trimble Total Station.
I am thinking integrate them into the GPS.
N
gschrock, post: 449305, member: 556 wrote: You might have to think outside of the box.
I AM thinking outside the box... 😉
I know it's not a scanner, but wouldn't the Trimble V10 do basically what you are looking to do? It used the GPS location to geo-reference a panoramic photo that you could use later to select features.
You can mount a GS16 on top of a MS50/MS60 and store the position straight to the instrument. As Gavin points out, its nice to have the items separated. I'm currently working on a project the requires a tree survey along the edge of a 60 acre clear cut (engineers drive me crazy). I've been setting up our MS50 on the edge of the tree line. Using the data collector I've been taking the topo shots along and inside the tree line as needed. I then set the MS50 free scanning the trees sans DC while I head out and collect RTK data in the open clear cut. The MS50/60 is not the fastest scanner in the stable but it beats humping our C10 through the slash. From the scan data I can pick up the trees with diameter and drip line.
