The Geomatics Department at the University of New Mexico did a study along these lines a few years ago. They might be a good resource for you.

I recently received an email from Pix4D advertising a software package designed to be used with the iPhone scanner to collect and build a working poin...

In Arizona, AZPLS sent a version of this letter, provided by NSPS, to our governor. But then again, with our governor in might not make any difference...

What concerns me is who is building the surface that these guys are using? Most of the time, it's just some guy with little to no experience with surv...

What gets me, is when the BLM can't agree with itself and has set multiple 16th corners, 5 to 10 feet apart (then not bother to record anything about ...

I really like Global Mapper and it's classification tools. It works really well. Also, look into 3DSurvey. I have demo'd it, it's got some pretty nice...

@ladd-nelson I didn't have that option in the configure screen. It was found under the GPS Rover Settings, Advanced tab. Support was quite helpful. &...

@rochs01 My left eye got stronger from looking through the total station lens all the time when I was an IO. At least that was the notion the eye doc ...

@frank-willis Where do you set that at? We try to do a 3 epoch average on our topo shots, but it doesn't seem to catch the problem.  

@toivo1037 I wish it were that simple. My DC is set to only accept a fix solution. Usually the elevation bust or horizontal bust is so bad it stands ...

I've discovered similar things. What amazes me is the ability to get these amazingly tight floats, RMS figures almost identical to 'fix' figures. Wha...

We're kind of spoiled in Southern AZ... although some counties are better than others...

I'm about to have to do this myself with SurvCE. What I do is go into the localization menu and turn off your horizontal and vertical control, let Sur...