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Joined: March 6, 2012 11:30 am
Topics: 9 / Replies: 706
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RE: Rooftop Surveys

Posted by: A Harris At a drone seminar in December, I learned that the different locations determined at the top of a two story building was over 0.3f...

8 years ago
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RE: Why have a Tribrach with an optical plummet?!

Lee makes a valid point about the GPS - many users won't have a separate base with O/P for the GPS. We quite often need to set up a number of tripods ...

8 years ago
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RE: UAS Collected DTM Deliverables to an Engineer

I haven't used Global Mapper but generally we find that generating a square grid provides what is required, pick a suitable size grid for the terrain ...

8 years ago
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RE: REACH receiver

Reach do a single frequency card to go in the SUA, which is how I came to be testing the base receiver. It does help in confirming the camera position...

8 years ago
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RE: REACH receiver

We checked one out a few months ago. Fine in open country for static, but any form of obstruction knocked the accuracy way down, often enough not to b...

9 years ago
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RE: Leveling - Balanced Turns

True, but your sights are likely to be short because of the grade, so refraction differences will be immaterial except for the most precise of work.

9 years ago
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RE: TBC UAS Demo & processing jpg files

Agreed Pix4D is an easier workflow. although we do all our processing in Photoscan as we find that gives better results, although a little more work. ...

9 years ago
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RE: TBC UAS Demo & processing jpg files

I don't have the TBC advanced UAS module yet but you shouldn't need any flight data other than the images. All the extra geodata does is to speed up t...

9 years ago
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RE: Stolen R10 Tulsa, OK

John Hamilton, post: 390073, member: 640 wrote: When I called the police the 911 operator asked if it was stolen from a vehicle, I said no, and she sa...

9 years ago
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RE: GEODIMETER 126 & ROMS : LOOKING FOR MANUALS

i've just checked our archive store and I have the HP-IL original printed manual and the Geodimeter 126 folder (about 80 loose leaf pages). Let me kno...

9 years ago
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RE: Instrument Setups in Mud

Essential - take some 3 ft lengths of 9x1 and put them down to stand on. That way you spread your load and minimise any disturbance to the instrument ...

9 years ago
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RE: To or not to model a Model 6

As I recall, the weight is around 50 lb when it is in the "travelling case". plus the car battery to carry up to a hill top.I'm not sure the original ...

9 years ago
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RE: Drones the future?

James Fleming, post: 449324, member: 136 wrote: You'd think for all the taxes you pay in California you'd get better service ;). I can download 1:1200...

9 years ago
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RE: Drones the future?

Larry Scott, post: 448702, member: 8766 wrote: I asked: what did you use for control? That's when it got impressive. He had 6 targets, laser printed p...

9 years ago
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RE: Trimble 5600 robots

squowse, post: 444217, member: 7109 wrote: What lets these down is the batteries.I suppose it depends on the batteries being used. We make our own 7aH...

9 years ago
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RE: Numeric point codes

Mark Mayer, post: 444108, member: 424 wrote: People making descriptions up off the top of their heads is a much bigger problem. Alpha Codes have the d...

9 years ago
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RE: Establishing an Equipment Baseline

Paul in PA, post: 443663, member: 236 wrote: If you are going to self check your total station why only check the EDM? I would say 50+/-feet by 500+/-...

9 years ago
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RE: Custom surveying equipment

Sireath,I'll assume that these are pools without a bulkhead to change the length - that makes things more complicated.1) The requirement for length ap...

9 years ago
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RE: Custom surveying equipment

Richard Imrie, post: 441976, member: 11256 wrote: The issue with this one was that the pool had been built maybe ten years ago, and at that time had b...

9 years ago
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RE: Custom surveying equipment

Richard,There was a New Zealand Surveyor, Mike Elliot, who I worked with on the London 2012 Olympic Pool. He would be able to give you all sorts of in...

9 years ago
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