Thanks for posting this. It gives us survey technicians hope that we could join the ranks of professional surveyors. My friend and coworker in the fie...

That was the Point of Beginning magazine.

From what I understand, the primary purpose for checking lake elevations is to prepare for hurricanes. Most of our lakes are checked on a monthly basi...

I like your idea. Our total station does have a reflectorless distance mode, but I doubt the office would accept that in lieu of a rod reading.

No. Actually, it's a retention pond. Most of our lakes are true lakes.

No. This lake is actually a retention pond, but I always keep an eye out for snakes.

I’ve been working slowly to create such a program.

We did not purchase Leica Infinity.

So you’re saying the level reads the rod to the nearest 0.00003?

Level reading to the nearest thousandth. Writing rod readings to the nearest thousandth in the field book.

Understood. Great idea.

I don’t believe the Carlson SurvPC 7 raw file contains that information because the adjustment is done by the RINEX conversion software.

I discovered the XML file generated by my RINEX conversion software contains the ARP height.