Interestingly, Trimble VRSNow does not show the type of receiver under the info tab when you click on a station on their map. One of the private Trimb...

Since you say radial ties, I assume it is a sideshot? So no matter if your data is correct or not it would not affect anything. I would have to guess ...

It appears to be derived from the angular error estimate. What do you have for angular weighting?

Sounds like a great man, Jim, definitely an Engineer. My father was a PE, but he would never hesitate to tell people that I was an engineer. He was a ...

Kent: The work I do for the USACE includes over 100 pillars in the Pittsburgh district (we call them pedestals, or peds for short). They have the 5/8"...

The bottleneckers is a perfect fit to many of the boards. That is exactly how I see them. I find it ridiculous that a person cannot say they are an en...

HECTOR is a least squares adjustment software, not a post processing software.

I have found there to be little to no significant different between the rapid orbits and the final orbits for almost any conceivable work.

I would call it an outlier. Actually, I spoke to the person who reviewed it before the conference, not sure why he didn't flag it. He was also present...

My S6 has been in strong rain with no ill effects. Like others said, let it dry out afterward, don't just put it in the case. The only repair I have h...

He states that they are basically wide open. He says he used "an empirical geoid model". Maybe should have used EGM08.What gets me is why this would n...

What really surprised me is that he gave the exact same paper a few years ago, and basically was told then that his GNSS results were garbage. And the...

Larry Scott, post: 430765, member: 8766 wrote: Don't forget car batteries and walkie-talkies, the big Motorola kind. Key the mic and slip on all 5 cha...

To answer the original question...I have seen this numerous times, often without any metadata. the scale factor is applied to the entire coordinate va...

Larry Scott, post: 430755, member: 8766 wrote: How many remember having to enter a lat long just get started? PRN 8: disable navigation, enable phase ...

That yellow stuff is good equipment but their policies suck.

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Richard-I have always referred to a total station or an optical theodolite as a "gun". Causes some weird reactions sometimes when non-surveyors hear y...