I learned, or rather was forced to reluctantly acknowledge, that decisions made at the higher levels with respect to technical matters, workflows, equ...

Eh just show 'em the Thorntonbank wind farm:

@Mark Mayer Agreed. I wasn't trying to be flip about it...when I submit monitoring proposals, there's an explanation of the methodology we use to cal...

OUAT an architect/project manager was asking for points to be monitored to an accuracy of ±0.01′. We used preanalysis to show that we would have to us...

Well, I'm with you on the preanalysis routine, but I think that 98% of folks just wing it. Some state manuals have guidance on procedures for achievin...

you pay premium at Trimble and Leica to support their whole marketing department to let people buy all stuff they don’t need to start with.Uh, I guess...

@leegreen 🙄 To the OP: I'd stick with Topcon if that is what you are comfortable with, you are happy with the performance, and you have a rel...

I have the option to download a whole counties contour DWG file but it’s very slow to work with due to size. I wish I could select a project area and ...

Static shines when establishing tight control over larger project areas, or when you need to establish a single geodetic reference point on site. With...

What are you going to do other than best fit the plat dimensions to what you can find? "Best fit" can mean different things to different people. Does ...

Trimble Traverse Kit. High precision glass, high precision 45" level vial (under the hood on the right side of the circled area), high precision rotat...

3-5mm network accuracy is tighter than HARN/FBN specs, and more in line with CORS accuracies. Take a look at some published datasheets to see what can...

bring in precise position and orientation into a control networkI'm a little confused...are you saying you already have an adjusted local control netw...

In fact, too long a RTK observation can degrade if satellites get into worse geometry or you lose them from obstructions.If that were true, static obs...

Imagine the common circumstance where a developer has an ALTA, with Table A item 1, at property acquisition. Three months later they have there fundin...

tie into monuments shown on the map, find the best fit for distance then translate and rotate the map geometry onto our points holding our SPC bearing...

If you're working with a cleaned and QC'd LAS from a state website, you might be able to get away with just generating a surface. But even those, in m...

I was basing my initial thoughts on a video about RTK observations where the surveyor ran a similar test but got very different resultsI didn't see a ...

Unfortunately the vast majority of surveyors have paid little attention to the NGS requests for data to address this issue so it will be what it will ...

Fair enough, but in that set of standards they clearly state that this testing procedure is a means of measuring precision, not accuracy.That's how it...