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RE: looking for a tripod for 1956 K&E transit

I don't have a tripod, but there's a photo of it on page 11, showing cross slides. K&E originally was painted in a crinkled green paint, so yours ...

3 months ago
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RE: Scanning Manhole Inverts at Scale

Well you could put an RTK or prism on the top of something like this and a prism at the hole for a backsight. Make sure it's plumb of course. It has a...

3 months ago
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RE: Combining Total Station, GNSS & Levelling data

Be good to see this scanner in your lidar shootout, to demonstrate the difference least squares makes (with and without). I can share a copy of our s...

3 months ago
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RE: Combining Total Station, GNSS & Levelling data

Our customer has a threee year old least squares adjustment of an Airport runway, there has been some subsidence, he's planning on using horizontal di...

3 months ago
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RE: Combining Total Station, GNSS & Levelling data

Great video. Just yesterday, I modified our in house software to translate Topcon GLS scanner prism target observations into Star*Net .dat format, fo...

3 months ago
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RE: How do you combined data types (TS/GPS/Level)?

I can show you a small job if you like, it's fairly simple. The hardest part is entering covariance matrices from Sinex files.

4 months ago
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RE: How do you combined data types (TS/GPS/Level)?

I've been using SALSA for about three years, it works great, we wrote our own software to convert Trimble JobXML files and project files from Topcon's...

4 months ago
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RE: Best practice to measure GNSS Antenna Height used with tripod?

Definitely a Leica height hook, we use it for every tripod height measurement, no matter what instrument we're using.

5 months ago
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RE: LiDAR to Design to Survey Layout - Riegl VZ600i

I don't believe 5mm @ 95% confidence is possible for that scanner, but likely they're quoting std deviation, which is 68% confidence, so 10mm @ 95% co...

5 months ago
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RE: LiDAR to Design to Survey Layout - Riegl VZ600i

Great video, I really like the part where you discuss accuracy. This is a common problem with laser scanner manufacturers, there just isn't the same ...

5 months ago
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RE: Across the Pond

@not-my-real-name Refraction affects levelling and total station measurements the same way. Air layers are horizontal, these cause refraction that af...

5 months ago
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RE: Levelling unmarked stations - a more efficient workflow...

A quick update, I managed to organise the prism holders and carriers, so I had a 0.16mm range in height for the traverse kits. For the prism poles I f...

5 months ago
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