My company is about to send me and some crew to survey in Nicaragua, I was told it is hard to get units into the country, as well as there are only three base station for the entire country.
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We will be doing forestry surveys, on a grid system, with Geoxt 6000's the hand held units. Has anyone worked there before, and can you supply me with any guidance at all.
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I have been told numerous stories, but so far, I would like to hear solutions to the problems, and how others you may know worked in this region.
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Thanks for all your help.
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Andrew
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I was going to us WSG 1984 World Mercator, Since thats the native Coordinate system for GPS units; and still looking in to other possibilities.Β
What about UTM coordinates? Does Nicaragua have something comparable to OPUS?
So far what I will have to do is set up my own base station using a Trimble R8 and laptop at our base camp. This will allow me to correct my data to this base station later back in the office. Like i stated above i Will be looking at individual locations, and features, not a real survey with total stations and so forth. More inventory for ecology. The other thing is trying to find good uptodate base data, I have data that cover the country, but nothing I can use at a large scale, nothing pas 1:100,000. So this is the next challange I will be facing.
I will keep you up to date as I figure this project out.
This should be a good one to follow...sorry no experience here...please keep us informed!
Interesting...just 3 base stations for Nicaragua! Β Here is a paper I dug up which may or may not help, but i will look more into this, provided you can tell me the exact problems you are experiencing.
the attached paper is calledΒ Land registration for the urban poor in Nicaragua Β and somewhere in here it discusses problems related to having only 3 base stations.. Β We also have a brand new group forum for Nicaragua Land SurveyorsΒ which you may like to join and start a discussion related to the problems you are having.