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Best Practices: Public Drone Operations

With Remote ID going into effect on September 16th, it has never been more important to conduct public drone operations responsibly. Part 107 pilots must understand the do's and don'ts of operating drones in public.

Aerotas's newest blog post will hel

Will the Phantom 4 RTK be Remote ID Compliant?

The Phantom 4 RTK has been the workhorse drone for thousands of surveyors across the country.  But with the FAA’s new Remote ID rules coming into effect in less than 2 months, will they even be legal to fly still?  As of right now, they still aren't

New DJI M350 Review!

For those wondering what's new and improved on the new M350 RTK from DJI, Logan Campbell from Aerotas just put out a video review! Those with current drone programs or those thinking about starting a drone program could find it useful. Aerotas provid

The Excel Resection by Angles Computation

The Excel Resection by Angles Computation is a surveying calculation method used to determine the coordinates of an unknown point (station) by measuring angles and distances from three or more known points (reference objects or ROs) with known coordi

Common Mistakes to Avoid in Land Surveyor Calculations

Code with Leica total station

Please is their anyone who can assist me on how to add codes to my total station instrument or send me a video on how to go about it. Thanks

Surveyor Bookmarklets For On-The-Fly Posts to Community From Anywhere

Let's work smarter, not harder. How many of you have ever used  a bookmarklet?

How can a Bookmarklet Be Helpful to a Land Surveyor?

A bookmarklet is like a tiny wizard that lives in your browser's bookmarks bar and can magically transform any web

Promark 500, use external internet connection

Hello,

is there anyone who has achieved to connect his promark 500 (rover) with an external internet connection? I mean, when the sim card in the antenna has no internet connection,  if it would be able to be connected with a mobile phone via bluetoo

Attachment tripod screw size in Sokkisha TS20

Hi, 

I've just bought an old Sokkisha TS20 theodolite, and I realize that the attachment screw size is not the usual 5/8", but much bigger, somewhere around 1 3/8" (I measured about 34 mm). Does anybody know if there's a tripod with that size of screw

What will be the best procedure to check column verticality

I am on a job site where I am building a facility.

I have to layout pile, anchor bolt and check the pipe rack column to see if is vertical.

Is someone can tell me what will be the best procedure using Trimble Vx Robotic Total Station on the field to c

Traverse Adjustment Using SurveyingX App

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms55V9lHa3E&t=123s 

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Traverse Adjustment Using SurveyingX Mobile App

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms55V9lHa3E&t=123s

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Surveying360.SurveyingX

LEICA TS-06 ROAD 3D

Hello, I want to import alignment in total station and every time I'm trying total station is not opening and writting warning: "no data imported, due to useless transfer" please can anyone show me the way how to import.

at first I exported alignment

PDF Map Maker Will Save You Time

This morning I created a printable map of a short Seattle walking route, taking in some of my favorite record shops and cafes.

I created the map using the excellent PDF Map Maker.Which means my map is now a handy PDF file, which I can e-mail to my f

Trimble 5700 Not Tracking Satellites

Hi AllHi all I recently bought a Trimble 5700 on ebay auction. I have updated the equipment to recommend v 2.32 for the GPS week roll over. However the system is not tracking any satellites when I hook up the Zephyr Geodetic antenna.Any one with a

Northing Easting error. Need help.

I surveyed a long path, starting from two GPS points and ending with another two. But, at the beginning, I have entered E,N instead of N,E as the occupy point. I only realize this when I try to close the traverse. Is there any easy way to correct thi

CAD construction from disto measurements....how to?

Heya,

It's been a long time since I posted here, but here goes. I've been a surveyor for a number of years now and I'm very technical adept. I'm not the quickest surveyor but I always manage to come home with everything I need, in the required qualit

CIVIL 3D ( Two Different Alignments Need One Same Profile)

Respected Member,

                                        Please help me to find out solution. I have two different alignments ( Same Lenght) in one civil 3D drawings. One of my alignment has NG and Designed Profile. I want to show same NG and Design

Hello All,

Finding Jobs in File System on CC80 smart tablet

Hi all, Im trying to locate a job that was deleted from a project.  Does anyone know where jobs and their measurements are stored on the local machine? iCON / Leica / cc80 / smart tablet