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It has been an exciting year for Land Surveyors United Community!  We accepted our 10,000th member (now 10,100), celebrated the largest archive of surveyor submitted photos and helped find over 300 land surveyors jobs.

As 2016 comes to a close, we want to take a moment to show our gratitude to our top contributors, share some of our most popular topics and discussions and pass on some handpicked surveying jobs from our Global Surveying Jobs Board to get 2017 started on the right track.

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Two sample datasets (in Tersus binary format) for static and kinematic scenarios are logged with Precis-BX305 GNSS RTK Board (GPS L1L2/GLONASS G1/Beidou B1B3) for post-processing software compatibility test. You can download them to do the testing in terms of observation quality analysis and PPK purpose.

Download: http://www.tersus-gnss.com/pages/document-software

Any questions, drop us a line to [email protected].

[NEW] AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Field to Finish Webinar Dec. 29, 2016

Register: Click Here
When: December 29, 2016 1PM-4PM (EST)
Where: Online (Watch Live or Recorded Webinar Later)
Cost: $297 Regular Price+processing fee
By: Eric Colburn, Professional Land Surveyor and Geo-Business Innovator

AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey Field to Finish Webinar Description

In this comprehensive webinar for land surveyors and designers you will see and learn how to setup and use AutoCAD Civil 3D as a Field to Finish solution.

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Surveying Math-Series Training and Reference materials On Sale

Surveyor Jim Crume PLS, long time member and contributor to the community, is also quite an author! You can save yourself some holiday money by taking advantage of this limited time offer.

Check out some of Jim's individual books in this slideshow.

Bitter sweet accomplishments today. It was a dream of my dad's to have a place where he could easily and openly communicate with his customers (Land Surveyors) and help professionals solve problems from the field. In March of 2007, I began building Land Surveyors United Community during a time when Myspace was still the primary social network. Every single day since then, I scroll through applications to join at least 3 times a day and decline most due to lack of seriousness in the answers they

You can learn something new every single day about surveying or how-to survey inside this community.  

In fact, your journey starts here with our Surveying Tutorials Collection, which grows everyday.  You can check out videos tagged 'tutorial' or you can just bookmark this story and jump straight from the collection.  Share your tutorials to help this collection grow for surveyors everywhere!

Hello All

I recently purchased my 1st Trimble nomad DC and its running Carlson Surv CE and i bought a new cable USB to the 9 Pin topcon data port... i have tried every single setting i can think of too get these two units to connect .... anyone else out there had any problems like this ... ? Thanks 

Precis-BX316 GNSS Board, the RTK System with L1L2/G1G2/B1B2 & Heading at Affordable Prices. Support Shutter Synchronization & Raw Observation Data Logging. Centimeter-level Positioning Accuracy. It is good for Drones, Aerial Cinematography and Photography, Mapping, Surveying, etc.

Check it Out with the datasheet. 

Precis-BX316, the Multi-GNSS, Dual Frequency RTK Board with Dual Antenna for Heading released. Pre-order Now. Check with our sales representatives for details. Contact Us: [email protected].

I have an old 5800 unit that does not have internal memory capabilities.  I have collected static post processing data with a TSCe data collector.  Is there a way to process the raw or job file from the TSCe to a dat file to upload to OPUS?   If I had the t0# file from the 5800 I could download the dat file to be post processed.  But without being able to record directly to the 5800 I am stuck. Unless there is way to process the raw, job, or maybe I am missing something.  I know this is old equi

A quick start video provides basic instruction for setting up and using Precis-BX305 RTK solution. For details, please refer to Precis-BX305 user guide.

Watch how Tersus GPS RTK works on Arducopter in Loiter Mode. Great work from Michael Oborne and his Ardupilot Dev Team in Australia and thanks for the sharing.

Stay tuned. The latest Precis-BX316 RTK board which supports GPS L1L2/BDS B1B2/GLONASS G1G2 and with GPS L1L2 heading mode is coming soon. One of the spotlights is camera shuttle synchronization feature, which is the good news for aerial users. Want to get more? Drop us a line to [email protected].

hello friends, someone has the driver for the USB cable from the antenna Topcon GR-5 UHF II?

Land Surveying is Timeless:

Shared Experience is Education for those new to the field. There are no shortages on complaints around the internet about newbies relying too much on tech. However, the veteran land surveyors are just now- for the first time in history- sharing and documenting their expertise from the field. Students and new surveyors simply have never been exposed to the methods and approaches to land surveying rooted in history. If you think you have nothing to contribute, consider

The CORS is an appealing way to do RTK due to its convenience and large coverage area. While Precis-BX305 (L1/L2 GPS RTK Receiver) currently does not support build-in NTRIP client feature, there is an alternative way to connect CORS network by employing external Bluetooth module and a cellphone. Check it out.

Any comments? Let us know. [email protected].

Ultimate Collection of Excel and Spreadsheet Tools and helpful discussions for Professional Land Surveyors - Over 40 Tools within this link to download and use for those tough calculations..

Add Your Excel Spreadsheet Tools to the Excel Forum on the network. 

Justin Farrow Uniting Land Surveyors Worldwide   Excel Spreadsheet Tools for Land Surveyors Enjoy this curated collection of Excel and Spreadsheet Tools collection for professional land surveyor

Watch this video that shows how to log data with external data logger. The logged binary observation data can be converted in to RINEX format with Tersus GNSS Center.

Any comments? Let us know. [email protected]

I just wanted to share a short but relevant story with you about my last day as a land surveyor.

After this day, I was destined to become an anthropologist.  My mission has been evolving, focused more and more on bringing public awareness to importance of surveying as both an art and science.

Location of Tea Farm:

Something i didn't mention was that it was nesting season in the tea farm- no one knew.  The next day, they tried to get me to stay by