http://www.retracement.net field data collection for licensed surveyors Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:24:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A fine morning of hiking.  Got to try out the japanese "hori hori" garden knife digging out this monument. [caption id="attachment_44" align="alignnone" width="512" caption="Greta with monument"][/caption] http://www.retracement.net/morning-recon-hike/ I spent the last couple of days testing some static GPS occupations that were tied together with terrestrial measurements (direction sets for horizontal, precise trig leveling for vertical). The point of it all was to compare results from OPUS-RS with results from static post-processing base station data from our own ... http://www.retracement.net/measure-twice-cut-once/ Here you will find various musings about survey field data collection -- total station work, GPS work, digging up evidence, looking for bearing trees, etc. http://www.retracement.net/survey-crew-ahead/