In this week’s lectures we cover the fundamentals of coordinate surveying via either traditional total stations or GPS. These are the backbones to how all GIS data is collected (even imagery as we will see in lab).
This fulfills course learning outcomes 2, 3, 4 & 5.
Past Years
2013 Tuesday Lecture - PDF
Wrap - up GPS:
Ground-Based LiDaR or Terrestrial Laser Scanning Demo
2012:
Austin Jensen is with USU’s Aggie Air and talks to us about their drones on occasion. Here’s his lecture from 2012:
Kenneth Cruikshank’s (Portland State University) “Use of the Electronic Total Station -I. Introduction and basic techniques” - Useful overview of total station surveying.
Kenneth Cruikshank’s Electornic Total Station Resources Pages- A number of links and tutorials that provide a basic understanding of how to use total stations (geared toward specific application with Sokkia Total Stations)
The Primary Total Station Manufacturers
Garmin ‘What is GPS?’ - Nice consise overview of GPS
OPUS - Online Positioning User Service - Maintained by NOAA NGS for post processing GPS data
Some good ruggedized handheld map-grade GPS alternatives:
The Primary Survey-grade GPS Manufacturers