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As a firm, you’ve made a substantial investment in technology so that you can streamline your field processes to reduce your labor cost. You might have made the investment to improve the quality control on the workload you have. In the case of GPS, the increased productivity can be enormous.

The catch is that: 

1. Your crew has to understand what the technology can do.
2. Your crew has to understand what the technology can’t do.
3. Your increased data collection has to be acquired in a manner that doesn’t overload the office staff.

The purpose of this course is to help you capitalize on the investment you’ve made.If you’re not familiar with robotics or GPS in the field, you are looking at a learning curve.

This course was designed to greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the learning curve and teach a concept of how the instrumentation works in unison to maximize field to office efficiency. Our trainer has over 32 years of surveying experience and has used these procedures in a One Man environment since the firm acquired the equipment in 2003. We continue to offer Professional Surveying Services today and stay current with the technology.

Please see our Trainer's Resume here

Each training session is geared towards your actual equipment. We start at the point where you take the equipment out of the box and we stop when there is line work on your computer.

Our training is geared towards: 

• Topcon Robotic Instruments
• Topcon Global Positioning System Equipment
• Leica Robotic Instruments
• TDS Survey Pro 4.x and TDS Foresight DXM
• Carlson SurvCE 2.x, Carlson Survey 2009 and Carlson Civil 2009
• Topcon Pocket 3D, Topcon Office 3D, Topcon Link 7 and Topcon Tools 7

Brief Training Outline 

• Communication Protocols
  • Bluetooth Connection
  • Hardwire Connection
• Instrument Operation
  • Precision (collimation and tracking sight coincidence)
  • Establish Communication with Data Collector
  • Distance to Prism and Reflectorless Distance
  • Robotic Tracking
  • Data Collection
• Software Functionality
  • Setup and Backsight
  • Angular Measurements
  • Distance to Prism and Reflectorless Distance
  • Establish Instrument H.I. (Remote Elevation)
  • Resection
  • Elevation Module
  • Geometry Computations
• GPS Data Integration
• Robotic Field Applications
  • Tracking under good conditions
  • Tracking under extreme conditions
  • Stakeout to lost corner
  • Construction Applications
• Office Procedures
  • Download with TDS Foresight DXM
  • Download with Carlson Survey 2009
  • Computations with Carlson Survey 2009
  • ASCII Transfers
  • Upload Data Files
• Automated Mapping with Carlson 2009 Field to Finish

You may see a copy of our Training Agreement here. If you do not have Adobe Reader®, you may download it here.