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Tools | Technology

Tools

All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled
  • Four wheel drive 4WD vehicles
Axes
Barometers
Calculators or accessories
  • Pre-programmed coordinate geometry COGO calculators
  • Programmable electronic calculators
Clinometers
Desktop computers
Digital cameras
Distance meters
  • Electronic distance measuring devices
  • Electrotapes
  • Measuring chains
  • Tellurometers
Extensometers
Geological compasses
  • Compasses
Global positioning system receivers
  • Community base station global positioning systems GPS
  • Global positioning system GPS devices
  • Real-time kinematics RTK global positioning systems GPS
Hatchets
Instrument tripods
  • Tripods
Laser measuring systems
  • 3D laser scanning systems
  • Laser distance measuring equipment
  • Laser scanner coordinate capturing equipment
Laser printers
Level sensors or transmitters
  • Transits
Levels
  • Automatic optical pendulum leveling systems
  • Electronic digital/bar-code leveling systems
  • Geodetic leveling rods
  • Hand levels
  • Leveling bubbles
  • Optical pendulum levels
Machetes
Mallets
Measuring rods
  • Sight targets
  • Vertical/target rods
Measuring tables
  • Alidades
  • Plane tables
Measuring wheels for distance
  • Wheeled measuring devices
Metal detectors
  • Magnetic field pipe locators
Notebook computers
Personal computers
Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
  • Handheld data collectors
  • Portable hydrographic surveying equipment
  • Ranger data collectors
Plotter printers
  • Plotters
Plumb bobs
Pneumatic hammer
  • Jackhammers
Portable data input terminals
  • Robotic survey measuring instruments
  • Survey instrument control units
Power saws
  • Chain saws
Prisms
Saws
  • Telescoping pole saws
Scales
  • Engineering scales
Scanners
Seismic receivers
  • Ground vibration sensing equipment
Sonars
  • Echosounders
  • Fathometers
  • Multibeam sonar equipment
  • Side scan sonars
Tape measures
  • Measuring tapes
Templates
Theodolites
  • Total stations
  • Tribrach level bubble adjusting blocks
  • Tribrach optical plummet adjusting cylinders
Triangles
Two way radios

Technology

Analytical or scientific software
  • CARIS HIPS
  • CARIS SIPS
  • Coordinate geometry COGO software
  • Datalog with guidance DLWG software
  • Foresoft CDS Cogo
  • Foresoft CDS Model
  • Low-level driver LLD software
  • MicroSurvey OfficeSync
  • Modeling software
  • QuickCogo software
  • Trimble Geomatics Office
  • Trimble Total Control
  • Tripod Data Systems software
  • Triton Elics International Isis
Computer aided design CAD software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Autodesk CAiCE
  • Autodesk Land Desktop
  • Bentley MicroStation
  • Carlson CG Survey
  • Carlson SurvCADD
  • Carlson Survey
  • MENSI 3Dipsos
  • MicroSurvey software
  • Trimble Terramodel
  • Tripod Data Systems Foresight
  • TRS Software TomCADD
Data base reporting software
  • MicroSurvey FieldGenius
  • Survey Starnet Software
  • Trimble Digital Fieldbook
Data base user interface and query software
  • Database software
  • Microsoft Access
  • Trimble TerraSync
Electronic mail software
  • Microsoft Exchange
Internet browser software
  • Web browser software
Map creation software
  • Bentley InRoads
  • Carlson software
  • Desktop digital photogrammetry system DDPS software
  • ESRI ArcInfo
  • ESRI ArcView
  • Geomechanical design analysis GDA software
  • Muncy Plat Pronto
  • SiteComp software
  • Traverse PC software
Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office
Project management software
  • Trimble GPS Pathfinder
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word

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