Re: Possible to collect good survey data without backsights?
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Feb 23, 2011 10:01 pmby Chads93GT
JR-Orion wrote: Are they fairly popular with surveyors? I'm a fan, that's for sure.
fairly popular with Ste Genevieve county surveyors in Missouri anyway ;) there is absolutely no sense in burning up man power hand holding a light on station that wont be in the same spot from the other side, but whatever. ;) we tend to use green. when red gets dim its very hard to see, but the flourescent green ones are still visible.
Re: Possible to collect good survey data without backsights?
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Feb 24, 2011 12:57 amby NZcaver
For what it's worth, I'm also a huge fan of green LED station marker lights. I have a bunch of them.
Re: Possible to collect good survey data without backsights?
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Feb 24, 2011 1:07 amby Marlatt
I concur with Barb - listen to Stan and do what he says!
Stuart
(and, in the spirit of his full disclosure - I've done a few shots where we simply estimated the azimuths, having left the instruments on the wrong side of a very, very hard squeeze. The passage was dead-ended in any case; if the dig at the end had eventually opened up, we promised to come back and re-survey it. Never did, unfortunately.)