Spectra Precision Survey Pro v5.4 User Manual

Survey Pro Field Software

User Guide

From V5.4

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Data Collector Warranty Program

Spectra Precision would like to make you aware of the warranty program. A new data collector that has been purchased and is still under the one year factory warranty or under an extended warranty will be authorized for software updates. Data collectors that are not currently under a warranty plan are eligible to purchase an extended warranty. There are Survey Pro software only warranties that will authorize the data collector for software updates, and there are warranties that cover both the data collector hardware and Survey Pro software. The extended warranties are a good way to protect your investment in your equipment.

The Survey Pro installation program will use your internet connection to compare the data collector's serial number against a data base that contains the warranty status on all units. If the unit is under a valid warranty, the installation will proceed. If the unit is not covered under warranty, then a message will be displayed informing you of this and the installation will stop.

To receive Survey Pro minor improvement releases, identified by the version numbering system, you only need to be on the current version of the latest minor update. In other words, if you have version 5.0.x you are authorized for a version

5.0.5 improvement release automatically. For minor updates, 5.0 to 5.1 for example, it is now required that the data collector or Survey Pro software be on a current warranty plan.

The warranty plans are listed on Spectra Precision price lists. Data collector serial numbers are required in order to generate the proper registration codes for your unit and to log the warranty plan into the database.

Survey Pro User Guide Release Notes, October 2013

The content of this new Survey Pro User Guide reflects the changes and enhancements made to Survey Pro 5.4 compared to Survey Pro 5.3. The following changes and add-ups have been introduced in this guide:

1. The Map View has two new features: The User Zoom Extent button and the “Follow-me” function. These new features are described in Chapter 2 - In- troduction to the Survey Pro User Interface (Map View section).

2. Extended data import capabilities through the IXL format (see Chapter 3 - Creating a Job (Importing Data section).

3. Enhanced point management. Deleted points can be restored. Distinct icons are used to represent design points and staked points (see Chapter 3

- Creating a Job (Managing Points section).

4. Enhanced GNSS status to show all the constellations and more information on data recording. Survey Pro will also forward more information from the GNSS receiver in the form of messages (see Chapter 4 - Choosing a Survey- ing Mode... (Checking the GNSS Status section).

5. Simplified station setup in optical surveying mode (no more circle to set with the Known Point method). See Chapter 5 - Optical Surveying (Station Setup on Known Point section).

6. Remote elevation workflow enhanced. See Chapter 5 - Optical Surveying (Remote Elevation section).

7. Fixing Station Setup function added to simplify survey rotate/translate operations. See Chapter 5 - Optical Surveying (Fixing Station Setup section).

8. Stakeout routines enhanced by introducing the notion and management of design and staked points. See Chapter 8 - Stakeout Routines.

9. Users can now easily choose which data to enter to identify a point being collected (toggling between “Description” and “Feature” is very simple). See Appendix - Advanced Information on Point Properties section.

10. Manual shots can now be edited from within the raw Data Viewer. See Ap- pendix - Raw Data Viewer section.

11. Survey Pro now supports the electronic compass embedded in the data collector running Survey Pro. See Appendix - Electronic Compass section.

1. Welcome to Survey Pro ..............................................................................................1

Scope......................................................................................................................1

Conventions Used.....................................................................................................2

2. Introduction to the Survey Pro User Interface...............................................................3

Home Screen and Main Menu....................................................................................3

Switching Between Home Screen and Main Menu........................................................4

Command Bar Description.........................................................................................4

How to Customize the Home Screen ...........................................................................5

Adding a Function.................................................................................................6

Removing a Function.............................................................................................6

Moving a Function.................................................................................................6

Home Screen Pages ..............................................................................................6

Screen Details..........................................................................................................7

Map View.................................................................................................................8

Zoom Toolbar......................................................................................................10

Snap-To Toolbar..................................................................................................10

“User Zoom Extent” Button..................................................................................10

“Follow-me” Function..........................................................................................11

3. Creating a Job.........................................................................................................12

Job Settings...........................................................................................................13

Importing Data ......................................................................................................15

Editing Points ........................................................................................................15

Managing Points .................................................................................................15

Creating a New Point...........................................................................................17

Modifying a Point................................................................................................18

Multi-Point Selection...........................................................................................18

Editing Polylines.....................................................................................................19

Editing Alignments .................................................................................................19

Exporting Data ......................................................................................................19

Generating Survey Reports.......................................................................................19

Sharing Files Over the Internet.................................................................................21

4. Choosing a Surveying Mode - Connecting Survey Pro to an Instrument..........................22

Instrument Icon and Options List .............................................................................22

Optical Mode - Connecting Survey Pro to an Optical Instrument ..................................24

Remote Control Screen ........................................................................................25

GNSS Mode - Connecting Survey Pro to a GNSS Receiver...........................................26

Introduction to Receiver Profiles...........................................................................26

Adding Receiver Profiles......................................................................................27

Managing Your Receiver Profiles...........................................................................28

Modifying a Receiver Profile.................................................................................30

Managing Network Profiles...................................................................................31

Checking the GNSS Status...................................................................................32

Leveling Mode - Getting Ready for Leveling ...............................................................34

Auto/Manual Leveling Methods.............................................................................34

Choosing Leveling Mode ......................................................................................35

Level Settings.....................................................................................................35

5. Optical Surveying ....................................................................................................36

Instrument Setup ...................................................................................................36

Station Setup on a Known Point...........................................................................36

Station Setup on Unknown Point, Resection Method ..............................................39

Variant to the Basic Station Setup Procedures.......................................................41

Remote Elevation................................................................................................42

Fixing Station Setup............................................................................................42

Point Measurement ................................................................................................43

Introduction to Traverse / Sideshot .......................................................................43

Sideshot ............................................................................................................43

Traverse............................................................................................................. 44

Repetition Shots.................................................................................................46

6. GNSS Surveying .....................................................................................................48

Starting an RTK Base ............................................................................................48

Starting an RTK Rover ............................................................................................50

Collecting Data ...................................................................................................... 54

Collecting Points.................................................................................................54

Collecting Features ............................................................................................. 56

Collecting Offset Points ....................................................................................... 57

Collecting Data Out of a Survey ...............................................................................58

Solving Calibration ................................................................................................. 59

Introduction to Calibration...................................................................................59

Calibration Procedure, Illustrated .........................................................................60

Special Case of One-Point Calibration...................................................................63

How Survey Pro Deals With Base Location.............................................................63

Unexpected Change of Base.................................................................................... 64

Managing Reference Stations ..................................................................................64

Ending a Survey ..................................................................................................... 65

7. Leveling .................................................................................................................66

Introduction...........................................................................................................66

What Leveling Is ................................................................................................. 66

Other Definitions ................................................................................................66

Creating or Selecting a Level Loop ...........................................................................68

Collecting Elevations in an Open Level Loop .............................................................69

Description of a Simple Level Loop.......................................................................69

Collecting Elevations in a Simple Level Loop .........................................................71

Collecting Elevations for Sideshot and Stakeout Points...........................................73

Adjusting a Closed Loop.......................................................................................... 74

Running the 2 Peg Test .......................................................................................... 75

8. Stakeout Routines...................................................................................................76

Selecting Points to Be Staked, “Next Point” Scenario ................................................76

“By Managed Points” Method ..............................................................................77

Staking Points With a Mechanical Optical Instrument................................................78

Staking Points With a Robotic Optical Instrument ..................................................... 80

Staking Points With GNSS ......................................................................................82

Other Stakeout Routines .........................................................................................85

9. Survey Pro’s On-Board Version .................................................................................86

Working With No Job Open......................................................................................86

Working With a Job Open ........................................................................................90

Appendix....................................................................................................................92

Advanced Information on Point Properties ................................................................92

Layers................................................................................................................92

Descriptions .......................................................................................................92

Features & Attributes...........................................................................................93

Toggling Between Descriptions and Features..........................................................94

Quick Codes Function..........................................................................................95

Notes.................................................................................................................96

Raw Data Viewer.....................................................................................................97

Raw Data Viewer Toolbox .....................................................................................97

Editing Manual Shots ..........................................................................................98

Memo for GNSS Users ............................................................................................98

Managing Smart Targets..........................................................................................99

Electronic Compass ................................................................................................99

Setting the Electronic Compass ............................................................................99

Using the Electronic Compass ............................................................................100

1. Welcome to Survey Pro

Congratulations on your decision to purchase a Spectra Precision product. Spectra Precision is serious about providing the best possible products to its customers and knows that you are serious about your tools. We are proud to welcome you to the Spectra Precision family.

Scope This manual will guide you through your first steps using Survey Pro. Whether

you are using optical or GNSS equipment, or whether you want to perform leveling fieldwork, you will find here key instructions and explanations for a successful start.

If you are new to Survey Pro, reading the first three sections will help you understand the organization and workflow of the software. Chapter 3 will also give all the details to understand what a “receiver profile” is and how it is used to easily connect to and configure a GNSS receiver for RTK and/or postprocessing data collection.

The rest of the guide is dedicated to helping you start your field work.

• Station setup is an essential step when surveying with an optical instrument: this guide discusses the Known Point and Resection routines, followed by a short description of a few standard surveying procedures (traverse/sideshot, repetition).

• Choosing the right coordinate system before starting a job with GNSS is also an essential step: the guide will take you through the different possible scenarios, followed by a short description of standard data collection procedures.

• Collecting elevations in level loops is explained in Chapter 7. Leveling on page 66.

• Stakeout routines are functions common to optical and GNSS surveying. These are introduced in 8. Stakeout Routines on page 76.

• The last section provides instructions specific to Survey Pro running on Nikon Nivo and Spectra Precision FOCUS total stations.

From your first successful experience with Survey Pro, based on the information provided in this guide, you will be able to extend your knowledge of the software to its many other functions, relying on your own experience as a surveyor and referring to the on-line Help whenever necessary.

Conventions Used The following conventions are used:

• Text strings in bold font represent the names of software items such as

fields, buttons, check boxes, tabs, messages, screens, menus, etc.

• The symbol “>” is placed between menus, tabs and/or buttons to indicate

that you have to tap on these parts successively in that order.

• When referring to both optical instruments and GNSS receivers, the term

“instruments” will be used to encompass the two types of equipment.

The following acronyms and abbreviations are used:

• BS: Backsight

• EDM: Electronic Distance Meter

• NEE: Northing, Easting, Elevation (grid coordinates)

• HA: Horizontal Angle

• LLH: Latitude, Longitude, Height (geodetic coordinates)

• PPM: Part Per Million

• SD: Slope Distance

• SS: Side Shot

• ZA: Zenith Angle

The following conventions are used when inputting or outputting angles:

• Azimuths, latitudes, longitudes are entered in degrees-minutes-seconds

format and are represented as DD.MMSSsss, where: – DD: One or more digits representing the degrees – MM: Two digits representing the minutes – SS: Two digits representing the seconds – sss: Zero or more digits representing the decimal fraction part of the

seconds.

E.g.: 212.0805 would indicate 212 degrees, 8 minutes and 5 seconds.

• Bearings can be entered in either of the following formats:

– S32.0805W to indicate South 32 degrees, 8 minutes, 5 seconds West. – 3 32.0805 to indicate 32 degrees, 8 minutes, 5 seconds in quadrant 3.

When a field accepts a time for its input, the time is entered in hours-minutesseconds format, which is represented as HH.MMSSsss, where:

– HH: One or more digits representing the hours – MM: Two digits representing the minutes – SS: Two digits representing the seconds – sss: Zero or more digits representing the decimal fraction part of the

seconds.

2. Introduction to the Survey Pro User Interface

Home Screen and

Main Menu

On launching Survey Pro, you will first be asked to open a job. When done, the software will open at the Home screen. The home screen shows a selection of the functions you will most frequently use in the field. You can customize the Home screen based on your needs.

If this is your first time using Survey Pro, a message box will inform you how you can customize the items and layout of the functions on the Home screen (see How to Customize the Home Screen on page 5).

Because some of the available Survey Pro functions are mode dependent (optical, GNSS), there is a different Home screen for each mode. That also means there is a slightly different default Home screen depending on which instrument is used. See below, from left to right: Optical, GNSS, Leveling.

The functions available from the Home screen are taken from the Main Menu, which contains all the possible Survey Pro functions.

You can access the functions available from each submenu by tapping the corresponding submenu icon.

Each submenu, and all the functions attached to the submenu, are represented by icons of the same background color. For example the File submenu and its functions are all in green.

Switching Between

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Home Screen and

Main Menu

The table below lists the buttons allowing you to navigate between the Home screen and the Main Menu and its submenus.

Icon / Check boxes Result

Takes you to the Home screen from the Main Menu or any submenu.

Takes you back to the Main Menu from the Home screen.

Takes you back to the Main Menu from an open submenu.

The default Home screen has only one page so there’s only one blue dot (a radio button), and it is necessarily checked. When adding functions through customization, other pages may be created for the Home screen to accommodate all the added functions (see How to Customize the Home Screen on page 5). In that case, tap one of the radio buttons to display the desired page.

Command Bar

Description

The command bar is that portion of the Survey Pro screen that remains always displayed whether the Home screen, the Main Menu or one of its submenus is displayed. The command bar contains the following items:

• Map View [1]: This button will access the map view of the current job when

it is tapped. The map view is available from many screens (see Map View on page 8).

• Instrument Used [2]: The Instrument icon indicates the mode (optical,

GNSS or leveling) that the software is in, and the type of instrument the software is currently associated with.

Icon Current Instrument Selection

Optical instrument

GNSS receiver

Leveling

This icon is also used to change the instrument and perform additional settings on this instrument. See 4. Choosing a Surveying Mode - Connecting Survey Pro to an Instrument on page 22.

• Battery Level [3]: The battery icon displays the condition of the data collector’s rechargeable battery. The icon has five variations depending on the level of charge remaining, and a sixth variation to indicate battery charging.

Icon Meaning

100% charge remaining

75% charge remaining

50% charge remaining

25% charge remaining

Less than 5% charge remaining

Battery charging from AC adaptor

Tapping the battery icon is a shortcut to the Windows Mobile Power Settings screen.

• Quick Pick [4]: The Quick Pick button will open a customizable list of routines. To quickly access a routine, just tap on it.

• Online Help [5]: This button opens the online help, which allows you to access information for each screen.

How to Customize the

Home Screen

A message is displayed right after opening or creating a job asking you to “Tap and hold on menu items to manage the Home screen”. This message prompts you

to customize the Home menu so that only the functions you will most frequently be using in the field will be made available from this screen.

After you have become familiar with the customization process and next time you launch Survey Pro, you can dismiss the message by checking the Don’t ask this again prompt before tapping OK to close the message.

Adding a Function

This is a three-step procedure:

• Go to the Main Menu, then to the submenu containing the function you

would like to add to the Home screen.

• Tap and hold the corresponding function item and select Add to Home.

Survey Pro then shows the Home screen with all the possible free locations for the new function, all represented as unnamed icons. Note at this point that all the icons are shown with the same background color (see example).

• Tap on a free icon (an unnamed one) or on the icon of an existing function.

The new function is inserted at the tapped location. Icon colors are then restored.

If you tap on an existing function, this function and the next ones are shifted down by one location. Survey Pro will automatically create a new page of Home screen if the resulting number of functions on the screen is greater that what the screen can accommodate.

Removing a Function

On the Home screen, tap and hold the function you want to remove and select Remove Item. This instantly removes the function from the Home screen.

Moving a Function

• On the Home screen, tap and hold the function you want to move and select

Move Item. Apart from the function you want to move, which keeps its original appearance, all other function items change color to blue.

• Tap on the location where you wish to move the function. This may be a free

location, or the location of an existing function. If you tap on an existing function, the moved function will be inserted at the selected location and the function at that location and the ones that follow will be moved down.

Home Screen Pages

The default home screen consists of a single page. You may add up to three additional pages as part of the Home screen in order to make your many favorite functions accessible from this set of pages.

• Adding a page is done by tapping and holding any function on the Home

screen and selecting Insert Page Before or Insert Page After.

• Switching from one page to the other is done by tapping on radio buttons

at the top of the screen.

• Removing a page is done by tapping any location on that page and selecting

Remove Page. This action requires user confirmation.

Screen Details The screen example below illustrates the different types of items you will

usually encounter on the screen when using the different Survey Pro functions:

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• Input Field [1]: An area where you can enter a specific value.

• Output Field: Only displays a value that cannot be changed.

• Simple Button [2]: Typically used to run the function described by its name. Just tap it to run the function. When the button name appears in red characters, you can alternately press the Enter key on the keypad to perform the same action.

• Power Button [3]: Typically used to provide context-sensitive functions to modify the corresponding field. Once you have tapped on it, a drop-down list will appear with several choices. Simply tap the desired choice from the drop-down list.

• Choose From Map Button [4]: Always associated with a field where an existing point is required. When the button is tapped, a map view is displayed. To select a point for the required field, just tap it from the map.

NOTE: If you tap a point from the map view that is located next to other points, another screen will open that displays all of the points in the area that was tapped.

Tap the desired point from the list to select it.

• Scroll buttons [5]: When a button label is preceded with the > symbol, it indicates that the button label can be changed by tapping it, thus changing the type of value that would be entered in the associated field. As you continue tapping a scroll button, the label will cycle through all the available choices.

• Check boxes [6]: Tap on these boxes to successively check or clear the corresponding option.

•Tabs [7]: Many screens show tabs, which look like the tabs on index cards. Tapping on a tab displays a subset of information part of the selected screen.

The following buttons will appear in the area usually occupied by the command bar.

Item Function

OK button. Accepts the changes made and closes the window.

Cancels the changes made in the open window

Closes the current window

Quick access to the relevant Settings screen

Quick access to the Help system

Quick access to the Quick Pick list.

Map View The map view is a graphical representation of the objects in the current job. It

will show basemaps in the background if you are using one (see screen example). Basemap files may be either raster images (such as a georeferenced TIFF file, or a JPG image with an associated world file) or CAD drawings (DXF files).

There are different map views depending on how the map view is accessed. Each can display slightly different information, such as a vertical profile. A bar is shown at the bottom of every map view that indicates the scale. The buttons along the left edge of the screen allow you to change what is displayed in the map view.

TIP: You can pan around your map by dragging your stylus across the screen.

The “main” map view is the one you get after tapping in the command bar (from the Home screen or Main Menu).

From all those screens including a button, you will also display a map view after tapping this button.

The “main” map view, as well as any map view accessible from a survey routine, will also function as an “active” map. That means you can perform several actions directly from the map. Tap and hold on the map to bring up a context menu of available actions. The actions available will depend on what you have selected at the tap-and-hold location.

If Optical or GNSS is selected, the main map can also function as an interface to collect measurements. Tap and hold on the main map and choose Survey Mode to enable the Measurement interface (see screen example for GNSS).

When in Survey Mode, you can collect data from the main map by tapping on one of the available buttons (see table below).

You can also press the Enter key to trigger an observation. By default, the Enter key will trigger a “Topo” observation. You can change the Enter key to trigger a point observation by clearing the Survey Map Use Enter Button for Topo prompt on the Job > Settings > Surveying tab.

Shortcut buttons are available to optimize your work. These are defined below:

Optical Function GNSS Function

- Mechanical optical instrument: Triggers the instrument to take a shot in the current mode (fine or coarse).

- Robotic optical instrument: Similar to GNSS, i.e. takes the latest tracking mode data and stores a point.

- Mechanical optical instrument: Takes a fine mode observation.

- Robotic optical instrument: Opens up the remote control screen where you will hit the Take Shot button to take a fine mode observation.

Setting target height Setting antenna height

Station setup GNSS status

One-epoch point measurement

Multi-epoch point measurement (static occupation)

The main map view includes two additional toolbars:

• The Zoom toolbar

• The Snap-To toolbar

These are described below.

• The Zoom toolbar is always shown.

• Tap to show the Snap-To toolbar, to hide it.

Zoom Toolbar

Button Function

Zoom Extent button: By default, will set the map view so that all the points in the

current job can be seen. If configured as a “User Zoom Extent” button, will restore a different view of the map (see “User Zoom Extent” Button on page 10).

Will zoom the current screen in by approximately 25%.

Will zoom the current screen out by approximately 25%.

Allows you to drag a box across the screen. When your finger or stylus leaves the screen, the map will zoom to the box that was drawn.

Prompts you for a point name and then the map view will be centered to the specified point with the point label displayed in red.

Snap-To Toolbar

Button Function

Snap to nearby point.

Snap to the midpoint of the selected line segment.

Snap to the nearest of the begin point or the end point of the selected line segment.

Snap to the intersection of two straight line segments. You cannot snap to the intersection of line segments that are curves or spirals.

Snap to the point of intersection (PI) of the selected curve segment.

Snap to the radius point (RP) of the selected curve segment.

Snap to the nearest point on the selected straight line or curve segment.

Remove all of the Snap To temporary points created on this map.

“User Zoom Extent” Button

The Zoom Extent button may be changed into a User Zoom Extent button, and vice versa. The button keeps the same aspect but has a slightly different function. Rather than showing all the visible points in the job (Zoom Extent

button), the User Zoom Extent button will restore the view of a specific area on the map that you will have chosen beforehand.

Setting the User Zoom Extent button:

• Adjust the map view so that the area you are interested in entirely occupies the screen (use the zoom buttons and drag the map accordingly).

• Once this is done, tap and hold anywhere on the map view and select Set User Zoom Extent. A red frame appears encompassing the entire view, meaning you have now defined your “user area”.

From now on, tapping will always takes you back to the display of the user area, whatever the various zoom/drag changes you may have made in the meantime. Whenever the current zoom & pan setting allows it, the red frame will appear showing the size and location of the user area on the current map view.

Clearing the User Zoom Extent Button:

• Tap and hold anywhere on the map and select Clear User Zoom Extent. The user area no longer exists (the red frame disappears from the screen).

From now on, the button has recovered its default function, which is to set the map view so that all the points stored in the open job can be viewed on the screen.

“Follow-me” Function

When you are holding a GNSS rover or a prism, you may want to keep your current location always visible on the map screen.

This is the purpose of the Follow-me function, which will pan the map so that your location as you walk around can continuously be seen on the map view (it will be shown as close as possible to the map center, usually within an area representing three quarters of the map area around its center).

• To activate the Follow-me function, tap and hold anywhere on the map and select Set “Follow me”.

The symbol used to represent your location is a small arrow pointing in your walk direction. About every 4 seconds, and for about 1 second, it is replaced with a GNSS antenna or prism icon, depending on the surveying mode currently used. A gray cross-hair will appear centered on your location clearly indicating that the Follow-me function is on (the cross-hair will always be the same size whatever the zoom setting).

• To deactivate the Follow-me function, tap and hold anywhere on the map and select Stop “Follow me”. The gray cross-hair is then removed from the screen.

• The Follow-me function will automatically be stopped whenever you manually drag (pan) the map to such an extent that your current location on the screen is moved outside of the centered “three-quarter area” on the map view.

3. Creating a Job

Survey Pro cannot start without a job being open. Upon launching Survey Pro, the Welcome to Survey Pro screen will guide you through the process of creating a new job or opening an existing job.

NOTE: Upon launching the onboard version of Survey Pro, the initial screen allows you take measurements without having to open a job. Refer to 9. Survey Pro’s On-Board Version on page 86.

• Tap the New button. The New Job screen opens, which prompts you for a job name where the current date is the default name.

• Either type in a new job name or accept the default name.

• You can create the job in two different ways:

1. Tap the Create Job Now button. The new job will be created with the current

default settings (as listed at the bottom of the screen) and will be stored in the default directory (\Survey Pro Jobs\).

2. Tap the Settings button to access the different job settings (see below). After

you have gone through the different settings, tap the Finish button. This will create and store the new job.

NOTE: The job names listed in the upper portion of the screen are those of the most recent jobs you opened in Survey Pro. This list does not necessarily reflect the list of jobs stored in your data collector. If you are looking for a job stored in your data collector, use the Browse button.

Job Settings The settings and values entered for a new job become the default values for any

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subsequent new jobs. A short description of the jobs settings is given below.

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• Units [1]: When creating a new job, set all the desired units for the job. You can also enable the setting for Earth Curvature and Refraction correction for optical measurements.

• Control File [2]: Control points can optionally be imported from another existing job by checking the Use a Control File check box. After tapping Finish to create the job, a message will indicate the number of imported points. If you are using a control file, by default the coordinate system of this control file will be used for the new job. You can override this default setting on the coordinate system page. A control file can be imported from either a .Job or .Survey file.

• Select Coordinate System [3]: When you are using a control file, you can start the

job with the control file’s coordinate system, or you can pick a different coordinate system from the database. If you don’t have a control file, you need to choose the coordinate system for the job. To select the coordinate system for the new job: – Clear the check box when you are doing an optical survey with a ground scale

factor of 1, or if you are doing a GNSS survey and there’s no known projection or datum for your local grid coordinates.

– Check this box when your local grid coordinates are defined by some known

map projection and datum. In this case, select Zone from Database and specify the region (Region), zone (Zone) and datum (Datum) of your working area.

In GNSS Survey only, the datum may be defined in a different way using RTCM messages 1021 and 1023 received from some NTRIP networks that broadcast these messages. In this case, check Broadcast RTCM and specify the region (Region) and zone (Zone) of your working area. The datum will be provided by the RTK network.

Understanding Scale Factor for your coordinate system: – If your job has “no coordinate system”, Survey Pro automatically sets the scale

factor for optical measurements to “1.0”. This means that the distance measured on the ground will be 1:1 to the distance on the grid. If you start a GNSS survey, Survey Pro will use default Ground Calibration mode to calculate your grid coordinates from GNSS measurements.

– If your job is using a map projection and datum, Survey Pro will automatically

calculate the correct scale factor for each station setup so the distance measured on the ground will properly be reduced to the coordinate grid. If you start a GNSS survey, Survey Pro will use the selected projection to calculate grid coordinates from GNSS measurements.

NOTE: You can modify the default optical scale factor settings in the Job > Settings > Scale Factor tab.

• First Point [4]: A default point name and coordinates are prompted to become the

first point in the job. You can freely change the name and coordinates of this point before creating it. You may also clear the box if you do not want to create a new point at this stage.

You may start your measurements now if you don’t need anything else in your job at this time. In that case, go directly to 4. Choosing a Surveying Mode - Connecting Survey Pro to an Instrument on page 22.

If you need to add data (points, polylines, alignments, etc.) into your job before starting, the sections below will tell you how to import or create/edit data from within the open job. The last section lists the possible formats in which the data stored in the job can be exported.

Importing Data Use the File > Import function to add points to the open job. The points may be

imported from different file formats, using default importers:

• Survey Pro native formats (*.Survey, *.JOB, *.JXL, *.CR5). JXL is the extension for files in JobXML format, a Spectra Precision standard format for point, alignment, and measurement data.

• LandXML (*.XML), an industry standard format for point, alignment, and measurement data.

• Text format (*.TXT, *.CSV). An Import ASCII wizard will help you define the content of every TXT file you will import.

Data may also be imported form other formats (GDM, KOF, SFN, Surpac) using custom importers created in IXL (XML) format.

Survey Pro will parse and import all the known elements from the chosen file. These elements will be added to the current job as points, polylines and alignments. See the definition of these elements in Editing Points on page 15, Editing Polylines on page 19 and Editing Alignments on page 19.

The File > Import Control function is used to import points onto the control layer of your job. Points on the control layer are protected from being modified. Control files should be in *.Survey or *.JOB format.

Editing Points A point in Survey Pro has coordinates and properties. A point’s coordinates can be

derived in one of two ways:

• Key-in point: The coordinates for this point were entered using the Job > Points function or this point was created by importing data to the job.

• Observed point: The coordinates for this point are calculated from measurements in the current job.

NOTE: To see the current coordinates and properties of a point, you can tap the point on the map. This will open the Point Details screen showing the Origin of the point, which describes how the point was created.

Managing Points

All points in a job file, whether keyed-in or computed from observations, can be viewed using the Job > Points function. Points in the job will be either active or deleted. Active points can be used in Survey Pro. Deleted points exist in the job file database, but must be undeleted before they can be used in Survey Pro.

The following icons are used to identify the different types of existing points:

Icon Point type

Design point

Staked point

Point (undifferentiated)

Deleted point

The drop-down list available from the right-upper corner of the screen allows you to view all the active –i.e. non-deleted– points (select Show Points), the previously deleted points (select Show Deleted), only the design points (select Design Pts. only), only the staked points (select Staked Pts. Only), both design and staked points (select Design & Staked Pts. Only), or all of them (select Show All).

Use the three or four buttons located at the top of the screen to manage your points:

• : Allows you to search for the first point in the displayed list meeting the search

criterion you define. You may define a criterion on the point name or the point description. You can also search by point code (FXL auto linework and attribute code).

: Will become active only after Survey Pro has found the first point in the list meeting your search criterion. Each new press on this button will view the next point in the list also meeting the search criterion.

• : Allows you to insert a new point to the list. A name will be prompted by default for the new point, based on the name of the currently selected point. Entering the definition of a new point is organized into three different tabs (see Creating a New Point on page 17). Note that defining a point as a design or staked point can only be done using Manage Design Points on the Stakeout menu.

• : Allows you to edit the selected point (see Modifying a Point on page 18).

Also, when you tap and hold a point in the Show Points list, a context-sensitive menu is displayed giving access to the following functions:

• Delete Point: Allows you to delete the selected point.

A deleted point is marked with the ( ) icon, placed before its name.

• Delete Points: Prompts you to make a multi-selection of points and then deletes all these points.

• View Point Details: Allows you to get a read-only view of the point origin, coordinates, properties and notes. The information is split into three different tabs: Details, Derivation and Notes.

• View Raw: Takes you to the Raw Data view on which the step during which the point was created is highlighted. The Raw Data view can also be selected from the main menu by tapping Job > View / Edit Raw Data.

• View Map: Takes you to the map screen where the selected point is shown at the center of the screen.

Double-clicking a point in the list is equivalent to selecting View Point Details in the context-sensitive menu.

When you tap and hold a point in the Show Deleted list, a context-sensitive menu is displayed giving access to the following functions:

• Undelete Point: Will take this deleted point back to the list of existing points. The undeleted point will recover its original icon.

• View Point Details: Same as above.

• View Raw: Same as above.

Creating a New Point

Select any point in the list and tap to insert a new point:

• The General tab allows you to name the new point, add a description if necessary, assign a layer to the point and possibly attach a picture to it (using the built-in camera or by selecting an image file from the disk).

• The Location tab allows you to enter coordinates for the point. You can enter Grid, global geodetic (WGS84 LLH) or local geodetic (Local LLH) coordinates.

– Grid: This point’s local grid coordinates are the Northing, Easting, Elevation

values that were keyed in or imported. This point’s global geodetic coordinates will be calculated by transforming grid coordinates into latitude, longitude, height coordinates using the current projection.

– Global geodetic: This point’s WGS84 coordinates are the latitude, longitude

and height values that were keyed in or imported. This point’s local grid coordinates will be calculated by transforming geodetic coordinates into Northing, Easting, Elevation coordinates using the current projection.

– Local geodetic: This point’s local geodetic coordinates are the latitude,

longitude and height values that were keyed in or imported. This point’s grid and global geodetic coordinates will be calculated by transforming the local geodetic coordinates with the current projection.

When there is no projection set or solved, there is no way to transform the keyed in values into grid or geodetic coordinates. You will see these coordinates are missing when you look at the point details.

• The Feature tab allows you to associate one or more feature codes to the point. For more information on Descriptions, Layers, Feature Codes and Notes Descriptions, Layers and Features, see Advanced Information on Point Properties on page 92.

Modifying a Point

Select the point you want to modify and tap .

• Survey Pro will show two additional tabs compared to when you inserted the point:

– Derivation: This is a read-only tab indicating the type and origin of the point. – Notes: This tab allows you to add as many notes as needed to the point. Each

note is date & time tagged.

– The data shown on the General, Location and Feature tabs can normally be

modified.

• Transforming a computed point into a key-in point: Use the Edit Location button on

the Location tab to change the two horizontal coordinates or/and the one vertical coordinate.

For example, using a total station or GNSS, you observe a point and measure its three coordinates. This point is in addition a benchmark providing an elevation reference. You may want to fix the vertical coordinate to what is written on the benchmark sheet rather than keep the measured elevation. Using the Edit Location button, you can change the measured vertical coordinate to a keyed-in coordinate while keeping the horizontal coordinates as measured.

Multi-Point Selection

With a selection of multiple points, you can use the same button to modify the description and layer of the entire selection in one operation.

Selecting several points not in sequence is obtained by first activating the Control key and then tapping successively on the points to edit. The Control key is accessible from either the virtual keyboard (CTL key on Nomad, Recon or ProMark 220) or the real keyboard (CTRL key on Ranger). The Shift key can also be used to select several points

in sequence.

Editing

Polylines

A polyline in Survey Pro is a line connecting points together. Each vertex of the line is defined by an existing point, whether an observed or keyed in point. Points in polylines can be connected with either straight segments or horizontal curves.

You can use the polyline editor to modify polylines (go to Job > Edit Polylines). The polyline editor is described in the Online Help.

Editing

Alignments

Exporting

Data

Generating

Survey Reports

An alignment in Survey Pro is a line defined by vectors starting at a Point of Beginning (POB). The POB can be an existing point in the job, or just location coordinates. Alignments can have horizontal segments and optionally a vertical profile. Horizontal segments can be straight segments, circular curves or spiral curves. A vertical profile can be defined using a vertical curve and straight grade segments.

You can use the alignment editor to modify alignments (go to Job > Edit Alignments). The alignment editor is described in the Online Help.

You can import alignments for staking, using Roads > Edit Roads menu. Alignments imported using this function can be viewed in the alignment editor but cannot be modified.

Use the File > Export function to export data from the open job to one of the supported file formats. For most formats (Survey, JOB, TXT, CSV, CR5 and DXF), you may select the portion of the current job you wish to export. For export to XML, Survey Pro 4.x (Job/RAW) or JobXML format, the entire job database will always be exported.

Survey Pro can generate a report of your survey based on the content of the currently open job and formatted according to the template you chose at the beginning of the process.

About 20 templates are available (see list below) and most of them are customizable.

• Complete Survey Report, in html format

• Report in fbk format

• Report in kof format

• GNSS Points report in csv format

• LevelLoopReport_doubleSpaced

• Google Earth report in kml format

• LisCAD report in fld format

• Report in Nikon RAW format

• Optical observation report in htm format

• Two different points reports in csv format

• Nine different stakeout reports in csv or htm format

To generate, view, and save a survey report for the open job, follow the instructions below:

• Go to the Main Menu and tap Job, then View Report.

• Select the desired template, then tap Next.

• Whenever prompted, customize the report, then tap to let Survey Pro generate

and then view the report.

• Depending on the chosen template, do the following to access the screen from

which you will be able to save the report:

– For html reports, tap , then . You then get the screen below. – For Google Earth reports, in absence of an application capable of viewing the

generated report, Survey Pro will take you directly to the screen below.

– For all other types of reports, tap to access the screen below.

• Tap Save Report to save the report to the desired folder.

(On the same screen, the View Report button would take you back to the survey report view, and the Another Report button would allow you to ask for a new report, based on the same or a different template.)

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