Title :
Electronic surveying instrument
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Florida Inst. of Technol., Melbourne, FL, USA
Abstract :
An intermediate type (neither sophisticated nor simple) of electronic surveying instrument is described which maintains sufficient accuracy within an affordable price range. The instrument is essentially based on a microprocessor controlled electrooptical design where the trigonometric principle is used to carry out horizontal and vertical distance measurement. It is noted that a slight improvement of the design will provide an automatic target recognition facility which will be highly advantageous for field work
Keywords :
computerised instrumentation; distance measurement; electro-optical devices; geophysical equipment; surveying; automatic target recognition facility; electronic surveying instrument; field work; horizontal distance measurement; microprocessor controlled electrooptical design; trigonometric principle; vertical distance measurement; Automatic control; Circuits; Consumer electronics; Costs; Distance measurement; Embedded software; Instruments; Length measurement; Linearity; Microprocessors;
Conference_Titel :
Southeastcon '91., IEEE Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Williamsburg, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0033-5
DOI :
10.1109/SECON.1991.147722
