Surveying Equipment List
The following is a list of equipment available in the Geology Department. You can use
this for planning the equipment you may need for field work. See Gene Pierson about making
arrangements to use the equipment. You should have had proper instruction on care and use
of the instrument before taking it to the field.
- Trimble 12 Channel Community Base Station
- Trimble GeoExplorer II
- Trimble Pathfinder software (for differential correction)
- II Morrow 6 Channel Handheld GPS reciever, with software for differential correction
(others are available from the Geography and Environmental Sciences Departments
- Garmin GR-45 handheld reciever with GBR-21 reciever with 6' antenna for real-time
differential correction (see Curt Peterson. Best for Coastal work).
- 1 × Sokkia SET 5A Total Station (5-second theodolite)
- 6 × Sokkia SET 4BII Total Stations (5-second theodolite, 5 mm + 3 ppm EDM,
Single prism range: 1.2 km)
- 1 × Sokkia SET 2BII Total Station (1-second theodolite, 3 mm + 2 ppm EDM,
Single prism range: 2.4 km)
- 6 × SDR-33 Expert Electronic Field Notebooks (640 Kb)
- 1 × SDR-33 Standard Electronic Field Notebooks (256 Kb)
- 1 × Wild T-2 1 second theodolite
- 5 × K&E Alidades / Tripods / Plane tables / rods (feet)
- 1 × Sokkia RED-2 EDM.
- 1 × Pentax EDM
- 1 × Sokkia B21 Level (1.5 mm / Km using double-run methods)
- 2 × 7.6 m fiberglass level rods
- 11 × Sokkia AP-01 -40mm prisms
- 7 × WA Tribracs
- 7 × Tribrac adapters with optical plummet for mounting reflectors
- 9 × Sokkia AP-01 tilting prism holders with targets
- 1 × AP-03 Triple Prism mount
- 2 × Triple Prism assemblies with -30mm offset reflectors
- 1 × -30mm / 0mm offset single prism with target
- 12 × Wide wooden tripods
- 1 × Fiberglass Tripod
- 12 × Adjustable prism poles