I've been thinking about getting the kinematic option and I wanted to know if those who have experience with it think of it as a productive tool. Most of my surveying is in rolling sagebrush hills, flat hay fields, and open meadows. Areas covered are anywhere from a quarter section to five sections. Thanks.

Skylar Wilson

rolling sagebrush hills, meadows, hayfields, useful...broken timber, big timber, swamps, not useful...

quarter section, useful...five sections, useful, if you're careful...or like to go back to the base to reinitialize...

Sky,

I'd love to have your perfect kinematic conditions (occassionally), but then I'd have to leave Northeast Texas. Ain't gonna happen. We do have all the kinematic stuff (original version) but haven't yet found the perfect niche for it. Someday.

Your area would be great. To ease the burden of long travels to reinitialize, just set yourself a few extra static points, then when doing K work, fix a few K points for reinitialization. Jimbo Webb, Jim Frame, and probably a bunch of others (including LK) can probably give you lots of pointers on kinematic.

Only reason I posted to your thread (since I'm useless at kinematic), is because I'm jealous of the prime conditions you have to make it work.

J.D.

Skylar-

In your conditions, once you learn to use the kinematic option, you'll wonder how you _EVER_ got along w/o it.

Been using locus Kinematic for almost three years - faster than my best total-station operator!

There are (as always) a few tricks to learn that aren't in the book - but it's really a piece of cake.

Jerry