Monthly Archives: June 2012

How to set up a Tripod for Land Surveying

June 23, 2012

Many of the surveying practices, skills, and procedures are falling by the wayside as we continue to automate. We thought it would be a good thing to acutally make a video on “how to” set up a tripod for use with a Total Station, Target, GPS/GNSS base, OPUS, conventional traverse, laser scan,  or other land surveying  [...]

How To Set up A Total Station

June 22, 2012

Many of the surveying practices are falling by the wayside as we continue to automate. We thought it would be a good thing to acutally make a video on “how to” set up a tripod for use with a Total Station, Target, GPS/GNSS base, OPUS, conventional traverse, laser scan,  or other land surveying  applications when precision [...]

Darrell Shine will live on in video

June 14, 2012

A couple of years ago, I was lucky enough to get Darrell and Nedra to let me come to their office in Silsbee and turn on a camera and ask questions.  Here are a couple of videos as we cut the time into short snipets and anyone with a desire to learn or to hear [...]

In memory of Darrell Shine RPLS 504

June 11, 2012

Mr. Darrell Shine is the main reason I am now a surveyor. I am merely one of hundreds who have been directly positively influenced by this man. DD as many call him, was one of kind, and will live on in our memories as one of the greatest men ever to be a land surveyor [...]