Department: Geography and Geosciences Total funds requested: $9531.15 total cost minus any funds recovered from the transfer of our old total station to University’s horticulture depar
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Total funds requested: $9531.15 total cost minus any funds recovered from the transfer of our old total
station to University’s horticulture department and if necessary, Geography and Geoscience Department contribution
Item(s): TOPCON ES‐107 7” Total Station, TESLA Controller (ruggedized data logger) with mounting
screws, MAGNET Field Basic software (data logger software) and educational discount required training
Equipment description: The total station is a high precision mapping and surveying instrument utilizing
a laser and prismatic rod to precisely measure distances, angles and elevations in the environment. The transit is used when field mapping needs exceed the precision of mapping grade GPS units and aerial photography (i.e., centimeters of locational accuracy rather than meters). This transit, and associated hardware including the ruggedized data logger, are the “state of the art” and the standard used in our profession. This transit allows for traditional reflector based data collection using a stadia rod and adds reflector less data collection so that a single person may collect field measurements. The TESLA
ruggedized data logger wirelessly receives x, y, and z data collected by the total station and the MAGNET software enables attribute information to be added to the geographic coordinates for export into a geographic information systems (GIS) for geospatial database construction. Our old total station does not allow for attribute information to be added during field data collection and does not export data into GIS formats without several intermediate data processing steps.
Teaching and research utilization: The total station has been used in faculty research and teaching since
the Department’s first total station was purchased in 2000. The transit supports field mapping in one of our core mapping courses, Geography 219 Map Interpretation and Analysis, and has been used in Geology 311 Coastal Processes to construct beach profiles. The instrument is also used widely in faculty and student research. This past summer (2015), the total station was used by three undergraduate geography students to map sprinkler heads, water valves and tree and shrub locations to construct a geospatial database for the University’s horticulture department. The instrument has also been used in prior years to map University building footprints to aid the University’s facilities management office. The Department has also loaned the instrument to faculty in biology and anthropology for research. Dr. Judith Stribling and a research student mapped micro topography differences in forests on Delmarva while Dr. Jason Burroughs used the total station to lay out transects to grid a site for an archaeological dig. With the proliferation of large scale field mapping opportunities, and technology changes, we need
to update our decade old instrument.
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Daniel Harris
Henson Equipment Committee Members,
I fully support Dr Dan Harris' request for funds for the purchase of a TOPCON Total Station, data logger and
associated software The specific advantages of the new total station over our present one and our need for an update are explained well in Dr Harris' request The new total station will be used extensively in our GEOG 219 Map
Interpretation and Analysis class (multiple sections every semester) as well as in our GEOG 311 Coastal Processes class In addition, faculty and students from our Department as well as other departments have used our current total station for research and thus other departments would likely benefit from the update
If necessary, the Department of Geography and Geosciences will provide matching funds for the purchase of this equipment
Brent Skeeter
Brent R Skeeter, Ph.D
Professor and Chair
Department of Geography and Geosciences
Salisbury University
Salisbury, MD 21801
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Salisbury, MD 21801
1101 CAMDEN AVE Salisbury, MD 21801
1101 CAMDEN AVE
Salisbury, MD 21801
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ORDER NUMBER:
ORDER DATE:
SALESPERSON:
CUSTOMER NO:
0029639 12/17/2015
0014 SAL021
DiCarlo Precision Instrument, Inc.
(410) 749-0112
Confirm To: DAN HARRIS
CUSTOMER P.O SHIP VIA
DPI
Net 15
SHIPPED B/O
ORDERED
Phone: (410) 677-5482 Fax:
NEW ES-107 W/ TESLA
Total Station, Topcon ES-107
000
Whse:
7" Angles ,Non-Prism Measurement up to (500m), single display, laser plummet, TSshield advanced security, LongLink communication module, 36 hour battery, IP66 Dust & Water Protection.
Total Station, Topcon ES-107
TESLA Contoller Standard, WiFi, BT
000
Whse:
5.7" VGA color touchscreen, 806MHz processor, 256Mb RAM, 4Gb flash storage, Built-in wireless Bluetooth® and WiFi connectivity, Windows Mobile 6.X (1) Battery, charger.
TESLA Standard, WiFi, Bluetoot
MAGNET Field Basic (TS+GIS)
000
Whse:
MAGNET Field Basic (TS+GIS)
Pole Mount 4 Screw Tesla
000
Whse:
Pole Mount 4 Screw Tesla
Training
000
Whse:
Training Training at DPI TDC in Salisbury
Net Order:
9,531.15
Order Total:
Accepted by:
9,531.15
Date Printed: 12/18/2015 8:07:57