[Therion] How to locate points on the surface above a surveystation?

2014-06-03 Thread Bruce
JP

As a hack, how about temporarily making the survey station near the debris
an entrance.  Then an export to a cave-list will give you the coordinates
directly.

Eg

export cave-list \

-location on \

-surveys off \

-output ../Output/MiddleEarthcaves.html



Or of you use .kml extension you get a Google Earth file directly.

I'm assuming you want the easiest way to walk to the surface location
directly above the cave, and have a gps unit into which you can enter these
as way points.  Re-reading you question that might not be what you want.



There might be other approaches using continuation flags, and or obtaining
the coordinates from an sql export or from a model export to .3d and use
Aven to obtain coordinates.



Bruce



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To: therion at speleo.sk
Subject: [Therion] How to locate points on the surface above a
surveystation?



I would appreciate any suggestions regarding the best (easiest, quickest)
way to locate points on the surface that directly overlie survey stations in
the cave. For example, suppose we find a place in the cave with surface
debris and would like to examine the surface directly above for an entrance
or dig. The ideal solution would allow me to input surface survey data in
the field using a laptop and would generate an azimuth and distance from the
last station to the desired point. I've sometimes overlayed the cave map or
lineplot onto a topo or satellite image to identify the general area, but
I'm looking for a much more precise solution. Currently, I survey overland
from the entrance toward the area overlaying the station I want to get
above. As I get close, I temporarily rename the last surface survey station
to the name of the station in the cave below. This tells Therion that I've
closed a loop and it gives me the closure error in all three axes. The x and
y axis tell me how close I am, and I can guesstimate an approximate azimuth
for the next shot to get closer. This eventually gets me close, but it is
subject to blunders and overly time consuming. Is there a better way,
perhaps through some function of Therion with which I am unfamiliar? Thanks
for any ideas.



JP

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[Therion] How to locate points on the surface above a surveystation?

2014-06-03 Thread Footleg
If you generate kml output then you can read the lat-lon for any station
from that.
If you generate survex 3d output then you can read the coordinates of any
station in the Aven viewer (part of the Survex install) in the grid
coordinate system you defined for the data.

Footleg


On 3 June 2014 07:42, Bruce  wrote:

>  JP
>
> As a hack, how about temporarily making the survey station near the debris
> an entrance.  Then an export to a cave-list will give you the coordinates
> directly.
>
> Eg
>
> export cave-list \
>
> -location on \
>
> -surveys off \
>
> -output ../Output/MiddleEarthcaves.html
>
>
>
> Or of you use .kml extension you get a Google Earth file directly.
>
> I’m assuming you want the easiest way to walk to the surface location
> directly above the cave, and have a gps unit into which you can enter these
> as way points.  Re-reading you question that might not be what you want.
>
>
>
> There might be other approaches using continuation flags, and or obtaining
> the coordinates from an sql export or from a model export to .3d and use
> Aven to obtain coordinates.
>
>
>
> Bruce
>
>
>  --
>
> *From:* therion-bounces at speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] *On
> Behalf Of *McLendonJP at aol.com
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 3 June 2014 9:17 a.m.
> *To:* therion at speleo.sk
> *Subject:* [Therion] How to locate points on the surface above a
> surveystation?
>
>
>
> I would appreciate any suggestions regarding the best (easiest, quickest)
> way to locate points on the surface that directly overlie survey stations
> in the cave. For example, suppose we find a place in the cave with surface
> debris and would like to examine the surface directly above for an entrance
> or dig. The ideal solution would allow me to input surface survey data in
> the field using a laptop and would generate an azimuth and distance from
> the last station to the desired point. I've sometimes overlayed the cave
> map or lineplot onto a topo or satellite image to identify the general
> area, but I'm looking for a much more precise solution. Currently, I survey
> overland from the entrance toward the area overlaying the station I want to
> get above. As I get close, I temporarily rename the last surface survey
> station to the name of the station in the cave below. This tells Therion
> that I've closed a loop and it gives me the closure error in all three
> axes. The x and y axis tell me how close I am, and I can guesstimate an
> approximate azimuth for the next shot to get closer. This eventually gets
> me close, but it is subject to blunders and overly time consuming. Is there
> a better way, perhaps through some function of Therion with which I am
> unfamiliar? Thanks for any ideas.
>
>
>
> JP
>
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[Therion] How to locate points on the surface above a survey station?

2014-06-03 Thread Martin Sluka
The most accurate way is to use method named "radiolocation". In the simplest 
way you may use avalanche transceivers. Check:

http://caves.org.uk/radio/bookinfo_02.html

m.s.


2. 6. 2014 v 23:17, McLendonJP at aol.com:

> I would appreciate any suggestions regarding the best (easiest, quickest) way 
> to locate points on the surface that directly overlie survey stations in the 
> cave. For example, suppose we find a place in the cave with surface debris 
> and would like to examine the surface directly above for an entrance or dig. 
> The ideal solution would allow me to input surface survey data in the field 
> using a laptop and would generate an azimuth and distance from the last 
> station to the desired point. I've sometimes overlayed the cave map or 
> lineplot onto a topo or satellite image to identify the general area, but I'm 
> looking for a much more precise solution. Currently, I survey overland from 
> the entrance toward the area overlaying the station I want to get above. As I 
> get close, I temporarily rename the last surface survey station to the name 
> of the station in the cave below. This tells Therion that I've closed a loop 
> and it gives me the closure error in all three axes. The x and y axis tell me 
> how close I am, and I can guesstimate an approximate azimuth for the next 
> shot to get closer. This eventually gets me close, but it is subject to 
> blunders and overly time consuming. Is there a better way, perhaps through 
> some function of Therion with which I am unfamiliar? Thanks for any ideas.
>  

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