Collect Hard to Reach Assets Safely and Efficiently with Laser Tech and ArcGIS Field Maps on iOS

Laser Tech TruPulse® laser rangefinders in-conjunction with an Eos Arrow Series™ GNSS receiver can be used as a mobile laser-mapping solution enabling field crews to easily, quickly, and safely capture an asset’s location remotely (i.e. Offsets).

Who Needs This Solution

This laser offset mapping solution is for field crews that need to map hard-to-occupy assets without occupying every single point. This solution is common and ideal when assets are located on busy highways, streets, alleyways, under building eves, swamplands/vegetation, downtown areas, and in other hard-to-reach, unsafe, or GNSS-impaired environments.

What is an Offset

An offset is the combination of a distance and direction. Combining a recorded GPS position with the associated distance and direction to your object ensures high-accuracy positioning data.

LaserGIS applies offsets to features by recording both a GNSS position and associated distance and direction to the object of interest. This workflow option allows the user to stay at one location and record the offsets and attributes of all features within sight before moving to the next location.

Required Components:

- ArcGIS Collector or ArcGIS Field Maps (iOS versions),

- Arrow GNSS receiver,

- iOS device with Eos Tools Pro app

- TruPulse laser rangefinder

Choose From 3 Laser Mapping Workflows to Meet Your Accuracy Requirements

- Range-Range/Intersect Workflow:

TruPulse 200X laser
Workflow steps:

Occupy Control Point 1 in safe area and position it with GNSS
Aim and shoot remote feature
Occupy Control Point 2 in a safe area and position it with GNSS
Aim and shoot to remote feature

- Range-Backsight Workflow

TruPulse 200X laser + MapStar TruAngle
Workflow Steps:

Occupy Backsight point and record your position with GNSS
Occupy Control Point 2 and record your position with GNSS
Aim and shoot position to Backsight
Aim and shoot to remote feature

- Range-Azimuth Workflow

TruPulse 360/R laser
Workflow Steps

Locate yourself in a safe area
Record your position with GNSS
Aim and shoot
Manually enter distance/azimuth/inclination values

- Refer to the Laser Tech guide, here.

- Learn more about “Ensuring Quality GNSS Laser Offsets” with this white paper.

Collect Data Safely and Efficiently with Laser Tech and ArcGIS Survey123

Esri ArcGIS Survey123 smart forms accept a test input from Laser Tech’s TruPulse laser rangefinders. The measurements can be populated into a form field via Bluetooth connections or manually entered.

Laser Tech’s TruPoint 300 laser distance meter can auto-input measurements directly into this form-centric solution. This enables users to easily create, share, and analyze data. The TruPoint 300 measurements are available as a text output and sent directly into any text form. Distances, height tracking, diameters, width results and much more can be transferred into Survery123.

Open a form and position the cursor in the field, the measurement results will populate into that field. By pressing the transfer button on the laser, the TruPoint 300 connects to a device as a keyboard.

In addition, Laser Tech TruPulse laser rangefinder measurements can be populated into a smart form manually.

Laser Tech combined with Esri products are ideal for field workers, surveyors, and mapping professionals to produce greater accuracy, efficiency, and safety.

Required components include:

- TruPoint 300 Laser

- ArcGIS Survey 123

Workflow

- Configure the TruPoint 300 Bluetooth Settings to Numeric only or Alpha-numeric output

- Select Cursor and Decimal format.

- Connect laser to mobile device via Bluetooth.

- Perform function on TruPoint 300, open App and position cursor in the form.

- Transfer measurement data to app and confirm.

For more detailed information , refer to our Quick Reference Guide QRG or to our website.

For more information:

- Please visit LaserTech Pro YouTube Channel, LaserGIS microsite, corporate webpages: Technical Documents, Laser Offset and TruPulse laser webpage.