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TruPulse® 200i & TruPulse® 360i

Be LaserGIS® Ready

When a GPS antenna alone isn't enough, use LaserGIS® (laser offset measurements) to remotely capture any feature's position in areas with difficult terrain or where GPS signal is blocked.

Laser Tech's TruPulse® laser rangefinders integrate with your GIS field data collection tools to accurately position any target anywhere.

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 is our term for applying offsets to features by recording both a GNSS position and associated distance and direction to the object of interest using a TruPulse laser rangefinder. 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 Field Maps

-          TruPulse laser rangefinder

-          A compatible GPS antenna (ie. Bad Elf, Eos Arrow Series™)

Choose From 3 Laser Mapping Workflows to Meet Your Accuracy Requirements.
Click the links to learn more about each method.

-          Range-Range/Intersect Workflow

-          Range-Backsight Workflow

-          Range-Azimuth Workflow

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 input from Laser Tech’s TruPulse laser rangefinders. The measurements can be populated into a form field via Bluetooth connections or manually entered. Read more on taking measurements with TruPulse laser rangefinders.

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 Survey123. For more detailed information, refer to this guide for configuring your TruPoint 300 to work with Survey123.

Required components include:

-          TruPoint 300 Laser or TruPulse laser rangefinder

-          ArcGIS Survey123

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

Eos Positioning Systems, Inc®

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). The first to integrate with Esri^® ArcGIS^® Field Maps to allow for laser offsets, Eos brings you affordable, high-accuracy Bluetooth^® GPS (GNSS) location to any smart device and provides submeter, sub-foot, and centimeter accuracy.

Arrow Series® GNSS Receivers

Arrow Series® receivers provide survey-grade or submeter positioning via Bluetooth^® to any iOS^®, Android or Windows device running a data-collection app. The newer Arrow Gold+™ and Arrow 100+™ (plus models) GNSS receivers offer additional GNSS support and have the Eos Bridge Bluetooth^® connector built-in.

Eos Tools Pro

Eos Tools Pro is a monitoring utility for the Arrow Series™ receivers from Eos. Eos Tools Pro provides advanced GNSS information such as RMS values, PDOP, Differential Status, and Satellites Tracked and Used, which are critical for submeter and centimeter GIS and Surveying data collection. It is also what makes laser mapping possible within the Esri ArcGIS Field Maps app. 

Eos Bridge™

Want to connect a TruPulse 200 or 360° model to an Apple device? The Eos Bridge is a Bluetooth^® connector that makes it happen by connecting to our laser rangefinder and your iOS device. Your offset and dimension data can then flow directly into your iOS app, such as Eos Tools Pro.

RTK Laser Mapping

Enhance your ArcGIS Field Maps workflow efficiency with laser integration and maintain RTK-level accuracy where you traditionally have not been able to before. Help eliminate mistakes by capturing accurate dimensional measurements and automatically entering them in as attribute data. Use with Eos Bridge™ to connect our laser rangefinder with your iOS device. Your offset and dimension data can then flow directly into your iOS app, such as Eos Tools Pro.

Bad Elf

Bad Elf offers trailblazing, survey-grade receivers that deliver flexible accuracy at highly affordable prices. Bad Elf's Flex® receivers empower GIS and survey professionals to collect high-accuracy field data using any phone, tablet, or laptop.

Pair a Flex receiver with TruPulse laser rangefinders to perform laser offset workflows within Esri ArcGIS Field Maps, or use Bad Elf's standalone app as an alternative. The Bad Elf Flex app seamlessly integrates the Bad Elf Flex receiver with TruPulse laser rangefinders for laser offset collection workflows that use a unique checklist-based approach to deliver flexible field choices to work crews of all skill levels.

Bad Elf receivers work with ArcGIS Field Maps and Esri Survey123.

Want to learn more?

-          YouTube: LaserTech Pro 

-          Corporate webpages: Technical Documents, Laser Offset and TruPulse laser rangefinders.