| Professional Development Series:
Total Station Best Practices and Conventional Survey Workflows
May 6, 2025 | 12:00 - 2:00 pm (EDT)
Our virtual training series is designed to align with current industry standards and help you earn your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours, ensuring you meet the requirements set by your professional association.
Each session is designed for surveyors seeking to refine their expertise, covering best practices, optimized workflows for field and office routines, coordinate systems, frames, and more. This time, we’re putting the spotlight on one of the most essential tools in precision surveying: Total Stations. Master their full potential and elevate your accuracy in the field. Don’t miss this opportunity to sharpen your skills and stay ahead!
Who Should Attend:
This training is ideal for geospatial professionals and anyone in the surveying industry involved in land surveying, construction site layout, or engineering projects. If your work relies on a combination of scanning, imaging, and surveying, this crash course will help you optimize workflows, simplify tasks, and enhance efficiency with total stations.
Whether you're a seasoned professional, refining your precision survey skills, or just beginning to explore field technologies, this course will provide a deep understanding of total stations' intelligent design and their role in streamlining daily challenges.
Agenda:
- Equipment Preparation
Pre-survey equipment checks and setup.
Ensuring firmware, settings, and troubleshooting readiness. - Traverses
Designing, executing, and adjusting traverses.
Reducing errors and maintaining accuracy. - Station Setups
Single, resection, and intersection setups.
Choosing the right setup for your project. - Precision and Error Control
Understanding instrument precision and error propagation.
Mitigating errors during fieldwork and calculations. - Prism Selection
Types of prisms and their applications.
Adjusting for offsets and constants. - Direct Reflex (Reflectorless) Technology
Effective use on difficult surfaces.
Limitations and practical applications.
- Autolock Technology
Enhancing speed and accuracy in surveys.
Best practices for field use. - Environmental Factors
Managing temperature, pressure, and refraction impacts.
Adjustments for long-distance measurements. - Calibration and Maintenance
Regular calibration checks for accuracy.
Maintenance tips to extend instrument lifespan. - Workflow Optimization
Integrated surveying
Streamlining data transfer and processing. - Q&A
Important Information
Registration:
Please complete the registration form to reserve your spot for one or more of our sessions. Each participant must fill out their own form.
Duration:
Each session will last 2 hours and include a Q&A period at the end.
Number of Participants:
There is no maximum number of participants; however, Cansel reserves the right to cancel or postpone a session if fewer than 5 participants are registered.
Cost of Participation:
The cost is $150 per session for each participant. Standard CSP customers qualify for 1 seat at a 25% discount, while Premium CSP customers qualify for 5 seats at a 100% discount. No additional corporate discounts will be granted. After registering, a member of our Customer Service team will contact you for billing. If you have any questions, please contact your local representative or reach out to us online.
Certificate of Training:
A training certificate will be issued in the participant's name at the end of the course upon request. This certificate can be used for submitting your continuing professional development (CPD) hours to your professional association.
Speakers
Matt Burns | Technical Support & Trainer - Survey & Geospatial, Cansel Group
Matt holds a strong foundation in land surveying, having earned a diploma in Geomatics Engineering from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in 2012. Since then, he has developed extensive expertise across all areas of surveying, from fieldwork to office-based solutions, utilizing a range of equipment and technologies. In 2022, Matt joined Cansel's Professional Services team and now operates out of the Halifax office, contributing his valuable experience to support clients and optimize their workflows.
