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2. List of surveying instruments - Wikipedia

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   Instruments used in surveying include: Alidade; Alidade table; Cosmolabe; Dioptra; Dumpy level; Engineer's chain; Geodimeter; Graphometer; Groma (surveying) Laser scanning; Level; Level staff; Measuring tape; Plane table; Pole (surveying) Prism (surveying) (corner cube retroreflector) Prismatic compass (angle measurement) Ramsden surveying ...

3. Hexagon AB - Wikipedia

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   Hexagon AB is a multinational industrial technology company. [6] Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, [4] and publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange, [7] the company since 2000 has had a particular focus on measuring technology [8] and geospatial tools and software. [4]

4. Level (optical instrument) - Wikipedia

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   This reduces the need to set the instrument base truly level, as with a dumpy level. Self-levelling instruments are the preferred instrument on building sites, construction, and during surveying due to ease of use and rapid setup time. A digital electronic level is also set level on a tripod and reads a bar-coded staff using electronic laser ...

5. Allen (brand) - Wikipedia

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   Originally named Allen Manufacturing Company, the business produced hexagonal set screws and wrenches to fasten them. The terms "Allen wrench" (American English, though "Allen key" is also common in the US) and "Allen key" (British English) [3] are derived from the Allen brand name and refer to the generic product category "hex keys".

6. Geodimeter - Wikipedia

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   The Geodimeter (acronym of geodetic distance meter) was the first optical electronic distance meter surveying instrument. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was originally developed for measuring the speed of light . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was invented in 1947 by Erik Osten Bergstrand [ sv ] and commercialized in 1953 by the AGA ( Aktiebolaget Gasaccumulator ) company of ...

7. Tribrach (instrument) - Wikipedia

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   A tribrach is an attachment plate used to attach a surveying instrument, for example a theodolite, total station, GNSS antenna or target to a tripod. A tribrach allows the survey instrument to be repeatedly placed in the same position over a surveying marker point with sub- millimetre precision , by loosening and re-tightening a lock to adjust ...