<div dir="auto">I try to get people to rotate the distox when taking some/all readings depending on there keenness and how easy it is*. The distox records and sends its rotation to pockettopo and I put this into the therion/survex file. So should the rotated leg have a different sd to the none rotated, probably. It would be useful if therion/survex could do this automatically from the readings but I guess that would require there to be a rotation field in *data<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">*rotation is a partial check on calibration and generally picks up local magnetic interference, so at a minimum rotate every 5 or whenever we suspect metal.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Andrew</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 15 Aug 2018, 15:23 Footleg, <<a href="mailto:drfootleg@gmail.com">drfootleg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In my own experience, the most common blunder which the 'measure 3 times'<br>
method with DistoX2 catches is mis-read distance. The Disto tends to be<br>
used in the same orientation for all 3 shots, so the compass and clino tend<br>
to be well aligned in all 3 (regardless of how well calibrated the DistoX<br>
is, or is there are local magnetic fields throwing the compass). But the<br>
laser does sometimes miss the target and overshoot, resulting in one of the<br>
3 shots being out of tolerance for PocketTopo to count them as a valid leg.<br>
Of course catching blunders so they never make it into the data (we would<br>
reshoot when it happens) is not the same as the SD in the measured data.<br>
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The way we catch bad calibration problems or local magnetic interference is<br>
to take backshots (3 of them). This has saved serious errors on multiple<br>
occasions which would not have been detected taking shots in one direction<br>
alone.<br>
<br>
Footleg<br>
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