What is the best way to collect total station data?
Make it easy on yourself at the desktop by carefully collecting your total station data in the field. RIVERMorph can process the data and let you extract cross sections and profiles. To make it easy for you to extract data from the survey, try to collect data in the following order: • Collect all miscellaneous topographic shots first. • Collect the channel thalweg profile starting upstream and working your way downstream. • Collect the left bank data starting upstream and working your way downstream. • Collect the right bank data starting upstream and working your way downstream. • Collect cross section data beginning with the most upstream cross section and collect data from left to right looking downstream. It is also sometimes useful to break the survey up into multiple nodes in RIVERMorph. If possible, one survey data set should be created for each instrument set-up. Also, remember to label your data points properly!
