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Field portable site survey system

  • US 5,502,898 A
  • Filed: 11/17/1994
  • Issued: 04/02/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/17/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A field portable unit for providing information concerning volume of a survey site comprising an interactive combination ofa rangefinder to project a radiation beam towards features of the survey site and to receive signals derived from backscattering of said incident radiation beam by features of the site, the rangefinder including program means to extract measurement data from said signals;

  • a personal portable, stand alone, digital computer directly interfaced with said rangefinder to receive said measurement data therefrom, the computer including a program to provide a prompt to an operator to aim the rangefinder to provide selected measurement data to the computer in dependence on a shape of a survey site being surveyed and calculate the volume of the survey site, and including means to display, in realtime, the calculated volume of said survey site.

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