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Smart Survey Notebook

Digital field notebook & engineering workflow for Certified Surveying Technicians

Project Title Team Name Team Members Date Coordinate System Type of Survey

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Point	Northing	Easting	Elevation (ft)	Feature Type	Survey Type	Description	Date Collected	Photo	Notes

No points yet — click Add Point then click the map to start your field notebook.

Start Your Survey

Set up your team before you start collecting points. You can change any of this later from the header. Your work is saved on this computer for 24 hours, so if your laptop dies or runs out of battery, come back and reopen this page to pick up right where you left off.

Team Name * Team Members * Title of the Work

Date Type of Survey *

Setting a Type of Survey here just sets the default Survey Type for new points — you can still change it per point.

Add Survey Point

Point ID Date Collected

Latitude Longitude

Northing Easting

Elevation (ft) Feature Type

Survey Type

Instrument readings for this point (total station / theodolite / level)

Foresight (FS) - sighting this point from the current setup

Tripod Setup

FS FS Dist. (Taped)

FS Stadia Top FS Stadia Bottom

This point is a turning point (a new instrument setup starts here)

Backsight (BS) - starting a new setup here

Tripod Setup

BS BS Dist. (Taped)

BS Stadia Top BS Stadia Bottom

This is a side shot (a detail point read from the current setup - not part of the traverse chain)

Bearing/Azimuth ahead - point the instrument/compass toward where you're headed next and read it now, even before that point is placed.

Bearing Azimuth

Distance (Taped/EDM) - the line you just walked to get here What's the interior angle here?

This point needs a point placed before it - Distance and Interior Angle only exist once there's a line behind you to have walked and turned from.

Side Shot - a single angle + distance from wherever the instrument is currently set up, same idea as a leveling run's plain (non-turning) point.

Sighted From Angle

Bearing Azimuth

Distance (Taped)

Stadia Top Stadia Bottom

The Corrected/Adjusted Angle, Bearing, and Azimuth for this point are entered later, in the Traverse Table — they depend on the whole traverse's angular closure, not just this one point.

Description Field Notes Photo

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