Topcon Tools

Job Configuration

• Job configuration dialog box defines Topcon Tools settings for data viewing and processing:
• Extensive projections support including custom projections/datums
• Wide range Geoid support
• Setting Grid-to-Ground Parameters
• Setting decimal format
• Setting linear and angular units
• Setting auto save job feature
• Quality Control: Setting tolerances for the accuracy of Points, GPS/TS/DL Observations, Loop Closure
• Configuration may be saved and applied to other jobs

Import Data From Devices

• Topcon GPS /GPS+ receivers and Topcon Memory Card
• Topcon Total Stations
• Topcon Digital Levels
• Windows® CE field controllers with TopSURV

Additional Topcon Tools 7.5 enhancements

• Download files from Sokkia Total Stations and Digital Levels
• Upload coordinate SDR files to Sokkia Total Stations
• Download files from Sokkia GRX1 receiver

Import Data From Files:

• TPS and RINEX / Compact RINEX data,
• TopSURV job,
• TS and DL - measured file,
• NGS Data sheets,
• ASCII control files,
• Roads and X-Section Templates Data,
• DXF, DWG, Land XML, SHP

Additional Topcon Tools 7.5 enhancements

• Import GPS Raw Data from Stratus format
• Import TS/DL Raw and RTK Data from Sokkia SDR format

Import Data From Internet

RINEX / Compact RINEX observation files and broadcast/rapid/final ephemeris from CORS and IGS networks

Supporting Google Earth

Topcon Tools allows one to display a network on Google Earth satellite imagery

Background Image and creating Georeference Image

Topcon Tools can:
• open a georeferenced image as back-ground
• create a georeferenced image using a digital image and picture points in the desired coordinate system

Post Processing

• Processing static, stop and go, kinematic Topcon GPS+ and RINEX/ Compact RINEX data
• Engine mode selection
• Auto-importing a nearest reference station and processing a single rover occupation from this station
• Precise ephemerides used for processing both GPS and GLONASS satellites observations
• The Raw Data Plot option allows the user to view in graphical form not only the plots of any ‘regular’ GPS/GLONASS
receiver observables, but also the plots of various algebraic combinations of these observables.
• Possibility to split and merge occupations
• Disabling Satellite(s) from processing
• Computing positions of the camera perspective center at the moment of exposure

Adjustments

• Least Squares free or constrained adjustment of separate or mixed TS, GPS and DL observations
• Separate adjustments for plane coordinates and for heights performed after network analysis by the Adjustment module
• Reports on adjusted points, fixed/weighted points, used and rejected observations, errors of unit weight (UWE) and UWE bounds
• Export results to industry standard formats

Quality Control

This option allows one to set:
• horizontal and vertical precisions for
static/kinematic/localization points,
• precision for a distance and horizontal/vertical angle of TS observations
• horizontal/vertical precisions for RTK
vectors and static/kinematic GPS post processed vectors
• precisions for digital level measurements
The user can run the following tests:
Warn Float Solutions, RTK Precisions, PP Static/PP Kinematic precisions, Point Standard Deviations, Identical Points test, Misnamed GPS Occupations/Autotopo Rovers, Invalid Antenna Parameters.

Localization and Coordinate Systems:

• Separate Horizontal and Vertical localization
• Localization Algorithm computing conversion parameters from WGS84 to a local system using one or more pairs of Control Points
• Extensive projections support including creation of custom projections/datums
• Wide range Geoid support

Creating/Editing Roads

• Creating new roads,
• Support of TopSURV and other software roads support
• X-section templates import from different formats

Creating/Editing Surfaces

Viewing/editing/creating digital terrain model

(surfaces)

Design module:

• Creating a digital terrain model and graphical view of this model in the CAD and 3D View
• Coordinate Geometry solutions (compare surfaces, intersection, inverse point to line, point in direction, and traverse)
• Creating roads, TopSURV and other software roads support
• X-section templates import from different formats

Image Module:

• Scan sessions support
• Stereopairs import and viewing
• Positioning points on the stereopairs

Report

Topcon Tools allows one to generate a standard report for Points, Adjustment, Localization, Quality Control, GPS Observations and TS Observations, and create a custom report format

Export Data to Devices

• Coordinates data files to a Total Station
• Any files from Topcon Tools to a TPS Controller

Export Data to File

• Exporting either desired data or all data of the current job file to a corresponding file format: Coordinates, Design, GIS, Road, TopSURV, Topcon XML, GPS Obs

Tabular View

The Tabular view contains tabs with tables of information on the points, occupations, observations, linework, roads, cross section (X-sect) templates, surfaces, tape dimensions, images, stereopairs, and scan session used in the job.

MAP View

The Map view is a graphical latitude/longitude or northing/easting plot of points, GPS/TS/observations and background map

CAD View

The CAD view is a graphical view of linework, roads, and surfaces with the associated points

3D View

The 3D View displays points, lines, surfaces, roads and lineworks using a three-dimensional representation of the data

Other Topcon Tools 7.5 enhancements

• Geoid Separation was added to Point report item
• Additional fields are available in the Custom Text Coordinate format
• Tested on Windows 7