Your little Green Android Crew now stands ready to do that for you. If you have chart objects of known heights (or local objects like standard buildings whose heights you can estimate accurately), trigonometry tables in Bowditch and angle measurers like sextants that can, used together, let you calculate distances off your vessel. You can sight bearings over the top but this is mostly for fun. Neat, sweet and complete!įor more casual compass work, and to fascinate kids on board, the simple Marine Compass app displays a traditional floating compass on your screen. The drill is: “pop your head up, shoot three quick bearings, drop back to the chart” to plot and, if desired, enter in the log. The bearing and the time are stored to the main screen alongside that symbol and also around the compass ring. BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! Touch any of the three graphic symbols at the top (triangle, square, circle) and the screen changes to a simple and intuitive bearing line sight over the top like a “hockey puck” compass and tap. These features alone would be worth a recommendation. The little crescent moon at the top puts the display instantly into night-vision mode. Either transfer your field data to your PC for processing or perform volume calculation right in the field following a few steps found in MapSmart + Volume software.The first screen shows a dynamic compass heading (following the long side of the phone) plus the general cardinal direction, local variation (which is marked “Declination” because they are British, doncha’ know), and handy pitch & roll indicators to remind you to hold your device flat for accuracy, as every good fluxgate compass requires.Continue shooting the pile from each new location until the entire surface has been measured.After collecting your last data point, aim and shoot to the next instrument location and then occupy that point.Aim and shoot all necessary points on the pile from the starting location.Choose a starting point, set up, and configure TruPulse laser with the MapSmart software.Walk around the pile, temporarily marking the instrument points that will afford full views of the surface.Below are screen captures of different MapSmart windows. Volume calculations can be done in the field and stored in a variety of formats both tabular and graphic for download later. Bad data points will be visible and can be easily edited out and/or retaken. Quality control of data in the field is a snap because you can see the map of the pile begin to take shape as you measure. File/map creation is done in real-time as each laser shot is taken.

Spec SheetThe developers of MapSmart understand the need for a software application to be easy to use and deliver good results.

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