Volumetric Quantity Surveying with Total Station

[@lendelljay7093]

Love your content :D Would love to see you do a volumetric quantity survey using a Drone, same location to see if you can come up with the same volume :)

[@TheMixflow]

that would be great!

[@upethadeshapriya7447]

I am also surveyor from Sri Lanka. Your vedio is most useful.thankz

[@jasperlawrence5361]

Greatest nerd channel to date, thanks for making this kind of experience, work, etc., accessible to me. I do appreciate it very much.

[@KemalIldegez]

You're the master of that business! Apreciate it! 💪

[@UshieThomas-kd9kv]

I would be glad if you do a teaching on road design.

[@burkemiller9476]

You are the Mr. Beast of Surveying.

[@king-sulyman]

Thank you! Surv Rami

[@jerseyshoredroneservices225]

This was great, really looking forward to the next one. Thanks Rami!

[@ahmedelmajdoub7908]

You did good job, my regards to you from Libya.

[@danielcasey3415]

This is a really great step by step video

[@RafiVaai]

You are making fantastic content and I appreciate you ❤. I don't know either you read my comment or not. In this video I think you can set your TS on top of the pile. So I think you don't need to change the TS position. If I'm wrong please let me know. I also doing this job in Bangladesh 🇧🇩. Thank you for your dedication.

[@benitto5692]

I love what you doing man. I learned a lot from it thank you so much.

[@abdirizakhussien1197]

Wonderful Dear Rami . We'll see the drone at the next video .

[@raymondmorrison8575]

Kindly do a video on this using emlid rs2

[@MeasuringMasters]

Realy good job and lesson, perfect complete surveying!! 😀

[@darrtwill3664]

Great video... love to see similar video integrating data from a drone survey into Civil3D also

[@irmansyahirmans6869]

Realy good content. Can you comparing drone data and Total station data to calculate volume? To know which better.

[@nm-nr6ux]

Total station data is more accurate, but it is all dependant on how tight your initial controll is and what gear you are using.

[@elcuate1100]

Thank you for your videos, awsome content and very helpful.

[@kibrombeyene6626]

Thank you for this video friend. Can you show us how to calculate volume in software using survey data.

[@amirhosseinizand8751]

Hi. Thank you for your great videos. You took 180 degrees as the first direction's Azimuth. What is that? How did you calculate it? Maybe you have used two points with known coordinates to find the Azimuth. if so, which are those points? and how have you calculated their coordinates before having the Azimuth?

[@tambaurorastation756]

Thanks for the great tutorial!

[@M--oy1pe]

Great Work

[@martinkwesimawusi8370]

Thank you for this video

[@williamhollingworth4747]

Absolutely incredible content! You should have an online university!

[@RamiTamimi]

Stay tuned.... :)

[@azurlalic5398]

Great tutorial, thank you.

[@aminyasir7970]

thanks

[@JacquesTreehorn]

Wow you found some cotton spindles! I like pink flag. Easiest to see. You can do ASTM Sand Cone with the iPhone.

[@attaurrahman-15]

Salam! Good job bro. 💜💜

[@alizitounahamed9668]

Thank you great job

[@vegajose93]

Awesome content man! I learned a lot my self. Quick question, I am taking the PS Exam in the near future. What's the best study material? Thanks in advance!

[@samerhsn730]

الله يعطيك العافية

[@ЖИЗНЬСДЛИННЫМ]

Thank you so much for this video. A little bit too advanced for me at this point. Was wondering if similar result can be achieved using iPhone LiDAR sensor, seems like 3d scanner app has a volume calculation option. Wonder how inaccurate would that be compared to surveying you did in this video. One of my biggest challenges is to understand how could I count the volume for either cut or fill, using LiDAR Scanner on the iPhone. Maybe also not necessarily using auto desk, but some free software for Mac. Maybe blender or sketch up? Is it possible. Let’s say scanning someone’s backyard for the purpose of digging a pool for example. I some case I would need to dig plus fill if it’s located on the slope, in the other cases to dig. So let’s say I scanned the ground, but I will need to add a cube shape underneath the mesh to be able to know the volume of a pool shape with a top being a scanned surface, and the rest being shape of the pool added underneath the surface.. hope you understand what I mean.. would appreciate any tips

[@ahmedcordom1063]

Great but there are problem in point noumber 4 for elevation 100.04&100.395 check it

[@RamiTamimi]

Good catch. Elevation is 100.40, I have an error some where in my calculations.

[@travislawrence4679]

Sure makes me happy I use a drone for measurements on quarries. Phantom 4 RTK, Aeropoints, and Propeller processing for the win. Great content, though.

[@RamiTamimi]

Efficiency is evolving fundamental practices.

[@geodezija8888]

Hi, very detailed video! Just wondering, would you actually use this procedure in real life as this could be done from one station on top of the hill. Or by using two base points on diagonal of the hill and using resection for the second station. Love your drone/lidar videos btw!

[@nm-nr6ux]

I personally would do this with one setup in the middle. Minimising the amount of setups so there is less error propogation in the observtions.

[@RamiTamimi]

Setting up on the top of the hill only works if the ground up top is stable. In this example it is, but in many instances, the stock pile might be made up of loose soil, and so you cannot set up on top of the hill.

[@ihd-3603]

Some sites won’t let you on the stockpile due to risk of entrapment. So the next best thing is to locate the base with the rod/prism and locate the rest reflector-less.

[@Ironbodybuildingxxl]

What controller do you use for sokkia robotic?

[@trixing183]

Hi Mate. Question, how would you specifiy a precision for your volume? If your client needed the volume calculated to lets say within + or - 5% how can you prove this? I understand the quality of the base surface and point density plays a big role but I don't understand how to mathematically prove this? Cheers

[@RamiTamimi]

Accuracy is a relative term. You could always use GNSS or Drones to repeat the process and find the relative error. Then moving forward, you can expect the same degree of error using the same workflow.

[@LoiAnGiang]

Hay quá ban ơi

[@harshithgowda9885]

Which instrument have you used..?? Total Station and instrument on Bipod peism..??

[@fakhrulislamchoudhury3070]

At some points contours are crossing each other,how come it can be?

[@mohamedshoura2152]

thank you for this tutorial , i need this excel file for training on civil 3d ,please

[@granrey]

Good video and good explanation. However, on practical matters this is a bit outdated. I do things like this often enough with a cheap drone like DJI Mini SE (expensive drones do it even better with scanning and volume apps) You simply take a picture from above (if you don't want to use Google maps). Then there are other tools like moasure or use angle meters on the phone to get the height. The entire volume can be calculated in less than 10 minutes.

[@idseb1798]

Please make a video and explain!

[@idseb1798]

please details

[@RamiTamimi]

Very efficient. Video on Drone Volumes coming soon.

[@granrey]

will do soon.

[@sujithpayyanur9624]

Do you have any online course on Total station?

[@Life_is_Awesome_Civil]

I thought you are indian but not

[@REALCANCEL]

What mode is this Sokkia ?

[@mattkripal]

The aluminum tripod is OK to hold your camera

[@АлександрГусев-к3е]

What about gnss rtk?) nice video🤘🏻

[@blimolhm2790]

LISCAD тоже 😎👍🏻 просто

[@RamiTamimi]

You could use GNSS, just a different science to it.

[@paulconway9757]

Aluminium legs..???

[@DavidMossMGS]

Great vid

[@suryaadichandra7759]

thanks for sharing, may i know what type of laptop do u used?? i only saw lenovo thinkpad, what type? thanks

[@RamiTamimi]

This laptop is just remoting into my desktop which runs on a RTX 3060 graphics card.

[@josefsandigan6050]

Sire rami Are you hiring an assistant. I want be😊

[@moawiahamidsadoon8205]

جميل جدًا ولكن كيف اوجدت الانحراف 180

[@brudnygrzes3940]

Wouldn't it be easier and faster to set the total station at the top of the hill, because it looks like the entire base of the hill can be seen from the top. It is not necessary to do 4 positions. by the way, it's best to use GNSS Systems

[@darenleeper1644]

Yeah I agree setup on top and just knock it out. You could leave the tr points in and locate them off the pile so if you had to come back you could tie in if the pile is changing.

[@RamiTamimi]

Setting up on the top of the hill only works if the ground up top is stable. In this example it is, but in many instances, the stock pile might be made up of loose soil, and so you cannot set up on top of the hill. Using GNSS is just a different method if you have corrections available in your area.

[@darenleeper1644]

Yes, we monitored a landfill. Even our traverse that appeared to be in a stable area was settling towards the landfill. We did run GPS on our Travers also. If not the catywompus would have been off the charts

[@citizenraf]

Россия смотрит!🙂

[@mattkripal]

Aluminum tripod(Legs) not robust enough, always use wood

[@freedomhillbilly348]

Did you not notice his closure? And the fact he was using "10 paces"? The pacing error will be far greater than any tripod will introduce...unless of course he was doing it an a warm spring day on ice covered ground, in which case it won't matter what tripod you use, they'll all sink.

[@mattkripal]

Every time I use an instrument I double check level, buck in on my hub, and readjust accordingly to my backsight

[@mattkripal]

@@freedomhillbilly348 but I've never used a total station. Primitive Builders level, theodolite, plumb bob

[@molakisivale1693]

👷‍♂👷‍♂👷‍♂

[@sfgngfngf]

here the quadcopter will not be able to take a picture, the height of the grass interferes

[@RamiTamimi]

Low pass filtering can solve this problem.

[@freedomhillbilly348]

I'm still unclear on what those stationary points are "controlling". But, more importantly, why start with [5,000, 10, 000] and not [0,0]?

[@jackm2379]

Hey mate, in Australia we do eastings first so the typical arbitrary setup coordinates are usually 1000, 5000, 100 here. The reason we use 1000 and 5000 is because if you’re using an arbitrary datum, it is unlikely that your survey is very large, this means you will never get the same number for both the easting and northing which makes it easy to quickly know whether a coordinate is the point’s easting or northing. The reason we don’t start at 0,0 is because we would then have to deal with negative numbers and although this wouldn’t be particularly difficult, it’s just an additional complication that can be easily remedied by using the false origin of 1000, 5000 or in this case 5000, 10,000. It is for this reason that the official coordinate system of Australia (and maybe other countries) has a false origin to make all coordinates positive.

[@freedomhillbilly348]

@@jackm2379 Thanks for the explanation. I don't mind negative numbers, but I have on occasion oriented my traverse so it lies entirely within the NE quadrant, so I get where your coming from. I still like using [0,0] for other reasons though.

[@RamiTamimi]

Control points allow us to set up our prism and total station in a known (or created) reference system. Starting the coordinates at 5000 and 10000 allows us to avoid negative numbers, and not to mix up X and Y values.

[@DangOlJesse]

I've always used 5000, 5000, 100. Is there a reason I shouldn't be doing that? Never put much thought into it. It's just what the few companies I've worked for defaulted to.

[@ihd-3603]

I’ve always used 1000,1000,100 or 5000,5000,100 depending on the size of the project. Also, for some reason it really bugs me when someone sets up a site with LCS not oriented to north; it just looks goofy. 😆

[@mattkripal]

1/100’

[@SirKombabomba]

➿➿👀👀Mash-Allah and thanx for your All your Survey Lesoons