RTK – Static, independent?
Expected practice for RTK boundary surveying here is observe and then 20mins plus later re-obseve from a different or same base after re setting up (isolate set up blunders etc.). This gives you results in the field you can keep working with vs having to go back to office to process static.
For suburban work the actual repeatibilty (not the spec sheet single standard deviations) can be under 10mm which is fine but often gets into the 15-20mm which even when average the obs still appears a bit sloppy when you put the total station over the top.
I’m thinking that an alternative would be to do short static obs (5+ mins, lines all <1km) which generates a more precise measurement than RTK and at same time take an RTK obs which could be used to complete fieldwork and as a check on RTK. Once back in office static can be used to tighten up the calcs.
Setting aside environmental and setup factors, would you consider a RTK and a static measurement observed at the same to be independent measurements?
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