WO2008002918A3 - Method and system for automatically performing a study of a multidimensional space - Google Patents

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WO2008002918A3
WO2008002918A3 PCT/US2007/072134 US2007072134W WO2008002918A3 WO 2008002918 A3 WO2008002918 A3 WO 2008002918A3 US 2007072134 W US2007072134 W US 2007072134W WO 2008002918 A3 WO2008002918 A3 WO 2008002918A3
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01C—MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY
    • G01C15/00—Surveying instruments or accessories not provided for in groups G01C1/00 - G01C13/00
    • G01C15/002—Active optical surveying means
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Abstract

A method and system comprising a Master station, a processor and one or more targets that allows a user of said system to automatically generate a 3 dimensional graphical representation of a construction site and also overlay a drawing onto the graphical representation to guide the user within a virtual space being displayed by the processor.
PCT/US2007/072134 2006-06-28 2007-06-26 Method and system for automatically performing a study of a multidimensional space WO2008002918A2 (en)

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CA002656479A CA2656479A1 (en) 2006-06-28 2007-06-26 Method and system for automatically performing a study of a multidimensional space
MX2009000228A MX2009000228A (en) 2006-06-28 2007-06-26 Method and system for automatically performing a study of a multidimensional space.
EA200970069A EA200970069A1 (en) 2006-06-28 2007-06-26 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC PERFORMANCE OF RESEARCH OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPACE
BRPI0713969-1A BRPI0713969A2 (en) 2006-06-28 2007-06-26 method and system to automatically perform a study of a multidimensional space
EP07799039A EP2038781A4 (en) 2006-06-28 2007-06-26 Method and system for automatically performing a study of a multidimensional space
AU2007265151A AU2007265151A1 (en) 2006-06-28 2007-06-26 Method and system for automatically performing a study of a multidimensional space
JP2009518515A JP2009543220A (en) 2006-06-28 2007-06-26 Method and system for automatically performing a multidimensional space survey
IL196236A IL196236A0 (en) 2006-06-28 2008-12-28 Method and system for automatically performing a study of a multidimensional space

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