Surveying Merit Badge

Began: Sept 30, 2012

Finished: Oct 14, 2012

This is a neat Merit Badge. There are two different kind of surveying equipment that I used. One was called a rod and level and the other was a total station. With the rod and level you take a really long pole and put it on each (4) point. This measured the relative elevation of each point.  With the total station, you could move it sideways and up and down. We sighted magnetic north and set that to 0 for the first point. We then sighted to point two, moved the total station to point two and measured back to point one and then measured to point three. We did this again until we had measured all 5 points. Drawing our site to scale was hard.  My favorite part was using the equipment... not all the math and paper work.