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14 Sep 2021 Trishunya Team
ATR in Total Stations: How It Locks Onto a Target Alone
Educational Target Lock

ATR: The Feature That Lets a Total Station Find Its Own Target

Point it roughly at the prism. The instrument does the rest, locking on, staying locked, and following it station to station.

TI Trishunya India 14 Sep 2021 4 min read

Aiming a telescope precisely at a small prism, over and over, all day, is tiring and it's where fine-pointing errors creep in. Automatic Target Recognition, or ATR, exists to take that repetitive precision task away from the human eye and hand it to the instrument itself.

Motorized total station with Automatic Target Recognition ATR locking onto a survey prism target