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Comparison of advantages and disadvantages between RTK and total station

Upstairs said the advantages of GPS, let me add the advantages and disadvantages of total station.

Advantages: 1 The price is cheap (compared with the conventional total station RTK).

2. High measurement accuracy (relative to RTK)

3. There is no need for satellite signals, so it is not affected by indoor and outdoor factors, under trees, beside tall buildings and so on.

Disadvantages: 1 Need intervisibility.

2. Short distance (although theoretically total station can measure about 3 kilometers with the support of prism, it is generally used to measure within 1 km due to the magnification of telescope and the factors that must be intervisibility).