Badey & Watson is fully equipped with modern surveying instruments and computing equipment that is fully capable of handling even the most complicated surveying, engineering or mapping problems. This equipment not only permits speedy computations and mapping, it allows the data to be analyzed in ways not available to previous generations of surveyors. Badey & Watson strives to keep its instruments and equipment up to date by constantly reviewing our needs, studying newly available technologies and judiciously investing in those that will benefit the practice and its clientele. The following equipment is among that currently in use at Badey & Watson.

Field Equipment

• Three Leica TCRA1101 total stations (reading to 1° of arc, rated at 2° of arc). Two of these systems are robotic. All are capable of reflectorless measurements.
  Three Nikon DTM-850 total stations (reading to 1° of arc, rated at 2° of arc).
• Two Leica AT502 GPS receivers with related accessory equipment.
• One Leica HDS3000 high definition surveying system.
  Various other equipment including automatic levels, underground electronic detection instruments, field calculators, radios, etc., handheld GPS units.

Office Equipment

• A multiple station dual server computer network.
• Various software including AutoCad, COGO, Lotus Amipro and 1-2-3, Microsoft Office, Leica GPS Software, and a variety of other surveying and engineering software, much of which has been developed by Badey & Watson, all of which is periodically reviewed and updated to accommodate our developing requirements.
• Two computer driven plotters (OCE TCS 400, and OCE 9400-II) both of which are capable of plotting 36 inches in width.
• Various other supporting equipment including one digital collating color copier, an engineering copier, etc.

Photographic Resources

Badey & Watson is co-owner, with Geo Maps International, Inc., of approximately 480 square miles of fully controlled aerial photographs covering all of Putnam County, the southern 7 miles of Dutchess County and a small portion of northern Westchester County, New York. The photographs were obtained during the Spring of 2003 and are suitable for compilation of 50 scale, 2 foot contour mapping. The photo scale is 1 inch to 550 feet. The ground control was completed in June 2003 using a survey quality Geographic Positioning System.

The control was tied to the New York State Plane Coordinate System (NAD 83, expressed in feet) and the North American Vertical Datum (NAVD-88). Conversions to NAD1927 and NGVD1929 are readily available. Mapping can be obtained through Badey & Watson or Geo Maps International, Inc. Badey and Watson is available to establish control locally for individual mapping projects.