Electronic Total Station Leica, Sokkia, Trimble and Nikon – the market leaders tacheometric In today's market survey equipment, including electronic total stations of all classes of accuracy, there is a recognized flagship company of which and will be discussed in this article. To begin with, the total station is a device that is used for a variety of surveying and civil engineering works. With the help of an electronic instrument is measured by the excess of angles, distances to points in the those are not available, by removal project in nature, created by digital terrain models and topography survey area of interest. Modern total stations are capable of performing various tasks with little or no participation man, you just install a robotic total station to a tripod, set up a connection to a computer via any of the existing data ports and manage the work of the product, but rather only to make the necessary amendments to its automatic operation. In robot mode, or automatic total station is almost no mistakes, does not require much attention, but quietly executes that plan. The only disadvantage of this instrument is – it price, while robotic total stations are expensive and inaccessible for the vast majority of construction crews and companies, but not so far that day, when a Field Station will be in a cage all the brigades and contracts. Total Stations Leica / Leica total station main difference between these is the European build quality, excellent reliability and availability of total station Leica. . .