Auriga, cave survey freeware
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Auriga is a cave survey freeware for PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) running under Palm OS (and now in emulation mode under Android and Windows Mobile). Auriga is designed for in-cave use as a smart survey notebook: as the survey goes, Auriga displays the line plot in graphical form, reports statistics, helps spot and fix survey errors and allows sketching cave walls and features to scale with GPX, KML, SVG and DXF export. Bidirectional data exchange is currently provided with Compass, Survex, Therion, GH Topo/Toporobot, VisualTopo, Walls and the CSV format. The Auriga software is based on the
original project
of Martin Melzer (designer of the Scurion)
of creating a sensor box (electronic compass and clinometer)
coupled with a Palm OS software to automatically
acquire cave survey data. Although work on the hardware prototype stopped
in 2000, the Palm OS software development resumed in 2002 under the initiative of
Luc Le Blanc Auriga is extremely customizable (sessions, instruments sets, measurement units, calibrations, input
and display options, etc.) to cover the needs of the majority of cave surveyors.
Developed in Québec (Canada), Auriga is available in English, French, Spanish and Catalan.
Why switch to Auriga?Compared to a traditional paper notebook, Auriga:
Compared to a cave survey PC/Mac software, Auriga:
Does Auriga replace a cave survey PC/Mac software? No, instead it complements it! Survey data can be acquired on the Palm, viewed and used at the camp on the Palm and, once back home, transferred to the PC/Mac. This latter process can be done either with a memory card, a cable (serial or USB, depending on both the Palm OS device and the PC/Mac capabilities) or via a Bluetooth or infrared link. Auriga can be used as:
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NewsTopoSur 2017I will give a talk
( Digital Topography in Volcanic CavesI will give a talk and conduct an Auriga workshop at the first Jornadas Canarias de Topografía Digital en Cavidades Volcánicas held on December 15-16, 2017 in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). The genesisAn article in issue 98 (June 2017) of the British Cave Research Association (BCRA)'s Cave Radio & Electronics Group (CREG) Journal recalls the genesis of the Auriga software. |
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