Total station, an electronic precise geodesic instrument, has been used in surveying forest area and tree height from 1990s in many developed countries, such as U.

• 摘要全站仪是一种电子精密测量型工具，自20世纪90年代中期后，美、英、德、日等国在林地面积测量、树高测量中初步使用全站仪。