ODM2 Equipment Type Controlled Vocabulary ODM2 Working Group A vocabulary for describing types of equipment used for making observations. Examples include sensors, batteries, radios, dataloggers, samplers, etc. Total station An electronic and optical instrument used in modern surveying and building construction. A total station is an electronic theodoloite integrated with an electronic distance meter to read slope distances from the instrument to a particular point. Instrument Definition adapted from Wikipedia. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_station