摘要 |
The invention provides a measuring instrument, comprising a telescope for performing sighting on objects to be measured, a distance measuring unit (29) for measuring a distance to each of the objects to be measured, an image pickup unit (11,23) for taking an image in sighting direction and for acquiring a digital image, angle detecting units (31,32) for detecting a vertical angle and a horizontal angle in the sighting direction of the telescope, an automatic sighting unit (35) for making the telescope perform automatic sighting to the objects to be measured, an arithmetic unit (27), and a storage unit (28), wherein the arithmetic unit makes the telescope rotate and perform scanning so that a plurality of objects to be measured are included and makes the image pickup unit acquire digital images, and the arithmetic unit detects the objects to be measured in the digital images thus acquired, associates vertical and horizontal angles with each of the objects to be measured, and makes the storage unit store the vertical angles and the horizontal angles of the objects to be measured as target values for automatic sighting. |