Quick Reference

A reference guide for roles within an organization, capture statuses, and vocabulary

Updated on October 9th, 2026

Roles

Seven roles can be assigned to a member, held per organization: Admin, Manager, Editor, Analyst, Viewer, Operator and Billing.

Role

Intended for

Admin area

Admin

Full control of the organization and everything in it.

All parts of the organization 

Manager

Running the sites they're scoped to.

Sites, Code Profiles

Editor

Creating and editing data without organization administration.

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Analyst

Working the data and producing deliverables.

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Viewer

Read-only access.

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Operator

Field crew — getting captures uploaded.

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Billing

Commercial contact for the account.

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Capture statuses

You see

Underlying states

What it means

Complete

Completed

Processed. Artifacts are final and downloadable.

In progress

Uploading · queued · processing · unlinked

Still moving. Wait for it to land.

Flagged for review

Upload failed · in review · failed · cancelled

May need attention. Retry the upload, or raise a ticket if you do not hear from customer support within 48 hours

 

Vocabulary

Capture

One recording run from a qCam. The atomic unit of data in Looq.

Site

The container captures are assigned to. Holds settings and exports. Can be thought of as a “project”.

qCam

The capture hardware (the camera)

LMR

.lmr

The raw capture file a qCam produces.

RINEX

The GNSS observation file from a base station, used to correct a capture's positions.

Auto-base

Correction against a reference station Looq picks automatically.

Local base

Correction against a base station you set up and recorded yourself.

PPK

Post-processed kinematic — correcting positions after all field data is captured. Every capture gets a PPK report.

PPP

Precise point positioning — computing a precise coordinate for your base from its own observation file.

ATC

Align to Control — the wizard in the Align panel that georeferences a capture against ground control.

CRS

Coordinate reference system. Set per site; captures are processed against it.

Code profile

A named catalogue of qSurvey field codes, maintained by Admins.

Component library

The catalogue of poles, crossarms, insulators and hardware qPole builds from.

GCP Ground control point - a physical point in your capture that has known coordinates