Patent ID: 8749239

Claim:
An apparatus for use in a locate operation to detect a presence or an absence of an underground facility, the apparatus comprising: at least one receiver antenna configured to detect a magnetic field from the underground facility; at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one receiver antenna to receive first information about the magnetic field from the at least one receiver antenna; at least one input device communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and configured to sense at least one environmental condition of an environment in which the apparatus is located and provide an output signal to the at least one processor indicative of the sensed at least one environmental condition; and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and configured to store the first information about the magnetic field and second information relating to the output signal of the at least one input device, wherein the at least one processor is configured to log into the memory the first information and the second information so as to generate an archival electronic record of the locate operation.