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Introduction to the Global Positioning System for GIS and TRAVERSE

Table of Contents

Chapter One: What is GPS?

Chapter Two: Trilateration - How GPS Determines a Location

Chapter Three: How the Current Locations of GPS Satellites are Determined

Chapter Four: Computing the Distance Between Your Position and the GPS Satellites

Chapter Five: Four Satellites to Compute a 3-D Position

Chapter Six: The GPS Error Budget

Chapter Seven: Measuring GPS Accuracy

Chapter Eight: Using Differential GPS to Increase Accuracy

Chapter Nine: Levels of GPS Accuracy

Chapter Ten: GPS and Canopy

Chapter Eleven: GPS for GIS

Feature Lists
Exporting to a GIS System

Glossary of GPS Terms


First U.S. Publication in June, 1996 by: Corvallis Microtechnology, Inc., 413 S.W. Jefferson Avenue, Corvallis, OR 97333

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