Leica Geosystems GPS Basics User Manual
Gps basics, Introduction to gps (global positioning system)
Table of contents
Document Outline
- Cover
- Contents
- View of chapters
- Preface
- 1. What is GPS and what does it do ?
- 2. System Overview
- 2.1 The Space Segment
- 2.2 The Control Segment
- 2.3 The User Segment
- 3. How GPS works
- 3.1 Simple Navigation
- 3.1.1 Satellite ranging
- 3.1.2 Calculating the distance to the satellite
- 3.1.3 Error Sources
- 3.1.4 Why are military receivers more accurate ?
- 3.2 Differentially corrected positions (DGPS)
- 3.2.1 The Reference Receiver
- 3.2.2 The Rover receiver
- 3.2.3 Further details
- 3.3 Differential Phase GPS and Ambiguity Resolution
- 3.3.1 The Carrier Phase, C/A and P-codes
- 3.3.2 Why use Carrier Phase?
- 3.3.3 Double Differencing
- 3.3.4 Ambiguity and Ambiguity Resolution
- 4. Geodetic Aspects
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2. The GPS coordinate system
- 4.3 Local coordinate systems
- 4.4 Problems with height
- 4.5 Transformations
- 4.6 Map Projections and Plane Coordinates
- 4.6.1 The Transverse Mercator Projection
- 4.6.2 The Lambert Projection
- 5. Surveying with GPS
- 5.1 GPS Measuring Techniques
- 5.1.1 Static Surveys
- 5.1.2 Rapid Static Surveys
- 5.1.3 Kinematic Surveys
- 5.1.4 RTK Surveys
- 5.2 Pre-survey preparation
- 5.3 Tips during operation
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- W
- Y
- Z
- GPSBook_EN01.pdf
- Preface
- 1. What is GPS and what does it do ?
- 2. System Overview
- 2.1 The Space Segment
- 2.3 The User Segment
- 3. How GPS works
- 3.1 Simple Navigation
- 3.1.1 Satellite ranging
- 3.1.2 Calculating the distance to the satellite
- 3.1.3 Error Sources
- 3.1.4 Why are military receivers more accurate ?
- 3.2 Differentially corrected positions (DGPS)
- 3.2.1 The Reference Receiver
- 3.2.2 The Rover receiver
- 3.2.3 Further details
- 3.3 Differential Phase GPS and Ambiguity Resolution
- 3.3.1 The Carrier Phase, C/A and P-codes
- 3.3.2 Why use Carrier Phase?
- 3.3.3 Double Differencing
- 3.3.4 Ambiguity and Ambiguity Resolution
- 4. Geodetic Aspects
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2. The GPS coordinate system
- 4.3 Local coordinate systems
- 4.6 Map Projections and Plane Coordinates
- 4.6.1 The Transverse Mercator Projection
- 4.6.2 The Lambert Projection
- 5. Surveying with GPS
- 5.1 GPS Measuring Techniques
- 5.1.1 Static Surveys
- 5.1.2 Rapid Static Surveys
- 5.1.3 Kinematic Surveys
- 5.1.4 RTK Surveys
- 5.2 Pre-survey preparation
- 5.3 Tips during operation
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Index
- GPSBook_EN01.pdf
- Preface
- 1. What is GPS and what does it do ?
- 2. System Overview
- 2.1 The Space Segment
- 2.3 The User Segment
- 3. How GPS works
- 3.1 Simple Navigation
- 3.1.1 Satellite ranging
- 3.1.2 Calculating the distance to the satellite
- 3.1.3 Error Sources
- 3.1.4 Why are military receivers more accurate ?
- 3.2 Differentially corrected positions (DGPS)
- 3.2.1 The Reference Receiver
- 3.2.2 The Rover receiver
- 3.2.3 Further details
- 3.3 Differential Phase GPS and Ambiguity Resolution
- 3.3.1 The Carrier Phase, C/A and P-codes
- 3.3.2 Why use Carrier Phase?
- 3.3.3 Double Differencing
- 3.3.4 Ambiguity and Ambiguity Resolution
- 4. Geodetic Aspects
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2. The GPS coordinate system
- 4.3 Local coordinate systems
- 4.6 Map Projections and Plane Coordinates
- 4.6.1 The Transverse Mercator Projection
- 4.6.2 The Lambert Projection
- 5. Surveying with GPS
- 5.1 GPS Measuring Techniques
- 5.1.1 Static Surveys
- 5.1.2 Rapid Static Surveys
- 5.1.3 Kinematic Surveys
- 5.1.4 RTK Surveys
- 5.2 Pre-survey preparation
- 5.3 Tips during operation
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Index