GPS Satellite Surveying

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John Wiley & Sons, Apr 1, 2015 - Technology & Engineering - 840 pages
Employ the latest satellite positioning tech with this extensive guide

GPS Satellite Surveying is the classic text on the subject, providing the most comprehensive coverage of global navigation satellite systems applications for surveying. Fully updated and expanded to reflect the field's latest developments, this new edition contains new information on GNSS antennas, Precise Point Positioning, Real-time Relative Positioning, Lattice Reduction, and much more. New contributors offer additional insight that greatly expands the book's reach, providing readers with complete, in-depth coverage of geodetic surveying using satellite technologies. The newest, most cutting-edge tools, technologies, and applications are explored in-depth to help readers stay up to date on best practices and preferred methods, giving them the understanding they need to consistently produce more reliable measurement.

Global navigation satellite systems have an array of uses in military, civilian, and commercial applications. In surveying, GNSS receivers are used to position survey markers, buildings, and road construction as accurately as possible with less room for human error. GPS Satellite Surveying provides complete guidance toward the practical aspects of the field, helping readers to:

  • Get up to speed on the latest GPS/GNSS developments
  • Understand how satellite technology is applied to surveying
  • Examine in-depth information on adjustments and geodesy
  • Learn the fundamentals of positioning, lattice adjustment, antennas, and more

The surveying field has seen quite an evolution of technology in the decade since the last edition's publication. This new edition covers it all, bringing the reader deep inside the latest tools and techniques being used on the job. Surveyors, engineers, geologists, and anyone looking to employ satellite positioning will find GPS Satellite Surveying to be of significant assistance.

 

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 LeastSquares Adjustments
11
Chapter 3 Recursive Least Squares
81
Chapter 4 Geodesy
129
Chapter 5 Satellite Systems
207
Chapter 6 GNSS Positioning Approaches
257
Chapter 7 RealTime Kinematics Relative Positioning
401
Chapter 8 Troposphere and Ionosphere
475
Appendix D Vector Calculus and Delta Function
741
Appendix E Electromagnetic Field Generated by Arbitrary Sources Magnetic Currents Boundary Conditions and Images ...
747
Appendix F Diffraction over HalfPlane
755
Appendix G Single Cavity Mode Approximation with Patch Antenna Analysis
759
Appendix H Patch Antennas with Artificial Dielectric Substrates
763
Appendix I Convex Patch Array Geodetic Antenna
769
References
773
Author Index
793

Chapter 9 GNSS Receiver Antennas
513
Appendix A General Background
653
Appendix B The Ellipsoid
697
Appendix C Conformal Mapping
715

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About the author (2015)

ALFRED LEICK, PHD, has served on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Geodetic Surveying. He currently lectures at Michigan Technological University and is the Editor-in-Chief of scholarly journal GPS Solutions.

LEV RAPOPORT, PHD, received Russia's highest scientific degree, Doctor of Science, from the Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Science, where he is now head of laboratory. He is also a professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

DMITRY TATARNIKOV, PHD, received the Doctor of Science degree from Moscow Aviation Institute, where he is currently a professor. He is also the Chief of GNSS Antenna Design and Development for Topcon Technology Center.

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