TY - BOOK AU - Gopi, Satheesh TI - Global positioning system : : Principles and applications SN - 9780070585997 U1 - 623.893 DDC23 PY - 2005/// CY - Chennai PB - McGraw Hill Education KW - Civil Engineering N2 - Assuming no prior knowledge of GPS, this book imparts the fundamental knowledge of the Global Positioning System and how to work with it. The book also gives important GPS applications in land mobile, marine navigation, surveying and mapping, space and GIS, etc. In addition to the students, practicing engineers and surveyors too will find this book extremely useful; 1 INTRODUCTION TO GPS 2 THE WORKING PRINCIPLE OF GPS 3 GEODETIC ASPECTYS (GEODESY) 4 GPS RECEIVERS 5 GPS SURVEYING METHODS 6 SURVEY PLANNING AND OBSERVATIONS 7 PROCESSING OF GPS DATA 8 GPS SURVEYING SOFTWARE 9 GPS SURVEY ADJUSTMENTS 10 APPLICATIONS OF GPS GLOSSARY ER -