GPS Satellite Surveying, 3rd Edition

The 3rd edition of GPS Satellite Surveying is a comprehensive and thorough reference that is intended to help surveyors, civil engineers, transportation engineers, geologists, geographers, technicians, and students get the most out of GPS surveying techniques and the resulting measurements. This updated edition of Alfred Leick's classic introduction to the field provides the latest fundamental and cutting-edge material for working with GPS today. 464 pp.

This up-to-date reference is a unique volume that offers an unrivaled presentation of procedures that apply to the Russian GLONASS, the forthcoming European GALILEO, and U.S. GPS satellite systems. New coverage addresses emerging precise-point positioning technology, as well as the most current information on:

• Geodetic reference systems
• GPS modernization
• Least-squares adjustments
• Pseudoranges and carrier phases
• The troposphere and ionosphere
• The LAMBDA technique
• The ellipsoidal and conformal mapping models

GPS Satellite Surveying, 3rd Edition - Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Notation
• Introduction
• Geodetic Reference Systems
• Satellite Systems
• Least-Squares Adjustments
• Pseudorange and Career Phase Observiables
• Troposphere and Ionosphere
• Processing Pseudoranges and Carrier Phases
• Network Adjustments
• Two-Dimensional Geodetic Models
• Appendix A. General Background
• Appendix B. The Ellipsoid
• Appendix C. Conformal Mapping
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index