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Integrating GIS and the Global Positioning System
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A constellation of twenty-four satellites, 11,000 miles
up, circling the globe every twelve hours . . . monitoring
stations on remote atolls . . . and radio receivers, some small
enough to be held in the palm of your hand: that's the Global Positioning
System, an explosively growing technology that's changing the way we know
where we are, where we're going, and where we've been. Coupled with a GIS
(geographic information system), with its virtually limitless layers of
data and graphics and histories--it's nothing short of revolutionary.
GPS technology is helping researchers keep elephants from
the brink of extinction, mapping mazes of oil and gas pipeline, locating
the sources of a highly infectious disease, keeping armchair sailors on
the edge of their seats as they chart the progress of a race across the
Atlantic--the ways GPS is being used range along an astonishingly broad
spectrum of activities, personal and public, commercial and educational,
business and pleasure.
Integrating GIS and the Global Positioning System
is a comprehensive introduction to the powerful synergy between GIS and
GPS technologies. The book covers the basics of GPS--what the components
are, how they work in theory and in practice, how accuracy can be improved
almost to pinpoint level--and presents several case studies that
illustrate some of the ways the power of GPS is being harnessed to GIS,
ensuring, among other benefits, increased accuracy in measurement and
completeness of coverage.
About the author:
Karen Steede-Terry is an ESRI Authorized ArcView
Instructor and a Trimble Certified Trainer for Global Positioning System
technology.
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