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The Nature of Geographic Information

Chapter 5: Land Surveying and GPS

1. Overview
2. Geospatial Data Quality
3. Error and Uncertainty
4. Systematic vs. Random Errors
5. Survey Control
6. Measuring Angles
7. Measuring Distances
8. Horizontal Positions
9. Traverse
10. Triangulation
11. Trilateration
12. Vertical Positions
13. Global Positioning System
14. Space Segment
15. Control Segment
16. User Segment
17. Satellite Ranging
18. GPS Error Sources
19. User Equivalent Range Errors
20. Dilution of Precision
21. GPS Error Correction
22. Differential Correction
23. Real-Time Differential Correction
24. Post-Processed Differential Correction
25. Summary
26. Bibliography

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