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GPS General Training and Software Applications

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GPS General Training and Software Applications Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
The aim of the Course is that you will leave the course with the skills to use a GPS confidently and safely at a basic level and understand the advantages of linking it to a digital mapping system. You will download and uploading routes and tracks between GPS and three-dimensional digital map systems with the opportunity to design and walk some routes and practice the skills that have been learned.
Who Should Attend?
- Engineers and technical professionals seeking conceptual explanations of GPS technology, operation, capabilities, applications, and development trends.
- Professionals in navigation, positioning, and related fields who are interested in the capabilities and operating principles of GPS and DGPS.
- System analysts and specialists concerned with position data.
- Managers with an appropriate technical background.
Course Outlines:
What is a GPS?
How does it work? How accurate is it? WAAS and EGNOS enabling
- Ordnance Survey National Grid and grid references; GPS 10 digit references
- GPS - buttons & main pages; battery; power; display; etc.
- Setting up the GPS - position format; map datum; north reference; etc.
- Finding your position: GPS vs. map & compass
- Waypoints: mark; manually enter; download
- Finding your destination: Navigating using a GPS; Go to - get 'lost' and find destination exercise
- Routes: manually create and delete; navigating a routing exercise; creating a tracklog
- Digital maps: what's available; what they will do; different map views
- Choosing a GPS to fit user needs
- Introduction to safety issues when using a GPS
- Future trends in GPS & digital maps.
- Consideration of elements of Naismith's rule as a feature of Memory-Map software
- Converting tracks to routes
- Downloading and uploading data between the digital map and GPS
- The 'Compass'/'Navigate' page - setting it up and using the features
- The 'Map' screen - setting it up and using the features
- Navigation of planned route using relevant GPS information to assist you
- Reviewing track performance; saving and deleting routes and tracklog
- Setup and manage tracklog
- Navigation of route using Trackback features
- International position formats, map datums and sources of worldwide information
- The latest developments of GPS for the outdoors - how useful are they?
Trimble Resources
- Other Resources
- GIS Overview
- Forms of GIS Data Collection
- GPS Overview
- Code Differential GPS
- Carrier Phase Differential GPS
- System Accuracy
- Correction Methods
- Mapping Projects
- Five Steps of a Project
- System Components
- Data Dictionary Creation
- Using Quick Plan
- Creating Satellite Visibility Graphs
Data logger Configuration Data Collection
- Source of Base Station Files
- Asset Surveyor Configuration
- Configuring the TSC-1 Datalogger
- Satellite Tracking Information
- Field Techniques
- Data Collection Options
- Post processing
- Project from Start-to-Finish
- Setting Parameters in Pathfinder Office™
- Data Transfer
- Differential Correction Techniques
- Display/Edit/Plot GPS Data
- Using the SSF Editor
- Additional Pathfinder Office™ Functions
- GIS Export
- GIS Import
- Using the Batch Processor
Review of Data Collection and Field Procedures
- Preparing for the Field
- Real-Time Setup
- Field Session Two
- Post processing
- Pathfinder Office™ Post processing
- Data Editing Techniques
- Data Statistical Analysis
- Discuss Field Session Strategies
- Waypoint Manager
- Using the Waypoint Manager
- Creating a Waypoint File
- Navigation Techniques