GPS, Geodesy, Maps, etc.

Technical Notes Prepared by James R. Clynch

I have written many technical notes for handouts in classes. A selection of these, as well as sections of reports that have been reformatted, are here in the PDF format. The level of technical background assumed for these notes varies, but is not high, in general. A few require vectors, and a couple some calculus. Many have the equations to perform a task with just some motivating diagrams, but no development or proof.

These technical notes are listed in the following table along with the size of the file. The files only have a few pages, but many figures which increases the size.

Original James Clynch website...

Topic	Description	Pages	File	Size KB
Geodesy	Measures of Accuracy - RMS - 2drms - CEP - SEP	1	accmeas.pdf	17
	Conversions of  latitude types, xyz-lat,lon,height - Equations	6	coordcvt.pdf	154
	Definition details of coordinate types	18	coorddef.pdf	405
	Description of height types	3	heights.pdf	69
	Introduction to earth's gravity	9	intgrav.pdf	193
	Description of latitude,longitude types	6	latlons.pdf	197
	Radius of earth, radii of curvature	6	radiigeo.pdf	99
Maps	Introduction to Maps - Types, Terms, Concepts	7	intromap.pdf	349
	Earth Models and Maps - Sphere, Ellipsoid, Real World	7	Mapmodel.pdf	212
	Projection Terms Defined	8	projsum.pdf	78
	Projections-1  Categories and Properties	11	project_i.pdf	356
	Projections-2 Common Projections in Detail	11	projectii.pdf	406
	Introduction to Datums	12	Datumintr.pdf	534
	Datums-1 Coordinates and Reference Frames	15	Datum_i.pdf	541
	Datums-2 Datum Transformations	11	Datum_ii.pdf	278
GPS	An Introduction to GPS, Overview, Terms	9	gps_intr.pdf	136
	What Datum Am I On? - Navigation Systems vs Maps	3	whatdatm.pdf	27
Atmosphere	Atmospheric Bending - Earth to Space	10	Atmsbend.pdf	215
	Ionospheric Bending - Earth to Space	10	ionbend.pdf	270
Time	Time Systems, UT, GPS Time, Julian Dates, MJD	5	timsys.pdf	47
	Overview of Clocks - Mechanical to Atomic	18	pttinote.pdf	431
General	Basic Physics for Geodesy - Just a few facts	10	basicphy.pdf	211
	NGS Accuracy Standards - Order of Survey etc.	1	ngsstd.pdf	15
	Paths on Earth, Great Circles, Geodesics, Useful Projections	6	navpaths.pdf	150
Mathematics	Angles and Arc-Length	3	angarc.pdf	41
	Angles Units - The Radian is the  Natural Unit	3	angunit.pdf	59
	Brief Description of Derivatives and Integrals	6	dervint.pdf	203
	Summary of Vectors and Vector Operations	3	vecsum.pdf	32
	Reference on Equations of Ellipse	14	ellipequ.pdf	32