ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
These notes have been developed over a period of five years, in response to the need to produce a textbook to support undergraduate teaching of geometic students at The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. These notes were first published in 1997 as Monograph 17, by the School of Geomatic Engineering, UNSW (ISBN 0-85839-071-X).
This htmL version was developed in 1997-98 with the assistance of Professor Majid Kadir and his graduate students, of the Department of Geomatics, University of Technology Malaysia, at Johor Bahru, Malaysia. I am very grateful for all their hard work. Michael Moore, a graduate student at UNSW, was responsible for subsequent editing in 1999.
Many of the diagrams and cartoons were devised and drawn by the father and daughter graphics team of George and Sylvia Youssef. In 1990 funding was provided to the GPS Consortium (GPSCO) by the New South Wales government's Educational Training Foundation (ETF). The members of GPSCO at the time included UNSW (through the School of Geomatic Engineering), the Australian National University (Research School of Earth Sciences), TAFE (Tertiary And Further Education corporation of N.S.W.), and the Land Information Centre (Surveyor-General's Department). ETF funded the development of a range of workshop and printed material for the education of surveyors, and allied professionals, in the use of the GPS technology. In addition to partially funding the development of Monograph 17, two books were published: "Getting Started with GPS" and "Exploring GPS: A GPS Users Guide". These are available for purchase through such outlets as the Navtech GPS Bookstore (www.navtechgps.com).
Permission to reproduce many of the GPSCO diagrams and cartoons in this htmL version of "Principles and Practice of GPS Surveying" is acknowledged.
In a fast moving field such as GPS, inevitably some of the material will be out of date. I would be grateful if errors, inaccuracies, or even ommissions were brought to my attention so that I may amend the material.
Chris Rizos
September 1999
mail to: c.rizos@unsw.edu.au
© Chris Rizos, SNAP-UNSW, 1999
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