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Practical Gps Applications Forestry & Agriculture
Practical Gps Applications Forestry & Agriculture
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PRACTICAL GPS APPLICATIONS IN FORESTRY & AGRICULTURE Workshop & Field Tests
Introductions; Workshop & Field Testing Objectives Basics of the Global Positioning System.
Features and operations of GPS receivers Garmin eTrex series & others.
Digital topographic maps - MapTech Terrain Navigator & Garmin Mapsource. Transfer of waypoints, tracks (area perimeter), and routes (cruise lines & plots). Set up cruise lines on Terrain Navigator and GPS units. Test in the field. Use GPS to calculate area in the field and compare results to 1. Traditional methods 2. Terrain Navigator's area calculation figures
DIRECTION TO SPECIFIED WAYPOINTS (MARKERS) (0R BETWEEN WAYPOINTS) DISTANCE TO SPECIFIED WAYPOINTS (0R BETWEEN WAYPOINTS) YOUR SPEED OF TRAVEL YOUR DIRECTION OF TRAVEL
TIME OF DAY
CROSS TRACK ERROR ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATED TIME ENROUTE COORDINATES OF CITIES & TOWNS
AREA MEASUREMENT
ETC.
MILITARY MARITIME AUTOMOTIVE SURVEYING AVIATION AGRICULTURE FORESTRY ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC SAFETY
HIKING HUNTING NATURE STUDY FISHING BOATING BIKING SKIING SNOWMOBILING GEOCACHING GOLF !
HIGH ADVENTURE LEADER TRAINING SEARCH & RESCUE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BIG TREE SEARCH
HUNTER EDUCATION
ERROR SOURCES
LINE OF SIGHT
Multipath interference Atmospheric/Ionospheric Geometric DOP Clock Ephemeris S.A. (now turned off) and Human Error!
Plot of position accuracy using standard Lowrance GPS receiver (stationary). Note the differences in scale
MAP DATUMS
WGS84
World Geodetic System 1984 Default datum on Garmin and most other GPS receivers. Most accurate datum, but not yet in wide use on maps.
NAD83
North American Datum 1983 Very similar to WGS84. Used on newer USGS maps.
COORDINATE SYSTEMS
LATITUDE / LONGITUDE UTM / UPS
(ANGULAR) DEGREES - MINUTES - SECONDS (RECTANGULAR, METRIC) UNIVERSAL TRANSVERSE MERCATOR
(WE WILL BE USING UTM IN OUR FIELD EXERCISES)
ACCURACY
STANDARD CIVILIAN RECEIVERS (Selective Availability OFF)
HORIZONTAL ACCURACY TO 15 METERS (49.2) OR BETTER VERTICAL ACCURACY (altitude) TO 100 METERS (328)
Coast Guard Commercial Ground & Satellite Based Correction Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)
NAVIGATION BASICS
1. 2. 3. 4. KNOW YOUR POSITION PLAN YOUR ROUTE STAY ON YOUR ROUTE RECOGNIZE YOUR DESTINATION
Venture
$149.00
Legend
$209.00
Vista
$285.00
ENTERING COORDINATES TO CREATE A NEW WAYPOINT IN ETREX + ON MENU PAGE, SELECT MARK.
NAME IT & SELECT SYMBOL (optional) ENTER ELEVATION (optional) ENTER COORDINATE DATA SELECT OK AND YOURE DONE
SELECT AN EXISTING WAYPOINT AND ENTER FROM MENU OPTION, SELECT PROJECT. NAME IT & SELECT SYMBOL (optional) ENTER DISTANCE ENTER BEARING SELECT OK AND YOURE DONE
All 3 models
All 3 models
TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS
AERIAL PHOTO
TOPOGRAPHIC MAP
DEMONSTRATIONS: MapTech
TERRAIN NAVIGATOR
and Garmin
MAPSOURCE
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