Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 4:30 pm
Development of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Surveying
What motivated the development of GNSS?
What were the early efforts and what came of them?
Terms and nomenclature
System architecture
Today’s GNSSs: GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, Compass, regional systems
Example applications
GNSS Positioning
Orbits
Ranging with timing code and carrier phase
Timing Codes and Carrier Phase Details
Bands
What is a timing code?
C/A code, P code
Timing codes, time determination
Pseudoranges
Navigation message
The carrier phase observable and the integer ambiguity problem
Geodesy and GNSS
Reference systems, reference frames, datums
VLBI, SLR, GPS
Tectonics, time-dependent positioning
Error Budget and Differencing
System errors
Geometric errors
Environmental errors
Dilutions of precision, ephemeris quality Error mitigation
DGPS
Phase differencing
Observation Protocols
Redundancy
Tying to control
Credits
Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors
6.5 Continuing Education Hours
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers a 6.5 continuing education opportunity to Massachusetts professional engineers and land surveyors. Continuing education is not presently mandatory for license maintenance in Massachusetts.
Professional engineers and land surveyors seeking continuing education credit in other states will be able to claim the hours earned at this seminar, in most cases. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York engineers and land surveyors.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for professional land surveyors licensed in Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, and North Dakota.
Attendance will be monitored and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Dr. Thomas H. Meyer, Ph.D.
Professor of Geodesy, University of ConnecticutDr. Meyer is a professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at UConn’s College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR). He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and he is a fellow and past president (2016, 2019) of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying. Dr. Meyer is a past president (2006-2007) of the Geomatics Society of New England (previously known as the New England Section ACSM) and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Surveying Engineering and Surveying and Land Information Science. Dr. Meyer earned his Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University (College Station, 1998) where he was a research associate in the Mapping Sciences Laboratory. He was named a UConn Teaching Fellow (2015), and he has taught geomatics courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in geodesy, geographic information science, digital terrain modeling, spatial statistics, and global navigation satellite system surveying. Dr. Meyer has authored an undergraduate-level geodesy textbook and numerous peer-reviewed papers about surveying and mapping, and he teaches professional education seminars for surveyors throughout New England and the United States.