Agenda
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Thursday, December 16, 2021
9:00 am – 4:30 pm CST (incl. a 60-min break)
Presented by:
Dr. Thomas H. Meyer
Agenda
Observation Modes
Absolute positioning
• Autonomous
• Precise point positioning (PPP)
• Differential GPS (DGPS)
Relative positioning
• Phase differencing
Kinematic
Static
• CORS
•Atop a tripod
• Static post-processing and OPUS
Real-time
• Real-time kinematic
• Real-time network
Independence of Observations: How Long Should We Wait?
What is independence? What is correlation? Bias?
Occupation duration
Examples of occupation duration with various epoch rates
Discussion of the constellation
• Orbital planes, slots, overview of SVs, 12-hr orbital period
Heighting example
Error Budget
Range-pole centering error
Multipath
Geometry
• Dilutions of precision
Environment
• Ionosphere → multi-frequency receivers
• Troposphere
• Signal-to-noise ratio
Ephemeris
• Positioning discussion: trilateration
• Control → orbits
• Predicted (broadcast) vs. modeled (precise)
• Comparison of ephemeris accuracies
– Ranging
• Overview of how ranging works
• C/A code, P code
• Phase observable
To the Future
Reference frames, geodesy
• NAD 83 non-geocentricity, WGS 84, ITRF
• NATRF 2022
• Time-dependent positioning, Stable North American Ref. Frame (SNARF)
GPS modernization
• L1C, L2C, L5
• New navigation message
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Credits
Professional Engineers:
6.0 PDHs (NY – No Credit Offered)
Land Surveyors
6.0 HSW CE Hours
(NY, NJ, RI – No Credit Offered)
Continuing Education Credit Information
GNSS Positioning
This webinar is open to the public and offers 6.0 PDHs to professional engineers and land surveyors in most states. HalfMoon Education is not seeking approval for land surveyors in New Jersey or Rhode Island. This course is not approved for continuing education credit for engineers or land surveyors in New York.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Provider No. 0004647), Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700) and North Carolina (S-0130).
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for land surveyors licensed in Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland and North Carolina (S-0130). The Tennessee Board OF Examiners for Land Surveyors has approved this course.
Speakers
Dr. Thomas H. Meyer, Ph.D.
Professor of Geodesy, University of Connecticut
Dr. 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.