Good GPS books from Amazon.co.ukA GPS User Manual: Working With Garmin Receivers by Dale Depriest. Another title for this book could have been ‘All Garmin Manuals’ as it covers all Garmin handheld receivers from the older multiplex units to the latest and greatest full featured units at the time of printing. Dale has an addendum on his website, describing changes in Garmin products that have occurred since the book was published. The book not only explains how to do things with Garmin receivers, but provides invaluable information on using a GPS receiver in general. Datums, grids, waypoints, routes, tracks, track logs, maps, etc. are all very well covered. No-one, new to Garmin receivers, can afford not to buy this book. Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter & GPS by Bob Burns, Mike Burns and Paul Hughes. Written by active instructors of wilderness navigation, this book covers tools and skills for orientation, navigation and route-finding. Gives particular attention to off-trail navigation with altimeter and GPS. Wilderness Navigation will answer all your questions on reading maps; buying a compass; using a compass, a clinometer, an altimeter, and a GPS; orientation with map and compass; how to avoid getting lost; and what to do if you get lost. It also covers wilderness route finding on trails, in the forest, in alpine areas, and on snow and glaciers. A concise introductory and well explained, compact book, small and light enough to be in ones pack. GPS Navigation Guide by Jack W. Peters. This book is spiral-bound and counts 191 pages. The writer Jack Peters is a longtime enthusiast for outdoor adventure ranging from desert racing, search & rescue, exploring and gold mining. His book teaches you how to use your GPS with maps, compass, computer, PDA and radio tracking. A fun, non-technical way to learn navigation skills inspired by outdoor adventure ranging from Geocaching, search & rescue and off-road racing. Includes 142 photos and graphics and a Topo Companion map ruler, a $5.99 value. GPS Made Easy: Using Global Positioning Systems in the Outdoors by Lawrence Letham. The fourth edition of this book covers improvements in GPS accuracy as a result of WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) and has a new chapter, explaining how to download maps and computer software to a GPS receiver, including examples. You should have a working knowledge of basic land navigation prior to buying this book. The book covers well combining the use of GPS with a map for safe and accurate navigation. This book is useful to find out what features will be important to you in a GPS receiver, so you don’t buy the wrong unit. Geocaching: Hike and Seek with Your GPS by Erik Sherman. Because geocaching combines the outdoors, puzzles, and adventure, everyone-from kids to kayakers, and retirees to rock climbers-can easily become involved. You’ll join a rapidly expanding worldwide network of people who hide containers of ‘prizes’ in the wilderness, suburbs, and even in the middle of cities, then provide clues for others to discover them. Borrowing from the classic pursuits of orienteering and letterboxing, geocaching can be as easy as a walk in the park or as challenging as scuba diving to a hundred feet. You don’t need to be an expert in electronics, navigation, or even hiking to start. With this book, you’ll soon understand GPS technology, know how to find your way about, and be able to prepare for your next hike-and-seek adventure!
Wilderness Evasion: A Guide To Hiding Out and Eluding Pursuit in Remote Areas by Michael Chesbro. Do you need to get away from the pressures of the world and the gaze of Big Brother for a while? Do you plan to live or work in a remote area where you need to be able to take care of yourself? Do you want to develop the skills to remain undiscovered in the back country - even if others are searching for you? If so, Wilderness Evasion is for you. You don't have to be on the run to benefit from this unique survival book: it includes skills you can use every day in your real life. Whether you're heading into the woods for evasion purposes or just a little relaxation, you should know what this manual can teach you about survival medicine, emergency caching, communications, food and water procurement and storage, counter anti-tracking, and the psychological aspects of being alone in the back country, among other things. The ability to remain alive, self-reliant and in control of your environment - even in the remotest of areas - is one that few people possess these days. Learning the skills taught in this book can keep you alive for as long as you need to be in the wilderness. GPS for Dummies by Joel McNamara. GPS for Dummies provides general and practical information about GPS and digital mapping (specifically on the Windows platform). General cartography concepts and principles are presented including digital maps and mapping. Learning your way around a GPS, geocaching, turning your cell phone and PDA into a GPS receiver. Information on hardware requirements for mapping, connecting a GPS to a PC, and a number of software packages for creating topographic, aerial photograph, and three dimensional maps. Free Web-hosted map services. Manufacturer-specific GPS projects, listings of applicable Web sites, tips for printing maps, geocache websites, and information on PDAs and digital mapping. Appendices will include a guide to the various GPS and map manufacturers and the difference between the receivers. The book will provide essential information and resources so the reader can quickly understand how to use a GPS receiver as well as how to use and make digital maps. Outdoor Guide to Using Your GPS: Includes Tips for Campers, Hikers, Hunters & Anglers by Steve Featherstone. No matter what you're doing in the outdoors, you may need help navigating from place to place-and remembering how to get back. A compass and a map are excellent tools, and knowing how to use them will make it even easier to learn how to use your GPS. Topics include: straight-line navigation, getting around obstacles, uploading maps and databases, entering waypoints, recording a breadcrumb trail, how to choose a GPS model and caring for your GPS. The step-by-step instructions are accompanied by illustrations and photographs. Actual GPS screens are shown as the user sees them on his or her unit while navigating. In addition to a glossary of GPS terms and definitions, this book has a list of popular manufacturers, a list of software sources and an Index. Engineer's Guide to GPS. Introduction to GPS: The Global Positioning System by Ahmed El-Rabbany. If you're looking for an up-to-date, easy-to-understand treatment of the GPS (Global Positioning System), this one-of-a-kind resource offers you the knowledge you need for your work, without bogging you down with advanced mathematics. It addresses all aspects of the GPS, emphasizes GPS applications, examines the GPS signal structure, and covers the key types of measurement being utilized in the field today. You get an in-depth discussion on the errors and biases that affect GPS measurements, along with guidance on how to overcome them. Moreover, the book shows how the GPS can be used for a number of different accuracy levels. Datums, coordinate systems, and map projections are discussed in a simple manner, offering you a clear understanding of this widely misunderstood area. This unique reference also examines the integration of the GPS with other systems, and looks at future GPS modernization. Over 75 illustrations help clarify major topics throughout the book. GPS Satellite Surveying, Third Edition by Alfred Leick. GPS Satellite Surveying, Third Edition, includes all the material that made the first edition the standard work on the subject and provides up-to-date information on the most recent developments. Comprehensive and thorough in its presentation, GPS Satellite Surveying is designed to help the modern land information specialist gain full use of GPS surveying techniques and a firm understanding of the resulting measurements. The range of its coverage includes:
* Complete and mathematically rigorous theory of positioning with GPS that integrates astronomy, time, statistics, geodesy, and electronics
* Explanation of the geodetic foundations of GPS positioning
* Latest techniques of GPS positioning, such as ambiguity fixing on-the-fly (OTF) and rapid static
* Differential GPS (DGPS), with applications for aircraft navigation
* Full treatment of least-squares adjustment, including an extended discussion of the reliability of geodetic networks-material found in no other text
* Emphasis on elements common to surveying and precise navigation in order to provide a unified-theory perspective on GPS positioning Understanding Gps: Principles and Applications (Artech House Telecommunications Library) by Elliot D. Kaplan (Editor). A Hardcover book from 1996, but still a reference for engineers and scientists. From the benefits and fundamentals of Global Positioning Systems to insights into future applications in air, land, and marine navigation, this clear, comprehensive reference introduces readers to the underlying principles and latest developments in GPS. The book is unique in its coverage of key issues such as signal digitalization, carrier and code loop design, loop-aiding strategies and jamming effects on performance. 203 illus., 613 equations. Presents the fundamentals of position, velocity, and time determination using GPS. From system design to receiver architecture, this is by far the best general reference on GPS. Global Positioning Systems, Inertial Navigation, and Integration by Mohinder S. Grewal, Lawrence R. Weill, Angus P. Andrews. The only comprehensive guide to Kalman filtering and its applications to real-world GPS/INS problems. Written by recognized authorities in the field, this book provides engineers, computer scientists, and others with a working familiarity with the theory and contemporary applications of Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Inertial Navigational Systems, and Kalman filters. Throughout, the focus is on solving real-world problems, with an emphasis on the effective use of state-of-the-art integration techniques for those systems, especially the application of Kalman filtering. To that end, the authors explore the various subtleties, common failures, and inherent limitations of the theory as it applies to real-world situations, and provide numerous detailed application examples and practice problems, including GPS-aided INS, modeling of gyros and accelerometers, and WAAS and LAAS. Drawing upon their many years of experience with GPS, INS, and the Kalman filter, the authors present numerous design and implementation techniques not found in other professional references, including original techniques for: * Representing the problem in a mathematical model * Analyzing the performance of the GPS sensor as a function of model parameters * Implementing the mechanization equations in numerically stable algorithms * Assessing computation requirements * Testing the validity of results * Monitoring GPS, INS, and Kalman filter performance in operation In order to enhance comprehension of the subjects covered, the authors have included software in MATLAB, demonstrating the workings of the GPS, INS, and filter algorithms. In addition to showing the Kalman filter in action, the software also demonstrates various practical aspects of finite word length arithmetic and the need for alternative algorithms to preserve result accuracy. Integrated Geospatial Technologies: A Guide to GPS, GIS, and Data Logging by Jeff Thurston, Thomas K. Poiker, J. Patrick Moore. A complete, uniquely integrated approach to geotechnologies. Packed with basic theory and real-world applications, Integrated Geospatial Technologies uses a unique, integrative framework to present a balanced approach to such geotechnologies as GIS, GPS, digital photogrammetry, and visualization. The practical mix of theory and nuts-and-bolts information in this book will jump-start professionals into taking full advantage of the rich and affordable data-collecting opportunities now available since the deactivation of Selective Availability.
This highly visual resource offers informative line drawings, photographs of equipment and hardware, screenshots, and sidebars underscoring important points. Enlightening discussions by an international group of authors focus on the core theory of GPS and GIS, without being overly technical or software/hardware specific. With numerous case studies illustrating how to apply a variety of technologies, protocol, and standard practices to real-world projects, Integrated Geospatial Technologies answers such questions as:
· How do spatial technologies come together?
· Where can remotely sensed images be used?
· What are the advantages and disadvantages of using remotely sensed images?
· Which data can be used for visualization purposes and how can it be acquired?
· How can data be used on the Internet?
Integrated Geospatial Technologies is an essential resource for every professional working with GIS today, as well as students studying these technologies in a variety of fields, including geography, land-use planning, ecology, biology, economics, public administration, natural resources, forestry, surveying, and archaeology. Creating Location Services for the Wireless Web by Johan Hjelm. Covers the all-important standards that will enable location application development, and describes the architecture and operation of those services. Also discusses GIS standards and how to build a Web site that uses them. Location services are emerging as one of the most important and anticipated tools of the new wireless Web. For instance, these services enable you to instantly get a map of where you are using your handheld device. Or, by pressing one key, you can retrieve the yellow pages for your location. But there is an entire system behind the convenience that delivers a user’s location to the Web server. The first guide to developing user location applications
You are walking down a street and suddenly, your cell phone display flashes the news that you are 70 feet from a Starbuck's and that you are entitled to a dollar off your next purchase. You have just witnessed an example of user location services, one of the exciting new generations of cell phone and handheld services. This book describes the architecture and operation of this technology. It also familiarizes readers with the new location services development standard, shows how to programming with GIS, provides GUI design guidelines, and uses real-world examples to teach valuable lessons on how to successfully develop and deploy user location applications for the wireless Web. CD-ROM contains a host of tools for developing positioning and location services. Radio Tracking and Animal Populations by Joshua Millspaugh, John Marzluff. Radio tracking is now a routine tool of animal ecology and wildlife biology. Radio transmitters are attached to animals, allowing researchers to follow their subjects at a distance that will not disturb normal behaviour. Newer technologies now permit documentation of body temperature, heart rate, and other measures of activity level, as well as movement through the environment. Wildlife biology has gone high-tech. Radio Tracking and Animal Populations is divided into sections encompassing the various aspects of animal ecology that may be evaluated using radiotelemetry technology - experimental design, equipment and technology, animal movement, resource selection and demographics. Wildlife biologists at the leading edge of new developments in the technology and its application have joined forces. Especially useful will be the catalog of software currently available for analysis of data obtained in radiotelemetric studies.
Radiotelemetry and Animal Populations is a succinct synthesis of emerging technologies and their applications to the empirical and theoretical problems of population assessment. The book is divided into sections designed to encompass the various aspects of animal ecology that may be evaluated using radiotelemetry technology - experimental design, equipment and technology, animal movement, resource selection, and demographics. Wildlife biologists at the leading edge of new developments in the technology and its application have joined forces. GPS: The Easy Way by David Anthony Brawn. GPS The Easy Way takes you from GPS Novice through to GPS Accomplished and on to GPS Advanced Use in a series of practical exercises using Ordnance Survey maps. Explanations of What is GPS all the way through to the concepts behind the new Personal Navigator Files (PNFs) makes this the essential book for anyone thinking of using a GPS in UK or Europe. Practical exercises can be adapted to any area covered by OS mapping as you learn Waypoint Navigation before advancing to Track Log Navigation and on to using PNFs. copyright © GPS-practice-and-fun.com All Rights Reserved
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