The Civil Engineering Portal - Surveying - GPS

Technical Articles

Application: GPS Cleans Up After a Thunderbolt
A crashed Air Force plane prompts an extensive remediation effort, using GPS and other technologies.

Engineering and Design - NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Surveying
Engineer manual from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

GPS Applications in Wastewater Management
The paper presents methods on integrating GIS and GPS data, review of GPS equipment and software, and GPS accuracy issues.

GPS Strain Measurement Spectrum and Potential Benefit of Collocation with Modern Broadband Seismographic Network
A NASA technical report (PDF format file).

Monitoring Steel Cell Placement Using Differential GPS at Lock and Dam 24, Mississippi River
Special report prepared by Topographic Engineering Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Preserving the Past
A feature article on how to use GPS technology to document and protect historic buildings.

Surface Transportation and Global Positioning System Improvements: L5 and DGPS
Several proposed improvements to the Global Positioning System (GPS) are likely to benefit surface transportation. The two primary improvements are L5, the second civilian GPS downlink frequency, and Differential GPS (DGPS).