GPS Field Procedures - Recommendations

[Brian Christensen]

Any of the NGS special publications or technical memorandums having to do with GPS are great sources of information. A bit overkill for most of what the regular Joe Surveyor does, but they will give you a strong understanding of what is acceptable field procedure for static GPS surveys. CalTrans has specifications for RTK surveys that are really good to incorporate into your field procedure as well.

Here are some links to a couple of technical papers:

http://geodesy.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/NGS59% ... INAL-2.pdf

http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/row/landsurvey ... urveys.pdf

[Paul Goebel]

I saw a NGS presentation at the last Survey and Engineering Summit in San Diego where I think they presented:

http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/NGSRea ... v2.0.2.pdf

These are draft guidelines for RTK.