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Modern Survey Tools:

GIS, GPS, DGPS, RTK, Remote

Sensing Total Station,
Sensing, Station EDM

The Global Positioning System (GPS)

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a navigational or

positioning system developed by the United States Department of
Defense.
f It was designed
g as a fast
f positioning
p g system
y for
f 24 hour a
day, three dimensional coverage worldwide.

It is based on a constellation of 24 active and 5 spare satellites

orbiting 10,900 miles above the earth. The GPS (NAVSTAR) satellites
have an orbital period of 12 hours and are not in geosynchronous
orbit (they are not stationary over a point on the earth). They
maintain a very precise orbit and their position is known at any given
moment in time. This constellation could allow a GPS user access to
up to a maximum of 8 satellites anywhere in the world.

Constellation = a gathering or an assemblage

Constellation is a terminology in Astronomy
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GPS provides Point Position (Latitude/Longitude) and

Relative Position (Vector). GPS can differentiate between
every square meter on the earth’s surface thus allowing a
new international standard for defining locations and
directions.
directions

The applications (military or civilian) for GPS are almost

limitless, from guiding a missile to a target with incredible
accuracy or tracking and monitoring the location of a city’s
emergency vehicles or providing a zero visibility landing
and air collision avoidance system to a variety of surveying
applications
applications.

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The Basic Principles of GPS

How positions are computed

Distance of GPS reciever is measured from each satellite

If we draw 3 sphere around 3 satellite
Then the intersecting point is the exact position of GPS reciever

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How satellite distance is measured

Each GPS satellite continually broadcasts a radio signal. Radio

waves travel at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) and
if we measure how long it took for the signal to reach us we
could compute the distance by multiplying the time in seconds
by 186,000 miles per second.

In order to measure the travel time of the radio signal, the

satellite broadcasts a very complicated digital code. The receiver
on the ground generates the same code at the exact time and
when the signal is received from the satellite
satellite, the receiver
compares the two and measures the phase shift to determine the
time difference.

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If the satellites are orbiting about 10,900 miles above the surface of
the earth and the radio signal travels at 186,000 miles per second, a
satellite directly above takes about 0.06 seconds to transmit its
signal to earth. To be able to measure the distance to the accuracy
needed, the satellite and the receiver must be perfectly in sync and
we must have the ability to measure time with extreme accuracy.

Each satellite is equipped with 4 atomic clocks which keep almost

perfect time and the receivers that we use can measure time to an
accuracy of 0.000000001 second. The problem is that the receivers
are not in sync with the atomic clocks. If the receiver is out of sync
with the satellite by even 0.001 of a second, the computed distance
would be off by 186 miles!

To solve this problem we include the measurement to an extra

satellite. The added sphere to the equation would intersect at
the same point as before if the receiver were in perfect sync
with the satellite. If the added sphere does not intersect at the
same point, then the clocks are not in perfect sync and a clock
offset for the receiver can be calculated. For accurate 3D
positions, 4 satellites must be in view of the receiver.

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The Ephemeris
table of values that gives the positions of astronomical objects in the
sky at a given time or times.

Once we know the distance to the satellite, we need to know

exactly where the satellite was at the moment of the measurement.
Receivers have an almanac stored in their memory which gives
each satellite’s position in the sky at any given time. Contradicting
what was mentioned earlier, the satellite’s orbit does decay
changing its position, altitude and speed.

This change is extremely minuscule and is monitored by the

Department of Defense every 12 hours and these variations
( h
(ephemeris i errors)) are transmitted
t itt d back
b k to
t the
th satellite.
t llit The
Th
satellite transmits a data message along with its pseudo-random
code. The data message contains information about its exact
orbital location (with the ephemeris error corrections) and its
system’s health.

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3 Segments of GPS
Space segment

Control
segment

User
segment

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Satellites for Positioning

♦ GPS Satellites (USA)
♦ GLONASS Satellites (EU)
Some GPS receivers are capable of
receiving signals from both satellites

Hand-held GPS receiver

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Differential GPS (DGPS)

To achieve sub-centimeter accuracies in positions, we

need a survey grade receiver and a technique called
Diff
Differential
ti l GPS.
GPS By
B placing
l i a receiver
i att a known
k
location, a total error factor which accounts for all the
possible errors in the system, can be computed which can
be applied to the position data of the other receivers in the
same locale. The satellites are so high-up that any errors
measured by one receiver could be considered to be
exactly the same for all others in the immediate area.

RTK = Real Time Kinematic

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The Nuclear Detection System (NDS

or NUDET)

Since 1980
1980, GPS satellites have carried a secondary
payload consisting of nuclear detonation sensors that
provide worldwide, near-real-time, threedimensional
location of nuclear detonations.

The GPS Nuclear Detonation Detection System is

managed as a joint program of the U.S. Air Force and the
Department of Energy (DoE).
(DoE)

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Applications of GPS and DGPS+RTK

♦ Navigation and vehicle tracking system

♦ Determination of existing road alignment
♦ Setting out new road alignments
♦ Monitoring ground movement with time
– Plate tectonics and earthquake source
– Land slide warning system

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Remote sensing
Remote sensing is simply measuring objects from a distance,
where the measuring device is not in direct contact with the object
being measured. Remote sensing devices can be active or passive.
Active devices emit electromagnetic radiation and measure
reflectance (or lack of reflectance) from an object. These include
active radar (LIDAR), sonar devices that detect fish or water
depth, and medical imaging devices. Passive systems measure
ambient electromagnetic radiation emitted from an object. Passive
devices include airborne photography, most satellite-based sensors,
and photography (without a flash).

Most broadly defined, remotely sensed data includes any

measurement made from a distance. This definition can include
sounds, smells, and other types of observations, but this course
focuses on data that can usually be displayed as an image.

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Application of remote sensing

♦ Policy making of a country
– Fishing
– Agriculture
– Detection of armed group/gang
– Conservation of forest, water bodies
– Movement of river channels
– Land use planning and control
– Road alignment
– Landslide detection
– Earthquake and plate movements

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Geographic Information System (GIS)

A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware,

software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and
displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.

GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and

visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns,
and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts.

A GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems by

looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and
easily shared.

GIS technology can be integrated into any enterprise information

system framework.

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ArcView and ArchGIS

are two GIS softwares

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A geographic information system (GIS), geographical

information system, or geospatial information system is
the system that captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and
presents data with reference to geographic location data. In
the simplest
p terms, GIS is the merging
g g of cartography,
g p y
statistical analysis, and database technology.

GIS may be used in archaeology, geography, cartography,

land surveying, public utility management, natural
resource management, precision agriculture,
photogrammetry, urban planning, emergency management,
landscape architecture, navigation,

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What goes beyond a GIS is a spatial data infrastructure

(SDI), a concept that has no such restrictive boundaries.

Therefore, in a ggeneral sense, the term describes anyy

information system that integrates, stores, edits, analyzes,
shares, and displays geographic information for informing
decision making.

GIS applications/softwares are tools that allow users to

create interactive queries (user-created searches), analyze
spatial information, edit data, maps, and present the results
of all these operations

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The year 1960 was the development of the world's first

true operational GIS in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada by the
federal Department of Forestry and Rural Development.
Developed by Dr. Roger Tomlinson, it was called the
"Canada Geographic Information System" (CGIS) and
was used to store, analyze, and manipulate data
collected for the Canada Land Inventory (CLI) – an
effort to determine the land capability for rural Canada
by mapping information about soils, agriculture,
recreation,
i wildlife,
ildlif waterfall,
f ll forestry,
f andd land
l d use at a
scale of 1:50,000.

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EDM (Electromagnetic
Distance Measurement)
♦ Two types of instruments
– Electronic or microwave type (50 m to 50
km)
– Electro-optical type (used by Civil Engrs), up
to 1 km
• Infra red carrier beam is emitted by diode of EDM
• the emitted beam is reflected by prism
♦ Kern Makometer is a latest high precision
EDM

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EDM
Reflector Prism

EDM Prism
360o Prism

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Total Station
♦ Total station = Theodolite + EDM
♦ Smart total station = Total Station + GPS
+ ?? + ??
♦ Robotic total station

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Smart Station / Master

Rover

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GPS guided construction

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GPS guided construction

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GPS guided construction

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GPS guided construction

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Videos from you tube

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