Contents: 1.
Geodesy 2.
Global Positioning System 3.
WGS 84 and Indian Geodetic System 4.
Didderential GPS (DGPS) 5.
Signal Processing GPS Observables 6.
Error Budget and Corrections 7.
GPS Applications 8.
GPS Glossary 9. Articles/Columns on GPS |
About the Author:
Nand
Kishore Agrawal, born in 1941, started his career in
Surveying profession in 1963 by joining in Survey of India. He retired as
Director, Survey Training Institute of Survey of India in July 2001 after 38 years
service to Geodesy, Surveying and Mapping. He distinguished himself as
Surveyor, Teacher, Geodesist and Administrator. He has been teaching Geodesy,
GPS, Map projections and all survey subjects since last more than 20 years. He
studied Satellite Geodesy under the guidance of Professor Paul Cross at
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom in 1986-87. He was Head,
Faculty of Geodesy and Computer Science in Survey Training Institute from 1993
to 2001. He has been teaching Geodesy and GPS to M. Tech course as Guest
faculty, at JNTU Hyderabad.
He has been taking lectures in these subjects at
various institutes such as Anna University, Chennai, IIT Kanpur, Engineering
Staff College, Hyderabad etc., on invitation. He was fellow of Institution of
Surveyors (India), Member of Institution of Engineers (India), and Member of
Indian National Cartographic Association. He was National Correspondent,
International Association of Geodesy. He has published many papers/article in
GPS, geodesy and related subjects in various GIS magazines in India. He is now
Advisor “Geodesy and GIPS”, and also conducts in-house courses in related
subjects. |
