Van Sickle Basic GIS Coordinates, Third Edition

3. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4987-7463-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Smart phones, car navigation systems and now driverless cars are based on coordinates and coordinate systems. This book is about why coordinate systems work, and why they sometimes don’t work. The previous editions are based on the North American Datum(NAD 83), the horizontal control datum for the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America, and the North American Vertical Datum(NAVD 88). By tracking the dynamic nature of the Earth, NGS will provide a new National Spatial Reference System that is semi-dynamic. It will replace NAVD 88 with a GNSS/geoid datum and replace NAD 83 with a geocentric GNSS-based datum. These changes will be explained in the new edition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Van Sickle, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie GIS, Geoinformatik
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Bauingenieurwesen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foundation of a Coordinate System Uncertainty. Datums to the Rescue. Latitude and Longitude. Directions. Polar Coordinates. Building a Coordinate System. Legacy Geodetic Surveying. Ellipsoids. Realization of a Geodetic Datum. Geocentric Three-Dimensional Cartesian Coordinates. Replacement of NAD83. Transforming Coordinates. Heights. Evolution of the Vertical Datum. Ellipsoidal, Geoidal, and Orthometric Heights. Replacement of NAVD88. Two Coordinate Systems. State Plane Coordinates. UTM Coordinates. State Plane Coordinates. NAD 83. NAVD 88. Rectangular System. References. Exercises. Explanations and Answers. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Van Sickle has more than forty-five years of experience in GIS, GPS, surveying, mapping and imagery. He began working with GPS in the early 1980s when he supervised control work using the Macrometer, the first commercial GPS receiver. He created and led the GIS department at Qwest Communications for the company's 25,000-mile worldwide fiber optic network. He also led the team that built the GIS for natural gas gathering in the Barnett Shale.