SURV 0104 - Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)

3 Credit Hours

This course teaches fundamental concepts in the use of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) to students preparing for work in the geospatial industries and professions. Students will understand spatial referencing concepts, and the similarities and differences between the leading global systems. Topics include introduction to GNSS receivers and GNSS software systems that are used to collect, correct, map, and analyze geospatial data. Elementary geophysical applications of GNSS will be learned. It also includes a discussion of and application of meter level, sub-meter level, and cm-level technologies and the results that can be generated from them in various surveying and mapping situations. Exercises using static, and kinematic surveying will be done, including design and processing. Students will learn to use the National Geodetic Survey’s (NGS’s) OPUS system to perform and deliver networked observation results. In all cases, there is a concentration on the fundamental issues so that students will gain an understanding of the basic limitations of the system and how to extend them application to areas not yet fully explored.

Pre-requisites: SURV 0102 - Surveying II, with a grade of “C” or better.