GPS for Land Surveyors, Third Edition

Good book

The book is excellent. It could be very helpful for people involved in environmental and engineering issues and has to solve or deal with problems in which GPS equipment can make things easier. The chapter about Coordinates is dealt in a clear way and can be understood by anyone with basic knowledge on earth sciences.

I have just completed reading the 3rd edition of this book.On the plus side, it offers a good introduction to the topic of GPS for land surveyors, and I believe this was the author's intent. Many of the diagrams are good and help to illustrate the concepts well.On the down side, there are several typos, and some editing in this respect would be an improvement. I noticed this especially with respect to the multiple choice questions at the end of each chapter. Answers are given with written explanation, however several of the answers do not match the explanation.Also, as a land surveyor, having no working experience with GPS equipment (other than handheld consumer grade units) I was hoping that this book might have offered a little more of a "hands on" or "how to" characteristic, with practical examples. However, I found it to be more on the broad theoretical side, and even lacking the intricate details of the theory - in short an introduction.The subject matter is broad and the technology rapidly changing. The author does a good job introducing the subject, and I'd recommend it as a first step in a surveyors education about GPS.

This text is chock full of all kinds of in depth knowledge concerning GPS. Van Sickle has several decades of experience, and draws from that experience throughout the documentation.However, he will frequently jump to extremely in depth and specific information before covering the broad topics. This can make the book difficult for beginners to follow. Thus the reduction of one star, since the book is typically used as an introductory material.Professionals in the industry will likely find this text a great resource.Purchase the 4th edition, out now.

Jumping around the book. It has a lot of interesting topics and not too complicated. Easy to follow format, great book!

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Excellent text for serious users.

The title GPS for Land Surveyors is misleading. How GPS Works, would be more discriptive. I paid 75.00 for this book because I thought it would be instructive for using a GPS system for land surveying (based on the title). Instead it tells you everything about GPS, EXCEPT how to use it for land surveying. It talks about frequency, wave lengths, phase variance, time shifting, the ionosphere, and even Einstein's theory of relativity. Everything except how to use a GPS system to do land surveying. Even if you were interested in these technical aspects the short paragraphs are little more than interesting anecdotes. So IMHO this book is a collection of the technical minutiae of GPS, not necessary for land surveying using a GPS system.