http://www.freebookspot.in Latest books added today en-us http://www.freebookspot.in/logorss.jpg http://www.freebookspot.in 160 43 http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45610 Linear Algebra, Geodesy and GPS discusses algorithms, generally expressed in MATLAB, for geodesy and global positioning. Three parts cover basic linear algebra, the application to the (linear and also nonlinear) science of measurement, and the GPS system and its applications. This book has many strengths. It offers a variety of points of view. It is complete, helpful, and you may find an explanation that appeals to you. .A popular article from (June 1997) "The Mathematics of GPS" is included as an introduction. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. Part I: Linear Algebra. Chapter 1: Vectors and Matrices; Chapter 2: Solving Linear Equations; Chapter 3: Vector Spaces and Subspaces; Chapter 4: Orthogonality; Chapter 5: Determinants; Chapter 6: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors; Chapter 7: Linear Transformations. Part II: Geodesy. Chapter 8: Leveling Networks; Chapter 9: Random Variables and Covariance Matrices; Chapter 10: Nonlinear Problems; Chapter 11: Linear Algebra for Weighted Least Squares; Chapter 12: Constraints for Singular Normal Equations; Chapter 13: Problems with Explicit Solutions. Part III: Global Positioning System (GPS). Chapter 14: Global Positioning System; Chapter 15: Processing of GPS Data; Chapter 16: Random Processes; Chapter 17: Kalman Filters. Read more...
]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=44801 Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS is an introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across a wide range of disciplines for the non-specialist reader. * Examines the key influences Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography have on the study of geography and other related disciplines * Represents the first in-depth summary of the “new cartography” that has appeared since the early 1990s * Provides an explanation of what this new critical cartography is, why it is important, and how it is relevant to a broad, interdisciplinary set of readers * Presents theoretical discussion supplemented with real-world case studies * Brings together both a technical understanding of GIS and mapping as well as sensitivity to the importance of theory Read more...
]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=39860 In this new edition of the book, only minor changes were made to the original nine chapters but three new chapters treat topics of increasing interest to GPS users and equipment developers. One topic, improving the GPS receiver sensitivity may extend their operations into buildings, which is becoming important for emergency rescue and urban warfare. Thus, Chapters 10 and 11 are devoted to the processing of weak signals, as well as the limitations of autonomous GPS receivers. These same approaches are also applicable to GPS receivers in noisy environments and under interference conditions. Read more...
]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=37391 Innovationen entziehen sich immer deutlicher einer technologisch verkurzten Sichtweise. Angesichts der gestiegenen Dynamik und Komplexitat der Umfeldbedingungen fur Unternehmen kommen der Fruherkennung und dem Monitoring technologischer, wirtschaftlicher, politischer und gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen immer gro?ere Bedeutung fur den Innovationserfolg zu. Dies gilt besonders fur dynamische Technologiefelder, wie dem Pervasive Computing. Die fortschreitende Nutzung des Internets, die Einbettung von Elektronikkomponenten in Alltagsgegenstande und der Trend zur standigen Vernetzung („Always on - Anywhere and Anytime") sind unubersehbar. Die vorliegende Arbeit ermittelt okologische Veranderungspotenziale und geht der Frage nach, wie Nachhaltigkeitsanforderungen bereits fruhzeitig in Innovationsprozesse einbezogen werden konnen. Mit Blick auf diese Aufgabe wurde das Konzept der „Integrierten Technologie-Roadmap" entwickelt. Mit der Integrierten Technologie-Roadmap wird es moglich, mehrere Dimensionen zukunftsfahigen Wirtschaftens in dynamischen Technologiefeldern simultan zu betrachten. Sie fragt nach technologischen Beitragen zur Bewaltigung von gesellschaftlichen, okonomischen, politischen und okologischen Herausforderungen und ruckt die Sicht der Anwender in den Mittelpunkt. Beides hilft Unsicherheiten bei Technologieentwicklung, Markteinfuhrung und Geschaftsmodellen zu minimieren und die Richtungssicherheit zu erhohen. Read more...
]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=36540 Over the past few years, the growth of GNSS applications has been staggering. And, this trend promises to continue in the foreseeable future. Placing emphasis on applications development, this unique and timely resource offers a highly practical overview of GNSS (global navigation satellite systems), including GPS. The applications presented in the book range from the traditional location and directions...to more exotic areas, such as remote sensing and space weather monitoring. Written by leading experts in the field, the book presents the fundamental underpinnings of GNSS and provides professionals with detailed examples of various GNSS applications. Practitioners also gain keen insight on the integration of GNSS with other signals and sensors. This title includes a CD-ROM! It contains valuable processing tools and data sets to complement many of the applications presented in the book. Read more...
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]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=27469 Remote Sensing and GIS Integration: Theories, Methods, and Applications: Theory, Methods, and Applications By Qihao Weng * Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional * Number Of Pages: 416 * Publication Date: 2009-10-19 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 007160653X * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071606530 Product Description: Maximize a geographical information tool by incorporating it with up-to-date remotely sensed data GIS is predominantly a data-handling technology, while remote sensing is a data retrieval and analysis technology. This book addresses the need to combine remotely sensed data with cartographic, socioeconomic, and environmental data and GIS functionalities. Remote Sensing and GIS Integration begins with theoretical discussions, followed by a series of application areas in urban and environmental studies that employ the integration of remote sensing and GIS. Each application area is examined through analysis of state-of-the-art methods and detailed presentations of one or more case studies. Read more...
]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=24381 Ubiquitous Positioning (The Gnss Technology and Applications) By Robin Mannings * Publisher: Artech House Publishers * Number Of Pages: 203 * Publication Date: 2008-05-31 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1596931035 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781596931039 Product Description: This groundbreaking resource introduces you to the emerging field of Ubiquitous Positioning - positioning systems that identify the location and position of people, vehicles and objects in time and space in the digitized networked economy. The future and growth of ubiquitous computing will be fueled by the convergence of many other areas of technology, from mobile telematics, Interent technology, and location systems, to sensing systems, geographic information systems, and the semantic web. This first-of-its-kind, forward-looking volume explores ubiquitous computing from a convergence perspective, offering you a road map to this burgeoning field. Read more...
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]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=13458 Design State-of-the-Art GPS/Galileo Dual RF Receivers This authoritative guide walks you through the process of designing, fabricating, and testing a highly integrated, low-noise, low-power, and low-cost RF front-end for GPS and Galileo, the leading satellite-based global navigation systems. Everything from standards analysis to characterization of the design is covered in the book. GPS Andamp; Galileo focuses on developing seamlessly interoperable receivers that can access the wide variety of new services offered by these systems, such as increased service availability, centimeter-sensitive accuracy, emergency management, and data confidentiality. By the end of the book, you will have a prototype that achieves peak performance in terms of gain, NF, and current consumption, making it suitable for any high-accuracy, portable application. Discover how to: Determine the specifications of an interoperable dual GPS/Galileo RF front-end Design all RFIC blocks, including the receiver chain, PLL, control logic, and PADs Select the required external components Implement optimal floor planning Perform validation testing of the integrated RF front-end Understand real-world fields of application Gauge the performance of the front-end within a receiver linked to a full-solution platform Read more...
]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=9469 From the Back Cover Remote sensing and geographical information science (GIS) have advanced considerably in recent years. However, the potential of remote sensing and GIS within the environmental sciences is limited by uncertainty, especially in connection with the data sets and methods used. In many studies, the issue of uncertainty has been incompletely addressed. The situation has arisen in part from a lack of appreciation of uncertainty and the problems it can cause as well as of the techniques that may be used to accommodate it. This book provides general overviews on uncertainty in remote sensing and GIS that illustrate the range of uncertainties that may occur, in addition to describing the means of measuring uncertainty and the impacts of uncertainty on analyses and interpretations made. Uncertainty in Remote Sensing and GIS provides readers with comprehensive coverage of this largely undocumented subject: * Relevant to a broad variety of disciplines including geography, environmental science, electrical engineering and statistics * Covers range of material from base overviews to specific applications * Focuses on issues connected with uncertainty at various points along typical data analysis chains used in remote sensing and GIS Written by an international team of researchers drawn from a variety of disciplines, Uncertainty in Remote Sensing and GIS provides focussed discussions on topics of considerable importance to a broad research and user community. Read more...
]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=8675 This thoroughly updated second edition of an Artech House bestseller brings together a team of leading experts who provide a current and comprehensive treatment of the Global Positioning System (GPS). The book covers all the latest advances in technology, applications, and systems. The second edition includes new chapters that explore the integration of GPS with vehicles and cellular telephones, new classes of satellite broadcast signals, the emerging GALILEO system, and new developments in the GPS marketplace. This single-source reference provides a quick overview of GPS essentials, an in-depth examination of advanced technical topics, and a review of emerging trends in the GPS industry. Engineers can use this book to build GPS receivers and integrate them into navigational and communications equipment. Executives can turn to this book to determine how technology is affecting markets and how best to invest their companies? resources. The book also serves as a handy resource for electrical engineering students looking to advance their studies and careers in GPS. About the Author Elliott Kaplan is a principal engineer at the MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts. He is the New England Section Officer of the Institute of Navigation.. He earned his M.S. in electrical engineering from Northeastern University. Christopher Hegarty is a senior principal engineer at the MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA. He received a D.Sc. in electrical engineering from The George Washington Un Read more...
]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=2381 This reference and handbook describes theory, algorithms and applications of the Global Positioning System (GPS/Galileo). It is primarily based on source-code descriptions of the KSGsoft program developed by the author at the GFZ in Potsdam. The theory and algorithms are extended and verified for a new development of a multiple functional GPS/Galileo software. Besides the concepts such as the unified GPS data processing method and the numerical solution of the variation equations, as well as the general ambiguity search criteria reported in the first edition, there are several highlights reported. Such as the equivalent principle and its applications, the theory of independent parameterisation, the diagonalisation algorithm, etc. Mathematically rigorous, the book begins with the basics of coordinate and time systems and satellite orbits, as well as GPS observables, and deals with topics such as physical influences, observation equations and their parameterisation, adjustment and filtering, ambiguity resolution, data processing, and the determination of perturbed orbits. Read more...
]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=2282 There is an ever-growing supply of information about the Global Positioning System. Unfortunately, these new (and now, some not so new) documents seem to be located at each end of the comprehension scale: either at the "gee-whiz" level which basically describes how interesting and useful this new utility is, or at the engineer's level which starts out with Keplerian orbits and Hopfield Modeling. What seems to be missing is a comprehensive, yet easy to understand, presentation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for people who may have a very real need to apply this new technology but lack the basic understanding necessary to make important, and often expensive, decisions about it. Thus this book. This book is designed to support an introductory course on the fundamentals of the Global Positioning System based on a series of graphic representations and distilled concept-bullets. Math is scrupulously avoided-that level of information is readily available through numerous highly technical publications and is no more necessary for most users than is a textbook on electronics necessary for the purchaser of a television set. Each concept is presented in one to four graphics found in this book on the left page of each page-pair. The opposing right page presents a brief discussion of the concept. While much more could be said on each of the topics presented, only those highlights considered by the author to be of most immediate value to the geographer, project manager, field Read more...
]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=965 * This is the "user manual" that didn't come with any of the 30 million GPS receivers currently in use, showing readers how to modify, tweak, and hack their GPS to take it to new levels! * Crazy-cool modifications include exploiting secret keycodes, revealing hidden features, building power cords and cables, hacking the battery and antenna, protecting a GPS from impact and falls, making a screen protector, and solar-powering a GPS * Potential power users will take the function and performance of their GPS to a whole new level by hacking into the firmware and hacking into a PC connection with a GPS * Fear not! Any potentially dangerous mod (to the device) is clearly labeled, with precautions listed that should be taken * Game time! Readers can check out GPS games, check into hacking geocaching, and even use a GPS as a metal detector Read more...
]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=832 This thoroughly revised edition of the Artech House bestseller, Introduction to GPS: The Global Position System offers professionals and students an up-to-date, easy-to-understand treatment of this tremendously important technology. The second edition includes a wealth of brand new material, including a chapter on GPS satellite orbit and new coverage of today's hottest issues, such as precise point positioning and location based services. Without bogging readers down with advanced mathematics, the book addresses all aspects of the GPS, emphasizes GPS applications, examines the GPS signal structure, and covers the key types of measurement being utilized in the field today. Practitioners get an in-depth discussion on the errors and biases that affect GPS measurements, along with advice on how to overcome them. Moreover, the book shows how the GPS can be used for a number of different accuracy levels. Datums, coordinate systems, and map projections are discussed in a simple manner, offering a clear understanding of this widely misunderstood area. This unique reference also examines the integration of the GPS with other systems, and looks at future GPS modernization. Over 90 illustrations help clarify major topics throughout the book. Read more...
]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=764 This book is organized for use as a text for an introductory course in GPS technology at the senior level or as a first-year graduate level course in GPS, INS, and Kalman filtering. It provides engineers, computer scientists, and others with a working familiarity with the theory and contemporary applications of Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Inertial Navigational Systems (INS), and Kalman filters. Throughout, the focus is on solving real-world problems, with an emphasis on the effective use of state-of-the-art integration techniques for those systems, especially the application of Kalman filtering. To that end, the authors explore the various subtleties, common failures, and inherent limitations of the theory as it applies to real-world situations, and provide numerous detailed application examples and practice problems, including GPS-aided INS, modeling of gyros and accelerometers, and WAAS and LAAS. Read more...
]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=164 Mapping Hacks is a collection of one hundred simple techniques available to developers and power users who want to draw digital maps. You'll learn where to find the best sources of geographic data and then how to integrate that data into your own creations. With so many industrial-strength tips and tools, Mapping Hacks effectively takes the sting out of digital mapmaking. Read more...
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