GPS Made Easy: Using Global Positioning Systems in the Outdoors
- ISBN-10
- 0898865921
- ISBN-13
- 9780898865929
- Category
- Sports & Recreation / Outdoor Skills
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Mountaineers
- Author
- Lawrence Letham
Description
Introduction to the Global Positioning System (GPS). Why buy a GPS Receiver? Backing up your GPS Receiver. About GPS Receivers. Using UTM Coordinates on a hiking trip. More UTM and collecting water samples in the desert. GPS navigation in a whiteout. Latitude, longitude and a Kayaking trip. More latitude, longitude and a sailboat rally. Small scale maps and a road trip. Recovering from disaster. GPS receivers and personal computers. Another input device. Other grids. Differential GPS. Degrees, minutes, seconds and mils.
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