On-Line Geodesy Resources
Geodetic Publications

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested". -- Sir Francis Bacon, The Essays"

Tables of Contents in Geodesy
A tables of contents service for selected journals in geodesy, created and maintained by Mike and Mary Craymer and distributed via the Canadian Space Geodesy Forum (CANSPACE). Password no longer required for access.
SaLIS Recent Literature Reviews
Recent literature reviews for Surveying and Land Information Systems, edited by Mike & Mary Craymer. Password required for access.
Mike Craymer's Publications
Publications and presentations/posters at meetings authored/coauthored by Mike. Most recent ones are available on-line in PDF format.
Geodetic Survey of Canada Publications
- GPS Positioning Guide
  A user's guide to the Global Positioning System, Covering: GPS - Basic Concepts; Positioning - Basic Concepts; GPS Positioning Techniques and GPS Procedures.
- Guidelines and Specifications for GPS Surveys, Release 2.1
  These guidelines & specifications are intended for surveys using GPS for the GSD to ensure the efficient execution of survey operations within acceptable standards, both internally or under contract.
- Accuracy Standards for Positioning Ver. 1.0
  The standards presented here supersede the accuracy standards for horizontal control included in "Specifications and Recommendations for Control Surveys and Survey Markers".
- Other Papers
The Geographer's Craft Project by Peter Dana
An excellent online publication introducing the concepts of GPS and coordinate systems.
Alfred Leick's Publications on GPS
- Delineating Theory for GPS (Journal of Surveying Engineering, 118(2), 1992)
- Beyond Push-Button GPS (Journal of Civil Engineering, June, 1992)
- There is More to Learn (ACSM Bulletin, May/June, 1992)
- Introducing GPS Surveying Techniques (ACSM Bulletin, July/August, 1992)
- Kinematic GPS Surveying (ACSM Bulletin, November/December, 1992)
- Kinematic GPS continued (ACSM Bulletin, January/February, 1993)
- More on Kinematic GPS (ACSM Bulletin, March/April, 1993)
- The Least-Squares Tool Box (I) (ACSM Bulletin, July/August, 1993)
- The Least-Squares Tool Box (II) (ACSM Bulletin, September/October, 1993)
- The Least-Squares Tool Box (III) (ACSM Bulletin, November/December, 1993)
- GPS Vector Networks (ACSM Bulletin, January/February, 1994)
- CORS and Networking (ACSM Bulletin, March/April, 1994)
- Rapid Static GPS Surveying (ACSM Bulletin, May/June, 1994)
- Accelerating Ambiguity Fixing (ACSM Bulletin, July/August, 1994)
- On-The-Fly Ambiguity Fixing (ACSM Bulletin, November/December, 1994)
- GPS on the Infobahn (ACSM Bulletin, January/February, 1995)
- DGPS and WADGPS (ACSM Bulletin, March/April, 1995)
- Using GPS to Facilitate Accuracy Standards (ACSM Bulletin, May/June, 1995)
NIMA's Publications on Geodesy & GPS
- Geodesy for the Layman (HTML) - PDF (3,507 KB)
- DoD World Geodetic System 1984 - Its Definitions and Relationships with Local Geodetic Systems - TR8350.2 - PDF (1145 KB)
- Datums, Ellipsoids, Grids and Grid Reference Systems - TM 8358.1 (HTML) - PDF Ch 1-5 (6418 KB), Ch 6-7 (7747 KB), Ch 8-11 (6824 KB), Appendix (286 KB)
- The Universal Grids: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) and Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS) - TM8358.2 (2,883 KB) - PDF
- WGS 84 Coordinate Validation and Improvement for the NIMA and Air Force GPS Tracking Stations (NSWCDD/TR-96/201)
- Horizontal Datums
- Vertical Datums, Elevations, and Heights

Last revised 2008-01-03

On-Line Geodesy Resources Geodetic Publications

On-Line Geodesy Resources
Geodetic Publications