Questions for Chapter 4 About GPS Receivers
1. What is the most important part of a GPS receiver?
2. What is the horizontal accuracy of a civilian receiver?
3. What is the vertical accuracy of a civilian receiver?
4. Why does the accuracy of a civilian receiver randomly vary?
5. What is satellite geometry?
6. What does the term DOP refer to?
7. What is a multipath signal?
8. How does a multipath signal affect a receiver's accuracy?
9. Is the altitude provide by a GPS receiver accurate enough to use in navigation?
10. What does "DGPS ready" mean.
11. What is a map datum?
12. All datum points on earth?
13. Is a datum the same as a coordinate grid?
14. What is a coordinate grid?
15. What are the two most common grids?
16. Is it necessary to buy a receiver that can interface to a computer?
17. What is a channel?
18. Is a multichannel receiver better than a single channel receiver?
19. What is a waypoint?
20. What is the Goto function?
21. What is a route?
22. Can a GPS receiver replace a compass?
23. What is a bearing?
24. Can a GPS receiver compensate for declination?
25. What is the magnetic north setting on a receiver?
26. When should a receiver be set to the magnetic north mode?
27. When should a receiver be set to the true north mode?
28. Do the north-south grid lines on a map always point to the north pole (true north)?
29. What is the best unit of distance to use with the UTM grid.

 

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