A review of satellite positioning systems for civil engineering

Gethin Wyn Roberts; Chris Brown; Xu Tang

doi:10.1680/cien.15.00013

A review of satellite positioning systems for civil engineering

Gethin Wyn Roberts
, Chris Brown
, Xu Tang

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Abstract

This paper informs and updates civil engineers of the status and advances of global navigation satellite systems, and how this will affect the profession in the near future. An overview of the various global and regional systems is given. Real data are used to show the potential precision of the US Global Positioning System and other global navigation satellite systems, as well as the advantages of using a multisystem
approach. The results illustrate that there is a clear increase in the availability of satellites through a multi-system approach, as well as an improvement in the resulting coordinate precision.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	185-192
Number of pages	8
Journal	Proceedings of the ICE - Civil Engineering
Volume	168
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1680/cien.15.00013
Publication status	Published - Aug 2015

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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

land surveying
GPS
Deformation monitoring
suspension bridge

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