GPS Accuracy #1 Study Questions

1. How do the ionosphere and troposphere affect GPS signals?

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2. What is multipath and how does it contribute to GPS error?

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3. Why are distance measurements from satellites to receivers called pseudoranges?

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4. Why are wider angles between satellites better?

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5. How do GPS receivers deal with GDOP?

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6. What is a PDOP mask? What do you think the GPS receiver will do if you are out
collecting data and the PDOP rises above the mask?

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7. What is differential correction?

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8. If someone tells you that a particular receiver is, after differential correction, accurate to
20 cm + 1 ppm RMS, what does that mean?

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9. List the 6 rigorous data collection techniques that are required to collect high accuracy
(post-processed carrier phase differential) data with the GeoXT receiver.

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10.What are the 6 primary sources of GPS error (from the slides) and what is their total
impact on GPS position calculation?

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11. List the 6 sources of GPS error (from the slides) and check each one that CAN be
corrected by DGPS?

12.How does GDOP affect the total GPS error budget?

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13.What is the range in accuracy among various GPS receivers?

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14. What are 4 TerraSync settings that affect the accuracy of GPS data (list and briefly
describe each)?

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