Name : LALISAN, Rhea Bonieve A.

Date : February 27, 2015

Time : 1:00 PM

Area : MSU CFES

Weather: Sunny
Laboratory Exercise No. 1

Familiarization of the Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver (e-trex 30)

I. Objectives:
1.
2.

To know the basic features of the GPS receiver and,

To get familiar with use and accuracy of the GPS receiver.

II. Materials:
GPS Receiver
Notebook,
Pen/Marking pens
III. Procedure:
1.
2.
3.

Read the GPS Garmin Manual that is downloadable in the internet

Prepare the GPS receiver with a full charged battery
Turn on the GPS receiver using the lower button found in the upper right portion of the

4.
5.

When the device is turned on, icons will be seen in the monitor of the receiver.
Then get familiarize by clicking some icon that is seen in the receiver.

device.

III. Conclusion and Recommendations:

Hence, GPS receiver is less hassle and easy access to the location you want to get a coordinates.
It is less costly and not time consuming. You just need to familiarize the uses of the receiver. It is
recommended to use the device even in phone.

Name : LALISAN, Rhea Bonieve A.

Date : February 27, 2015
Time : 1:00 PM

Area : MSU CFES

Weather: Sunny

Laboratory Exercise No. 2

Area Calculation
I. Objectives:
1.
2.

To be able to calculate the entire selected area using GPS receiver.

To know the total area of the MSU Golf Course

II. Materials:
GPS Receiver
Notebook
Pen
III. Procedure:
1.
Prepare the GPS receiver with a full charged battery
2.
Select a parcel of land that is subject to calculation
3.
After switching on the GPS receiver go to area calculation menu then click it.
4.
Start walking in the whole selected area (be sure to walk in your normal pacing).
5.
Going back to your starting point, record the calculated data that can be found in the
GPS receiver.
6.
Sketch the entire area/field.
IV. Data:
Table 1:
Area

Total Area calculated using

GPS receiver (meter2)

Total Area calculated using

GPS receiver (hectares)

MSU Golf Course

73,528

7.3528

V. Conclusion and Recommendation:

Therefore, using a GPS receiver is easier to navigate and less hassle to calculate the entire area
and its accuracy is also favorable though sometimes GPS signals are not accurate due to some
complications such as buildings, trees canopy and the like. In just a matter of few hours you will get the
total area of a land compared to the traditional land survey practices. It is best to recommend that we
should walk with our normal pacing for us to get better accuracy because the calculation process will
depend on the person whose holding the receiver on how fast the person walk.

VI. Sketch:

Name : LALISAN, Rhea Bonieve A.

Date : March 05, 2015
Time : 4:00 PM

Area : MSU Fisheries Drive

Weather: Sunny

Laboratory Exercise No. 3

Open Traverse using GPS receiver

I. Objectives:
1.
2.

To determine the forward and backward direction using a GPS receiver

To know how to use GPS receiver while determining direction.

II. Materials:
GPS Receiver
Notebook
Pen
III. Procedure:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Prepare the GPS receiver with a full charged battery ( alternative is android phone which
GPS application is installed)
Select a parcel of land that is subject to determination of coordinates
After switching on the GPS receiver go to satellite then click it
Record the coordinates that can be found in the GPS receiver mark it as your first point.
Start walking with your normal pacing then stop when you arrive with your selected
second point.
Repeat procedure number four (4) then mark it as your second point
Repeat procedure number five (5) and six (6) for 5 times.
Record all the data in the field following the format in Table 1.

IV. Data:
Table 1.
Line
A
B
C
D
E

Latitude (N)
8.00056
8.00106
8.00143
8.00063
8.00111

Longitude (E)
124.26117
124.26197
124.26303
124.2631_
124.26345

Altitude
789
785
772
775
770

V. Results and Discussion:

The data in table 1 shows the coordinates of the area in terms of Latitude and its Longitude. The
data was gathered by selecting an area located in MSU Fisheries Drive, then establishing a first point
where the first coordinates was taken.

VI. Conclusion and Recommendation:

As a result of this laboratory exercise by using GPS in android phone, it can be said that its
more efficient and optimum surveying technique.

V. Sketch:
Pt 5

Pt 4