GPS for Everyone: How the Global Positioning System Can Work for You | 
| Author: L. Casey Larijani
Publisher: American Interface Corporation
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 746498
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0965966755
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.285
EAN: 9780965966757
ASIN: 0965966755
Publication Date: January 1998
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Condition: t39
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Product Description
In a few years’ time, GPS receiving devices will be as ubiquitous as cell phones are today. This plain English guide contains a full glossary with over 500 terms; a full bibliographic reference; and appendices on the history of navigation, time and technology, triangulation, and vendors. Beginning with the basics such as GPS satellites and signals, this book also discusses the popular uses of GPS such as devices for transportation. Also included are the technical uses for GPS such as defense, cartography, and surveying as well as costs and worldwide commercial opportunities.
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 GPS for Everyone July 5, 2001
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
GPS for Everyone is a compelling, exciting and informative read for professional resource and infrastructure mappers, monitors and managers, as well as for lay readers. After her insightful and helpful book on Virtual Reality, Larijani again engages us with an accurate, clear, timely guide to a high-tech topic. She takes us on a delightful historical and practical journey, using everyday words and amusing sketches, and covers the practical applications in spades. She answers the questions (1) What is GPS? (2) How does it work? (3) What can it do? (4) What can't it yet do? And (5) What's being done to turn (4) into (3)? Once opened, it's a hard book to close until finished!
 Wow! One great book about one great system. Essential. May 3, 1999
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book makes it all simple. And sexy. Well, sexy as technology goes. Almost everyone by now has seen or heard about GPS receivers and moving maps that pinpoint your location to within several feet. Anywhere on the globe. Something so spooky sounds impossible to understand, but Larijani covers it clearly and completely. ... The author even covers new and emerging job opportunities using the slick new capabilities. ... Larijani starts with the basics (such as how to navigate), tells how it works, who's involved, how to choose the right gear, what to do if signals degrade. She examines current uses in defense, mapping, environmental projects, earthquake prediction, utilities. And, since "our system" is usable world-wide, the overseas implications. One great book about one great system. Essential.
finally, something thorough and simple--a rare combination! November 19, 1998
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Anyone interested in this topic surely knows that most books on GPS are either oversimplified and incomplete or are far too technical for an on-the-bus read. Ms. Larijani has avoided those unappealing tendencies in her thorough, readable text. Everything seems to be covered, and for those areas that do need explaining, a complete glossary is there to help. A considerate effort by the author to bring this technology "down-to-earth," tangible to any who want to know. Strongly recommended.
 A great deal of useful information, poorly communicated. October 12, 1998
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
GPS and its many applications are addressed, including likely future developments. However, the author provides far too much detail about non-GPS systems and devices, making this a pretty boring read.
If you are interested in GPS, this is the book for you! September 16, 1998
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What I liked most about this book was that it was so readable. As a non-technical person who was interested in learning more about how GPS works, I found this to be the perfect book. The author does a great job of writing for the layman. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in GPS.
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