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Re: Deviation Card with GPS
From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 2006 Jul 31, 07:49 -0500
"Getting Your Bearings: The Magnetic Compass and GPS":
<http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/papers.pdf/gpsworld.september03.pdf>
-- Richard
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Bill wrote:
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>>From Gary LaPook:
>>
>> As long as we are discussing compass deviation and compass correction
>> can anybody explain this one?
>>
>> My car has an electronic compass installed and the directions for
>> correcting it for deviation (of course the car manual didn't use these
>> technical terms) has you pushing a calibration button and then driving
>> the car in a slow circle. How does the compass figure out the deviation
>> from just the data it can capture while the car is driven in a circle?
>
>Darn, for an archive. Some good soul posted a link not to long ago,
>probably under the compass deviation thread, which lead to a link on
>compasses, GPS, fluxgate (go in circles) etc.
>
>I do not recall the link, so unless reposted search words might be,
>Innovation, magnetic compass, and Richard B. Langley, or "Getting your
>bearings, the magnetic compass and GPS."
>
>The math behind the the circle calibration is quite interesting.
>
>If you cannot find the article, I an email off list upon request.
>
>
>
>
>Bill
>
>
>>
>
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Richard B. Langley E-mail: lang@unb.ca
Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/
Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142
University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943
Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3
Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/
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From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 2006 Jul 31, 07:49 -0500
"Getting Your Bearings: The Magnetic Compass and GPS":
<http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/papers.pdf/gpsworld.september03.pdf>
-- Richard
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Bill wrote:
>
>>From Gary LaPook:
>>
>> As long as we are discussing compass deviation and compass correction
>> can anybody explain this one?
>>
>> My car has an electronic compass installed and the directions for
>> correcting it for deviation (of course the car manual didn't use these
>> technical terms) has you pushing a calibration button and then driving
>> the car in a slow circle. How does the compass figure out the deviation
>> from just the data it can capture while the car is driven in a circle?
>
>Darn, for an archive. Some good soul posted a link not to long ago,
>probably under the compass deviation thread, which lead to a link on
>compasses, GPS, fluxgate (go in circles) etc.
>
>I do not recall the link, so unless reposted search words might be,
>Innovation, magnetic compass, and Richard B. Langley, or "Getting your
>bearings, the magnetic compass and GPS."
>
>The math behind the the circle calibration is quite interesting.
>
>If you cannot find the article, I an email off list upon request.
>
>
>
>
>Bill
>
>
>>
>
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Richard B. Langley E-mail: lang@unb.ca
Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/
Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142
University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943
Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3
Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/
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