Manual of Offshore Surveying for Geoscientists and Engineers

Discussing all aspects of offshore surveying in a single volume, this book provides all algorithms necessary to develop complete software suites, and gives a large number of quality control criteria. It is invaluable to professional surveyors, offshore engineers and geophysicists, providing them with a wealth of data in a single volume. It is also a valuable reference work for hydrographic surveyors, seismic navigators and operations geophysicists.
This book brings together information on spheroids, datums, projections and binning; gives a complete listing of UKOOA P1/90 and P2/91 formats for data transfer; a field guide to the calibration of radio navigation systems and compasses, acoustic and laser measuring devices; GPS, including calibration, use and differential techniques; field manual for quality control of all aspects of offshore surveying; listing of typical specifications for inclusion in survey contracts; and a comprehensive glossary of relevant terms for offshore surveying.

1 Introduction1. - 2 Datums and projections. - 3 Accuracy. - 4 Introduction to computations. - 5 Kalman filters71. - 6 Radio positioning systems. - 7 GPS. - 8 Lasers, acoustics and compasses. - 9 High-resolution survey. - 10 Calibration. - 11 Planning the network. - 12 Processing and quality control. - 13 Binning systems. - 14 Typical specifications. - Appendix A UKOOA P1/90. - A. 1 General. - A. 2 Tape specification. - A. 3 Header record specification. - A. 4 Data record specification. - A. 5 Example header and data file. - Appendix B UKOOA P2/91. - B. 1 Introduction. - B. 2 Logical file structure. - B. 3 Storage media and physical file specification. - B. 4 General rules. - B. 5 Summary of record codes. - B. 6 Description of header records. - B. 7 Event data records (implicit time tag). - B. 8 Example P2/91 header and data.