Challenge 2 - Global Positioning System

Challenge 2 - Global Positioning System

Part One - Gathering data from the field: (starting over the long weekend)

Familiarize yourself with the Garmin GPS 12 over the long weekend.
If you are going on a trip, drive, hike or walk around town, use the TRACKING function to capture where you've been. This could be as simple as your drive from campus home and back or a walk around Westwood Village. We will download that track when you return from the long weekend.
After you return from the long weekend, I will provide you with some locations on campus that I would like you to MARK as WAYPOINTS.
I will also provide you with some LATITUDEs and LONGITUDEs and ask you to navigate to those places and report the feature that you find there.

Part One - Processing field data with your application: (after the long weekend)

I will provide you with a project file for an application that will help you visualize your GPS TRACK.
I will ask you customize the application and use it to display your data.

Part Two - GPS Treasure Hunt

Keep in mind that there are at least three distinctly different criteria used to judge the veracity (truthfulness) of any measurement. Consider the differences when working with your GPS units:

Precision - The smallest numerical reading that our instrument gives us. With the Garmin GPS-12 this is 0.001 minutes.
Repeatability - The extent of agreement between readings taken at different times or under different circumstances.
Accuracy - The extent to which the measurement coincides with reality.

Point	Person	Description of UCLA Control Point	Notes	North	West	UCLA Northing (feet)	UCLA Easting (feet)
601		Scribed "X" in concrete circled in white paint. No number evident.				-122.25	-1428.64
527	Christina	Brass monument disk #527 centered on West edge of landing above Janss Steps.	+/- 25.2 +/- 17.0 +/- 17.7	N 34 04 20.0 N 34 04 19.9 N 34 04 19.9	W 118 26 34.4 W 118 26 34.2 W 118 26 34.3	0.01	-1248.75
530	Miko	Brass monument disk #530 centered on East edge of walk East of Royce and Powell.		N 34 04.331' N 34 04.332' N 34 04.333'	W118 26.500' W118 26.498' W118 26.500'	0.01	-876.68
700	Dave	Somewhere in the center of the flower bed. No marker evident.	-61 to 516 elev	N 34d 4.338'	W 118d 26.361'	0.00	0.00
704	Jeff	Brass monument disk (no number) centered on the red concrete curb. Since it is on the centerline it must be #704.		N 34 04.328' N 34 04.334' N 34 04.334'	W 118 26.287' W 118 26.266' W 118 26.266'	00.00	300.30
	Christina	Bruin Bear	+/- 15.2	N 34 04 15.6	W 118 26 42.1
	Christina	Bruin Bear	+/- 14.8	N 34 04 15.5	W 118 26 41.9
	Christina	Bruin Bear	+/- 14.7	N 34 04 15.8	W 118 26 42.2
	Miko	Bruin Bear	+/- 27.6ft	N 34 04.262	W 118 26.716
	Miko	Bruin Bear	+/- 29.0ft	N 34 04.259	W 118 26.707
	Miko	Bruin Bear	+/-28.8ft	N 34 04.257	W 118 26.697
	Dave	Bruin Bear	449	N 34d 4.250'	W 118d 26.696'
	Jeff	Bruin Bear

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What a brass monument looks like:

Find the coordinates of the bronze monument. Take 3 averaged measurements and email them to me. We will then calculate how accurately these agree with the UCLA measurements using the Latitude/Longitude Distance Calculator.

Find the architectural/artistic feature at N 34d04.206' W 118d26.447' Describe it unambiguously in your notes.
Find the coordinates of the bronze "Bruin Bear" sculpture. Take 3 averaged measurements and email them to me.
Dave: , , alt. ft.

Please turn in the following on paper:

A cover page with a color screen shot of your application running.
The source code printout of your application (the unit1.cpp file).
A printout of your raw GPS data.
A printout of your WayPoint way point and tracking maps.

Please turn in the following on floppy:

The executable file (yourname-triangle.exe).
The six essential project files:

Please make copies of everything you turn in for your own reference.
I will not return the papers you turn in (I intend to keep them to impress my colleagues with your work).