Geodesy for the Layman

Basic Geodesy

Geodetic and Control Surveying

Photogrammetric Mapping

Survey Markers and Monumentation

NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Surveying

Topographic Surveying

Geotechnical Investigations

Cartography

Cartography Map Mathematics

Instructions for the Survey of Public Lands of the United States (1973)

Control Leveling -NOAA TR NOS 73 NGS 8 (May 1978)

Establishment of Calibration Base Lines - NOAA TM NOS NGS 8 (February 1994)

Geodetic Bench Marks - NOAA Manual NOS NGS 1 (September 1978)

Datums, Ellipsoids, Grids and Grid Reference Systems

Use of Climatological and Meteorological Data in the Planning and Execution of NGS Field Operations - NOAA TM NOS NGS 1 (December 1975)

DoD World Geodetic System 1984 - Its Definition and Relationships with Local Geodetic Systems

Error Theory as Applied to Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy

Principles of Error Theory and Cartographic Applications

Horizontal Control - NOAA TR NOS 88 NGS 19 (June 1980)

Establishment of a GPS High Accuracy Reference Geodetic Network in the Carribean (March 1998)

Geographic Center of the United States

Washington Monument Height Mondernization Project

Establishing Vertical Control Using GPS Satellite Surveys

FGCS Specifications and Procedures to Incorporate Electronic Digital/Bar-Code Leveling Systems (July 1994)

Orthometric Height Determination Using GPS Observations and the Integrated Geodesy Adjustment Model - NOAA TR NOS NGS 32 (April 1985)

The New Adjustment of the North American Vertical Datum (November 1996)

Need for a Multipurpose Cadastre (January 1980)

Adjustment of Geodetic Field Data Using a Sequential Method - NOAA TM NOS NGS 3

Direct and Inverse Solutions of Geodesics on the Ellipsoid with Application of Nested Equations

GPS-Assisted Phototriangulation Package (GAPP) - NOAA TM NOS C&GS 2 (November 1989)

Pseudo-Kinematic GPS Results Using the Ambiguity Function Method- NOAA TM NOS NGS 52 (May 1990)

Overview of the Integrated Digital Photogrammetric Facility (November 1989)

State Readjustments at the National Geodetic Survey 1994

Reducing the Profile of Sparse Symmetric Matrices - NOAA TM NOS NGS 4 (June 1976)

Use of Calibration Base Lines - NOAA TM NOS NGS 10 (December 1977)

Global Positioning System Carrier Phase: Description and Use (January 1985)

GPS CORS and Precise Orbit Data from the National Geodetic Survey (April 1996)

A National Spatial Data System Framework: Continuously Operating GPS Reference Stations (September 1994)

National Continuously Operating Reference Station (National CORS) Site Monumentation

-- Appendix A: Installation of the National CORS Station Prototype

-- Appendix B: Guidelines for Setting a CORS Monument

NADCON - The Application of Minimum-Curvature-Derived Surfaces In The Transformation of Postitional Data From the North American Datum of 1927 to the North American Datum of 1983. - NOAA TM NOS NGS 50 (January 1990)

State Plane Coordinate System of 1983 - NOAA Manual NOS NGS 5 (January 1989)

Understanding the State Plane Coordinate Systems (January 1977)

The State Coordinate Systems (A Manual for Surveyors) SP 235 (Revised 1977)

State Plane Coordinates by Automatic Data Processing SP 62-4 (1986 reprint)