GPS Receivers and Integration of GPS/GIS Technology

Abstract

The present study shows that GPS is a powerful tool providing a unique position of a specific feature. With this information, one can navigate back to it. However, one cannot relate this "feature position" to any other "feature position" unless one is standing at the site and other features are visible. GIS by itself provides great analysis capability but to achieve that one needs plenty of good data. As explained earlier, some data is available but a lot of other data needs to be collected to allow the full capabilities of GIS to be utilized.