ABSTRACT
The prospects for the success of a GPS project are directly proportional to the quality and training of the people doing it. The handling of the equipment, the on-site reconnaissance, the creation of eld logs, and the inevitable last-minute adjustments to the survey design all depend on the training of the personnel involved for their success. There are those who say the operation of GPS receivers no longer requires highly qualied survey personnel. That might be true if effective GPS surveying needed only the pushing of the appropriate buttons at the appropriate time. In fact, when all goes as planned, it may appear to the uninitiated that GPS has made experienced eld surveyors obsolete. But when the unavoidable breakdowns in planning or equipment occur, the capable people, who seemed so superuous moments before, suddenly become indispensable.
