Satellite Positioning - The Surveyor's Operational Requirement

The object of this paper is to develop surveyors' operational requirements for satellite positioning systems for the measurement of coordinates at positions which are inaccessible by conventional surveying methods. The paper briefly reviews positioning requirements with some comments on necessary accuracies, difficulties and technique options. Further developments to the existing capabilities of the Transit satellite positioning system are then suggested and the paper ends with some comments on the way that the surveying profession itself might develop in order to meet the needs of this relatively new surveying method