Peter H. Dana, Ph.D.
P.O. Box 1297
Georgetown, Texas 78627
Phone: (512) 869-1450
pdana@pdana.com
www.pdana.com
Consultant
Electronic Navigation, Precise Positioning, and
Geographic Information Systems Research and Development
World Wide Web
Materials
From:
The Geographer’s Craft
Project, Department of Geography, University of Connecticut
Overviews:
The GPS
Overview
The
Map Projection Overview
The
Coordinate System Overview
The
Geodetic Datum Overview
From:
The National
Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
Units:
Unit 013 - Coordinate
Systems Overview
Unit 015 - The
Shape of the Earth
Unit
017 – Global Positioning System Overview
From:
GPS World
Article:
Dana, Peter H. 1998.
Nicaragua's "GPSistas" Mapping Their Lands
on the Caribbean Coast. GPS World (September).
Other On-Line
Publications:
Maps
Mann,
Charles C., Peter H. Dana, and William Doolittle 2013. Humanized Landscapes
Before 1492.
Papers
Dana, Peter H. 2011. GIS
Methods and Considerations, Chapter 4 in: Archaeological Field Survey: Bradano to Basento. The Chora of Metaponto 3: Joseph C. Carter and Alberto Prieto,
Editors. Austin: University of Texas Press. 93-126.
Dana, Peter H.
2011. Cutting Across, Chapter 24 in Mapping Latin America: Space and Society,
1492-2000. Karl Offen and Jordana Dym, Editors. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press. 135-138.
Dana,
Peter H. 2010. Entries in The Encyclopedia
of Geography. Ed. B. Warf. London: Sage Publications.
Dana,
Peter H. 2008. Surveys of People and Place. Chapter 28 in The
Handbook of Geographic Information Science. Eds. John P. Wilson and Stewart
Fotheringham. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing. 494-518.
Dana, Peter H.
2004. Incorporating the Advice of Experts in GIS Analysis. In Carter, Joseph C.
Ed. The Study of Ancient Territories: Chersoneses and Metaponto:2004 Annual Report. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 77-81.
Clarke,
Keith C., Peter H. Dana, and Jordan T. Hastings. 2002. A New World Geographic
Reference System. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 29.
No. 4. 355-362
Dana, Peter H. 1998.
Nicaragua’s “GPSistas”: Mapping Their Lands on the
Caribbean Coast. GPS World. (September).
Dana, Peter H. and S.
Lee Hancock. 1997. A User Friendly Location Referencing System. Proceedings
of the National Technical Meeting, Santa Monica, CA. Washington, DC: The
Institute of Navigation.
Dana,
Peter H. 1997. Global Positioning System (GPS) Time Dissemination for Real-Time
Applications. Real-Time Systems: The International Journal of Time Critical
Computing Systems. 12. No. 1 (January) [PDF 215K].
Dana,
Peter H. 1995. Home on the Web: The University of Texas Builds a GPS Web Site. GPS
World (November).
Dana,
Peter H. 1994. Geographic Information Systems Loran-C Coverage Modeling. Proceedings
of the Twenty-Second Annual Technical Symposium. Bedford, MA: The Wild
Goose Association. [PDF 110K]
Penrod, Bruce, Richard
Funderburk, and Peter H. Dana. 1991. GPS/Loran-C Interoperability for Time and
Frequency Applications: A Survey of the Times of Arrival of Loran-C
Transmissions Via GPS Common Mode/Common View
Satellite Observations. Proceedings of the National Technical Meeting,
Phoenix, AZ. Washington DC: The Institute of Navigation.
Dana,
Peter H. 1990. The Raymondville Ghost: Loran-C Signal Reflections.
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Technical Symposium. Bedford MA: The
Wild Goose Association. [PDF 780K]
Dana,
Peter H. and Bruce M. Penrod. 1990. The Role of GPS in Precise Time and
Frequency Dissemination. GPS World (July/August).
Dana,
Peter H., Walt Fowler and David Hindman. 1989.
Automated Animal-Tracking System: Tracking Elk with Retransmitted Loran-C. Proceedings
of the Eighteenth Annual Technical Symposium. Bedford, MA: The Wild Goose
Association.
Patents
Hancock, Lee and Peter H.
Dana. U.S. Patent #6,473,692. System and Method for Locating Points of Interest.
October 29, 2002.
Hancock, Lee and Peter H.
Dana. U.S. Patent #6,356,834. Geographic Location Referencing System and
Method. March 12, 2002.
Hancock, Lee and Peter H.
Dana. U.S. Patent #6,339,744. Geographic Location Referencing System and
Method. January 15, 2002.
Hancock, Lee, Peter H.
Dana, and S. D. Morrison. US Patent #6,295,502. Method of Identifying
Geographical Location Using Hierarchical Grid Address That Includes a
Predefined Alpha Code. September 25, 2001.
Hancock, Lee and Peter H.
Dana. U.S. Patent #6,223,122. Geographic Location Referencing System and
Method. April 24, 2001.
Hancock,
Lee, Peter H. Dana, and Scott D. Morrison. U.S. Patent #6,202,023. Internet
Based Geographic Location Referencing System and Method. March 13, 2001.
Hancock, Lee and Peter H.
Dana. U.S. Patent #6,047,236. Geographic Location Referencing System and
Method. April 4, 2000.
Hancock, Lee and Peter H.
Dana. U.S. Patent #5,839,088. Geographic Location Referencing System and
Method. November 11, 1998.
GPS AFiles (Archival purposes only – use with caution):
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AF97
AF96
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