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Adjustment Computations: Spatial Data Analysis, 4/E Charles D Ghilani, Paul R Wolf ISBN: 0-471-69728-1 Hardcover 640 pages June 2006 Desktop/Examination copy: Contact your Wiley representative or request it on the Wiley Instructor's web site. The Solutions Manual will also be available on this site. Errata   Elementary Surveying: An Introduction to Geomatics, 12th Edition   Chuck Ghilani Paul R Wolf ISBN: 978-0-13-615431-0 ISBN: 978-0-13-208307-2 (International Edition) Publisher: Prentice Hall Copyright: 2008 Format: Cloth; 996 pp Published: 01/01/2008 Desk/Examination copy: Contact your PH representative or request it on the Prentice Hall Instructor's Resource Center.   11th edition errata

All of the following software packages have been recently upgraded.

• Animation of developable surfaces used in map projections
• Animation of geodetic transformations
• PA NAD83 State Plane Coordinate Map Projection Tables
• Adjust for Windows
Version 4.2
• MathCad e-book for Adjustment Computations
• Stats for Windows
• Matrix for Windows
• WolfPack for Windows (5.0.6)
• MathCad e-book for Elementary Surveying
• Download EaglePoint Student License Agreement form (for PSU Students only!). Complete this form, print it, and get it signed by your program chair. Contact Dawn Cogan for pricing.
• Normal Random Problem Generator - Allows instructors to easily create traditional surveying problems utilizing a random number generator that produces realistic solutions.
• Map Projections MS EXCEL spreadsheet - Includes computation sheets for the Mercator, Secant Mercator, Transverse Mercator (including UTM), Oblique Mercator, Albers Equal-Area Conic, and Lambert Conformal Conic plus worksheet for observation reduction, common ellipsoids, and SPCS defining parameters.
• MS EXCEL spreadsheet demonstrating solution of Vincenty's equations for the direct and inverse geodetic problems  - Includes computation sheets for the direct and inverse geodetic problems as presented in Chapter 19 of Elementary Surveying: An Introduction in Geomatics, 10th Ed.
• Overheads for the book Adjustment Computations, 3rd Ed.: (Note: You must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view overheads.)
1. Overheads for Chapter 1 - 8
2. Overheads for Chapter 9 - 18
3. Overheads for Chapter 19 - 22, Appendices A - C
4. Software to view and print overheads. Go to the Adobe Acrobat website at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html

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  Please drop me a note if you have any suggestions or comments. We hope you enjoy these programs and visit us again for the latest versions and updates at cdg3@psu.edu

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  Instructions for Installing Windows-based Software
  This software is a windows-based program which has been archived in self-extracting file format. For WolfPack, the file is "WinWolf.exe", Adjust is "WinAdj.exe", for Matrix it is "WinMat.exe" and for Stats it is "WinStats.exe". Download the desired file to a temporary directory, and run the appropriate program in your "explorer" or "file management" software. The software will walk you through the remainder of the installation in Windows.

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