GPS

COURSE OVERVIEW

Handheld GPS receivers are a great resource for landowners, natural resource professionals, and other outdoor recreation enthusiasts. Current GPS units are accurate (plus or minus 15 feet) and can be used for marking hunting locations, structures, streams, your vehicle location, as well as for fun activities such as geocaching. Professional natural resource managers can save valuable field time by using GPS with a computer to locate inventory plots, access roads, outlining timber sale and property boundaries, directing customers to sale locations, and much more.

COURSE OUTLINE

• This workshop provides a Garmin GPS unit for each participant to use. The daylong workshop uses both classroom and field instruction.
• The skills learned can be applied to a GPS handheld you may have purchased.
• The workshop will provide the basics of using a GPS receiver, as well as: marking waypoints, creating routes, entering and finding coordinates, determining acreage of a site, incorporating coordinates into timber sale bids, locating roads, stream crossings, points of interest, downloading and uploading data to a computer, computer software options, and comparing different GPS handheld units.

PREREQUISITE

None.

TARGET AUDIENCE

All.