Intended for technical professional and working engineers, with a minimum of senior undergraduate background, this is a complete guide to understanding and utilizing today's Global Positioning System, a satellite navigation system providing accurate, contiunous, worldwide, three-dimensional position and velocity data. Fifteen expert authors cover all aspects og GPS, from the fundamentals and benefits of satellite navigation systems, to future projections for GPS markets and applications in air, land and marine navigation.
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"Every GPS engineer should have this book. An engineer can find in one place a thorough treatment of the entire GPS system. Will prove of great benefit to those first approaching a GPS engineering task, but the experienced engineer will also find it a valuable reference. The most complete description of the signal acquisition and tracking process that I have found anywhere. I highly recommend this book."
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Elliott Kaplan is a senior member of the technical staff at MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA. He earned his B.S.E.E. from the Polytechnic Institute of New York and his M.S.E.E. from Northeastern University.
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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Clearly the Best General Reference on GPS,
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This review is from: Understanding GPS Principles and Applications (Artech House Mobile Communications) (Hardcover)
I've been an engineer and PM working with GPS and GPS systems since the inception of GPS in the mid-80s. While employed by a major DOD research lab I was fortunate enough not only to have access to practically every GPS book and article available, but I also had the opportunity to meet many of the key people responsible for the design and development of the system (many of whom contributed to this text). From system design to receiver architecture, this is by far the best general reference I have found on GPS.
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I have been interesting GPS for 5 years and used GPS for land navigation, for INS aid, for DGPS purposes. I have read about 9-10 books on GPS. This book is the best one. It has a good introductory information, clear theorical chapters. Applications of GPS are also covered very well. I suggest this book both new and advanced GPS related people.
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Excellent to Pratice the GPS Technology,
This review is from: Understanding GPS Principles and Applications (Artech House Mobile Communications) (Hardcover)
This book has entire body of knowledge concerning GPS concept , control, satellites operation , propagation, receivers, and extra to Explain the Differential GPS Error correction and more. This book is ULTRA suitable for student and engineer, also suitable for the people who want to practice GPS Theory in Detail.
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GPS utilizes the concept of time-of-arrival (TOA) ranging to determine user position. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
predetection integration time, transmission odometer, random binary code, external velocity aiding, fixed baseline solution, user receiving equipment, digital receiver channels, pseudorange values, differential odometry, grid point mask, ephemeris prediction error, jerk stress, receiver carrier tracking loop, delta range measurements, loop discriminator, pseudorange errors, chipping period, interchannel bias, jth satellite, pseudorange measurement errors, tracking threshold, navigation message data, baro aiding, ephemeris message, mask angle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Minute Outages, New York, United States, Satellite Division, Coast Guard, North America, San Francisco, Global Positioning System, Journal of the Institute of Navigation, Special Committee, Salt Lake City, National Technical Meeting, Federal Radionavigation Plan, Public Release Version, Federal Aviation Administration, Ohio University, Research Corporation, Advanstar Communications, Colorado Springs, Department of Defense, International Meeting, Russian Space Agency, Soviet Union, Texas Instruments Incorporated, Van Dyke New!
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GPS utilizes the concept of time-of-arrival (TOA) ranging to determine user position. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
predetection integration time, transmission odometer, random binary code, external velocity aiding, fixed baseline solution, user receiving equipment, digital receiver channels, pseudorange values, differential odometry, grid point mask, ephemeris prediction error, jerk stress, receiver carrier tracking loop, delta range measurements, loop discriminator, pseudorange errors, chipping period, interchannel bias, jth satellite, pseudorange measurement errors, tracking threshold, navigation message data, baro aiding, ephemeris message, mask angle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Minute Outages, New York, United States, Satellite Division, Coast Guard, North America, San Francisco, Global Positioning System, Journal of the Institute of Navigation, Special Committee, Salt Lake City, National Technical Meeting, Federal Radionavigation Plan, Public Release Version, Federal Aviation Administration, Ohio University, Research Corporation, Advanstar Communications, Colorado Springs, Department of Defense, International Meeting, Russian Space Agency, Soviet Union, Texas Instruments Incorporated, Van Dyke New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Global Positioning System: Theory and Practice by B. Hofmann-Wellenhof on page 57, and page 319
- Satellite Geodesy by Gunter Seeber on page 81, and page 319
- Practical Wireless Data Modem Design (Artech House Mobile Communications Library) by Jonathon Y. C. Cheah in Back Matter
- Radio Propagation in Cellular Networks (Artech House Mobile Communications Library) by Nathan Blaunstein in Back Matter
- Advances in Mobile Information Systems (Artech House Mobile Communications Library) by John Walker in Back Matter
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