Algorithms for Global Positioning - Hardcover

Strang, Gilbert; Borre, Kai

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0980232732 ISBN 13: 9780980232738

Publisher: Wellesley-Cambridge Press, 2012

Synopsis

A mathematical guide to the algorithmic aspects of GPS, complete with numerous ready-made MATLAB codes for the reader.

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About the Authors

Gilbert Strang is a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research focuses on analysis, linear algebra and PDEs. In addition, he is the author of many textbooks and his service to the mathematics community is extensive, having spent time as President of SIAM, Chair of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics as well as membership of various other committees and boards. The awards that Professor Strang has received for his research and teaching include the Chauvenet Prize (1976), the Award for Distinguished Service (SIAM, 2003), the Graduate School Teaching Award (MIT, 2003) and the Von Neumann Prize Medal of the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (2005), among others. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.

Kai Borre is a professor of geodesy at Aalborg University where he teaches and performs research in the field of satellite-based positioning. In 1996 he established the Danish GPS Center and since 2000 has been head of a two-year international M.Sc. program in GPS technology. He is the coauthor of several popular textbooks in the areas of geodesy and GPS.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wellesley-Cambridge Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0980232732
• ISBN 13: 9780980232738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 450