The Navstar Global Positioning System

Language: English

Published by Springer, 1992

0442010400 / 9780442010409

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 1 The Science of Navigation.- What Is Navigation .- A Typical Ground-Based Radionavigation System.- The Advantages of Space-based Transmitters.- The Transit Navigation Satellites.- Gravity Gradient Stabilization.- Disturbance Compensation Systems.- Compensating for Ionospheric Delays.- Compensating for Tropospheric Delays.- Navigation Techniques.- The Navstar Revolution.- Navstar Navigation Techniques.- The Navstar Clocks.- Practical Benefits for All Mankind.- 2 The Navstar GPS.- The Space Segment.- Signal Structure and Pseudorandom Codes.- Navigation Solutions.- Correcting for Relativistic Time Delays.- Correcting for Ionospheric and Tropospheric Delays.- Decoding the 50-Bit-Per-Second Data Stream.- The Various Families of Navstar Satellites.- The User Segment.- A Typical High-Performance 5-Channel Receiver.- Operating Procedures.- The Control Segment.- Inverting the Navigation Solution.- The Monitor Stations and The Master Control Station.- Field Test Results.- 3 Performance Comparisons for Today's Radionavigation Systems.- A Sampling of Today's Ground-based Navigation Systems.- Loran C/D.- Omega.- VOR/DME Tacan.- The Microwave Landing System.- Inertial Navigation.- JTIDS Relnav and PLRS.- Signpost Navigation Techniques.- A Sampling of Today's Space-based Navigation Systems.- Transit.- The Navstar Global Positioning System.- The French Argos.- Side-by-side Performance Comparisons.- 4 User-Set Architecture.- The Major Components of a Typical Navstar Receiver.- The Receiver Antenna and Its Associated Electronics.- The Tracking Loops.- Navigation Processor.- Power Supply.- Control-Display Unit.- Choosing the Proper User-set Architecture.- Performance Comparisons.- Selecting the Antennas.- Selecting the Proper Computer Processing Techniques.- Solving for theUser's Position.- Computing and Interpreting the Geometrical Dilution of Precision.- Ranging Error Budgets.- Kalman Filtering Techniques.- 5 User-set Performance.- Accuracy Estimates for Various Methods of Navigation.- Performance Criteria to Consider when Purchasing a Navstar Receiver.- Receiver Design Choices.- Number of Channels and Sequencing Rate.- Access to Selective-availability Signals.- Available Performance Enhancement Techniques.- Computer Processing Capabilities.- Receiver Design Smart Card.- Today's Available Navstar Receivers.- Hand-held Receivers.- Commercially Available Navstar Chipsets.- 6 Differential Navigation and Pseudo-satellites.- Performance Comparisons: Absolute and Differential Navigation.- Special Committee 104's Recommended Data-exchange Protocols.- The Coast Guard's Differential Navigation System Tests.- Motorola's Mini Ranger Test Results.- COMSAT's Data Distribution Service for the Gulf of Mexico.- Wide-area Differential Navigation Services.- Pseudo-satellites.- Special Committee 104's Data Exchange Protocols for Pseudo-satellites.- Comparisons Between Differential Navigation and Pseudo-satellites.- 7 Interferometry Techniques.- The Classical Michaelson-Morley Interferometry Experiment.- Measuring Attitude Angles with Special Navstar Receivers.- Eliminating Solution Ambiguities.- Practical Test Results.- Using Interferometry to Fix Position.- Single, Double, and Triple Differencing Techniques.- The POPS Post-Processing Software.- Spaceborne Interferometry Receivers.- Motorola's Commercially Available Monarch.- Tomorrow's Generic Spaceborne Receivers.- 8 Integrated Navigation Systems.- Integrated Navigation.- Inertial Navigation.- Error Growth Rates.- Reinitialization Techniques.- Ring Laser Gyros.- Monolithic Ring LaserGyros.- Fiber Optic Gyros.- Using the GPS for Testing Inertial Navigation Systems.- The Practical Benefits of Integrated Navigation.- Chassis-level Integration.- 9 Interoperability with Other Navigation Systems.- The Soviet Glonass.- The Glonass Specification Release at Montreal.- The Glonass Constellation.- Orbital Maneuvers for the Glonass Satellites.- Building Dual-capability.…

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Title
The Navstar Global Positioning System
Author
Tom Logsdon
Publisher
Springer
Publication year
1992
Condition
Neu
Binding
Buch
Language
English
ISBN 10
0442010400
ISBN 13
9780442010409
Item weight
657 grams
Dimensions
260x183x20 mm

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