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Global Positioning System Overview

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Audience/Grade: College Freshman - Graduate
Discipline(s): Surveying and Geomatics Engineering
Learning Resource Type: Teaching - Tutorial
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Author(s): Peter Dana
Publisher(s): University of Texas at Austin
Description: This web-based software provides the user with information on global positioning system overview. GPS is funded by and controlled by the U. S. Department of Defense (DOD). While there are many thousands of civil users of GPS worldwide, the system was designed for and is operated by the U. S. military. GPS provides specially coded satellite signals that can be processed in a GPS receiver, enabling the receiver to compute position, velocity and time. Four GPS satellite signals are used to compute positions in three dimensions and the time offset in the receiver clock. Table of Contents - U. S. Department of Defense Satellite - Navigation System - Space Segment - Control Segment - User Segment - GPS Positioning Services specified in the - Federal Radionavigation Plan - Precise Positioning Service (PPS) - Standard Positioning Service (SPS) - GPS Satellite Signals - GPS Data - Position and Time from GPS - Code Phase Tracking (Navigation) - Pseudo-Range Navigation - Receiver Position, Velocity, and Time - Carrier Phase Tracking (Surveying) - GPS Error Sources - Geometric Dilution of Precision (GDOP) - Differential GPS (DGPS) Techniques - Differential Code-Phase Navigation - Differential Carrier-Phase Surveying - Common-Mode Time Transfer - GPS Techniques and Project Costs - Documents relating to GPS This courseware was originally cataloged at http://www.my-edu2.com/eduframe.htm.
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Use of Resource: Collaborative learning environment

A very rich source of information on GPS
Difficulty: Difficult
Interactivity Level: Low

   
Version Info
Publication Date: 1998
Platform/Format: WWW
Cost: Free
Download URL: http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gps_f.html
Metadata: IEEE LOM Record
Collection: NEEDS NEEDS