Understanding the Navstar: GPS, GIS, and IVHS

by Tom Logsdon

Overview

The Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) is being financed by military dollars, but the precise navigation signals it broadcasts are available free of charge to anyone, anywhere. Over the next ten years sponsors of Navstar navigation will be investing an estimated

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780442020545
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	10/31/1995
Series:	Electrical Engineering
Edition description:	Second Edition 1995
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

1 The Science of Navigation.- 2 The Navstar GPS.- 3 Performance Comparisons for Today’s Radionavigation Systems.- 4 User-set Architecture.- 5 User-set Performance.- 6 Differential Navigation and Pseudo-satellites.- 7 Interferometry Techniques.- 8 Integrated Navigation Systems.- 9 Interoperability with Other Navigation Systems.- 10 The Navstar Satellites.- 11 Precise Time Synchronization.- 12 Digital Avionics and Air Traffic Control.- 13 Geodetic Surveying and Satellite Positioning.- 14 Military Applications.- 15 Civil Applications.- 16 Geographic Information Systems.- 17 Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems.- Appendix A Additional Sources of Information.- GPS Information Centers.- The U.S. Coast Guard’s Information Center.- The Computer Bulletin Board at Holloman Air Force Base.- Global Satellite Software’s Computer Bulletin Board.- Associated Consulting’s Bulletin Board.- The Glonass Computer Bulletin Board.- Precise GPS Orbit Information.- U.S. Army Electronic Proving Ground GPS Range Instrumentation System.- GPS Information with a European Flavor.- The United Kingdom.- The Netherlands.- Norway.- GPS Clock Behavior.- Information for Surveyors.- GPS World Magazine.- The Federal Radionavigation Plan.- Appendix B Today’s Global Family of User-set Makers.- Domestic User-set Makers.- Foreign User-set Makers.- Appendix C Navigation-related Clubs and Organizations.- Appendix D Navigation-related Magazines and Periodicals.