Global Positioning System: Signals, Measurements and Performance, Revised Second Edition (Hardcover)

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Pratap Misra and Per Enge

This revised second edition of this widely praised book offers a comprehensive introduction to GPS: the system, signals, receivers, measurements, and algorithms for estimation of position, velocity, and time. It is intended as a textbook for a senior- or graduate-level engineering course and a self-study guide for practicing engineers.

The book is divided into four parts. Part I introduces the basic framework for a global navigation satellite system, including coordinate frames, time references, and satellite orbits, and provides an overview of GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo. Part II describes the fruits of GPS: estimation of position, velocity, and time. Part III discusses the ingenious structure of the GPS signals. Part IV introduces the signal processing steps required to extract the necessary measurements form these signals, and explores the challenges posed by signal blockage and RFI.

To give the student a hands-on experience with GPS, this book includes a CD-ROM with a number of GPS data sets from several sites. A set of of homework problems requires the student to write simple MATLAB code to analyze these data.

Praise for the Revised Second Edition

“I have been using the book [Global Positioning System: Signals, Measurements & Performance, Revised Second Edition (Hardcover), by Pratap Misra and Per Enge] for years since it was published. The book is great. I love it. It’s of very high quality, and a great pleasure to read. I use it in my research work and also for teaching.

Hari Hablani, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (former Boeing Technical Fellow, Huntington Beach, California)

Praise for the First Edition

“[A]n excellent graduate level textbook on GPS crafted by two master teachers. The authors have succeeded in providing broad coverage of the workings of GPS without missing important details, and have done so in a coherent and readable form.”

Professor Penina Axlerad, University of Colorado at Boulder

Publisher: Ganga-Jamuna Press
Copyright: 2006
Pages: 569
ISBN-10: 0970954417
ISBN-13: 978-0970954411

Related NavtechGPS GNSS Training Courses for Technical Professionals

If you are a technical professional or engineer who is new to GPS/GNSS and want to get up to speed quickly on this technology, please see Course 346: GPS / GNSS Operation for Engineers & Technical Professionals: Principles, Technology, Applications and Intro to Basic DGPS Concepts (2.4 CEUs). This 4-day course is offered to the public approximately two times per year at different locations and is also available as a contract course to be presented on-site, at your location.

For those who also want an added overview of Differential GPS and Kalman filtering, see Course 356 (available on-site only).

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Global Positioning System: Signals, Measurements and Performance, Revised Second Edition (Hardcover)