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GPS Basics for Technical Professionals

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If you are a technical professional who is new to GPS, but needs to understand the basic principles behind it, this book is for you. This book discusses these principles and technologies of satellite-based navigation in a clear and amusing fashion.

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GPS Basics for Technical Professionals

by Pratap Misra, Ph.D.

This book, written expert GPS engineer Dr. Pratap Misra, is an excellent primer for all those who would benefit from an understanding of the GPS terms they hear around them at work.  Engineers new to GPS find this book helps them familiarize themselves with the basics of GPS before they move into deeper learning.  Its extraordinarily clear and even amusing.  a very relevant read for support, technical and management staffs.
The only prerequisite for this book is curiosity about a technology that has insinuated itself into our lives in a way that we can’t imaging how we ever lived without it.
 
About the Author
Pratap Misra, Ph.D., has worked in the field of satellite navigation for 25 years, starting with a project at MIT Lincoln Laboratory to combine measurements from GPS and GLONASS, the Soviet answer to GPS, to improve navigation for civil aviation. He is a coauthor with Professor Per Enge of Stanford of a widely used graduate-level engineering textbook on GPS. Misra is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation (ION), which honored him in 2014 with the Kepler Award “for sustained and significant contributions to the development of satellite navigation.” Misra is a Professor of the Practice of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University and a staff member at Applied Research Lab of the Penn State University.

Publisher: Ganga-Jamuna Press
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 101
ISBN-10: 09709544-4-1
ISBN-13: 978-09709544-4-2
List Price: $39.00

GPS Basics for Technical Professionals, Table of Contents

If you are interested in this book, you may also be interested in the following courses:

Course 346: GPS / GNSS Operation for Engineers & Technical Professionals: Principles, Technology, Applications and Intro to Basic DGPS Concepts

Course 122: GPS Fundamentals and Enhancements (Which is the first 2 days of Course 346).

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