Introduction to Satellite Positioning, 5 op

Core content

• Satellite positioning systems. Space, control and user segments.
• Coordinate systems and coordinate transformations.
  
• Positioning measurements and error sources of them. Pseudorange. User's clock bias.
• Position and time estimation. Geometry matrix.
• Ranging signals: code and carrier signals, navigation message. Satellite navigation receivers.

Complementary knowledge

• GPS, modernization of GPS, GALILEO, Glonass. Inertial navigation. Integration of INS with satellite navigation. GPS modernization.
• Satellite constellation. Time reference. Relative frequency and time errors.
• Modelling of the errors and methods for compensating the errors. DGPS.
• Dilution of precision, RMS error.
• New GPS signals, Galileo signals.

Specialist knowledge

• The development and history of satellite positioning systems.
• The development and history of coordinate systems and time references.
• Carrier phase measurement, Doppler measurement.
• The effect of user clock bias on DOP.
  Estimation of velocity.
• Glonass signals.