Overview

Designed for the non-specialist, this volume explains what the Navstar system is, how it operates, and how it can be used to enhance the efficiency of virtually all forms of military and civilian transport. It gives the novice user and the sophisticated navigation professional the information and practical illustrations they need to evaluate the potential of the system, select an appropriate Navstar receiver, optimize its performance capabilities, choose appropriate applications, and obtain maximum benefits from its use.

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Author:   Tom Logsdon
Publisher:   Van Nostrand Reinhold Inc.,U.S.
Imprint:   Van Nostrand Reinhold Inc.,U.S.
Edition:   1992 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.722kg
ISBN:  

9780442010409

ISBN 10:   0442010400
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 November 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 The Science of Navigation.- What Is Navigation?.- A Typical Ground-Based Radionavigation System.- The Advantages of Space-based Transmitters.- The Transit Navigation Satellites.- Gravity Gradient Stabilization.- Disturbance Compensation Systems.- Compensating for Ionospheric Delays.- Compensating for Tropospheric Delays.- Navigation Techniques.- The Navstar Revolution.- Navstar Navigation Techniques.- The Navstar Clocks.- Practical Benefits for All Mankind.- 2 The Navstar GPS.- The Space Segment.- Signal Structure and Pseudorandom Codes.- Navigation Solutions.- Correcting for Relativistic Time Delays.- Correcting for Ionospheric and Tropospheric Delays.- Decoding the 50-Bit-Per-Second Data Stream.- The Various Families of Navstar Satellites.- The User Segment.- A Typical High-Performance 5-Channel Receiver.- Operating Procedures.- The Control Segment.- Inverting the Navigation Solution.- The Monitor Stations and The Master Control Station.- Field Test Results.- 3 Performance Comparisons for Today’s Radionavigation Systems.- A Sampling of Today’s Ground-based Navigation Systems.- Loran C/D.- Omega.- VOR/DME Tacan.- The Microwave Landing System.- Inertial Navigation.- JTIDS Relnav and PLRS.- Signpost Navigation Techniques.- A Sampling of Today’s Space-based Navigation Systems.- Transit.- The Navstar Global Positioning System.- The French Argos.- Side-by-side Performance Comparisons.- 4 User-Set Architecture.- The Major Components of a Typical Navstar Receiver.- The Receiver Antenna and Its Associated Electronics.- The Tracking Loops.- Navigation Processor.- Power Supply.- Control-Display Unit.- Choosing the Proper User-set Architecture.- Performance Comparisons.- Selecting the Antennas.- Selecting the Proper Computer Processing Techniques.- Solving for theUser’s Position.- Computing and Interpreting the Geometrical Dilution of Precision.- Ranging Error Budgets.- Kalman Filtering Techniques.- 5 User-set Performance.- Accuracy Estimates for Various Methods of Navigation.- Performance Criteria to Consider when Purchasing a Navstar Receiver.- Receiver Design Choices.- Number of Channels and Sequencing Rate.- Access to Selective-availability Signals.- Available Performance Enhancement Techniques.- Computer Processing Capabilities.- Receiver Design Smart Card.- Today’s Available Navstar Receivers.- Hand-held Receivers.- Commercially Available Navstar Chipsets.- 6 Differential Navigation and Pseudo-satellites.- Performance Comparisons: Absolute and Differential Navigation.- Special Committee 104’s Recommended Data-exchange Protocols.- The Coast Guard’s Differential Navigation System Tests.- Motorola’s Mini Ranger Test Results.- COMSAT’s Data Distribution Service for the Gulf of Mexico.- Wide-area Differential Navigation Services.- Pseudo-satellites.- Special Committee 104’s Data Exchange Protocols for Pseudo-satellites.- Comparisons Between Differential Navigation and Pseudo-satellites.- 7 Interferometry Techniques.- The Classical Michaelson-Morley Interferometry Experiment.- Measuring Attitude Angles with Special Navstar Receivers.- Eliminating Solution Ambiguities.- Practical Test Results.- Using Interferometry to Fix Position.- Single, Double, and Triple Differencing Techniques.- The POPS Post-Processing Software.- Spaceborne Interferometry Receivers.- Motorola’s Commercially Available Monarch.- Tomorrow’s Generic Spaceborne Receivers.- 8 Integrated Navigation Systems.- Integrated Navigation.- Inertial Navigation.- Error Growth Rates.- Reinitialization Techniques.- Ring Laser Gyros.- Monolithic Ring LaserGyros.- Fiber Optic Gyros.- Using the GPS for Testing Inertial Navigation Systems.- The Practical Benefits of Integrated Navigation.- Chassis-level Integration.- 9 Interoperability with Other Navigation Systems.- The Soviet Glonass.- The Glonass Specification Release at Montreal.- The Glonass Constellation.- Orbital Maneuvers for the Glonass Satellites.- Building Dual-capability GPS/Glonass Receivers.- Receiver Design Difficulties.- Dual-Capability Receiver Tests at Leeds University.- The FAA’s Joint Research Efforts with Soviet Scientists.- Other Attempts to Build Dual-capability Receivers.- Integrity Monitoring Techniques.- Interoperability with Other Radionavigation Systems.- Eastport International’s Integrated System for Underwater Navigation.- 10 The Navstar Satellites.- The Eight Major Spacecraft Subsystems.- The Orbit Injection Subsystem.- Tracking, Telemetry and Command.- Attitude and Velocity Control.- Electrical Power.- Navigation Subsystem.- Reaction Control.- Thermal Control.- Structures and Mechanisms.- On-orbit Test Results.- The Multiyear Spacecraft Procurement.- Booster Rockets.- Orbital Perturbations.- The Spacecraft Ephemeris Constants.- Satellite Viewing Angles.- Earth-shadowing Intervals.- Repeating Ground-trace Geometry.- 11 Precise Time Synchronization.- John Harrison’s Marine Chronometer.- Celestial Navigation Techniques.- A Short History of Time.- The Atomic Clocks Carried Aboard the Navstar Satellites.- Cesium Atomic Clocks.- Rubidium Atomic Clocks.- Developing Atomic Clocks Light Enough to Travel Into Space.- The Growing Need for Precise Time Synchronization.- Time Sync Methodologies.- Fixing Time with the Navstar Signals.- Lightweight Hydrogen Masers for Tomorrow’s Navstar Satellites.- Crosslink Ranging Techniques.- 12 DigitalAvionics and Air Traffic Control.- The Sabreliner’s Flight to the Paris Air Show.- Four Major Concerns of the Federal Aviation Administration.- Selective Availability.- User-Set Fees.- Integrity-related Failures.- Continuous Five-satellite Coverage.- Using a Dedicated Constellation for Air Traffic Control.- An Alternative Architecture Using the GPS.- Comparisons Between Geosynchronous and Semisynchronous Constellations.- Piggyback Geosynchronous Payloads.- The Autoland System Test Results.- 13 Geodetic Surveying and Satellite Positioning.- Determining the Shape of Planet Earth.- The Theory of Isostasy.- The Earth’s Contours Under Hydrostatic Equilibrium.- GPS Calibrations at the Turtmann Test Range.- Static Surveying Techniques.- Kinematic and Pseudo-kinematic Surveying.- Freeway Surveying During War in the Persian Gulf.- Navstar Positioning for Landsat D.- The Landsat’s Spaceborne Receiver.- On-Orbit Navigation Accuracy.- Orbit Determination for High-altitude Satellites.- Today’s Available Spaceborne Receivers.- 14 Military Applications.- The Military Benefits of the Worldwide Common Grid.- Field Test Results.- Projected Battlefield Benefits.- Test Range Applications.- Military Receivers.- Carrier-landing Accuracies.- Amphibious Warfare Operations.- Accuracy-enhancements for Strategic and Cruise Missiles.- 15 Civil Applications.- Dinosaur Hunting with the GPS.- Guiding Archaeological Expeditions.- Tracking Hazardous Icebergs.- Offshore Oil Exploration.- Fixing the Positions of Railroad Trains.- Automobile Navigation.- Dead Reckoning Systems.- Tomorrow’s Space-based Vehicle Navigation Techniques.- Today’s Available Automotive Navigation Systems.- Futuristic Applications for Navstar Navigation.- Appendix A Additional Sources of lnformation.- GPS InformationCenters.- The U.S. Coast Guard’s Information Center.- The Computer Bulletin Board at Holloman Air Force Base.- Global Satellite Software’s Computer Bulletin Board.- The Glonass Computer Bulletin Board.- Precise GPS Orbit Information.- Military GPS Information Directory.- 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.

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