Uncertainties in GPS positioning : a mathematical discourse / Alan Oxley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 28, 2017).

Machine generated contents note: 1.Positioning and Navigation Systems -- Navigation -- Wireless Positioning Systems -- Positioning Techniques -- Limits in the Accuracy of Wireless Positioning -- Innovative Positioning Techniques -- Further Reading -- Reference -- 2.Introduction to GPS -- Satellite-Based Systems -- GPS -- Surveying -- Location-Based Services -- Map Making -- Sports Data -- Uncertainty in GPS Positioning -- GNSSs Usage Patterns -- Nonpositioning Uses of GPS -- Estimating the Distance to a Golf Flagstick -- Receiver Specifics -- An Interesting Aside -- Further Reading -- References -- 3.Basic GPS Principles -- Clocks -- Ground Segment -- Space Segment -- User Segment -- GPS Services -- Performance of GPS -- GLONASS -- Galileo -- Referencing a Position -- Satellites in Orbit -- Navigation Signals -- Differential Positioning -- Relativity -- The Ionosphere and the Troposphere -- Ionospheric Scintillation -- Further Reading -- References

Note continued: 4.Signals From Satellites to Receiver -- GPS -- GPS Signal Structure -- Further Reading -- 5.GPS Modernization -- Frequency Plan -- Multiple Access -- Improved Pseudodistance Calculations -- GPS Receiver -- Reference -- 6.Signals From Satellites to Receiver -- Other Satellite Navigation Systems -- Galileo Signal Structure -- GLONASS -- Compass/BeiDou and Regional GPSSs -- 7.Solution of an Idealized Problem -- The Competition -- Solutions -- Solutions to Problem 1 -- Suggested Result -- Note on Problem Posed -- Problem 1 Methodology -- Solution to Problem 2 -- Reference -- 8.Sources of Inaccuracy -- Deliberate Interference With GPS Signals -- Degradation of Physical Equipment -- Other Vulnerabilities -- Inertial Navigation System -- Accuracy -- Errors and Error Corrections -- Ground Segment -- Space Segment -- User Segment -- Signal Propagation -- Ranging and Positioning -- GPS UERE Budgets -- Differential Positioning -- Further Reading -- Reference

Note continued: 9.Learning From Experience -- Studying Past Data -- Mitigating Risks -- Reducing Error Magnitudes When Surveying -- Reference -- 10.Error Distribution in Data -- Solutions -- Suggested Result -- Supplementary Result -- Problem 2 Methodology -- References -- 11.Improving Accuracy With GPS Augmentation -- Using Two GNSSs -- Other Augmentation Systems and Assisted GNSS -- References -- 12.GPS Disciplined Oscillators -- How a GPSDO Works -- GPSDO Performance -- Choosing Between a GPSDO and a Rubidium or Cesium Standard -- References.