Satellite Positioning

3 credits · Undergraduate Programs

Satellite orbit motion and Kepler's laws. Description of GPS signal structure and derivation of observables. Characteristics of instrumentation. Analysis of atmospheric, orbital and other random and non-random effects. Derivation of mathematical models used for absolute and differential static and kinematic positioning. Pre-analysis methods and applications. Concept of Kalman filtering applied to kinematic positioning. Ambiguity resolution procedures Overview of other GNSS, GNSS augmentation and high sensitivity receivers Introduction to inertial navigation. Prerequisite(s): Geomatics Engineering 363, 401 and 421.