Understanding GPS/GNSS: Principles and Applications

This updated third edition provides a current and comprehensive treatment of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and includes new chapters on the system engineering details of GPS, European Galileo system, Chinese Beidou systems, GLONASS, and regional systems.

Elliott D. Kaplan is a principal engineer at the MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts. He earned his M.S. in electrical engineering from Northeastern University. He is the Chair of the Military Division of the Institute of Navigation.
Christopher J. Hegarty is a director at the MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA. He received a D.Sc. in electrical engineering from The George Washington University. He currently serves as the Chair of RTCA, Inc. s Program Management Committee and Vice Chair of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation. He served as president of the Institute of Navigation in 2008 and is a Fellow of the ION and IEEE.