ISBN: 9780442010409 - The Navstar Global Positioning System (19 results)

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Condition: Good. 1992nd Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

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Condition: New. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PHDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 701. . 1992. Hardback. . . . .

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.- Rece.…

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Condition: New. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PHDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 701. . 1992. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Duringthe PersianGulfWaragroupofAmericansoldiersscoopedup anew recruitatRijaid Airport, thendrovehim,withblackenedheadlights, directly across miles oftractless desertsand.Squintingtoward the horizon, hecould see almost nothing when suddenly the driver mashed on the brakes, gave him a quick salute, and instructed him to step out into the darkness. As his bootssankintothesand,hewasstunned torealizethathewasonlyafew feet away from the flap of his tent. Before setting out, the driver had keyed the tent'scoordinates into a Navstar receiver, so itcould guide him back again. No one knows exactly how many Navstar receivers ended up serving coalition forces along the Persian Gulf because mothers and fathers-and sweethearts, too-located a few stray units on the shelves of marinesupply houses/plunked down their money, and express mailed them to their loved ones in the Persian Gulf. A few resourceful soldiers called stateside suppliers long distance, then used their credit cards to order receivers, many of which arrived in Saudi Arabiaa dayortwolateraboardcommercialjetliners. Bythe timetheground war finally started, 4,000 to 7,000 Navstar receivers were clutched in the hands of grateful American soldiers. They were used to guide fuel-starved airplanes for linkups with aerial tankers, to pull in air strikes against enemy emplacements, to guide mess trucks toward hungry troops, and to vector Special Forcesunits intheir muffled dune buggies deep behindenemylines. Afew enterprising military engineers learned how to follow meandering goat trails so they could locate underground springs where the goats wa tered themselves. They then used their hand-held Navstar receivers to record the precise coordinates of each spring, thus insuring fresh water supplies for onrushing troops. 276 pp. Englisch.…

Gebunden. Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. 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.- Compensa.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Duringthe PersianGulfWaragroupofAmericansoldiersscoopedup anew recruitatRijaid Airport, thendrovehim,withblackenedheadlights, directly across miles oftractless desertsand.Squintingtoward the horizon, hecould see almost nothing when suddenly the driver mashed on the brakes, gave him a quick salute, and instructed him to step out into the darkness. As his bootssankintothesand,hewasstunned torealizethathewasonlyafew feet away from the flap of his tent. Before setting out, the driver had keyed the tent'scoordinates into a Navstar receiver, so itcould guide him back again. No one knows exactly how many Navstar receivers ended up serving coalition forces along the Persian Gulf because mothers and fathers-and sweethearts, too-located a few stray units on the shelves of marinesupply houses/plunked down their money, and express mailed them to their loved ones in the Persian Gulf. A few resourceful soldiers called stateside suppliers long distance, then used their credit cards to order receivers, many of which arrived in Saudi Arabiaa dayortwolateraboardcommercialjetliners. Bythe timetheground war finally started, 4,000 to 7,000 Navstar receivers were clutched in the hands of grateful American soldiers. They were used to guide fuel-starved airplanes for linkups with aerial tankers, to pull in air strikes against enemy emplacements, to guide mess trucks toward hungry troops, and to vector Special Forcesunits intheir muffled dune buggies deep behindenemylines. Afew enterprising military engineers learned how to follow meandering goat trails so they could locate underground springs where the goats wa tered themselves. They then used their hand-held Navstar receivers to record the precise coordinates of each spring, thus insuring fresh water supplies for onrushing troops.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 276 pp. Englisch.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 278 68:B&W 7 x 10 in or 254 x 178 mm Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 278.