12.540 Principles of the Global Positioning System, Spring 2003
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Author(s)
Herring, T. (Thomas)
Alternative Title
Principles of the Global Positioning System
Date Issued
June 2003
Abstract
The aim of this course is to introduce the principles of the Global Positioning System and to demonstrate its application to various aspects of Earth Sciences. The specific content of the course depends each year on the interests of the students in the class. In some cases, the class interests are towards the geophysical applications of GPS and we concentrate on high precision(millimeter level) positioning on regional and global scales. In other cases, the interests have been more toward engineering applications of kinematic positioning with GPS in which case the concentration is on positioning with slightly less accuracy but being able to do so for a moving object. In all cases, we concentrate on the fundamental issues so that students should gain an understanding of the basic limitations of the system and how to extend its application to areas not yet fully explored.
Subjects
Global Positioning System
Earth Sciences
geophysical applications
GPS
engineering applications
kinematic positioning
precision
accuracy
moving objects
coordinate
time
systems
satellite
geodetic
orbital
motions
pseudo ranges
carrier phases
stochastic
mathematics
models
data
analysis
estimation
Global Positioning System
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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