Full Description
This reference and handbook describes static, kinematic and dynamic Global Positioning System (GPS) theory, algorithms and applications. It is primarily based on source-code descriptions of the KSGSoft program developed by the author at the GFZ in Potsdam. The theory and algorithms are revised and extended for a new development of a multiple functional GPS software. New concepts such as the unified GPS data processing method and ambiguity-ionospheric algorithm, as well as general ambiguity search criteria, are reported for the first time. Mathematically rigorous, the book begins with the basics of coordinate and time systems and satellite orbits, as well as GPS observables, and deals with topics such as physical influences, observation equations, adjustment and filtering, ambiguity resolution, data processing, kinematic positioning, and the determination of perturbed orbits.
Contents
Introduction * Coordinate and Time Systems * Satellite Orbits * GPS Observables * Physical Influences of GPS Surveying * GPS Observation Equations * Adjustment and Filtering Methods * Cycle Slips Detection and Ambiguity Resolution * Kinematic and Static GPS Data Processing * Concept of Precise Kinematic Positioning and Flight-State Monitoring * Perturbed Orbit and its Determination * Discussions * Appendix 1: IAU 1980 Theory of Nutation * Appendix 2: Numerical Examples of the Diagonalisation of the Equations * References * Subject Index.
