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ESSC 541-542 Lecture 4.14.05
What is GPS?
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a
satellite based navigational aid. Essentially
it is a radio positioning navigation and time
transfer system. It provides accurate
information on position, velocity and time
of an object or a platform at any moment,
anywhere in the globe.
A Constellation of Earth-Orbiting Satellites
Maintained by the United States Government for
the Purpose of Defining Geographic Positions
On and Above the Surface of the Earth. It
consists of Three Segments:

User Segment
Control Segment
Space Segment
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Four Basic Functions of GPS


Position and coordinates.



The distance and direction between any two
waypoints, or a position and a waypoint.



Travel progress reports.



Accurate time measurement.
Three Segments of the GPS
•Space
Segment

•User Segment
•Control
Segment
•Ground
Antennas
•Master Station

•Monitor Stations
Control Segment
•US Space
Command
•Falcon AFB,
Colorado springs

•Hawaii

•Cape
Canaveral
•Kwajalein Atoll
•Ascension Is.

•Master Control Station

•Diego Garcia

•Monitor Station

•Ground Antenna
Control Segment: Maintaining the System

• Observe
ephemeris
and clock

(5) Monitor Stations

• Correct Orbit
and clock
errors
• Create new
navigation message

Falcon AFB
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Upload Station
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Space Segment
 24+ satellites
– 6 planes with 55°
inclination
– Each plane has 4-5
satellites
– Broadcasting position
and time info on 2
frequencies
– Constellation has spares
 Very high orbit
– 20,200 km
– 1 revolution in approx. 12 hrs
– Travel approx. 7,000 mph

 Considerations
– Accuracy
– Survivability
– Coverage

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User Segment











Military.
Search and rescue.
Disaster relief.
Surveying.
Marine, aeronautical and terrestrial navigation.
Remote controlled vehicle and robot guidance.
Satellite positioning and tracking.
Shipping.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Recreation.
How the system works
Space Segment
24+ Satellites
The Current
Ephemeris is
Transmitted to
Users

Monitor
Stations
•
•
•
•
•

Diego Garcia
Ascension Island
Kwajalein
Hawaii
Colorado Springs

GPS Control

End
User

Colorado Springs
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Triangulation
Satellite 2

Satellite 1

Satellite 3

Satellite 4

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Position is Based on Time
•Signal leaves satellite
at time “T”

•T

•Signal is picked up by
•T + 3 the receiver at time “T +
3”
•Distance between satellite
and receiver = “3 times the
speed of light”
Distance Measuring
The whole system
revolves around
time!!!
Distance = Rate x Time
Rate = 186,000 miles
per second (Speed of
Light)
Time = time it takes
signal to travel from the
SV to GPS receiver

Each satellite carries
around four atomic
clocks
Uses the oscillation of cesium
and rubidium atoms to measure
time

Accuracy?
plus/minus a second over more
than 30,000 years!!

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SV and Receiver Clocks
• SV Clocks
– 2 Cesium & 2 Rubidium in each SV
– $100,000-$500,000 each

• Receiver Clocks
– Clocks similar to quartz watch
– Always an error between satellite
and receiver clocks ( ∆ t)

• 4 satellites required to solve for
x, y, z, and ∆ t
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• PROBLEM

• SOLUTION

– Can’t use atomic
clocks in receiver
Cesium Clock =
$$$$$$$!!!
Size of PC

– Receiver clocks
accurate over short
periods of time
– Reset often
– 4th SV used to
recalibrate receiver
clock
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PRN code

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•GPS Satellite Signals

•• The SVs transmit two microwave carrier signals. The L1 frequency (1575.42
MHz) carries the navigation message and the SPS code signals. The L2
frequency (1227.60 MHz) is used to measure the ionospheric delay by PPS
equipped receivers.
•• Three binary codes shift the L1 and/or L2 carrier phase. The C/A Code
(Coarse Acquisition) modulates the L1 carrier phase. The C/A code is a
repeating 1 MHz Pseudo Random Noise (PRN) Code. This noise-like code
modulates the L1 carrier signal, "spreading" the spectrum over a 1 MHz
bandwidth.
•The C/A code repeats every 1023 bits (one millisecond). There is a different
C/A code PRN for each SV. GPS satellites are often identified by their PRN
number, the unique identifier for each pseudo-random-noise code. The C/A
code that modulates the L1 carrier is the basis for the civil SPS.
•• The P-Code (Precise) modulates both the L1 and L2 carrier phases. The
P-Code is a very long (seven days) 10 MHz PRN code. In the Anti-Spoofing
(AS) mode of operation, the P-Code is encrypted into the Y-Code. The
encrypted Y-Code requires a classified AS Module for each receiver channel
and is for use only by authorized users with cryptographic keys. The P (Y)Code is the basis for the PPS.
The Navigation Message also modulates the L1-C/A code signal. The
Navigation Message is a 50 Hz signal consisting of data bits that describe25
the GPS satellite orbits, clock corrections, and other system parameters.
Breaking the Code
Transmission Time

The Carrier Signal...
combined with…

Satellite

The PRN code...
produces the
Modulated carrier signal
which is transmitted...
demodulated...
And detected by receiver,
Locked-on, but
With a time delay...

Receiver

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Time delay

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Pseudo Random Noise Code
•Time
Difference

•Satellite PRN

•Receiver PRN
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Accuracy and Precision in GPS
• Accuracy
– The nearness of a measurement to the
standard or true value

• Precision
– The degree to which several
measurements provide answers very close
to each other.
What affects accuracy and
precision in GPS?
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Sources of GPS Error

• Standard Positioning Service (SPS ): Civilian Users

•

Source
Satellite clocks:
 Orbital errors:
 Ionosphere:
 Troposphere:
 Receiver noise:
 Multipath:
 Selective Availability
 User error:


Amount of Error
1.5 to 3.6 meters
< 1 meter
5.0 to 7.0 meters
0.5 to 0.7 meters
0.3 to 1.5 meters
0.6 to 1.2 meters
(see notes)
Up to a kilometer or more

• Errors are cumulative and increased by PDOP.
Receiver Errors are Cumulative!

•System and other flaws = < 9 meters

•User error = +- 1 km
Sources of Signal Interference

•Earth’s Atmosphere

•Solid
Structures

•Metal

•Electro-magnetic
Fields
Sources of Error
• Clock Error
– Differences between satellite
clock and receiver clock

• Ionosphere Delays
– Delay of GPS signals as
they pass through the layer
of charged ions and free
electrons known as the
ionosphere.
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– Caused by local reflections of the
GPS signal that mix with the desired
signal

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Si

Re
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cte
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• Multipath Error

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l

Satellite

Hard Surface

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GPS Satellite Geometry









Satellite geometry can affect the quality of GPS signals and
accuracy of receiver trilateration.
Dilution of Precision (DOP) reflects each satellite’s position
relative to the other satellites being accessed by a receiver.
There are five distinct kinds of DOP.
Position Dilution of Precision (PDOP) is the DOP value used
most commonly in GPS to determine the quality of a receiver’s
position.
It’s usually up to the GPS receiver to pick satellites which
provide the best position triangulation.
Some GPS receivers allow DOP to be manipulated by the user.
Ideal Satellite Geometry
•N

•E

•W

•S
Good Satellite Geometry
Good Satellite Geometry
Poor Satellite Geometry
•N

•W

•E

•S
Poor Satellite Geometry
Poor Satellite Geometry
Sources of Error
• Geometric Dilution of
Precision (GDOP)
– Describes sensitivity of receiver
to changes in the geometric
positioning of the SVs

• The higher the DOP value, the
poorer the measurement
QUALITY

DOP

Very Good
Good
Fair
Suspect

1-3
4-5
6
>6
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Real Time Differential GPS

•x+5, y3

•x+30,
y+60
•x-5, y+3

•Receiver

•DGPS Receiver

•DGPS correction = x+(30-5)
and y+(60+3)
•True coordinates = x+25, y+63

•DGPS Site
•True coordinates =
x+0, y+0
•Correction = x-5,
y+3
Differential GPS
•

Method of removing errors that affect GPS
measurements

•

A base station receiver is set up on a
location where the coordinates are known

•

Signal time at reference location is
compared to time at remote location

•

Time difference represents error in
satellite’s signal

•

Real-time corrections transmitted to remote
receiver
– Single frequency (1-5 m)
– Dual frequency (sub-meter)

•

= Error
Reference
location

Post-Processing DGPS involves correcting at a
later time
Online post-processing
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Remote
location

www.ngs.noaa.gov/OPUS
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•Wide Area Augmentation System
•GPS Constellation

•Geostationary
WAAS satellites

•WAAS Control
Station (West

•Local Area System
(LAAS)

•WAAS
Control
Station (East
Coast)
Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)
• System of satellites and
ground stations that provide
GPS signal corrections
• 25 ground reference stations
across US
• Master stations create GPS
correction message
• Corrected differential message
broadcast through
geostationary satellites to
receiver
• 5 Times the accuracy (3m)
95% of time
• Only requires WAAS enabled
GPS
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•How good is WAAS?
•With Selective Availability set
to zero, and under ideal
conditions, a GPS receiver
without WAAS can achieve
fifteen meter accuracy most
of the time.*

•+-15
meters
•+ 3
meters

•Under ideal conditions a
WAAS equipped GPS
receiver can achieve three
meter accuracy 95% of the
time.*

•* Precision depends on good satellite geometry, open sky view, and no user
induced errors.
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Gps in remote sensing, pk mani

  • 2. What is GPS? The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite based navigational aid. Essentially it is a radio positioning navigation and time transfer system. It provides accurate information on position, velocity and time of an object or a platform at any moment, anywhere in the globe. A Constellation of Earth-Orbiting Satellites Maintained by the United States Government for the Purpose of Defining Geographic Positions On and Above the Surface of the Earth. It consists of Three Segments: User Segment Control Segment Space Segment ESSC 541-542 Lecture 4.14.05 2
  • 3. Four Basic Functions of GPS  Position and coordinates.  The distance and direction between any two waypoints, or a position and a waypoint.  Travel progress reports.  Accurate time measurement.
  • 4. Three Segments of the GPS •Space Segment •User Segment •Control Segment •Ground Antennas •Master Station •Monitor Stations
  • 5. Control Segment •US Space Command •Falcon AFB, Colorado springs •Hawaii •Cape Canaveral •Kwajalein Atoll •Ascension Is. •Master Control Station •Diego Garcia •Monitor Station •Ground Antenna
  • 6. Control Segment: Maintaining the System • Observe ephemeris and clock (5) Monitor Stations • Correct Orbit and clock errors • Create new navigation message Falcon AFB ESSC 541-542 Lecture 4.14.05 Upload Station 6
  • 7. Space Segment  24+ satellites – 6 planes with 55° inclination – Each plane has 4-5 satellites – Broadcasting position and time info on 2 frequencies – Constellation has spares  Very high orbit – 20,200 km – 1 revolution in approx. 12 hrs – Travel approx. 7,000 mph  Considerations – Accuracy – Survivability – Coverage 7
  • 9. User Segment           Military. Search and rescue. Disaster relief. Surveying. Marine, aeronautical and terrestrial navigation. Remote controlled vehicle and robot guidance. Satellite positioning and tracking. Shipping. Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Recreation.
  • 10. How the system works Space Segment 24+ Satellites The Current Ephemeris is Transmitted to Users Monitor Stations • • • • • Diego Garcia Ascension Island Kwajalein Hawaii Colorado Springs GPS Control End User Colorado Springs 10 ESSC 541-542 Lecture 4.14.05
  • 18. Triangulation Satellite 2 Satellite 1 Satellite 3 Satellite 4 18 ESSC 541-542 Lecture 4.14.05
  • 20. Position is Based on Time •Signal leaves satellite at time “T” •T •Signal is picked up by •T + 3 the receiver at time “T + 3” •Distance between satellite and receiver = “3 times the speed of light”
  • 21. Distance Measuring The whole system revolves around time!!! Distance = Rate x Time Rate = 186,000 miles per second (Speed of Light) Time = time it takes signal to travel from the SV to GPS receiver Each satellite carries around four atomic clocks Uses the oscillation of cesium and rubidium atoms to measure time Accuracy? plus/minus a second over more than 30,000 years!! ESSC 541-542 Lecture 4.14.05 21
  • 22. SV and Receiver Clocks • SV Clocks – 2 Cesium & 2 Rubidium in each SV – $100,000-$500,000 each • Receiver Clocks – Clocks similar to quartz watch – Always an error between satellite and receiver clocks ( ∆ t) • 4 satellites required to solve for x, y, z, and ∆ t 22 ESSC 541-542 Lecture 4.14.05
  • 23. 4 • PROBLEM • SOLUTION – Can’t use atomic clocks in receiver Cesium Clock = $$$$$$$!!! Size of PC – Receiver clocks accurate over short periods of time – Reset often – 4th SV used to recalibrate receiver clock 23 ESSC 541-542 Lecture 4.14.05
  • 24. PRN code 24 ESSC 541-542 Lecture 4.14.05
  • 25. •GPS Satellite Signals •• The SVs transmit two microwave carrier signals. The L1 frequency (1575.42 MHz) carries the navigation message and the SPS code signals. The L2 frequency (1227.60 MHz) is used to measure the ionospheric delay by PPS equipped receivers. •• Three binary codes shift the L1 and/or L2 carrier phase. The C/A Code (Coarse Acquisition) modulates the L1 carrier phase. The C/A code is a repeating 1 MHz Pseudo Random Noise (PRN) Code. This noise-like code modulates the L1 carrier signal, "spreading" the spectrum over a 1 MHz bandwidth. •The C/A code repeats every 1023 bits (one millisecond). There is a different C/A code PRN for each SV. GPS satellites are often identified by their PRN number, the unique identifier for each pseudo-random-noise code. The C/A code that modulates the L1 carrier is the basis for the civil SPS. •• The P-Code (Precise) modulates both the L1 and L2 carrier phases. The P-Code is a very long (seven days) 10 MHz PRN code. In the Anti-Spoofing (AS) mode of operation, the P-Code is encrypted into the Y-Code. The encrypted Y-Code requires a classified AS Module for each receiver channel and is for use only by authorized users with cryptographic keys. The P (Y)Code is the basis for the PPS. The Navigation Message also modulates the L1-C/A code signal. The Navigation Message is a 50 Hz signal consisting of data bits that describe25 the GPS satellite orbits, clock corrections, and other system parameters.
  • 26. Breaking the Code Transmission Time The Carrier Signal... combined with… Satellite The PRN code... produces the Modulated carrier signal which is transmitted... demodulated... And detected by receiver, Locked-on, but With a time delay... Receiver ESSC 541-542 Lecture 4.14.05 Time delay 26
  • 27. Pseudo Random Noise Code •Time Difference •Satellite PRN •Receiver PRN
  • 29. Accuracy and Precision in GPS • Accuracy – The nearness of a measurement to the standard or true value • Precision – The degree to which several measurements provide answers very close to each other. What affects accuracy and precision in GPS? 29 ESSC 541-542 Lecture 4.14.05
  • 30. Sources of GPS Error • Standard Positioning Service (SPS ): Civilian Users • Source Satellite clocks:  Orbital errors:  Ionosphere:  Troposphere:  Receiver noise:  Multipath:  Selective Availability  User error:  Amount of Error 1.5 to 3.6 meters < 1 meter 5.0 to 7.0 meters 0.5 to 0.7 meters 0.3 to 1.5 meters 0.6 to 1.2 meters (see notes) Up to a kilometer or more • Errors are cumulative and increased by PDOP.
  • 31. Receiver Errors are Cumulative! •System and other flaws = < 9 meters •User error = +- 1 km
  • 32. Sources of Signal Interference •Earth’s Atmosphere •Solid Structures •Metal •Electro-magnetic Fields
  • 33. Sources of Error • Clock Error – Differences between satellite clock and receiver clock • Ionosphere Delays – Delay of GPS signals as they pass through the layer of charged ions and free electrons known as the ionosphere. d cte fle Re GPS Antenna D S ct ir e i a gn l Si g – Caused by local reflections of the GPS signal that mix with the desired signal al gn Si Re fle cte d • Multipath Error na l Satellite Hard Surface 33
  • 34. GPS Satellite Geometry       Satellite geometry can affect the quality of GPS signals and accuracy of receiver trilateration. Dilution of Precision (DOP) reflects each satellite’s position relative to the other satellites being accessed by a receiver. There are five distinct kinds of DOP. Position Dilution of Precision (PDOP) is the DOP value used most commonly in GPS to determine the quality of a receiver’s position. It’s usually up to the GPS receiver to pick satellites which provide the best position triangulation. Some GPS receivers allow DOP to be manipulated by the user.
  • 41. Sources of Error • Geometric Dilution of Precision (GDOP) – Describes sensitivity of receiver to changes in the geometric positioning of the SVs • The higher the DOP value, the poorer the measurement QUALITY DOP Very Good Good Fair Suspect 1-3 4-5 6 >6 41 ESSC 541-542 Lecture 4.14.05
  • 42. Real Time Differential GPS •x+5, y3 •x+30, y+60 •x-5, y+3 •Receiver •DGPS Receiver •DGPS correction = x+(30-5) and y+(60+3) •True coordinates = x+25, y+63 •DGPS Site •True coordinates = x+0, y+0 •Correction = x-5, y+3
  • 43. Differential GPS • Method of removing errors that affect GPS measurements • A base station receiver is set up on a location where the coordinates are known • Signal time at reference location is compared to time at remote location • Time difference represents error in satellite’s signal • Real-time corrections transmitted to remote receiver – Single frequency (1-5 m) – Dual frequency (sub-meter) • = Error Reference location Post-Processing DGPS involves correcting at a later time Online post-processing ESSC 541-542 Lecture 4.14.05 Remote location www.ngs.noaa.gov/OPUS 43
  • 44. •Wide Area Augmentation System •GPS Constellation •Geostationary WAAS satellites •WAAS Control Station (West •Local Area System (LAAS) •WAAS Control Station (East Coast)
  • 45. Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) • System of satellites and ground stations that provide GPS signal corrections • 25 ground reference stations across US • Master stations create GPS correction message • Corrected differential message broadcast through geostationary satellites to receiver • 5 Times the accuracy (3m) 95% of time • Only requires WAAS enabled GPS 45 ESSC 541-542 Lecture 4.14.05
  • 46. •How good is WAAS? •With Selective Availability set to zero, and under ideal conditions, a GPS receiver without WAAS can achieve fifteen meter accuracy most of the time.* •+-15 meters •+ 3 meters •Under ideal conditions a WAAS equipped GPS receiver can achieve three meter accuracy 95% of the time.* •* Precision depends on good satellite geometry, open sky view, and no user induced errors.

Notas do Editor

  1. developed by the US Department of Defense as a worldwide navigation resource for military and civilian use.
  2. The MCS, at Falcon AFB, is responsible for the overall command and control, which includes maintaining the exact orbits of each satellite and determining any timing errors that may be present in the highly accurate atomic clocks. The errors are corrected by Falcon with updated orbits and clock corrections relayed once a day to each satellite via four ground antennas. In the future, more monitor stations will be added to further refine the system. Military customers get better than required accuracy as a result. It is important to note that even though the Air Force operates the constellation of satellites on a day-to-day basis, the overall GPS program is jointly managed. The unit that develops the hardware (both military receivers and the actual satellites) is the GPS Joint Program Office (JPO) at Los Angeles AFB. There are, among others, Army, Navy, DoT, and even DMA Deputy Program Managers.
  3. For simplicity sake, we calculate our position by understanding where a satellites is in orbit and then further computing how far we are from those satellites. If we know we are a certain distance from satellite A (11,000 miles). This narrows down where we are in the whole universe. This one range tells us we are located somewhere on the sphere of the range of this one satellite. If at the same time we also know that we are 12,000 miles away from a second satellite. This narrows where we are in the universe even more. The only place we can be 11,000 miles from A and 12,000 miles from B is on a circle where those two spheres intersect. Then if we measure to a third satellite we can pinpoint our location. If we know that we are 13,000 miles from satellite C then there are only two points in the universe that this can be true. One point is where the sphere enters into the circle formed by satellites A and B and the second is where the sphere of satellite C exits the circle formed by satellites A and B. By ranging from three satellites we can narrow our location down to one of two points. We decide between these two points typically by one of two methods. In some cases the software built into the GPS receivers have various techniques to determine which point is correct and which point is ridiculous. Technically, trigonometry says we really need four satellites to range to unambiguously locate ourselves. In other words the fourth satellite can be used to determine which of the two points derived from three satellites is the correct choice. The fourth satellite has other functions that relate to time that will be discussed later.
  4. Since GPS is based on knowing your distance to satellites in orbit, a method must be devised to figure out how far we are from the satellites. The GPS system works by timing how long it takes a radio signal to reach us from a satellite and then calculating the distance from that time. We calculate this by measuring distance or the velocity times travel time. Radio waves travel at the speed of light: 186,000 miles per second. If we can then compute exactly when the signal started at the satellite and ended at the receiver then we have our required distance. We then multiply the time by the velocity to derive the distance.
  5. Okay, we have accurate clocks in the satellites. Now all we need are accurate clocks in the receivers, sync &apos;em up and we&apos;re in business. Of course, if your discount GPS receiver had to have a cesium clock, it&apos;d cost about $200,000 and be about the size of a desktop computer. The way around that was to develop internal receiver clocks that are consistently accurate over relatively short periods of time, as long as they&apos;re reset often. So, just to be sure, the receiver listens for a fourth satellite. If the fourth line of position doesn&apos;t pass through the other three, the receiver knows something is wrong; it&apos;s geometrically impossible for four mutually intersecting spheres to merge at the same point unless the clock is spot on. The receiver assumes, then, that because the fourth line doesn&apos;t jive with the others, the receiver&apos;s internal clock must be out of sync. The receiver then runs a simple little routine to adjust the clock until all four lines of position intersect the same point. This is known as correcting clock bias and it&apos;s how the receiver resets its clock. That&apos;s one of the things that&apos;s going on when your receiver has just been turned on and you&apos;re waiting for it to initialize.
  6. This is a diagram that shows how radio signals work in general. Each SV generates a plain sine wave called the Carrier 1575.42Mhz and 1227.6Mhz. This carrier is Modulated (altered) by adding three signals to it. (The C/A code, P-Code and the Navigation message). In this case, it is that particular SV&apos;s Pseudo-Random Noise (PRN) Code this is essentially the P-Code and the C/A code for each SV. The PRN code looks like a square wave because it&apos;s just 1&apos;s and 0&apos;s; digital information that is Phase Modulated (PM). Then what the SV actually broadcasts is that modulated signal. Your receiver picks this up, subtracts the carrier (it can generate a copy of the carrier on its own), and is left with a copy of the original signal. All radios works this way. The significance for GPS is that the signal that is produced in the receiver is delayed by a small amount of time. For GPS, the information in the signal is not the only important part - as we&apos;ve seen, it&apos;s the time delay that we really care about. In fact, GPS receivers already have to have a copy of the signal (most of it anyway) just to pick it up in the first place. Remember, all the SVs are talking on the same frequency, so we can&apos;t pick them out of the chatter without knowing what to expect ahead of time. There&apos;s another important reason for random code; it relates to some basic GPS design limitations. In order to be affordable, GPS satellites had to be relatively small and light—the Block II production SVs weigh just less than 2,000 pounds. That means that power requirements are limited and the radiated signal power is also quite low, on the order of 40 watts. Think about that. There&apos;s a 40-watt transmitter floating out there almost 11,000 miles away and it has to blanket a very large portion of the earth&apos;s surface with a receivable signal. Big problem. For comparison, a typical communication satellite has much more power and it radiates a very directional signal that you need a satellite dish to receive. For obvious reasons, ships, planes, cars and other moving vehicles, can&apos;t have dishes. Who wants a plane that looks like a West Virginia sharecropper&apos;s double-wide trailer? Besides, they&apos;d blow off in the slipstream. Rather than directing a high power signal, then, a GPS satellite spreads a very low power signal over a large area. It&apos;s so low-powered that it&apos;s completely hidden in the background hash of cosmic rays, car ignitions, neon lighting, computer drive fuzz and so forth. That&apos;s where random code comes in. The receiver starts generating its own code and listening for matches in the background noise. Once it has enough matches to recognize the SV&apos;s transmission, it drags the signal out of background muck and &quot;locks on.&quot; When three SVs are locked up, navigation can begin. This is why a receiver can get by with a very small, relatively nondirectional antenna. Handheld GPS units have antennas that are only a couple of inches square or perhaps about the size of a cigar. One other thing: using pseudo-random code and low, low power makes it very hard to jam a GPS signal. For military purposes, this is obviously very desirable.
  7. i.e., a highly accurate measuring device will provide measurements very close to the standard, true or known values.Example: in target shooting a high score indicates the nearness to the bull&apos;s eye and is a measure of the shooter&apos;s accuracy. Refer to pictures below: It is an indicator of the scatter in the data. The lesser the scatter, higher the precision. The pictures given below clearly describe Accuracy and Precision. Precision is not the same as accuracy. Accuracy is a measure of departure from the true value of a quantity. Precision, on the other hand, is a measure of the &quot;repeatability&quot; of the data. The difference between accuracy and precision is known as &quot;bias&quot; or &quot;systematic error&quot;. Taking large amounts of data will improve the precision of a sample mean, but will not remove systematic error. Accuracy is a very desirable measure. However, it is generally quite difficult to obtain. It requires strict control over sources of systematic error
  8. Although at certain times of the day there may be up to12 satellites visible simultaneously, there are nevertheless occasional periods of degraded satellite coverage (though naturally their frequency and duration will increase if satellites fail). &quot;Degraded satellite coverage&quot; is generally defined in terms of the magnitude of the Dilution of Precision (DOP) factor, a measure of the quality of satellite geometry. The highest the DOP value, the poorer the satellite geometry. There are a variety of DOP indicators, such as GDOP (Geometric DOP), PDOP (Position DOP), HDOP (Horizontal DOP), VDOP (Vertical DOP), etc. PDOP, or Precision Dilution of precision, probably the most commonly used, which is the dilution of precision in three dimensions. Some- times called the Spherical DOP.
  9. To detect systematic error, one needs reference coordinates; preferably, as error free as possible. A typical source of such control is a monumented point surveyed by a geodetic agency or a state highway department. With &quot;traditional&quot; DGPS, a base station receiver is set up on a location where the coordinates are known. The difference between the known location and the calculated location based on satellite signals is used to determine individual corrections Provided that the exact location of a reference receiver (on a point that has been very accurately surveyed), and the location of satellites in space are known, it is possible to compute a distance between the receiver and each satellite. The reference receiver then divides that distance by the speed of light and gets a time for how long the signals should have taken to reach it. This theoretical time is compared with the time the signals actually took to reach it, and the difference is the error in the satellite’s signal.
  10. system of satellites and ground stations that provide GPS signal corrections, giving you even better position accuracy. How much better? Try an average of up to five times better. A WAAS-capable receiver can give you a position accuracy of better than three meters, 95 percent of the time. And you don&apos;t have to purchase additional receiving equipment or pay service fees to utilize WAAS.