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Understanding GPS: Principles and Applications, Second Edition | 
| Creators: Elliott D. Kaplan, Christopher Hegarty
Publisher: Artech House Publishers
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 20583
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
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Pages: 726
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Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.3 x 1.7
ISBN: 1580538940
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.893
EAN: 9781580538947
ASIN: 1580538940
Publication Date: November 30, 2005
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Product Description
This thoroughly updated second edition of an Artech House bestseller brings together a team of leading experts who provide a current and comprehensive treatment of the Global Positioning System (GPS). The book covers all the latest advances in technology, applications, and systems. The second edition includes new chapters that explore the integration of GPS with vehicles and cellular telephones, new classes of satellite broadcast signals, the emerging GALILEO system, and new developments in the GPS marketplace. This single-source reference provides a quick overview of GPS essentials, an in-depth examination of advanced technical topics, and a review of emerging trends in the GPS industry.
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GPS uses General Relativity May 18, 2006
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
[A review of the SECOND EDITION, 2005.]
In the last 15 years, GPS has moved from an expensive and specialised application to a mass consumer market. There are numerous books on GPS; mostly directly at that mass readership. These typically concern how to use a device with a GPS receiver.
By contrast, this book is meant for the engineer who has to design such a device. It is a compendium of technical papers covering many aspects you are likely to need. And undoubtedly some you won't, which should be reassuring. Because it means that you do not have to read all of this book for it to be useful.
The sensitivity of the GPS satellites and the resultant GPS ground resolution is amazing, as can be appreciated from some of the papers in the book. Due mostly to the stability of the satellites' orbits and their onboard atomic clocks. Chapter 7 describes how GPS requires corrections due to Einstein's Theory of General Relativity! Not just Special Relativity. As a physicist, I found this fascinating. GPS is perhaps the first field where General Relativity is used, not to be tested, but as providing a necessary quantitative model for getting correct results. Akin to how Newton's Equations have been used for 300 years in ballistics. Granted, most readers will be engineers, who might find GR a trifle exotic.
The book also has good coverage of the Russian GLONASS system. Perhaps for those who also want to use this for redundancy. Or to combine the signals from this with GPS for enhanced resolution.
Second edition in December 2005 October 17, 2005
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you are looking at the first edition, please note that the publisher plans to issue a second edition in December 2005.
Great Technical Reference August 11, 2005
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I'm an aerospace professional that is very close to the GPS system. This book is one of the best in depth references that I could recomend. I am not a novice and this text may intimidate some.
Great Book for Developing GPS Tracking Systems December 29, 2003
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a great book to read if you plan on developing any type of GPS tracking system. While the book covers the the basics, you'll need some further resources on interfacing GPS receivers and such hardware to real-world devices.An interesting article entitled "Tracking a Vehicle With GPS" can be read at www.closerworlds.com A lot of mobile solutions are soon to hit the market such as mobile phones using GSM or GPRS to track a person. This book will help to understand how it all fits together. It would have been nice if the book could have touched on how older communication systems like VHF radios can transmit GPS data. For that you'll have to visit www.closerworlds.com or some other website with such resources.
Clearly the Best General Reference on GPS January 31, 2002
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
I've been an engineer and PM working with GPS and GPS systems since the inception of GPS in the mid-80s. While employed by a major DOD research lab I was fortunate enough not only to have access to practically every GPS book and article available, but I also had the opportunity to meet many of the key people responsible for the design and development of the system (many of whom contributed to this text). From system design to receiver architecture, this is by far the best general reference I have found on GPS.
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