Prerequisites: Introduction to GIS Objectives: This course attempts to provide training on the fundamental
aspects of GPS, and then it will lead towards various GPS measurements,
their corresponding accuracies and its uses in the identification of targets
and assessing satellite based imageries is also discussed.
Course Outline: Introduction to GPS, U. S. Department of Defense
Satellite Navigation System, Space Segment, Control Segment, User
Segment, GPS Positioning Services Specified In the Federal Radio
Navigation Plan, Precise Positioning Service, Standard Positioning
Service, GPS Data, Position and Time from GPS, Code Phase and
Pseudo-Range Navigation, Receiver Position, Velocity, and Time, Carrier
Phase Tracking (Surveying), GPS Satellite Signals, GPS Error Sources,
Differential GPS Techniques
Differential Code-Phase Navigation, Differential Carrier-Phase Surveying,
Common-Mode Time Transfer, GPS Techniques and Project Costs,
Exploration of Advance System as Differential GPS.
