GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou for Mobile Devices From Instant to Precise Positioning

Get up to speed on all existing GNSS with this practical guide. Covering everything from GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou orbits and signals to multi-GNSS receiver design, AGPS, RTK, and VRS, you will understand the complete global range of mobile positioning systems. Step-by-step algorithms and practical methods provide the tools you need to develop current mobile systems, whilst coverage of cutting edge techniques, such as the instant positioning method, gives you a head-start in unlocking the potential of future mobile positioning. Whether you are an engineer or business manager working in the mobile device industry, a student or researcher, this is your ideal guide to GNSS.

Introduction; Part I. GNSS: Orbits, Signals and Methods: 1. GNSS ground and space segments; 2. GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou signals; 3. Stand-alone positioning with GNSS; 4. Referenced positioning with GNSS; Part II. From Conventional to Software GNSS Receiver Double Back: 5. Generic GNSS receiver operation; 6. Software receiver: toy or foe?; 7. Common approach; Part III. Mobile Positioning at Present and in the Future: 8. Positioning with data link : from AGNSS to RTK; 9. Positioning without data link: from BGPS to PPP; 10. Trends, opportunities and prospects; Part IV. Testing Mobile Devices: 11. GNSS simulators; 12. Testing procedures; Index.

Ivan G. Petrovski leads the development of GNSS applications at iP-Solutions, Japan. He has over 25 years' worth of research and development experience in the GNSS field and has previously led GNSS-related R&D for DX Antenna, GNSS Technologies Inc., and the Institute of Advanced Satellite Positioning at TUMSAT. He has academic experience working as an associate professor with MAI and a guest professor with TUMSAT. As an engineer he has developed RTK software, pseudolite systems, instant positioning methods and algorithms, a real-time GNSS software receiver, GNSS signal recorder and RF signal simulator.