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| View Larger Image | Understanding GPS: Principles and Applications, Second Edition
by Elliott D. Kaplan, Christopher Hegarty
| | List Price: | $129.00 | | Price: | $96.68 | | You Save: | $32.32 (25%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 216938 | | Studio: | Artech House Publishers | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 726 | | Publication Date: | November 30, 2005 | | Publisher: | Artech House Publishers |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Book 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. Engineers can use this book to build GPS receivers and integrate them into navigational and communications equipment. Executives can turn to this book to determine how technology is affecting markets and how best to invest their companies’ resources. The book also serves as a handy resource for electrical engineering students looking to advance their studies and careers in GPS. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 9 reviews)
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GPS uses General Relativity 
[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.
May 18, 2006 | |
Second edition in December 2005
If you are looking at the first edition, please note that the publisher plans to issue a second edition in December 2005.
October 18, 2005 | |
Great Technical Reference
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.
August 11, 2005 | |
Great Book for Developing GPS Tracking Systems
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.
December 29, 2003 | |
Clearly the Best General Reference on GPS
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.
January 31, 2002 | |
SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| | Introduction to GPS: The Global Positioning System, Second Edition
by Ahmed El-Rabbany
| | A Software-Defined GPS and Galileo Receiver: A Single-Frequency Approach (Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis)
by Kai Borre, Dennis M. Akos, Nicolaj Bertelsen, Peter Rinder, Soren Holdt Jensen
| | Global Positioning Systems, Inertial Navigation, and Integration
by Mohinder S. Grewal, Lawrence R. Weill, Angus P. Andrews
| | Global Positioning System: Theory and Practice
by B. Hofmann-Wellenhof, H. Lichtenegger, J. Collins
| | Global Positioning System: Theory & Applications (Volume One) (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics)
by Bradford W. Parkinson, James J. Spilker
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