Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) refers to a constellation of satellites providing signals from space that transmit positioning and timing data to GNSS receivers. The receivers then use this data to determine location. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) plays a significant role in high precision navigation, positioning, timing, and scientific questions related to precise positioning. Of course, in the widest sense, this is a highly precise, continuous, all-weather and a real-time technique. By definition, GNSS provides global coverage. It provides an overview of the different navigation systems, explains the navigation channel and generic. It is devoted to present recent results and developments in GNSS theory, system, signal, receiver, method and errors sources such as multipath effects and atmospheric delays. To make it more elaborative, this varied GNSS applications are demonstrated and evaluated in hybrid positioning, multi-sensor integration, height system, Network Real Time Kinematic (NRTK), wheeled robots, status and engineering surveys.
This book is a compilation of chapters that discuss the most vital concepts in the field of satellite navigation or global navigation satellite systems. It explores all the important aspects of this field in the present-day scenario. It uses time signals emitted by radio to determine the exact longitude and latitude of areas and also provide altitude of the same. It is used for geo-spatial positioning. It is applied in Global Positioning Systems (GPS) worldwide and is being used by many different countries for their military and security purposes. While understanding the long-term perspectives of the topics, the book makes an effort in highlighting their impact as a modern tool for the growth of the discipline. It presents the complex subject of satellite navigation in the most comprehensible and easy to understand language. This book is appropriate for those seeking detailed information in this area.
Adena Doran pursued her Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from Technological University, Marseille. Her primary areas of scholarly and research interests lie in the fields of geospatial positioning, satellite constellation and global positioning systems. She is serving as a Research Associate at Technical Institute, Dundee. Doran has authored and edited several texts, which include articles, technical papers and book chapters, in the fields of global positioning systems, positioning calculations and satellite-based augmentation systems. She has presented over 30 papers at international symposiums and conferences. She has been also awarded “GIS Professional of the Year Award” for her outstanding research contributions in the fields of Remote Sensing and GIS.
