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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Global Navigation and Positioning Systems

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 548-0908/02
Abbreviation GNPS
Course title Global Navigation and Positioning Systems
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Geoinformatics
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Michal Kačmařík, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Satellite positioning and navigation. GNSS. History of GNSS. GPS, structure, signals, positioning and timing. Mesurement conditions. Increasing accuracy. Limits of GPS. Future GPS. GLONASS, Galileo, Compass, etc. WAAS, EGNOS. Applications of GNSS.

Literature

SUBIRANA, S., ZORNOZA, J., HERNANDÉZ-PAJARES, M.: GNSS DATA PROCESSING, Volume I: Fundamentals and Algorithms. European Space Agency, 2013. ISBN:978-92-9221-886-7 .
HOFMANN-WELLENHOF, B., LICHTENEGGER, H., WASLE, E.: GNSS – Global Navigation Satellite Systems GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and more, Wien, Springer, 2008, 546 pages, ISBN: 9783211730126 .
ZEKAVAT, S., BUEHRER, R.M.: Handbook of position location: theory, practice, and advances. Wiley-IEEE Press, 2012. IEEE series on mobile & digital communication. ISBN:978-0-470-94342-7.
DACH, R., LUTZ, S., WALSER, P., FRIDEZ, P.: Bernese GNSS Software, Version 5.2. University of Bern, 2015, 884 str. ISBN:978-3-906813-05-9 .

Advised literature

AWANGE, J. L.: Environmental monitoring using GNSS, Springer, Berlin, 2012, ISBN:978-3-540-88255-8.
BOEHM, J., SCHUH, H.: Atmospheric Effects in Space Geodesy, Springer, Berlin, 2013, 234 pages, ISBN:978-3-642-36931-5.
MONTENBRUCK, O., STEIGENBERGER, P., HAUSCHILD, A. Comparing the ‘Big 4’ – A User’s View on GNSS Performance, 2020 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), 2020.
NAVIPEDIA: https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/, accessed January 23, 2020.