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GPS/GNSS Course Catalog

Spring 2014

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NavtechGPS is a world leader in GPS/GNSS education with more than 30 years of experience and a comprehensive list of course offerings. Our courses are taught by worldclass instructors who have trained thousands of GNSS professionals.

Our Public Course Venues. We host our most requested courses each year for individuals to attend. Of course, any of our seminars can be brought directly to your location. Our On-Site Courses. Many of our clients prefer that we bring our classes to them. Our on-site courses are often more economical because there is no travel involved and the per-person fee is lower. On-site training also allows us to tailor a course to your specific needs. You can request one of the classes listed in this catalog or a combination of any of these classes to be taught at your facility. We make it easy for you. We will guide you through the process and help you with the logistics.

We have been presenting our courses internationally and domestically to civil, military and governmental organizations since 1984. Our instructors are leaders in their specialized GNSS fields. Learn from them at our public venues or let us bring their expertise to you.

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CONTENTS About Our On-Site and Public Courses........................................................................................................................................................................................................................2 Instructors and Authors......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................3 Spring Courses in Annapolis, Maryland.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................6 NEW Course 346: GPS / GNSS Operation for Engineers & Technical Professionals..................................................................................................................7 NEW Course 123 GPS / GNSS Fundamentals and Enhancements (Days 1 and 2 of Course 346).......................................................................................................8 Course 356: GPS and DGPS Operation for Engineers & Technical Professionals (An in-depth 5-day course)...............................................................................9 Course 356B: GPS Operations, DGPS, GPS Signals & Processing (Days 3, 4 and 4 of Course 356)...................................................................................................10 Course 336: GPS Fundamentals, Enhancements and Intro to Differential GPS (Days 1, 2 and 3 of Course 356)......................................................................11 Course 136: Practical GPS for Professional Users...................................................................................................................................................................................................12 Course 324: Military GPS User Equipment Vulnerability Assessment & Mitigation for Military Groups.......................................................................................13 Course 338: GNSS and Integration for Portable Navigation............................................................................................................................................................................14 Course 439: GPS High Precision Kinematic Carrier Phase Techniques........................................................................................................................................................15 Course 447: Applied Kalman Filtering with Emphasis on GPS-Aided Systems........................................................................................................................................16 Course 537: Advanced Integration of GPS & Inertial Navigation Systems.................................................................................................................................................17 Course 551: Using Advanced GPS/GNSS Signals and Systems.......................................................................................................................................................................18 Annapolis Registration Form.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................19

Instructors and Authors NavtechGPS has been leading the way in GPS/GNSS training for over 30 years. We hire the world's leading authorities to teach YOU so you have the latest information to develop top-level skills to execute your mission. Dennis Akos, Ph.D., is an associate professor with the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is also a consulting associate professor with Stanford University and a visiting professor at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. Dr. Akos obtained a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Ohio University in the Avionics Engineering Center. Dr. Akos' research interests include global navigation satellite system receiver architectures, RF design, embedded systems, and software defined radios. Dr. Akos has received a number of awards for his research efforts, including The Institute of Navigation Thurlow Award (2009), the Samuel M. Burka Award from The Institute of Navigation (2005), Best paper at IEEE Position Location and Navigation Symposium (2002), RTCA William E. Jackson Award (1997), and the Ohio University Gustavus E. Smith Award (1996). Penina Axelrad, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses and conducts research primarily on GPS topics. Her research interests include time transfer, personal navigation, GPS-based orbit and attitude determination for spacecraft in LEO and HEO, multipath characterization and correction for spacecraft, aircraft, and ground reference stations, and remote sensing using GPS based bistatic radar and occultation measurements. From 1990 to 1992 she was with Stanford Telecommunications doing work in time transfer systems, kinematic GPS algorithms, and integrated GPS/INS. She is a fellow of the U.S.

ION and the AIAA and the recipient of the 1996 Lawrence Sperry Award from the AIAA, the 2003 Tycho Brahe Award from the U.S. ION and the 2009 Johannes Kepler Award from the ION Satellite Division. John Betz, Ph.D., is a fellow of The MITRE Corporation and has worked extensively in the design of modern GNSS signals and the development and performance assessment of GNSS receiver processing. As a key contributor to the design of the GPS M-code signal, he led the design of its spreading modulation and acquisition, and developed the binary offset carrier (BOC) modulation as part of that effort. Betz contributed to the design of the GPS L1C signal and has represented the United States in technical working groups to achieve compatibility and interoperability of GPS with Galileo, GLONASS, COMPASS, QZSS, and IRNSS. He has been a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board since 2004 and served as its chair from 2008 until 2011. As chair, he led 52 distinguished engineers and scientists, selected from academia and industry, who provide technical advice to Air Force senior leadership. Betz has received many awards for his work, including a U.S. State Department Superior Honor Award for extraordinary contributions to the U.S. diplomatic efforts in the successful U.S.-European Union negotiations on GPS and Galileo cooperation and being named a fellow of the IEEE and of The Institute of Navigation (the ION). Five of his journal papers have received annual outstanding paper awards from the Institute of Navigation, the IEEE Professional Societies and from MITRE. At ION GNSS 2013, Dr. Betz was awarded the Satellite Division's highest honor, the Johannes Kepler Award, for his contributions to the GNSS signal modernization and

to the compatibility and interoperablity of gloval navigation satellite systems. Dr. Betz is a co-inventor on four patents or patent applications and has authored or co-authored more than 50 publications including book chapters, journal articles and conference papers. He received his Ph.D., in electrical and computer engineering from Northeastern University. Franck Boynton is the vice president and chief technical officer at NavtechGPS and heads its product division. NavtechGPS sells GPS and GNSS products from over 30 leading manufacturers and offers technical advice on complex precise positioning projects in addition to offering technical GNSS training through its seminar division. Since 1988, Boynton has been involved in the testing and operation of GNSS receivers, antennas, boards, data link products and related equipment. He is certified by several manufacturers for sales, operation and training on high accuracy receiver systems and OEM products. He specializes in custom system development and the design and implementation of high performance GNSS components. Boynton is a member of The Institute of Navigation and won a "Best Paper" award for GPS applications at the ION GNSS 2003 meeting. He has also co-chaired sessions at past ION meetings and cochaired "New Products and Commercial Services" at ION GNSS+ 2013. He is a NavtechGPS technical board member and a corporate officer. Michael S. Braasch, Ph.D., is a Thomas Professor of Electrical Engineering and has served as the director of the Avionics Engineering Center at Ohio University. His

research includes GPS receiver design, GPS/ INS integration, multipath mitigation, advanced cockpit displays and UAV operational safety analysis. Dr. Braasch has served as a technical advisor both to the FAA and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in the area of precision approach and landing systems, and he has received international recognition for his work on characterizing the effects of multipath on GPS/GNSS accuracy. As cofounder of the company GPSoft, Dr. Braasch has been instrumental in the development the Satellite Navigation (SatNav) Toolbox, the Inertial Navigation System (INS) Toolbox, and the Navigation System Integration & Kalman Filter Toolbox for MATLAB. Dr. Braasch is a fellow of the ION, a senior member of the IEEE, is an instrument-rated commercial pilot and is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Ohio. Alessandro P. Cerruti is a senior signal processing engineer with MITRE, where he is a member of the GPS systems engineering and GPS user equipment teams. His interests include inter- and intra-system GPS radio frequency compatibility, software-defined GPS radios, as well as space weather effects on GPS. He has a B.S., M.Eng., M.S., and Ph.D. all from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. At C ornell University, Alex worked closely with his advisor in teaching and developing courses in GPS measurements, processing, and software defined radios, and he pursued his graduate studies in space weather effects on GPS receivers. Kees de Jong, Ph.D., is with Fugro, The Netherlands, where he is responsible for the development of 3

Instructors and Authors integrated positioning systems. From 1998 to 2002 he was an assistant professor at the department of Mathematical Geodesy and Positioning at Delft University of Technology. His current research interests are in the field of real-time GNSS positioning and quality control. He is a former chairman of the working group on applied space geodesy of the Netherlands Association of Geodesy. Christopher Hegarty, D.Sc., is a director with The MITRE Corporation, where he has worked mainly on aviation applications of GNSS since 1992. He is currently the chair of the Program Management Committee of RTCA, Inc., and co-chairs RTCA Special Committee 159 (GNSS). He served as editor of NAVIGATION: The Journal of the Institute of Navigation from 1997 – 2006 and as president of the Institute of Navigation in 2008. He was a recipient of the ION Early Achievement Award in 1998, the U.S. Department of State Superior Honor Award in 2005, the ION Kepler Award in 2005, and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Hobart Newell Award in 2006. He is a fellow of the ION, a 2011 fellow of the IEEE, a co-editor/co-author of the textbook Understanding GPS: Principles and Applications, 2nd edition and is NavtechGPS’ modernization technical advisor. Stephen Heppe, D.Sc., received a BSEE from Princeton University in 1977, and a master’s and D.Sc. from The George Washington University in 1982 and 1989, respectively. His doctoral research focused on radar direction finding, signal processing, and signal estimation in a multi-emitter environment. He has worked in the area of GPS receiver design, navigation, satellite communications, and interference mitigation for navigation and communication systems since 1978. He currently operates the consulting firm Telenergy, Inc. Prior to this he was vice president and chief scientist for Insitu, Inc., specializing in miniature robotic aircraft. He also worked for 4

Stanford Telecommunications, Inc. with primary focus on aeronautical GPS navigation, low-probability-of-intercept communications, jamming analysis, and anti-jam techniques. He holds several patents for GPS receiver design and differential GPS. Patrick Y. Hwang, Ph.D., is a principal systems engineer with the Advanced Technology Center of Rockwell Collins, Inc. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has over 28 years experience in applied Kalman filtering and advanced navigation systems design and holds various system technology patents, mostly related to GPS. Recently, he has been involved with the development of highaccuracy global differential GPS processing for military GPS receivers, vision navigation for indoor and GPS-denied environments, highly-accurate time transfer systems for collaborative navigation systems and novel integrity-optimized RAIM algorithms for aircraft flight safety. Most of these applications have involved the use of the Kalman filter for systems performance analysis, if not for measurement processing as well. Dr. Hwang has numerous technical publications and co-authored the textbook Introduction to Random Signals and Applied Kalman Filtering, 3rd edition with Prof. R. Grover Brown of Iowa State University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Iowa State University. Mark Petovello, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Position, Location and Navigation (PLAN) group in the Dept. of Geomatics Eng., University of Calgary. Since 1998, he has been involved in various navigation research areas including satellite-based navigation, inertial navigation, reliability analysis, dead-reckoning sensor integration, and software-based GNSS receivers. He has extensive experience in navigation algorithm development, implementation and refinement, and is co-creator of several navigation-related software packages. Dr.

Petovello is a contributing editor for Inside GNSS magazine where he heads their GNSS Solutions column, and an associate editor of NAVIGATION, the journal of the Institute of Navigation. He is also registered as a professional engineer in the province of Alberta, Canada. Dr. Petovello has won several awards for his work, including early achievement awards from the U.S. Institute of Navigation and APEGGA, several best paper/presentation awards, and he has been recently named to Avenue Magazine’s 2010 list, "Top 40 Under 40." Alan J. Pue, Ph.D., is the chief scientist of the Air and Missile Defense Department at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Since 1974, he has worked on a wide variety of guidance, control, and navigation projects, including automated ground vehicle control research, space telescope pointing control, and missile guidance, navigation, and control. During this time he has specialized in the design and testing of integrated INS/GPS systems. Dr. Pue is also a graduate lecturer on linear systems theory and control system design methods for The Johns Hopkins University. Logan Scott is a consultant specializing in radio frequency signal processing and waveform design for communications, navigation, radar, and emitter location. He has more than 32 years of military GPS systems engineering experience. As a senior member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments, he pioneered approaches for building high-performance, jammingresistant digital receivers using largescale application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technologies. He has developed gain and frequency plans, nonuniform analog/digital conversion techniques, fast acquisition architectures, baseband signal processing algorithms and adaptive array approaches. He is currently active in location based encryption and authentication, civil jammer location

architecture, and RFID systems. He holds 32 U.S. patents. James Sennott, Ph.D., is the president of Tracking and Imaging Systems, Inc. (TISI), which specializes in advanced GPS software and hardware development for civilian and military markets. His expertise includes navigation/estimation theory, deep integration receiver architectures, GPS-IMU real time and desktop simulation methods, multiple access techniques, and spread-spectrum communications. He has been faculty fellow with the U.S. DoT Volpe Center and NASA Goddard, applying waveform estimation theory and advanced microprocessor families to GPS-user equipment and surveillance systems. Through this work, he developed architectures for single "chip" implementations of GPS. He is a pioneer in the area of integrated demodulation-navigation and ultra-tight coupling, holding fundamental patents in this and related GPS application areas. At Howard University, he researched multiple access spread spectrum and radio navigation systems. Earlier, he analyzed satellite and other techniques applied to navigation and air traffic control for the Transportation Systems Division of The MITRE Corporation. Dr. Sennott has been the recipient of the Rothburg Professional Excellence Award as an outstanding researcher at Bradley University, and he has served on the National Academy of Engineering Committee on the Future of GPS. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. Frank van Diggelen, Ph.D., has been in the navigation field almost all of his life. He became a navigation officer in the South African Navy before going on to college. Since then he has worked on GPS, GLONASS and A-GPS for Navsys, Ashtech, Magellan and Global

Locate. With the acquisition of Global Locate by Broadcom, he is now technical director for GPS Systems and chief navigation officer of Broadcom Corporation. When not working on GPS technical issues and design, he is navigator and tactician on a racing yacht in Santa Cruz, California. Dr. van Diggelen is the inventor of coarse-time GNSS navigation, a coinventor of long-term orbits for assisted GPS, and holds over 40 U.S. patents on assisted GPS. He is the author of the first textbook on assisted GPS, A-GPS: Assisted GPS, SBAS and GNSS, published in 2009 by Artech House. He has taught numerous GPS classes for, among others, NavtechGPS, GIS World and the IEEE. Over the past decade more than 500 people have attended Dr. van Diggelen’s GPS classes. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cambridge University, England. Dr. Van Diggelen is a member of NavtechGPS' advisory board. Michael Vaujin, works for an engineering firm in Tucson, Arizona. He has over 25 years experience in the field of aerospace, navigation and defense. He designs aided strapdown navigation solutions for land, sea, and airborne platforms using munition, tactical and navigation grade IMUs. He received his B.S.E.E. from the University of Florida in 1987 and his M.S.E.E. degree from the University of South Florida in 1991. During his 16 years at Honeywell Aerospace, he was awarded five patents in aided navigation and developed and taught an in-house technical course on inertial navigation error equations. In his three years at Tracking & Imaging Systems, Inc. in St. Petersburg, Florida, he developed all the navigation and Kalman filtering software needed to support a test range tracking application. At the 2010 Institute of Navigation GNSS conference, he was asked to present at a special panel celebrating the 50th anniversary of the invention of the Kalman filter. Phillip W. Ward is president of Navward GPS Consulting, which he founded in 1991. Previously, he was a senior member of the technical staff at Texas Instruments (TI) in the Defense Systems & Electronics Group. He

developed five generations of GPS receivers for TI, including the first commercially available GPS receiver, the TI-4100. Mr. Ward served as president of the ION from 1992 to 1993 and as chair of the ION Satellite Division from 1994 to 1996. In 2001, he became the ION's first congressional fellow. In 1989, he received the ION navigation award in memory of

Colonel Thomas L. Thurlow for developing the first successful GPS receiver for geodetic surveying (the TI-4100), and he received the Johannes Kepler Award for lifetime achievement from the ION Satellite Division in 2008. GPS World included him in its “50+ Leaders to Watch” for 2008/2009 and honored him with its “GPS Hero Award” in 2010 “for outstanding leadership, commitment and

service to the global positioning system.” Mr. Ward is a fellow member of the ION, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a registered professional engineer in Texas. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Texas at El Paso and his M.S.E.E. degree from Southern Methodist University. 

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Spring Courses in Annapolis, Maryland Registration Forms at the Back of Catalog Annapolis, maryland ď&#x20AC;˝ April 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4, 2014 April 1

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346: GPS/GNSS Operations for Engineers and Technical Professionals (A 4-day version of Course 356) Dr. Chris Hegarty, MITRE 123: GPSGNSS Fundamentals and Enhancements (Days 1 and 2 of Course 346) Dr. Chris Hegarty, MITRE 447: Applied Kalman Filtering with Emphasis on GPS-Aided Systems (Mr. Michael Vaujin)

Questions? Call Carolyn McDonals at 1-800628-0885 or +1-703-256-8900, or email her at cmcdonald@ navtechgps.com for information or to arrange for a an on-site course at your location.

Need On-Site Training? We can bring any of our courses to you. Contact us about our convenient and economical on-site training options Call Carolyn McDonald for more information (703-256-8900).

Annapolis Instructors

Dr. Chris Hegarty, MITRE

Mr. Michael Vaujin, Aerospace, Navigation and Defense Consultant

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April 1 – 4, 2014 Loews Annapolis Hotel Annapolis, Maryland

Course 346 (2.4 CEUs)

GPS / GNSS Operation for Engineers & Technical Professionals (A 4-Day Course): Principles, Technology, Applications and an Introduction to Basic DGPS Concepts

DAYS 1 AND 2 may BE TAKEN AS A SEPARATE COURSE (course 123). SEE REGISTRATION FORM DAY 1

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Dr. Chris Hegarty, MITRE 8:30 Fundamentals of GPS operation.

Overview of how the system works. U.S. policy and current status. GPS System Description ●● Overview and terminology ●● Principles of operation ●● Augmentations ●● Trilateration ●● Performance overview ●● Modernization GPS Policy and Context ●● Condensed navigation system history ●● GPS policy and governance ●● Modernization program ●● Ground segment ●● Other satellite navigation systems GPS Applications ●● Land ●● Marine ●● Aviation ●● Science ●● Personal navigation ●● Accuracy measures ●● Error sources

Differential GPS Overview ●● Local- and wide-area architectures ●● Code vs. carrier-phase based systems ●● Data links; pseudolites ●● Performance overview

GPS Principles and Technologies Clocks and Timing ●● Importance for GPS ●● Timescales ●● Clock types ●● Stability measures ●● Relativistic effects

Differential Concepts ●● Differential error sources ●● Measurement processing ●● Ambiguity resolution ●● Error budgets

Geodesy and Satellite Orbits ●● Coordinate frames and geodesy ●● Satellite orbits ●● GPS constellation ●● Constellation maintenance Satellites and Control Segment ●● GPS satellite blocks ●● Control segment components and operation ●● Monitor stations, MCS, and ground antennas ●● Upload operations ●● Ground control modernization

DGPS Standards and Systems ●● RTCM SC104 message format ●● USCG maritime DGPS and National DGPS (NDGPS) ●● Commercial satellite-based systems ●● Aviation systems: satellite-based and groundbased (SBAS/GBAS) ●● RINEX format, CORS and IGS networks ●● Precise time transfer

GPS Signal Processing ●● In-phase and quadra-phase signal paths ●● Analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion ●● Automatic gain control (AGC) ●● Correlation channels ●● Acquisition strategies Code Tracking, Carrier Tracking & Data Demodulation ●● Delay locked loop (DLL) implementations; performance ●● Frequency locked loops (FLLs) ●● Phase locked loops (PLLs) ●● Carrier-aiding of DLLs ●● Data demodulation Receiver Impairments and Enhancements ●● Impairments - bandlimiting, oscillators, multipath, interference ●● Enhancements - carrier smoothing, narrow correlator, codeless/semicodeless tracking, vector tracking, external aiding

Lunch is on your own Legacy GPS Signals ●● Signal structure and characteristics ●● Modulations: BPSK, DSSS, BOC ●● Signal generation ●● Navigation data Measurements and Positioning ●● Pseudorange and carrier phase measurements ●● Least squares solution ●● Dilution of precision ●● Types of positioning solutions GPS Receiver Basics ●● Types of receivers ●● Functional overview ●● Antennas

Error Sources and Models ●● Sources of error and correction models ●● GPS signals in space performance ●● Ionospheric and tropospheric effects ●● Multipath ●● Error budget Augmentations and Other Constellations ●● Augmentations: local-area, satellite-based, and regional ●● Russia’s GLONASS ●● Europe’s Galileo ●● China’s Compass (BeiDou) Precise Positioning ●● Precise positioning concepts ●● Reference station networks ●● RINEX data format

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Course Objectives

This is a 4-day version of our popular 5-day Course 356, condensed to save you time and money. It puts less emphasis on DGPS and Kalman filtering. Attendees will still get a comprehensive introduction to GPS, an overview of DGPS technology, system concepts, design, operation, and introduction to Kalman filtering, implementation and applications. This course is designed to give you A comprehensive introduction to GPS, system concepts, an introduction to differential GPS (DGPS), design, operation, implementation and applications. Detailed information on the GPS signal, its processing by the receiver, and the techniques by which GPS obtains position, velocity and time. Current information on the status, plans, schedule and capabilities of GPS, as well as of other satellite-based systems with position velocity and time determination applications. Information to fill the technical gaps for those working in the GPS and GNSS fields.

Who Should Attend?

Excellent for engineering staff who need to be rapidly brought up to speed on GPS, and for those already working in GPS who need exposure to the system as a whole in order to work more effectively.

GPS Signal Structure and Message Content ●● Signal structure ●● Signal properties ●● Navigation message GPS Receiver Overview ●● Functional overview ●● Synchronization concepts ●● Acquisition ●● Code tracking ●● Carrier tracking ●● Data demodulation GPS Antennas ●● Antenna types ●● Antenna performance characteristics ●● Prefilters ●● Low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) ●● Noise figure

GPS Navigation Algorithms: Point Solutions ●● Pseudorange measurement models ●● Point solution method and example Introduction to Kalman Filtering ●● Algorithm overview ●● Process and measurement models for navigation ●● Simulation examples Practical Aspects ●● Types of GPS and DGPS receivers ●● Understanding specification sheets ●● Data links ●● Antennas ●● Receiver and interface standards ●● Accessories ●● Supplemental notes: Tracing a GPS signal through a receiver

Prerequisites

Familiarity with engineering terms and analysis techniques. General familiarity with matrix operations and familiarity with signal processing techniques is desirable.

Materials You Will Keep

346 Course Fee Entitles You to the Following Books

Understanding GPS: Principles and Applications, 2nd ed., Elliott Kaplan & Chris Hegarty, Eds., Artech House, 2006, OR Global Positioning System: Signals, Measurement and Performance, P. Misra and P. Enge, 2nd ed., 2011. (Note: This arrangement does not apply to on-site contracts. The on-site group contract fees entitle your organization to a book credit from the NavtechGPS bookstore (http://www.navtechgps.com/departments/ books/), which is calculated for each contract.)

Instructor

Dr. Chris Hegarty

To register or for more information, Contact Carolyn McDonald at (703) 256-8900 or cmcdonald@navtechgps.com.

April 1 – 4, 2014 Loews Annapolis Hotel Annapolis, Maryland

Course 123 (1.2 CEUs)

GPS / GNSS Fundamentals & Enhancements (April 1 and 2, 2014) Days 1 and 2 of Course 346

Same as DAYS 1 AND 2 of course 346. See registration form DAY 1

Instructor

DAY 2 Dr. Chris Hegarty, MITRE

8:30 Fundamentals of GPS operation. Overview of how the system works. U.S. policy and current status. GPS System Description ●● Overview and terminology ●● Principles of operation ●● Augmentations ●● Trilateration ●● Performance overview ●● Modernization GPS Policy and Context ●● Condensed navigation system history ●● GPS policy and governance ●● Modernization program ●● Ground segment ●● Other satellite navigation systems GPS Applications ●● Land ●● Marine ●● Aviation ●● Science ●● Personal navigation ●● Accuracy measures ●● Error sources

GPS Principles and Technologies

Dr. Chris Hegarty

Clocks and Timing ●● Importance for GPS ●● Timescales ●● Clock types ●● Stability measures ●● Relativistic effects Geodesy and Satellite Orbits ●● Coordinate frames and geodesy ●● Satellite orbits ●● GPS constellation ●● Constellation maintenance Satellites and Control Segment ●● GPS satellite blocks ●● Control segment components and operation ●● Monitor stations, MCS, and ground antennas ●● Upload operations ●● Ground control modernization

Lunch Is On Your Own Legacy GPS Signals ●● Signal structure and characteristics ●● Modulations: BPSK, DSSS, BOC ●● Signal generation ●● Navigation data Measurements and Positioning ●● Pseudorange and carrier phase measurements ●● Least squares solution ●● Dilution of precision ●● Types of positioning solutions GPS Receiver Basics ●● Types of receivers ●● Functional overview ●● Antennas

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Objectives

To give an comprehensive introduction to GPS technology, system concepts, design, operation, implementation and applications. To provide detailed information on the GPS signal, its processing by the receiver, and the techniques by which GPS obtains position, velocity and time

Prerequisites

Some familiarity with engineering terms is helpful but not essential.

Who Should Attend?

Materials You Will Keep

A color electronic copy of all course notes will be provided on a USB Drive or CD-ROM. Bringing a laptop to this class is highly recommended; power access will be provided. A black and white hard copy of the course notes will also be provided. Public venue courses of Course 122: Introduction to GPS: The Global Positioning System, 2nd ed., Ahmed El-Rabbany, Artech House, 2006. (Note: This arrangement does not apply to on-site contracts. The on-site group contract fees entitle your organization to a book credit from the NavtechGPS bookstore (http://www. navtechgps.com/departments/books/), which is calculated for each contract.)

Engineers and technical professionals seeking conceptual explanations of GPS / GNSS technology, operation, capabilities, applications, and development trends Professionals in navigation, positioning, and related fields who are concerned with the capabilities, operation and principles of GPS and related GNSS systems. System analysts and specialists who need general information on position data and its use. Managers concerned with GPS, GNSS activities, or the positioning field.

To register or for more information, Contact Carolyn McDonald at (703) 256-8900 or cmcdonald@navtechgps.com.

On-Site at Your Location Course 356

GPS and DGPS Operation for Engineers & Technical Professionals: Principles, Technology, Applications and DGPS Concepts Monday & Tuesday Can Be Taken as Course 122 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Can Be Taken as Course 336 MONDAY

336: 1.8 CEUs

Wednesday Through Friday can be taken as Course 356B (assumes knowledge of Course 122 material)

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WEDNESDAY

Dr. Michael Braasch, Ohio University 8:30 Fundamentals of GPS operation.

356: 3.0 CEUs 356B: 1.8 CEUs 122: 1.2 CEUs

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Dr. Chris Hegarty, MITRE Differential GPS Overview ● Local-area, regional-area, widearea architectures ● Code vs. carrier-phase based systems ● Pseudolites ● Performance overview

GPS Principles and Technologies Clocks and Timing ●● Importance for GPS ●● Timescales ●● Clock types ●● Stability measures ●● Relativistic effects

Differential Error Sources ● Satellite ephemeris errors ● Satellite clock errors ● Selective availability ● Ionospheric, tropospheric delay ● Multipath ● Receiver internal noise, biases

Observable Modeling ● Code pseudorange and carrierphase outputs ● Code-minus-carrier observables ● Carrier-smoothed code operation ● Double difference operation ● System error budgets

GPS Signal Structure and Message Content ● Signal structures ● Signal properties ● Navigation message GPS Receiver Overview ● Functional overview ● Synchronization concepts ● Acquisition ● Code tracking ● Carrier tracking ● Data demodulation GPS Antennas ● Antenna types ● Antenna performance characteristics ● Prefilters ● Low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) ● Noise figure

Case Study: Tracing a GPS Signal Through a Receiver ● Received signal ● Digitized signal ● Correlator outputs ● Code-phase estimate ● Carrier-phase estimate ● Data demodulation GPS Navigation Algorithms: Point Solutions ● Pseudorange measurement models ● Point solution method and example Basics of Kalman Filtering ● Introduction to Kalman filtering ● Filter structure ● Simulation results

Lunch is On Your Own Legacy GPS Signals ●● Signal structure and characteristics ●● Modulations: BPSK, DSSS, BOC ●● Signal generation ●● Navigation data Measurements and Positioning ●● Pseudorange and carrier phase measurements ●● Least squares solution ●● Dilution of precision ●● Types of positioning solutions GPS Receiver Basics ●● Types of receivers ●● Functional overview ●● Antennas

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Course Objectives

Differential GPS Design Considerations ● Range vs. navigation domain corrections ● Data links ● Pseudolites ● Reducing major error components ● Ambiguity resolution DGPS Case Studies I ● RTCM SC104 message format ● USCG maritime DGPS and National DGPS (NDGPS) ● Commercial satellite-based systems DGPS Case Studies II ● Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) ● Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) ● RINEX format ● CORS&IGS network for precise positioning (survey) ● Precise time transfer

To give you a comprehensive introduction to GPS and DGPS technology, system concepts, design, operation, implementation and applications, including critical information on DGPS and Kalman filtering concepts. To provide detailed information on the GPS signal, its processing by the receiver, and the techniques by which GPS obtains position, velocity and time. To present current information on the status, plans, schedule and capabilities of GPS, as well as of other satellite-based systems with position velocity and time determination applications. To fill in technical information gaps for those working in the GPS and GNSS fields. This course has two highly respected instructors who bring their unique experiences and professional expertise to the class.

Who Should Attend?

Excellent for engineering staff who need to be rapidly brought up to speed on GPS, and for those already working in GPS who need exposure to the system as a whole in order to work more effectively.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with engineering terms and analysis techniques. General familiarity with matrix operations is desirable for Thursday and Friday, and familiarity with signal processing techniques is desirable for Wednesday through Friday. (The materials for days 3, 4 and 5 of Course 356 are more intensive than what is taught in Course 346.)

GPS Signal Processing ● In-phase and quadra-phase signal paths ● Analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion ● Automatic gain control (AGC) ● Correlation channels ● Acquisition strategies Code Tracking, Carrier Tracking & Data Demodulation ● Delay locked loop (DLL) implementations; performance ● Frequency locked loops (FLLs) ● Phase locked loops (PLLs) ● Carrier-aiding of DLLs ● Data demodulation Receiver Impairments and Enhancements ●● Impairments - bandlimiting, oscillators, multipath, interference ●● Enhancements - carrier smoothing, narrow correlator, codeless/semicodeless tracking, vector tracking, external aiding

Kalman Filtering for GPS Navigation ● Clock models and dynamic models ● Integration with INS ● Measurement and dynamic mismodeling Practical Aspects I ● Types of GPS and DGPS receivers ● Understanding specification sheets ● Data links ● Antennas Practical Aspects II ● Receiver and interface standards ● Connectors ● Accessories ● Test, evaluation, and signal performance

Materials You Will Keep

Public Venue Course Fee Entitles You to the Following Books

(This does not apply to on-site contracts, or to Course 346, the 4-day version of 356) Courses 356 or 356B: Understanding GPS: Principles and Applications, 2nd ed., Elliott Kaplan & Chris Hegarty, Eds., Artech House, 2006, OR Global Positioning System: Signals, Measurement and Performance, P. Misra and P. Enge, 2nd ed., 2011 Course 122: Introduction to GPS - The Global Positioning System, 2nd ed., Ahmed El-Rabbany, Artech House, 2006

What Attendees Have Said

“I especially liked the way the material was presented in layers. First, a comprehensive overview in 122, then a concentrated discussion by Dr. Hegarty. Seeing important points presented a second time, after some gestation, worked for me. A good engineer can go on his own from here. Thanks for a coherent overview that would be very difficult to assemble on your own from the vast literature.”

Instructors

Dr. Michael Braasch

Dr. Chris Hegarty

— Frederick W. Kiefer, Bogdon Associates

To register or for more information, Contact Carolyn McDonald at (703) 256-8900 or cmcdonald@navtechgps.com.

On-Site at Your Location Course 356B (1.8 CEUs)

Course 356B: GPS Operations, DGPS, GPS Signals & Processing Wednesday Through Friday can be taken as Course 356B (assumes knowledge of Course 122 material) WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Dr. Chris Hegarty, MITRE 8:30 Differential GPS Overview

● Local-area, regional-area, wide-area architectures ● Code vs. carrier-phase based systems ● Pseudolites ● Performance overview Differential Error Sources ● Satellite ephemeris errors ● Satellite clock errors ● Selective availability ● Ionospheric, tropospheric delay ● Multipath ● Receiver internal noise, biases Observable Modeling ● Code pseudorange and carrier-phase outputs ● Code-minus-carrier observables ● Carrier-smoothed code operation ● Double difference operation ● System error budgets

Lunch is on your own Differential GPS Design Considerations ● Range vs. navigation domain corrections ● Data links ● Pseudolites ● Reducing major error components ● Ambiguity resolution

GPS Signal Processing ● In-phase and quadra-phase signal paths ● Analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion ● Automatic gain control (AGC) ● Correlation channels ● Acquisition strategies

DGPS Case Studies I ● RTCM SC104 message format ● USCG maritime DGPS and National DGPS (NDGPS) ● Commercial satellite-based systems

Code Tracking, Carrier Tracking & Data Demodulation ● Delay locked loop (DLL) implementations; performance ● Frequency locked loops (FLLs) ● Phase locked loops (PLLs) ● Carrier-aiding of DLLs ● Data demodulation

DGPS Case Studies II ● Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) ● Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) ● RINEX format ● CORS&IGS network for precise positioning (survey) ● Precise time transfer

Receiver Impairments and Enhancements ●● Impairments - bandlimiting, oscillators, multipath, interference ●● Enhancements - carrier smoothing, narrow correlator, codeless/semicodeless tracking, vector tracking, external aiding

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Description

This 3-day course begins with a discussion of differential GPS, which continues through the rest of the week together with an in-depth look at GPS signal processing, navigation message content, code tracking, receivers and concludes with a discussion on the basics of Kalman filtering. (Note: This course is the same as the last 3 days of Course 356.)

Objectives

To give a comprehensive introduction to GPS and DGPS technology, system concepts, design, operation, implementation and applications. To provide detailed information on the GPS signal, its processing by the receiver, and the techniques by which GPS obtains position, velocity and time. To present current information on the status, plans, schedule and capabilities of GPS, as well as of other satellite-based systems with position velocity and time determination applications. To fill in technical information gaps for those working in the GPS and GNSS fields. Prerequisites Familiarity with the subject matter covered in days 1 and 2 of Course 356.

Who Should Attend?

Materials You Will Keep

A color electronic copy of all course notes will be provided on a USB Drive or CD-ROM. Bringing a laptop to this class is highly recommended; power access will be provided. A black and white hard copy of the course notes will also be provided Public Venue Course Fee Entitles You to the Following Books: Global Positioning System: Signals, Measurement and Performance, P. Misra and P. Enge, 2nd ed., 2011. (Note: This arrangement does not apply to on-site contracts. The on-site group contract fees entitle your organization to a book credit from the NavtechGPS bookstore (http://www.navtechgps.com/departments/books/), which is calculated for each contract.)

Instructor

Dr. Chris Hegarty

Excellent for those engineers and technical professionals who know the basics of GPS but need more detail on DGPS, signals, receivers, antennas, navigation algorithms, Kalman filtering and practical aspects of GPS.

To register or for more information, Contact Carolyn McDonald at (703) 256-8900 or cmcdonald@navtechgps.com.

On-Site at Your Location Course 336 (1.8 CEUs):

GPS Fundamentals, Enhancements and Intro to Differential GPS Monday & Tuesday Can Be Taken as Course 122 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Can Be Taken as Course 336 MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Dr. Chris Hegarty, MITRE 8:30 Fundamentals of GPS operation.

GPS Principles and Technologies Clocks and Timing ●● Importance for GPS ●● Timescales ●● Clock types ●● Stability measures ●● Relativistic effects Geodesy and Satellite Orbits ●● Coordinate frames and geodesy ●● Satellite orbits ●● GPS constellation ●● Constellation maintenance Satellites and Control Segment ●● GPS satellite blocks ●● Control segment components and operation ●● Monitor stations, MCS, and ground antennas ●● Upload operations ●● Ground control modernization

Differential GPS Overview ● Local-area, regional-area, wide-area architectures ● Code vs. carrier-phase based systems ● Pseudolites ● Performance overview Differential Error Sources ● Satellite ephemeris errors ● Satellite clock errors ● Selective availability ● Ionospheric, tropospheric delay ● Multipath ● Receiver internal noise, biases Observable Modeling ● Code pseudorange and carrier-phase outputs ● Code-minus-carrier observables ● Carrier-smoothed code operation ● Double difference operation ● System error budgets

LUNCH IS ON YOUR OWN 12:00-1:30 PM Legacy GPS Signals ●● Signal structure and characteristics ●● Modulations: BPSK, DSSS, BOC ●● Signal generation ●● Navigation data Measurements and Positioning ●● Pseudorange and carrier phase measurements ●● Least squares solution ●● Dilution of precision ●● Types of positioning solutions GPS Receiver Basics ●● Types of receivers ●● Functional overview ●● Antennas

Error Sources and Models ●● Sources of error and correction models ●● GPS signals in space performance ●● Ionospheric and tropospheric effects ●● Multipath ●● Error budget

Differential GPS Design Considerations ● Range vs. navigation domain corrections ● Data links ● Pseudolites ● Reducing major error components ● Ambiguity resolution

Augmentations and Other Constellations ●● Augmentations: local-area, satellite-based, and regional ●● Russia’s GLONASS ●● Europe’s Galileo ●● China’s Compass (BeiDou)

DGPS Case Studies I ● RTCM SC104 message format ● USCG maritime DGPS and National DGPS (NDGPS) ● Commercial satellite-based systems

Precise Positioning ●● Precise positioning concepts ●● Reference station networks ●● RINEX data format

5:00

Description

This is a 3-day course that presents an overview of how the GPS systems works, its historical evolution, its many applications, and its policy and operational considerations. It provides the fundamentals of GPS principles and technologies including clocks and timing, orbits and constellations, and satellites and control segment functions as well as an introduction to differential GPS. It combines Course 122 and Course 217 into one course to give you a comprehensive introduction to GPS technology and an introduction to differential GPS. (Note: This course is the same as the first 3 days of Course 356.)

Objectives

Who Should Attend?

Materials You Will Keep

A color electronic copy of all course notes will be provided on a USB Drive or CD-ROM. Bringing a laptop to this class is highly recommended; power access will be provided. A black and white hard copy of the course notes will also be provided. Public Venue Course Fee Entitles You to the Following Books*: Introduction to GPS: The Global Positioning System, 2nd ed., Ahmed El-Rabbany, Artech House, 2006 (Note: This arrangement does not apply to on-site contracts. The on-site group contract fees entitle your organization to a book credit from the NavtechGPS bookstore (http://www.navtechgps.com/departments/books/), which is calculated for each contract.)

Instructor

Dr. Chris Hegarty

Engineers and technical professionals seeking conceptual and detailed explanations of GPS technology, operation, capabilities, applications, and development trends Professionals in navigation, positioning, and related fields who are concerned with the capabilities, operation and principles of GPS, DGPS, and related GNSS systems. System analysts and specialists concerned with position data and its use. Managers concerned with GPS, GNSS activities, or the positioning field.

To register or for more information, Contact Carolyn McDonald at (703) 256-8900 or cmcdonald@navtechgps.com.

On-Site at Your Location Course 136 (1.8 CEUs)

Practical GPS for Professional Users Day 1 Dr. Michael Braasch 8:30 GPS System Description

●● System segments ●● Basic principles of operation GNSS Signal Structure ●● Signal requirements ●● Pseudorandom Noise Codes (PRN) ●● Auto and cross-correlation ●● Modulation and spread spectrum ●● Navigation data ●● Signal power levels Navigation Solution and Error Sources ●● Pseudorange measurements ●● Least squares ●● DOP

Day 2

Day 3

Dr. Michael Braasch

Mr. Franck Boynton, NavtechGPS

Error Models ●● Signal in space performance due to ephemeris and satellite clocks ●● Ionospheric errors: dual frequency corrections, broadcast model ●● Tropospheric errors: cause, mitigation using antennas, siting, signal processing ●● Multipath effects: cause, mitigation using antennas, siting, signal processing ●● Tracking errors ●● Error budget Precise Positioning Differential Techniques ●● Precise positioning concepts ●● Carrier phase models: single, double, tiple differences ●● Ambiguity resolution ●● Reference stations: local and global networks ●● Precise orbits and clocks ●● RINEX data format ●● Software: overview of packages and online tools for precise positioning Military SAASM vs. Civilian Receiver Functionality ●● Standard Receiver Interfaces ●● Military performance features ●● Advanced performance features

Operations of Systems ●● Equipment operation, observations ●● Data, data logging, GPS analysis programs ●● Post processing of data Component Integration Principles ●● Typical available components ●● Integration guidelines ●● Connectors, adaptors ●● Power requirements, batteries, characteristics ●● Commercial protocols ●● Signal compatibility ●● Typical projects ●● Operating system examples GPS Applications: Land ●● GIS Development: Data collection demonstration ●● Geographic Information System (GIS) needs, types ●● What can it do for me? ●● How does it typically operate? ●● Aux. systems: laser, optical range finder, camera

LUNCH IS ON YOUR OWN Dr. Michael Braasch Receivers: Basic Elements and Functionality ●● Overview ●● Front end ●● Signal processing ●● Acquisition ●● Tracking Clocks and Timing ●● Role of timing in GPS ●● Timescales: solar time, atomic time, UTC, GPS time ●● Clock stability, Allan deviation ●● GPS satellite clock characteristics and broadcast corrections ●● Receiver clock characteristics Orbits and Constellation ●● Coordinate frames and geodesy ●● Two-body orbits ●● Orbit perturbations ●● GPS satellite orbit representations ●● GPS constellation

5:00

Mr. Franck Boynton, NavtechGPS Types of GPS Acquisition & Processing ●● Post-processing: code, carrier phase ●● Real-time: autonomous, DGPS code, DGPS carrier phase, assisted correction (E911) ●● Data links, WAAS, OmniSTAR, StarFire, CORS, USCG ●● Functionality and methods used for applications ●● Review of different correction methods. How to implement and use each one. ●● Accuracy levels and trade-offs

New Course!

Anatomy of a GPS Receiver System ●● From the GPS satellite transmission antenna to data output; what happens in between? ●● Transmission of GPS signals from spacecraft ●● Atmospheric effects on signal, range loss ●● User equipment: antenna, RF cable, GPS receiver, RF frontend, digital processing ●● Processing, real time DGPS corrections, user settings, data storage types, output information

Mr. Franck Boynton, NavtechGPS Working Indoors to Test Your Equipment: Signal Repeater and Hardware Techniques ●● GPS Signal Repeater and Hardware Techniques ●● Equipment needed: antennas, amps, etc. ●● Calculating gain and transmission distances ●● Accuracies and hard-wire connections ●● Safety concerns, and RF emission regulations ●● Installation guidelines New Signals and Systems: GPS Modernization, GLONASS, Galileo, Compass, future systems ●● What will be available in the future? Practical equipment issues ●● Things to consider before starting to work ●● Troubleshooting problems in the field ●● How to tell if you’re getting the results you need. ●● What you can do yourself and when to call for help ●● Help sources

GPS Receiver Hardware Types ●● Commercial GPS stand-alone receivers ●● GPS boards, antennas, antenna pre-amps ●● Differential receivers and accessories ●● Data link equipment, coverage regions ●● Survey receivers and software

Course Objectives

To provide a practical and conceptual grasp of GPS and DGPS principles, applications and equipment. The course is designed such that an engineering background is not required or expected. Almost no math will be committed in this course! To present GPS concepts and equipment applications with informative, easy-tofollow presentations using clear figures, computer demonstrations, and live GPS equipment. To bring professional GPS users, technical sales staff, and others up to speed quickly on GPS and DGPS. To offer practical engineering guidance and data to attendees making decisions regarding equipment use, selection or purchase.

Materials You Will Keep

A color electronic copy of all course notes will be provided on a USB Drive or CD-ROM. Bringing a laptop to this class is highly recommended; power will be provided. A black and white hard copy of the course notes will also be provided. The on-site group contract fees entitle your organization to a book credit from the NavtechGPS bookstore (http://www.navtechgps.com/departments/books/), which is calculated for each contract.

Instructor(s)

Who Should Attend

Those entering the GPS field who need a rapid grounding in GPS and DGPS principles, techniques, status & applications. Professional users who wish to better understand new developments in GPS and DGPS, as well as future capabilities. Those involved in making business decisions about GPS. Sales, marketing and advanced development staff requiring a better understanding of GPS and DGPS operation, applications, and potential markets.

Dr. Michael Braasch

Mr. Franck Boynton

To register or for more information, Contact Carolyn McDonald at (703) 256-8900 or cmcdonald@navtechgps.com.

On-Site at Your Location Course 324 (1.2 CEUs)

Military GPS User Equipment Vulnerability Assessment & Mitigation for Military Groups Note from Instructor: There may be minor rearrangement and redistribution of the foregoing material in order to improve the synergism and balance to better utilize each onehour session, but all of the subject material will be presented. There will be breaks between each 1-hour session and time allowed to answer questions. Day 1

Day 2

Phillip W. Ward, P.E., President of Navward GPS Consulting 8:30 Hour 1: RFI Vulnerability Assessment

● Introduction (including brief explanations of C/N0 and J/S terminology) ● Situational awareness ● Vulnerability insight ● Military GPS receiver operating states (defined and described) Hour 2: RFI Vulnerability Performance Analysis (J/S Performance Assumed Known or Specified) ● Typical C/N0 performance summary by receiver class ● Typical J/SdB performance summary by receiver Class ● Unaided fixed reception pattern antenna (FRPA) receiver ● Aided FRPA Receiver ● Aided controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA) receiver Hour 3: Jamming Performance Comparisons ● Integrated FRPA/GPS/inertial systems (states 3 & 4) ● Integrated CRPA/GPS/IMU systems (states 3 & 4) ● Excel session I: Range to jammer computations

Hour 1: GPS Receiver J/S Analysis Equations (How J/S Performance Is Predicted By Analysis) ● Analyzing jamming effect on carrier-to-noise power ratio C/N0 ● Effect on carrier-to-noise power at baseband as dimensionless ratio ● GPS military spreading code rates (R) and jamming resistance quality factors (Q) ● Analyzing unjammed carrier-to-noise power ratio ● Computing effective carrier-to-noise power ratio due tojamming ● Analyzing Jamming-to-Signal Power Ratio J/SdB ● J/SdB performance (with appropriate Q) for 28 dB- Hz carrier tracking threshold ● Tolerable J = J/S + received SV power: Used in range to jammer computations

For U.S. Military Groups Only Instructor

Mr. Phil Ward

Hour 2: Excel Session III: J/S and Tolerable J Performance Computations Hour 3: Analyzing GPS Receiver Thresholds I ● Analyzing PLL carrier tracking loop jitter ● Analyzing PLL thermal noise ● Analyzing vibration induced oscillator phase noise in PLL ● Analyzing oscillator Allan deviation phase noise in PLL ● Analyzing dynamic stress error In PLL ● Analyzing reference oscillator acceleration stress error in PLL ● Computing PLL thresholds including all major PLL error sources

LUNCH IS ON YOUR OWN 12:00-1:30 PM Hour 4: Vulnerability Ranges to Jammer ● GPS denied ranges versus jammer power (EIRP or effective isotropic radiated power) ● Range to jammer equation (free space propagation loss) ● Modified Okumura-Hata (ground-to-ground) empirical path loss equation ● Sklar (air-to-air) path loss equation Hour 5: Excel Session II: More Range to Jammer Computations Including Hata Empirical Path Loss & Sklar Path Loss Computations Hour 6: Classified Session (Probable Class Room Relocation) ● Emerging threat discussion

Hour 4: Analyzing GPS Receiver Thresholds II ● Analyzing FLL carrier tracking loop jitter ● Analyzing FLL tracking loop errors ● Computing FLL thresholds including all major error sources ● Analyzing DLL code tracking loop errors ● Analyzing C/A and P(Y) code (BPSK) DLL tracking loop errors ● Computing BPSK DLL Thresholds Including all major error sources ● Analyzing M code (BOC) DLL tracking loop errors ● Comments on vector tracking, loose coupling and ultra tight coupling ● Analyzing acquisition/reacquisition thresholds ● Analyzing data demodulation threshold Hour 5: Excel Session IV: Tracking Threshold Computations Hour 6: Jamming Mitigation Techniques (Many Of Many More Reasons Military GPS Receivers Cost Much More Than Commercial Receivers) ● Continuous wave, narrowband and other constant envelope jammers mitigation ● Pulse jammer mitigation ● Band limited white noise (BLWN) and matched spectrum jammer mitigation ● C/A code smart spoofing mitigation Hour 6 (Continued): Future Generation Military GPS Receiver Concepts ● Jamming to (thermal) noise power measurements ● Communications assisted military GPS ● Signals of opportunity

5:00

Course Description

This 2-day course was prepared exclusively for members of support organizations for military GPS users who require an in-depth knowledge of how to analyze the jamming and spoofing vulnerability of virtually every class of military GPS user equipment from the stand-alone hand-held to the most advanced integrated avionics or smart weapons GPS platforms. This class addresses not only the vulnerability of every military GPS receiver operating state to the most common types of jammers, but also the mitigation techniques to reduce those vulnerabilities. In this course, we provide take-home electronic spreadsheets along with hands-on training in the use of these spreadsheets to enable the student to take the equations that are presented in the course and tailor them for a new or different military platform. There is a 1-hour classified session (assuming a secure facility is provided) that addresses several sensitive issues related to specific vulnerabilities and their mitigation, including time for questions and answers.

Course Objectives

The objectives of this course are to train those involved with military GPS user equipment to analyze jamming and spoofing vulnerabilities regardless of the integrated complexity of the platform.

Who Should Attend

Supervisors, technicians, engineer or analysts with responsibilities for analyzing or testing military GPS receivers. You will be able to participate in all of the course sessions with FOUO qualification and in the 1-hour classified session with a SECRET or higher security clearance.

Prerequisites

Students should be acquainted with the fundamentals of military GPS receiver operation and have previous experience using and interacting with Excel spreadsheets, including an understanding of the math functions supported by Excel, such as multiplication, division, square roots, exponents, and logarithms that are involved with the equations used in the course, and a basic understanding of how to read and understand the Excel equations that will be provided. To fully utilize the Excel handout material later, students need to know how to generate graphs using the results of the math equations provided in sheets. All this will be demonstrated during the Excel work sessions. The materials are presented in a manner that can be understood and used by supervisors, technicians, engineers and analysts whose job descriptions include analytical or testing work with military GPS receivers.

Materials You Will Keep

A color electronic copy of all course notes will be provided on a USB Drive or CD-ROM. Bringing a laptop to this class is highly recommended; power access will be provided. A black and white hard copy of the course notes will also be provided. The on-site group contract fees entitle your organization to a book credit from the NavtechGPS bookstore (http://www.navtechgps.com/departments/books/), which is calculated for each contract.

To register or for more information, Contact Carolyn McDonald at (703) 256-8900 or cmcdonald@navtechgps.com.

On-Site at Your Location Course 338 (1.8 CEUs)

GNSS and Integration for Portable Navigation Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Dr. Mark Petovello, University of Calgary 8:30 GNSS Fundamentals

●● Review of GNSS fundamentals ●● Overview of GNSS errors, including indoors ●● Basic GNSS signal structure ●● GNSS receiver operations (acquisition through navigation solution) ●● Types of GNSS measurements ●● GNSS error overview

GNSS Receiver Operation ●● GNSS receiver architecture overview ●● GNSS receiver antennas ●● Local oscillator ●● GNSS receiver RF front-end ●● GNSS receiver signal processing: Overview ●● GNSS receiver signal processing: Tracking

GNSS Integration with Other Sensors Estimation Algorithms ●● Review of fundamental statistics ●● Mathematical models ●● Least-squares with and without initial information ●● Statistical testing and statistical reliability in least-squares ●● Concept of a Kalman filter ●● System models ●● Discrete-time and non-linear Kalman filter ●● Statistical testing and statistical reliability in Kalman filtering ●● Stochastic modeling

LUNCH IS ON YOUR OWN 12:00 – 1:30 PM GNSS Fundamentals, continued ●● Satellite errors ●● Atmospheric errors ●● Multipath and noise ●● Least-squares overview of navigation solution ●● Satellite geometry and DOPs ●● Positioning accuracy metrics ●● Differential GNSS strategies

GNSS Receiver Operation, continued ●● GNSS receiver signal processing: Acquisition ●● GNSS receiver signal processing: Navigation ●● HSGNSS processing overview ●● Coherent integration/accumulation ●● Concept of tracking loop aiding ●● Non-coherent integration/accumulation ●● Aiding information ●● Overview of advanced receiver architectures ●● Weak signal tracking case studies

GNSS Integration with Other Sensors Augmentation of GNSS ●● Augmentation of GPS concept ●● Height constraints ●● Fusion with ground-based RF measurements ●● Inertial sensors ●● Concepts of inertial navigation ●● Equations of motion ●● Inertial mechanization equations ●● Inertial error equations ●● GNSS/INS integration motivation and strategies ●● Case studies

5:00

Course Objectives

Materials You Will Keep

Who Should Attend

Instructor

Prerequisites

Dr. Mark Petovello

This three-day course will give attendees a solid understanding of the key aspects of navigation, as applied specifically to portable devices. In particular, the course teaches GNSS basics, how GNSS receivers work, estimation algorithms and position computations, and integration of GNSS with other sensors, including inertial navigation systems. The inter-relatedness of these different aspects is also discussed. Ongoing challenges with the various technologies are taught to give attendees a practical understanding of what is possible and where more efforts may be needed. This course is for people working on various aspects of navigation systems for portable devices, but who want more exposure to the overall process. By better understanding the entire positioning problem and solution, attendees will gain an appreciation for how their work affects the overall system.

A color electronic copy of all course notes will be provided on a USB Drive or CD-ROM. Bringing a laptop to this class is highly recommended; power access will be provided. A black and white hard copy of the course notes will also be provided. The on-site group contract fees entitle your organization to a book credit from the NavtechGPS bookstore (http://www.navtechgps.com/departments/books/), which is calculated for each contract.

Because the course is designed to give an overview of several topics and how they interact within a portable navigation system, attendees do not need a background in any one particular area.

To register or for more information, Contact Carolyn McDonald at (703) 256-8900 or cmcdonald@navtechgps.com.

April 1 – 4, 2014 Loews Annapolis Hotel Annapolis, Maryland

Course 447 (2.4 CEUs)

Applied Kalman Filtering with Emphasis on GPS-Aided Systems DAY 1

DAY 2

DAY 3

DAY 4

Mr. Michael Vaujin, Aerospace, Navigation & Defense Consultant (25+ Years) 8:30 Random Process Review

●● Random variables, probability densities, Gaussian and multivariate ●● Expectation, covariance matrix, random process, autocorrelation, power spectral density, stationary and nonstationary ●● Linear response, shaping filters State Space Modeling ●● Models derived from differential equations, PSDs and block diagrams ●● Discrete time solution ●● Mean and covariance response ●● Markov and integrated Markov examples ●● Transition and process covariance Random Process Simulation and Analysis ●● Vector random process simulation ●● Autocorrelation and PSD from data ●● Markov random process modeling and design ●● Computer demo

Linearization and Nonlinearity in KFs ●● Taylor series vs. perturbation ●● Linearized and extended KF ●● KF combined with reference ●● Linearization examples ●● Simplest integration GPS Orbit Determination ●● Linearization for GPS orbit determination ●● Inverse GPS nav perspective ●● Computer demo ●● More on GPS Navigation ●● Use of Doppler measurements, ●● delayed states vs integrated velocity states ●● Carrier smoothing of range measurements

Smoothing & Prediction ●● Prediction recursive equations ●● Smoothing, fixed point, fixed lag, fixed interval derivations ●● Computer demo Square Root Filtering ●● Motivation ●● Square root filtering (SRCF) ●● Square root smoothing (SRCS) ●● UD filtering ●● Computer demo Adaptive Filtering ●● Residual analysis, on-line, off-line ●● Advanced residual analysis (iterative) ●● Residual tuning for Q & R ●● Multiple model adaptive estimation ●● Computer demo

Information and Square Root Information Filters ●● Motivation and theoretical development ●● Information summing ●● Computer demo Practical KF implementation ●● Psi angle ECEF error state form for navigation ●● Computing PHI in real time ●● Sensor error model and random walk ●● Care and feeding of P Aided Navigation System Software Demo ●● 17 state KF ●● Computer demo

LUNCH IS ON YOUR OWN 12:00-1:30 PM KF System Integration ●● Integration with complementary filtering ●● Integration examples ●● State space modeling ●● Simplified KF derivation The Kalman Filter ●● Simplified algorithm description ●● Bias, random walk and Markov examples ●● Off-line error (covariance) analysis Alternate Kalman Algorithms ●● State augmentation ●● Sequential processing ●● Known control inputs ●● Generalized KFs for correlated noises ●● LU decorrelation ●● Matrix partitioning for efficiency

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GPS Aided Inertial Design ●● Basis for inertial navigation ●● Inertial system error models ●● Computer demo Building Extended KF ●● Radar tracking of vertical body motion (non-linear dynamics) ●● Sled tracking of horizontal motion (non-linear measurements) ●● Computer demo Advanced Suboptimal Analysis and KF Design ●● Effects of mis-modeling ●● “Dual State” covariance analysis ●● “Two Pass” error budget design analysis for aided inertial navigation design ●● Computer demo

Nonlinear Estimation Perspective ●● Nonlinear waveform estimation, MAP estimator, and estimation bounds ●● GPS waveform mapping and correlator observation model ●● GPS line-of-sight dynamics innovation model

Unscented Kalman Filters ●● Unscented transforms and sigma points ●● Augmented & non-augmented filters ●● Application to navigation ●● Performance vs EKF ●● Computer demo

Extended KF Mechanizations ●● Integration hiearchy ●● Sub-components and interfaces ●● Filter formulations ●● Latency clock effects ●● Jamming adaptation

Radar Tracking of a Ballistic Body ●● Nonlinear dynamics and error model ●● Linearized, extended and unscented filter comparisons ●● 2nd order EKF ●● Computer demo

Case Studies ●● Modeling and simulation techniques stand-alone high-accuracy applications ●● High-accuracy tactical applications, including landing guidance ●● Anti-jamming applications

Particle Filters ●● Bootstrap, extended particle filter, unscented particle filter ●● Curse of dimensionality, particle degeneracy ●● Resampling ●● Computer demo

Course Objectives

This is a highly intensive, 4-day short course on Kalman filtering theory and Kalman filtering applications. The student will receive a thorough understanding of linear, extended, unscented, and square root Kalman filters and their practical applications to real time strapdown navigation and target tracking. The student will also be exposed to Information filters, 2nd and 3rd order extended Kalman filters, particle filters, integrity monitoring, and methods of smoothing. Emphasis is on practical applications, but sufficient supporting theory is provided to give attendees the necessary tools for meaningful research and development work in the field. Considerable time is devoted to modeling, the most difficult aspect of Kalman filtering, in an application setting. There will be a high level of instructor/attendee interaction, designed to provide hands-on problem solving and solution discussions.

Who Should Attend?

Engineers who need a working knowledge of Kalman filtering or who work in the fields of either navigation or target tracking.

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of linear systems A basic understanding of probability, random variables, and stochastic processes A thorough familiarity with matrix algebra principles.

Materials You Will Keep

A color electronic copy of all course notes will be provided on a USB Drive or CD-ROM. Bringing a laptop to this class is highly recommended; power access will be provided. A black and white hard copy of the course notes will also be provided. Public Venue Attendees: Introduction to Random Signals and Applied Kalman Filtering, 3rd edition, by R. Grover Brown and Patrick Hwang, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996. (Note: This arrangement does not apply to on-site contracts. The on-site group contract fees entitle your organization to a book credit from the NavtechGPS bookstore (http://www.navtechgps.com/departments/books/), which is calculated for each contract.)

Instructor

Equipment Recommendation

A laptop (PC or Mac) with full version of MATLAB® 5.0 (or later) installed. This will allow you to work the problems in class and do the practice “homework” problems each evening. All of the problems will also be worked in class by the instructor, so this equipment is not required, but is recommended. These course notes are searchable and you can take electronic notes with the Adobe® Acrobat®9 Reader we will provide you.

Mr. Michael Vaujin, Aerospace, Navigation and Defense Consultant

To register or for more information, Contact Carolyn McDonald at (703) 256-8900 or cmcdonald@navtechgps.com.

On-Site at Your Location Course 537 (1.5 CEUs)

Advanced Integration of GPS & Inertial Navigation Systems Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Dr. Alan Pue, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Lab. 8:30 Introduction to INS/GPS Integration ●● Advantages of integration ●● Integration architectures ●● Example applications

Strapdown Inertial Sensor Technologies ●● Accelerometer technologies ●● Ring laser gyro & fiber optic gyro ●● MEMS inertial instruments

Tightly-Coupled INS/GPS Design ●● Measurement processing ●● Filter design ●● Performance analysis techniques

Filter Fundamentals ●● Filtering principles and applications ●● Vectors and matrices ●● State-space modeling

Strapdown Systems ●● Coning and sculling compensation ●● Strapdown processing ●● INS Survey

Case Studies: Multisensor Integration ●● Terrain aiding and use of relative GPS ●● GPS Interferometer/INS integration ●● Carrier phase differential GPS integration

Kalman Filter Derivation ●● Least squares estimation ●● Random process descriptions ●● Kalman filter derivation

Navigation System Error Models ●● Tilt angle definitions ●● Navigation error dynamics ●● Simplified error characteristics

Future Trends ●● Deeply coupled integration ●● GPS system improvements ●● Technology/cost expectations

LUNCH IS ON YOUR OWN 12:00 – 1:30 PM Filter Implementation ●● Filter processing example ●● Filter tuning ●● Non-linear estimation

System Initialization ●● INS alignment concepts ●● Alignment Kalman filter ●● Air-launched weapon example

Inertial Navigation Fundamentals ●● Vector kinematics ●● Navigation coordinate systems ●● Earth relative kinematics

Loosely-Coupled INS/GPS Design ●● Measurement processing ●● Filter design and tuning ●● Navigation system update

Inertial Navigation Mechanization ●● Gravity models ●● Implementation options ●● Mechanization example

INS Aiding of Receiver Signal Tracking ●● Code and carrier tracking ●● Track loop design trades and examples ●● Interference suppression

This is an optional 1/2 day session that can be added, if requested, for on-site courses. (Taught by Dr. James Sennott) Nonlinear Estimation Perspective ●● Nonlinear waveform estimation and the MAP estimator ●● Estimation bounds ●● GPS waveform mapping and correlator observation model ●● GPS line-of-sight dynamics innovations model Extended Kalman Filter Mechanizations ●● Integration hierarchy ●● Sub-components and interfaces ●● Filter formulations ●● Latency and clock effects ●● Jamming adaptation Case Studies ●● Modeling and simulation techniques ●● Standalone high accuracy applications ●● High-accuracy tactical applications, including landing guidance ●● Anti-jamming applications

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Course Objectives

This 2.5-day course (with the optional Friday afternoon session added upon request for on-site courses) concentrates on the software algorithms and practical implementations for aiding an inertial navigation system with a GPS receiver. You will learn the essential basics of Kalman filter theory and inertial navigation. A central topic is how the understanding and modeling of inertial navigation errors are used to develop the navigation Kalman filter for loosely, tightly and deeply coupled integration architectures. This course will focus on critical details such as timing synchronization, accounting for data latency, computation of measurement residuals, and adjustment of filter parameters to optimize navigation performance. The available inertial instrument technologies and operating principles for accelerometers, ring laser gyros, fiber optic gyros, and MEMS devices will be described. This course will highlight the nature of the inertial instrument error sources, strapdown computations, the meaning of manufacturer specifications, and show how they are applied to the filter design. Case studies are used to illustrate various implementation techniques such as inertial aiding of the GPS receiver to mitigate the effects of signal interference, integration with other aiding sources, carrier phase differential integration, and INS/GPS interferometer integration. The course concludes with a discussion of trends in IMU and receiver technologies.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with principles of engineering analysis, including matrix algebra. An understanding of GPS operational principles; Course 111, Course 122, Course 356, or equivalent experience is recommended. Some familiarity with inertial navigation systems is recommended.

What Attendees Have Said

"Dr. Pue is one of the best instructors I have had for a short course. Well prepared. Well presented. ‘Expert’ is an inadequate term for how knowledgeable he is.” — Stephen Pearcy, Picatinny Arsenal “Dr. Pue’s expertise is evident. Good intuitive insight into key effects. Good relating concepts to real developments. Good lists of references.” — Paul Lakomy, JHU/APL “Good to have instructors who know the material so well... as practitioners.” — Name withheld upon request “I work with GPS/INS systems, and this will help me with both development and analysis. The most useful session for me was INS initialization technologies because it relates directly to my work and will have many practical applications.” — Name withheld upon request “I do work with the analysis of the accuracy of submarine INS using GPS data. The most useful session for me was ‘Introduction to INS/GPS Integration’ because I am still fairly new in the field and needed the general information to give me an overall understanding.” — Name withheld upon request

Instructors

Who Should Attend

Engineers, scientists, system analysts, program specialists and others concerned with the integration of inertial sensors and systems.

Materials You Will Keep

Dr. Alan Pue

Dr. James Sennott (Friday Afternoon)

To register or for more information, Contact Carolyn McDonald at (703) 256-8900 or cmcdonald@navtechgps.com.

On-Site at Your Location Course 551 (3.0 CEUs)

Using Advanced GPS/GNSS Signals and Systems MONDAY

8:30

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Dr. John Betz, MITRE (Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday) Objectives: Establish common level on basics of satellite-based positioning and timing, establish common terminology, develop insights into signal construction and signal mathematical representations, become proficient with systems analysis tools. Course Overview and Introduction ● Basic principles of satellite based navigation ● Constellations and satellite orbital basics Signal Structure and Characteristics I ● Overview and rationale for signal characteristics ● Polarization ● Pilot and data components Signal Structure and Characteristics II ● Spreading modulations including BPSK-R, BOC, MBOC ● Mathematical representations of signals and their second-order statistics

Objectives: Review GPS, learn technical details of its signals, then begin to learn the details of receiver processing using GPS as the baseline. Solutions to day 1 review questions

Objectives: Still using GPS as the baseline, become proficient with the core aspects of receiver processing. Solutions to day 2 review questions

GPS Introduction and SBAS ● GPS history, description, plans ● SBAS concept and architecture; ● WAAS, EGNOS, MSAS, GAGAN, SDCM ● Description of C/A code signal and P(Y) code signal, IS-GPS-200 ● Description of SBAS signals

Initial Synchronization Processing and Acquisition ● Time and frequency search: the cross-ambiguity function ● Time and frequency domain implementation and tradeoffs ● Massively parallel correlator architecture ● Initial synch performance

Modernized GPS Signals ● M code signal ● L2C signal and IS-GPS-200 ● L5 signal and IS-GPS-705 ● L1C signal and IS-GPS-800 ● Summary of GPS and SBAS signal characteristics

Digital Tracking Loop Theory ● Loop design concept and theory ● Selecting loop order and parameter values ● Discrete and continuous update approximations ● Relationship to analog loop design

Review questions for day 2, morning

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Dr. James Sennott, Tracking & Imaging Systems, Inc. (Thurs. & Friday)

Review questions for day 3, morning

Objectives: Complete learning receiver processing techniques using GPS as a baseline, then learn about GLONASS and Galileo and understand the differences in processing their signals. Solutions to day 3 review questions Kalman Filtering ● State-space modeling ● Kalman filter equations ● Linearization and the extended Kalman filter Navigation Filtering ● Benefits of Kalman filtering ● Linearized measurement model ● Clock model ● Assignment of state variables ● Stand-alone filter ● Integration of GPS and inertial measurements: loosely coupled, tightly coupled

Objectives: Learn about QZSS and COMPASS and the differences in processing their signals; then develop familiarity with a variety of other advanced topics in receiver processing. Solutions to day 4 review questions QZSS and BeiDou (COMPASS) ● QZSS history, description, plans ● QZSS signals; QZSS ICD ● Summary of QZSS signal characteristics ● Receiver processing of QZSS signals ● BeiDou history, description, plans ● BeiDou signals ● Summary of BeiDou signal characteristics ● Receiver processing of BeiDou signals Interference Effects ● Types of interference ● Quantifying effects of interference on receiver processing ● Measuring interference in receiver ● Receiver processing against interference

Review questions for day 4, morning

Review questions for day 1, morning

LUNCH IS ON YOUR OWN 12:00-1:30 PM Link Budgets ● Space to earth ● Terrestrial ● Building and foliage effects

Overview of Receiver Processing ● Trends ● Constraints ● Opportunities

Effective C/N0 and I/S ● Relationship between correlator output SNR and effective C/N0 ● Spectral separation coefficients ● Effective C/N0 computation ● Relationship between effective C/N0 and I/S

Receiver Front-End Design I ● RF to baseband architecture alternatives

Error Sources and Characterizing Errors ● System error sources and error budgets ● Dilution of precision ● Error measures including CEP, ● SEP, CE50, CE90 Review questions for day 1, afternoon

Receiver Front-End Design II ● Components: antennas, oscillators, amplifiers, mixers ● Frequency plans ● Trade-offs Analog to Digital Conversion ● Architecture alternatives ● Number of bits, sampling rate ● Quantization set points ● Bandlimiting, sampling, and quantization (BSQ) losses Incorporating BSQ losses in effective C/N0 Review questions for day 2, afternoon

5:00

Carrier Tracking ● FLL, Costas loop, PLL ● Discriminator designs ● Linearized performance ● Loss of lock ● Selecting parameter values Code Tracking ● DLL discriminators for different spreading modulations ● Coherent and noncoherent discriminators ● Loop aiding ● Linearized performance in white noise ● Handling multiple peaks in BOC autocorrelation functions Data Demodulation and Position ● Calculation ● Soft and hard data symbol demodulation ● Position calculation from pseudorange, including use of code tracking and carrier phase measurements ● Dual-frequency ionospheric correction ● Use of overdetermined measurement and other inputs ● RAIM, FDE

GLONASS ● GLONASS history, description, plans ● GLONASS standard accuracy and high accuracy signals ● GLONASS modernized signals; GLONASS ICD ● Summary of GLONASS signal characteristics ● Receiver processing of GLONASS signals Galileo I ● Galileo history, description, plans ● Galileo ICD ● Galileo signals: E1, E6, E5 ● Summary of Galileo signal characteristics Galileo II ● Processing E1 OS signal: extracting signal components, acquisition, tracking, performance ● Processing E5 signal: extracting E5a and E5b signals, wideband processing of E5, acquisition, tracking, performance Review questions for day 4, afternoon

Review questions for day 3, afternoon

Description

Course 551 is a 5-day version of course 541, expanded to include content on Kalman filtering. Through this course, attendees with achieve proficiency, not merely familiarity, with the essential aspects of using GPS and GNSS signals, including an understanding of the benefits of applying Kalman filtering to GPS and GNSS signals. This course addresses current and future GPS signals along with available details of signals from other satellite-based positioning and timing systems. Receiver processing techniques are described along with ways to characterize their performance. Review problems, worked in class, help students understand and apply the key concepts. As attendees understand similarities and distinctions between different systems and signals, they will become equipped to take advantage of signals from multiple systems. Attendees will be given study questions each evening that will be reviewed in class each morning. Laptops are strongly advised Course materials include information and techniques not available in any text. In addition to the core course notes, NavtechGPS developed special course materials in collaboration with a rich pool of experts, including Dr. John Betz, MITRE; Dr. James Sennott, Tracking and Imaging Systems, Inc. (TISI); Mr. Phil Ward, Navward GPS Consulting; Professor Dennis Akos, University of Colorado at Boulder; Professor Michael Braasch, Ohio University; Mr. Michael Vaujin, Raytheon Missile Systems; Dr. Frank Van Diggelen, Broadcom Corporation; and Dr. Alex Cerruti, MITRE, to provide you with the latest and most relevant information.

Course Objectives

Highly Integrated Receiver Processing ● Vector processing ● Ultratight processing Differential GNSS ● Architectures ● Use of code and carrier measurements ● Ambiguity resolution Multipath ● Multipath phenomena and effects ● Narrow correlator benefits ● Advanced multipath mitigation Block Processing and Assisted GNSS ● Block processing approaches, performance, benefits ● Assisted GNSS techniques and benefits Software Receivers ● Implementation approaches ● Performance ● Tradeoffs GPS/GNSS Chip Selection and Integration ● Chipsets and their specifications ● Considerations and tradeoffs ● Integration approaches Looking back over 5 days

supplemented by systems engineering skills, integrated with techniques for assessing performance and performing design trades concerning receiver processing.

Prerequisites

Attendees should already have a solid background in GPS and be ready to develop advanced skills. Previous exposure to basic signal processing techniques and terminology as well as familiarity with engineering mathematics is needed.

Materials You Will Keep

Extensive electronic course notes in color, including review questions and solutions that will be addressed during the course, will be provided on a USB Drive or CD-ROM. Bringing a laptop to this class is highly recommended; power access will be provided. A black and white hard copy of the course notes will also be provided. Public Venue Attendees: Textbooks. The course fee entitles you to a choice of Understanding GPS: Principles and Applications, 2nd ed., Elliott Kaplan & Chris Hegarty, Eds., Artech House, 2006, OR Global Positioning System: Signals, Measurement and Performance, P. Misra and P. Instructors Enge, 2nd edition, 2011. (Note: This arrangement does not apply to on-site contracts. The on-site group contract fees entitle your organization to a book credit from the NavtechGPS bookstore (http:// www.navtechgps.com/departments/books/), which is calculated for each contract.) Dr. John Betz

Dr. James Sennott

To develop proficiency with advanced receiver processing of modernized and new signals from GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou (COMPASS), and QZSS,

To register or for more information, Contact Carolyn McDonald at (703) 256-8900 or cmcdonald@navtechgps.com.

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