The Global Positioning System & Inertial Navigation

About this book

With GPS and INS hardware becoming ever smaller and less expensive innovative opportunities for commercial navigation systems are everywhereand continue to arise. Integrated GPS/INS systems have some real advantages in terms of output rate reliability and accuracy. The Global Positioning System and Inertial Navigation is the first-ever reference to provide engineers and scientists with a detailed top-to-bottom look at GPS and INS in a single volume. This in-depth text provides navigation system designers comprehensive and accurate coverage of such topics as coordinate frames and transformations Kalman filtering techniques navigation system performance analysis GPS receiver ephemeris and pseudo-range processing differential GPS carrier phase processing and attitude determination. Extensively cross-referenced to the literature on advanced navigation system design this superb engineering reference is ideal for navigation systems designers analysts and project managers.