Product Description

“GNSS - GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and more” is the extension of the scientific bestseller “GPS - Theory and Practice” to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and includes the Russian GLONASS, the European system Galileo, and additional systems. The book refers to GNSS in the generic sense to describe the various existing reference systems for coordinates and time, the satellite orbits, the satellite signals, observables, mathematical models for positioning, data processing, and data transformation. With respect to the individual systems GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and more, primarily the specific reference systems, services, the space and the control segment, as well as satellite signals are described. Furthermore, augmentations by space- and ground-based systems are discussed. This book is a university-level introductory textbook and is intended to serve as a reference for students as well as for professionals and scientists in the fields of geodesy, surveying engineering, navigation, and related disciplines.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #127792 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 516 pages

About the Author
Berhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, born in 1951, is Professor for Navigation and Satellite Geodesy at the TU-Graz. He is Co-Author of numerous books and papers, among them “Global Positioning System”, 5th ed., SpringerWienNewYork. Herbert Lichtenegger, born in 1941, is assistant professor at the Institute for Navigation and Satellite Geodesy at the TU-Graz. He is Co-Author of numerous books and papers, among them “Global Positioning System”, 5th ed., SpringerWienNewYork. Elmar Wasle, born in 1975, works for a private enterprise and is specialised in GPS.

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive coverage of the technical side of GPS and similar systems
The introduction describes this book as an updated version of "GPS - Theory and Practice", expanded to cover GLONASS and Galileo; and describes itself as a "university-level introductory textbook". It covers the mathematics and technology behind GPS; if you want a book about how to use consumer GPS receivers, this is not the book for you.

Within this topic, the book's coverage is broad, and as in-depth as one would expect from a 500-page textbook. Topics covered generically include the history of surveying; coordinate and time systems and transformations between them; satellite orbits and orbit determination; satellite signals and signal processing; observables, data combinations, and error sources; autonomous, differential and relative positioning; integer ambiguity resolution, cycle slip detection, quality measures and filtering; and data transformations. This comprises the first 300 pages of the book; the latter 200 pages describe GPS, GLONASS and Galileo in terms of technology and organisation. There is also coverage of other regional navigation systems, a brief description of the Beidou-2/Compass (although this is brief, presumably because little information was available at the time of publication), and a chapter on applications of GNSS. There are extensive references for further reading.

The book assumes the reader has a reasonable understanding of linear algebra and doesn't attempt to instruct the reader in this area; and the book does not contain any end-of-chapter exercises. The book is light on numerical examples; I would have liked a set of ephemerides and observables used to demonstrating the many calculations in the book.

I found the book clear and readable, with good coverage; the price is also reasonable, so I have no hesitation giving this book five stars.