Coastal and Marine Geo-Information Systems: Applying the Technology to the Environment

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• Author: David R. Green and Stephen D. King
• Hardcover: 616 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (March 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0792356861
• ISBN-13: 978-0792356868

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This volume comprises a collection of 40 chapters by experts dealing with the application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, cartography, visualisation and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to coastal and marine environments around the world. Aimed primarily at the practising marine and coastal zone manager, it provides an up-to-date examination of the application of geo-information and spatial technologies to a wide range of topics such as fisheries, coastal geomorphology, the use of remotely sensed imagery, coastal vegetation mapping, coastal pollution, landscape ecology, and decision support systems (DSS). Audience: This book should be useful to researchers, managers and practitioners at coastal organisations, agencies and research centers, as well as professionals in the marine and coastal GIS and remote sensing industry.


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Collaborative Geographic Information Systems

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• Author: Shivanand Balram and Suzana Dragicevic
• Hardcover: 364 pages
• Publisher: Idea Group Publishing (April 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591408458
• ISBN-13: 978-1591408451

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Many advances in the integration of group spatial modeling, geographic information systems (GIS), and the Internet have occurred in recent years; however, there is a lack of materials to highlight the transdisciplinary characteristics and impacts of this convergence while providing a uniform and consistent treatment of this expanding field of research. Collaborative Geographic Information Systems identifies unifying concepts in the field, and presents them in a single volume, providing a comprehensive treatment of collaborative GIS that focus on system design, group spatial planning and mapping, Internet and wireless applications, and more. This book also details the theories, processes, and tools for designing and implementing collaborative GIS, and explores collaborative GIS methodologies currently being used or developed. Collaborative Geographic Information Systems is of immense value to academic researchers, planners and policy makers, graduate students, and individuals working in GIS, geography, environmental science, urban planning, computer supported cooperative work, and information technology.

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Civilian Satellite Remote Sensing: A Strategic Approach

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• Author: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment
• Hardcover: 166 pages
• Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office (January 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0160453100
• ISBN-13: 978-0160453106

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Over the next two decades, Earth observations from space promise to become increasingly important for predicting the weather, studying global change, and managing global resources. How the U.S. government responds to the political, economic, and technical challenges posed by the growing interest in satellite remote sensing could have a major impact on the use and management of global resources. The United States and other countries now collect Earth data by means of several civilian remote sensing systems. These data assist federal and state agencies in carrying out their legislatively mandated programs and offer numerous additional benefits to commerce, science, and the public welfare. Existing U.S. and foreign satellite remote sensing programs often have overlapping requirements and redundant instruments and spacecraft. This report, the final one of the Office of Technology Assessment analysis of Earth Observations Systems, analyzes the case for developing a long-term, comprehensive strategic plan for civilian satellite remote sensing, and explores the elements of such a plan, if it were adopted. The report also enumerates many of the congressional decisions needed to ensure that future data needs will be satisfied.

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Global Positioning System, Inertial Navigation, and Integration

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• Author: Mohinder S. Grewal, Lawrence R. Weill, and Angus P. Andrews
• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; Book&Disk edition (December 29, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047135032X
• ISBN-13: 978-0471350323

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"A text for an introductory course in the technology at the senior or first-level graduate level that practicing engineers and scientists could also use for self-study." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 2001)

"The only comprehensive guide to Kalman filtering and its applications to real-world GPS/INS problems"

Written by recognized authorities in the field, this book provides engineers, computer scientists, and others with a working familiarity with the theory and contemporary applications of Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Inertial Navigational Systems, and Kalman filters. Throughout, the focus is on solving real-world problems, with an emphasis on the effective use of state-of-the-art integration techniques for those systems, especially the application of Kalman filtering. To that end, the authors explore the various subtleties, common failures, and inherent limitations of the theory as it applies to real-world situations, and provide numerous detailed application examples and practice problems, including GPS-aided INS, modeling of gyros and accelerometers, and WAAS and LAAS.

Drawing upon their many years of experience with GPS, INS, and the Kalman filter, the authors present numerous design and implementation techniques not found in other professional references, including original techniques for:

• Representing the problem in a mathematical model
• Analyzing the performance of the GPS sensor as a function of model parameters
• Implementing the mechanization equations in numerically stable algorithms
• Assessing computation requirements
• Testing the validity of results
• Monitoring GPS, INS, and Kalman filter performance in operation

In order to enhance comprehension of the subjects covered, the authors have included software in MATLAB, demonstrating the workings of the GPS, INS, and filter algorithms. In addition to showing the Kalman filter in action, the software also demonstrates various practical aspects of finite word length arithmetic and the need for alternative algorithms to preserve result accuracy.

An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.

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Introduction to GPS: The Global Positioning System

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• Author: Ahmed El-Rabbany
• Hardcover: 196 pages
• Publisher: Artech House Publishers; 1st edition (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580531830
• ISBN-13: 978-1580531832

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This thoroughly revised edition of the Artech House bestseller, Introduction to GPS: The Global Position System offers professionals and students an up-to-date, easy-to-understand treatment of this tremendously important technology. The second edition includes a wealth of brand new material, including a chapter on GPS satellite orbit and new coverage of today’s hottest issues, such as precise point positioning and location based services. Without bogging readers down with advanced mathematics, the book addresses all aspects of the GPS, emphasizes GPS applications, examines the GPS signal structure, and covers the key types of measurement being utilized in the field today.

Practitioners get an in-depth discussion on the errors and biases that affect GPS measurements, along with advice on how to overcome them. Moreover, the book shows how the GPS can be used for a number of different accuracy levels. Datums, coordinate systems, and map projections are discussed in a simple manner, offering a clear understanding of this widely misunderstood area. This unique reference also examines the integration of the GPS with other systems, and looks at future GPS modernization. Over 90 illustrations help clarify major topics throughout the book.

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If you're looking for an up-to-date, easy-to-understand treatment of the GPS (Global Positioning System), this one-of-a-kind resource offers you the knowledge you need for your work, without bogging you down with advanced mathematics. It addresses all aspects of the GPS, emphasizes GPS applications, examines the GPS signal structure, and covers the key types of measurement being utilized in the field today. You get an in-depth discussion on the errors and biases that affect GPS measurements, along with guidance on how to overcome them. Moreover, the book shows how the GPS can be used for a number of different accuracy levels. Datums, coordinate systems, and map projections are discussed in a simple manner, offering you a clear understanding of this widely misunderstood area. This unique reference also examines the integration of the GPS with other systems, and looks at future GPS modernization. Over 75 illustrations help clarify major topics throughout the book.

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Mapping Hacks: Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography

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• Author: Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh
• Paperback: 564 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (June 9, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596007035
• ISBN-13: 978-0596007034

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Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should things change now? Well, they shouldn't. The reality is that map creation, or "cartography," has only improved in its ease-of-use over time. In fact, with the recent explosion of inexpensive computing and the growing availability of public mapping data, mapmaking today extends all the way to the ordinary PC user. Mapping Hacks, the latest page-turner from O'Reilly Press, tackles this notion head on. It's a collection of one hundred simple--and mostly free--techniques available to developers and power users who want draw digital maps or otherwise visualize geographic data. Authors Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh do more than just illuminate the basic concepts of location and cartography, they walk you through the process one step at a time. Mapping Hacks shows you where to find the best sources of geographic data, and then how to integrate that data into your own map. But that's just an appetizer. This comprehensive resource also shows you how to interpret and manipulate unwieldy cartography data, as well as how to incorporate personal photo galleries into your maps. It even provides practical uses for GPS (Global Positioning System) devices--those touch-of-a-button street maps integrated into cars and mobile phones. Just imagine: If Captain Kidd had this technology, we'd all know where to find his buried treasure! With all of these industrial-strength tips and tools, Mapping Hacks effectively takes the sting out of the digital mapmaking and navigational process. Now you can create your own maps for business, pleasure, or entertainment--without ever having to sharpen a single pencil.

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A Software-Defined GPS and Galileo Receiver: A Single-Frequency Approach (Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis)

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• Author: Kai Borre, Dennis M. Akos, Nicolaj Bertelsen, and Peter Rinder
• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston; 1 edition (November 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0817643907
• ISBN-13: 978-0817643904

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"Global Positioning System (GPS) is a term which is already included and dictionaries and designates the system that permits the location of an emitting source located on the earth by the use of a satellite networks. The book is devoted to this subject and at the same time to Galileo System, a forthcoming European satellite-based navigation system. Both of them belong to the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). The exposition is given in the frame of the Software-defined Radios, which designates a technology which is based on a flexible open-architecture receiver that permits to build a dynamic connection of various modules. The work of this platform is described in a MATLAB coding language. .. The book is intended for applied mathematicians, electrical engineers, geodesists and graduate students as a reference book as well for self-study."

Satellite navigation receivers are used to receive, process, and decode space-based navigation signals, such as those provided by the GPS constellation of satellites. There is an increasing need for a unified open platform that will enable enhanced receiver development and design, as well as cost-effective testing procedures for various applications. This book and companion DVD provide hands-on exploration of new technologies in this rapidly growing field.

One of the unique features of the work is the interactive approach used, giving readers the ability to construct their own Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers. To construct such a reconfigurable receiver with a wide range of applications, the authors discuss receiver architecture based on software-defined radio (SDR) techniques. The presentation unfolds in a systematic, user-friendly style and goes from the basics to cutting-edge research.

Additional features and topics include:

• Presentation of basic signal structures used in GPS and Galileo, the European satellite navigation system
• Design and implementation of a GPS signal generator
• Presentation and analysis of different methods of signal acquisitionserial search; parallel-frequency space search; and parallel-code phase searchas well as code/carrier tracking and navigation data decoding
• A complete GPS software receiver implemented using MATLAB code as well as GPS and GIOVE-A signal recordsavailable on the companion cross-platform DVDallowing readers to change various parameters and immediately see their effects
• MATLAB-based exercises
• A hands-on method of testing the material covered in the book: supplementary front-end hardware equipment which may be purchased at http://ccar.colorado.edu/gnssenables readers working on a Windows or LINUX system to generate real-world data by converting analog signals to digital signals
• Supplementary course material for instructors available at http://gps.aau.dk/softgps
• Bibliography of recent results and comprehensive index

The book is aimed at applied mathematicians, electrical engineers, geodesists, and graduate students. It may be used as a textbook in various GPS technology and signal processing courses, or as a self-study reference for anyone working with satellite navigation receivers.

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Web Mapping Illustrated: Using Open Source GIS Toolkits

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• Author: Tyler Mitchell
• Paperback: 367 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (June 17, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596008651
• ISBN-13: 978-0596008659

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With the help of the Internet and accompanying tools, creating and publishing online maps has become easier and rich with options. A city guide web site can use maps to show the location of restaurants, museums, and art venues. A business can post a map for reaching its offices. The state government can present a map showing average income by area. Developers who want to publish maps on the web often discover that commercial tools cost too much and hunting down the free tools scattered across Internet can use up too much of your time and resources. Web Mapping Illustrated shows you how to create maps, even interactive maps, with free tools, including MapServer, OpenEV, GDAL/OGR, and PostGIS. It also explains how to find, collect, understand, use, and share mapping data, both over the traditional Web and using OGC-standard services like WFS and WMS. Mapping is a growing field that goes beyond collecting and analyzing GIS data. Web Mapping Illustrated shows how to combine free geographic data, GPS, and data management tools into one resource for your mapping information needs so you don't have to lose your way while searching for it. Remember the fun you had exploring the world with maps? Experience the fun again with Web Mapping Illustrated. This book will take you on a direct route to creating valuable maps.

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Google Earth For Dummies

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• Author: David A. Crowder
• Paperback: 346 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (February 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470095288
• ISBN-13: 978-0470095287

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• This interesting guide covers all aspects of Google Earth, the freely downloadable application from Google that allows users to view satellite images from all points of the globe
• Aimed at a diverse audience, including casual users who enjoy air shots of locales as well as geographers, real estate professionals, and GPS developers
• Includes valuable tips on various customizations that users can add, advice on setting up scavenger hunts, and guidance on using Google Earth to benefit a business
• Explains modifying general options, managing the layer and placemark systems, and tackling some of the more technical aspects, such as interfacing with GPS
• There are more than 400,000 registered users of Google Earth and the number is still growing

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• Explore foreign cities or find every ATM in your hometown!
• Map historic sites, look for a new home, or analyze traffic patterns

Want to see the world? Forget packing, customs, and airport security —with Google Earth, simply click and you're there. And it works just as well to find school districts and shortcuts in your hometown. This guide helps you install and customize the software, create specialized maps, tour almost any city on earth, and more!

Discover how to

• Locate specific businesses in any city
• Create a tour of homes for sale
• Visit historic sites in another country
• Insert your own 3D models
• Find alternate routes to work

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GPS For Dummies

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• Author: Joel McNamara
• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies (June 4, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764569333
• ISBN-13: 978-0764569333

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"at over 350 pages you can be sure to find the answers to most of your questions!" (Boat Mart, July 2007)

GPS For Dummies gives new meaning to finding yourself. In fact, with a GPS (global positioning system) receiver, you can determine precisely where you are anywhere on this planet. If you’re are planning on buying a GPS receiver or if you have one and want to get your money’s worth, this guide tells you what you need to know, including:

Basic GPS principles and concepts such as waypoints, routes, tracks, and coordinate systems

• Recommended features for GPS receivers to be used in various types of activities, including hiking, mountain biking, cross country skiing, geocaching, hunting, ATVing, mapping, and more
• How to do digital mapping on your computer, including software packages you can use to work with aerial photos, topographic maps, and road maps
• The main providers of digital map data for the U.S. and their Web sites
• The scoop on geocaching—a high-tech treasure hunt

Written by Joel McNamara, avid outdoorsman, adventure racer, search and rescue team member, and author of Secrets of Computer Espionage, GPS for Dummies is ideal for both ordinary travelers and exotic explorers. It covers a world of GPS info such as:

• Choosing features for a GPS receiver, including the screen, an alarm, built-in maps, an electric compass, an altimeter, antennas, interface modes, and more
• Systems for traveling on the main roads and systems for exploring off the beaten path
• Using GPS with a PDA (personal digital assistant)
• Computer requirements for different mapping choices
• Topographic map software from Maptech, DeLorme, and National Geographic that’s for off-road use
• Using Web-hosted mapping services, including street maps, topographic maps, aerial photos, and U.S. government-produced maps
• Incorporating GPS receivers into outdoor workouts, with tips for specific sports including cycling, golf, rowing, and more

A companion Web site has links to all kinds of free maps and resources. So explore on your computer and then explore for real! With GPS for Dummies, you’ll find yourself having adventures!

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Google Maps Hacks

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• Author: Rich Gibson and Schuyler Erle
• Paperback: 366 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (January 17, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596101619
• ISBN-13: 978-0596101619

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Want to find every pizza place within a 15-mile radius? Where the dog parks are in a new town? The most central meeting place for your class, club or group of friends? The cheapest gas stations on a day-to-day basis? The location of convicted sex offenders in an area to which you may be considering moving? The applications, serendipitous and serious, seem to be infinite, as developers find ever more creative ways to add to and customize the satellite images and underlying API of Google Maps.

Written by Schuyler Erle and Rich Gibson, authors of the popular Mapping Hacks, Google Maps Hacks shares dozens of tricks for combining the capabilities of Google Maps with your own datasets. Such diverse information as apartment listings, crime reporting or flight routes can be integrated with Google's satellite imagery in creative ways, to yield new and useful applications.

The authors begin with a complete introduction to the "standard" features of Google Maps. The adventure continues with 60 useful and interesting mapping projects that demonstrate ways developers have added their own features to the maps. After that's given you ideas of your own, you learn to apply the techniques and tools to add your own data to customize and manipulate Google Maps. Even Google seems to be tacitly blessing what might be seen as unauthorized use, but maybe they just know a good thing when they see one.

With the tricks and techniques you'll learn from Google Maps Hacks, you'll be able to adapt Google's satellite map feature to create interactive maps for personal and commercial applications for businesses ranging from real estate to package delivery to home services, transportation and more. Includes a foreword by Google Maps tech leads, Jens and Lars Rasmussen.

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Hacking GoogleMaps and GoogleEarth

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• Author: Martin C. Brown
• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (July 24, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471790095
• ISBN-13: 978-0471790099

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This one-of-a-kind resource contains 500 pages of jaw-dropping hacks, mods, and customizations. These include creating mashups with data from other sources such as Flickr, building a space station tracker, hacking Maps with Firefox PiggyBank, and building a complete community site with Maps and Earth. Now you can map out locations, get driving directions, zoom into any point on the globe, display real time traffic, and much more.

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Going somewhere? Or just getting back?

Great vacation photos—too bad you can't remember where you took them. And wouldn't it have been terrific to find a pizza joint when you bumped into your college buddy in that little ski town? Well, by making Google Maps and Google Earth do your bidding, you can find out not only where you're going, but where you've been. Get an aerial view of the beach in that picture. Pinpoint every Thai takeout in your girlfriend's zip code. Plan the Great International Rollercoaster Tour. Here's how.

Get Going

Create applications that let you do all this and more

1. Make maps that reveal statistical data
2. Plot routes to include or avoid key factors
3. Build a community site
4. Create a realtor's presentation
5. Calculate distances for routes
6. Show where your holiday photos were taken
7. Merge Flickr photos onto a map
8. Highlight archaeological information

Companion Web site

Visit http://maps.mcslp.com to find full source code for all hacks and mods in the book, working examples, ongoing information about Google Maps and Google Earth, a blog, and more.

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Geographic Information Metadata for Spatial Data Infrastructures: Resources, Interoperability and Information Retrieval

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• Author: Javier Nogueras-Iso, F. Javier Zarazaga-Soria, and Pedro R. Muro-Medrano
• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (May 31, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540244646
• ISBN-13: 978-3540244646

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Metadata play a fundamental role in both DLs and SDIs. Commonly defined as "structured data about data" or "data which describe attributes of a resource" or, more simply, "information about data", it is an essential requirement for locating and evaluating available data. Therefore, this book focuses on the study of different metadata aspects, which contribute to a more efficient use of DLs and SDIs. The three main issues addressed are: the management of nested collections of resources, the interoperability between metadata schemas, and the integration of information retrieval techniques to the discovery services of geographic data catalogs (contributing in this way to avoid metadata content heterogeneity).

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Building a Multinational Global Satellite System: An Initial Look

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• Author: Rosalind Lewis,Michael Kennedy, Elham Ghashghai, Gordon Bitko
• Paperback: 126 pages
• Publisher: RAND Corporation (September 25, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0833037358
• ISBN-13: 978-0833037350

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In the not too distant future, there may be a second global spacebased positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) capability similar to the Global Positioning System (GPS). The European Union plans to begin initial operations of the Galileo PNT system in 2008. What effect this additional and highly capable information utility will have on global economic and security conditions is uncertain. Policy leaders and technical experts have been in discussion since 2000 to find cooperative means of providing users the benefit of both systems. However, some U.S. policymakers are concerned that Galileo will be a threat to U.S. economic and security interests.

In March 2002, when its initial funding was made available, Galileo took one step closer to becoming a reality. In August 2002, in response to a National Security Council request, principals of the Interagency GPS Executive Board (IGEB), a policymaking body established in 1996 by Presidential directive to manage GPS and its U.S. government augmentations, developed recommendations for continued discussions between the United States and the European Union. One month later, the Senior Steering Group International Space
Cooperation (SSG-ISC) commissioned a study on the business case and economic impact to the global user community of two systems, GPS and Galileo. The SSG-ISC is the key forum through which the U.S. Air Force/XO dealt with Galileo issues, and AF/XO asked the RAND Corporation to conduct this study. The study was incorporated into the 2002–2003 RAND Project AIR FORCE research agenda.

Galileo, as envisioned, is very similar to GPS in function and performance, and it has the potential to create new PNT standards in addition to the de facto standards that currently exist in GPS. The focus of this study was the economic impact of a competition that could result from the implementation and operation of Galileo in the presence of GPS. The nature of competition, in this study, was defined by three factors: interoperability and compatibility; strategies employed to foster Galileo adoption; and the schedules for GPS modernization and Galileo development. Our primary measure of the economic impact is net economic benefits to users of PNT products/services, which are defined as the difference between the users’ (consumers’) valuation of the products/services provided and the market prices of those products/services. The implications for the United States are linked to the conditions that warrant a U.S. response to a situation or opportunity created by Galileo.
This report should be of special interest to the members of the IGEB, the GPS Industry Council, and policymakers involved in international negotiation and coordination of PNT systems and information.

It was prepared for AF/XO within the Aerospace Force Development Program of RAND Project AIR FORCE.

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Understanding the GPS: An Introduction to Global Positioning System, What It is and How It Works

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• Author: Gregory T. French
• Paperback: 225 pages
• Publisher: Onword Pr (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566902258
• ISBN-13: 978-1566902250

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This book is designed to support an introductory course on the fundamentals of the Global Positioning System based on a series of graphic representations and distilled concept-bullets. Math is scrupulously avoided-that level of information is readily available through numerous highly technical publications and is no more necessary for most users than is a textbook on electronics necessary for the purchaser of a television set.
Each concept is presented in one to four graphics found in this book on the left page of each page-pair. The opposing right page presents a brief discussion of the concept. While much more could be said on each of the topics presented, only those highlights considered by the author to be of most immediate value to the geographer, project manager, field technician, or others needing to learn the fundamentals of the GPS are included here. At the end of the book, there is a list of suggested readings for those who are interested in gathering more in-depth and detailed information on most of the topics covered.

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Hacking GPS

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• Author: Kathie Kingsley-Hughes
• Paperback: 358 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (March 25, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764584243
• ISBN-13: 978-0764584244

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• This is the "user manual" that didn't come with any of the 30 million GPS receivers currently in use, showing readers how to modify, tweak, and hack their GPS to take it to new levels!
• Crazy-cool modifications include exploiting secret keycodes, revealing hidden features, building power cords and cables, hacking the battery and antenna, protecting a GPS from impact and falls, making a screen protector, and solar-powering a GPS
• Potential power users will take the function and performance of their GPS to a whole new level by hacking into the firmware and hacking into a PC connection with a GPS
• Fear not! Any potentially dangerous mod (to the device) is clearly labeled, with precautions listed that should be taken
• Game time! Readers can check out GPS games, check into hacking geocaching, and even use a GPS as a metal detector

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• This is the ""user manual"" that didn't come with any of the 30 million GPS receivers currently in use, showing readers how to modify, tweak, and hack their GPS to take it to new levels!
• Crazy-cool modifications include exploiting secret keycodes, revealing hidden features, building power cords and cables, hacking the battery and antenna, protecting a GPS from impact and falls, making a screen protector, and solar-powering a GPS
• Potential power users will take the function and performance of their GPS to a whole new level by hacking into the firmware and hacking into a PC connection with a GPS
• Fear not! Any potentially dangerous mod (to the device) is clearly labeled, with precautions listed that should be taken
• Game time! Readers can check out GPS games, check into hacking geocaching, and even use a GPS as a metal detector"

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Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers: A Software Approach

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• Author: James Bao-Yen Tsui
• Hardcover: 258 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1 edition (May 19, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471381543
• ISBN-13: 978-0471381549

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"...recommended and is appropriate for academic engineering collections." (E-Streams, Vol. 4, No. 11, November 2001)

While GPS receivers abound in numerous applications, much of the information on their design is scattered in disparate and hard-to-find places. This new work provides engineers who use and design GPS systems with a much-needed comprehensive reference on the operational principles guiding this important technology. With an emphasis on software-based signal processing-a cutting-edge approach expected to dominate future integration of GPS receivers into cellular phones-the book covers all aspects of receiver technology as well as the relevant navigation schemes. Concentrating on civilian C/A code used by commercial GPS receivers (rather than military code), Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers:

• Describes GPS basics and the constellation of satellites that comprise the GPS system
• Examines in detail GPS signal structure, acquisition, and tracking
• Presents the mathematical formulas for calculating a user's position
• Illustrates the application of important equations using computer programs
• Explains how to build hardware to collect digitized data for a software GPS receiver
• Includes a chapter demonstrating a GPS receiver following the signal flow

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All the expert guidance you need to understand, build, and operate GPS receivers

The Second Edition of this acclaimed publication enables readers to understand and apply the complex operation principles of global positioning system (GPS) receivers. Although GPS receivers are widely used in everyday life to aid in positioning and navigation, this is the only text that is devoted to complete coverage of their operation principles. The author, one of the foremost authorities in the GPS field, presents the material from a software receiver viewpoint, an approach that helps readers better understand operation and that reflects the forecasted integration of GPS receivers into such everyday devices as cellular telephones. Concentrating on civilian C/A code, the book provides the tools and information needed to understand and exploit all aspects of receiver technology as well as relevant navigation schemes:

• Overview of GPS basics and the constellation of satellites that comprise the GPS system
• Detailed examination of GPS signal structure, acquisition, and tracking
• Step-by-step presentation of the mathematical formulas for calculating a user's position
• Demonstration of the use of computer programs to run key equations
• Instructions for developing hardware to collect digitized data for a software GPS receiver
• Complete chapter demonstrating a GPS receiver following a signal flow to determine a user's position

The Second Edition of this highly acclaimed text has been greatly expanded, including three new chapters:

• Acquisition of weak signals
• Tracking of weak signals
• GPS receiver related subjects

Following the author's expert guidance and easy-to-follow style, engineers and scientists learn all that is needed to understand, build, and operate GPS receivers. The book's logical flow from basic concepts to applications makes it an excellent textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering, wireless communications, and computer science.

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While GPS receivers abound in numerous applications, much of the information on their design is scattered in disparate and hard-to-find places. This new work provides engineers who use and design GPS systems with a much-needed comprehensive reference on the operational principles guiding this important technology. With an emphasis on software-based signal processing—a cutting-edge approach expected to dominate future integration of GPS receivers into cellular phones—the book covers all aspects of receiver technology as well as the relevant navigation schemes. Concentrating on civilian C/A code used by commercial GPS receivers (rather than military code), Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers:

• Describes GPS basics and the constellation of satellites that comprise the GPS system
• Examines in detail GPS signal structure, acquisition, and tracking
• Presents the mathematical formulas for calculating a user's position
• Illustrates the application of important equations using computer programs
• Explains how to build hardware to collect digitized data for a software GPS receiver
• Includes a chapter demonstrating a GPS receiver following the signal flow

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Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers: A Software Approach

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• Author: James Bao-Yen Tsui
• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 22 edition (December 3, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471706477
• ISBN-13: 978-0471706472

Amazon's Editorial Reviews

"Recommended for libraries serving graduate engineering programs or specialists." (E-STREAMS, May 2005)

All the expert guidance you need to understand, build, and operate GPS receivers. The Second Edition of this acclaimed publication enables readers to understand and apply the complex operation principles of global positioning system (GPS) receivers. Although GPS receivers are widely used in everyday life to aid in positioning and navigation, this is the only text that is devoted to complete coverage of their operation principles. The author, one of the foremost authorities in the GPS field, presents the material from a software receiver viewpoint, an approach that helps readers better understand operation and that reflects the forecasted integration of GPS receivers into such everyday devices as cellular telephones. Concentrating on civilian C/A code, the book provides the tools and information needed to understand and exploit all aspects of receiver technology as well as relevant navigation schemes:

• Overview of GPS basics and the constellation of satellites that comprise the GPS system
• Detailed examination of GPS signal structure, acquisition, and tracking
• Step-by-step presentation of the mathematical formulas for calculating a user's position
• Demonstration of the use of computer programs to run key equations
• Instructions for developing hardware to collect digitized data for a software GPS receiver
• Complete chapter demonstrating a GPS receiver following a signal flow to determine a user's position

The Second Edition of this highly acclaimed text has been greatly expanded, including three new chapters:

• Acquisition of weak signals
• Tracking of weak signals
• GPS receiver related subjects

Following the author's expert guidance and easy-to-follow style, engineers and scientists learn all that is needed to understand, build, and operate GPS receivers. The book's logical flow from basic concepts to applications makes it an excellent textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering, wireless communications, and computer science.

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GPS: Theory, Algorithms and Applications

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• Author: Guochang Xu
• Hardcover: 340 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 2nd ed. edition (September 14, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540727140
• ISBN-13: 978-3540727149

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This reference and handbook describes theory, algorithms and applications of the Global Positioning System (GPS/Galileo). It is primarily based on source-code descriptions of the KSGsoft program developed by the author at the GFZ in Potsdam. The theory and algorithms are extended and verified for a new development of a multiple functional GPS/Galileo software. Besides the concepts such as the unified GPS data processing method and the numerical solution of the variation equations, as well as the general ambiguity search criteria reported in the first edition, there are several highlights reported. Such as the equivalent principle and its applications, the theory of independent parameterisation, the diagonalisation algorithm, etc. Mathematically rigorous, the book begins with the basics of coordinate and time systems and satellite orbits, as well as GPS observables, and deals with topics such as physical influences, observation equations and their parameterisation, adjustment and filtering, ambiguity resolution, data processing, and the determination of perturbed orbits.

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Map-based Mobile Services: Theories, Methods and Implementations

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• Author: Liqiu Meng, Alexander Zipf, and Tumasch Reichenbacher
• Hardcover: 260 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (December 22, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540230556
• ISBN-13: 978-3540230557

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"This book contains sixteen co-authored chapters . The chapters provide a contemporary overview of the research agenda related to the design and use of maps associated with mobile devices and mobility-supporting initiatives. The book is written for a broad audience. Overall this reviewer enjoyed reading the book, and recommends that it be placed on the reading list of any advanced cartography/geovisualization course exploring theoretical and applied research agendas." (Peter Keller, Geomatica, Vol. 59 (3), 2005)

The book is divided into three parts: theory, method and implementation. Starting with a summary of the state-of-the-art in mobile technologies, the first part analyses their impacts on cartography and pinpoints the missing theories concerned with the development of map-based mobile services. A conceptual framework of mobile cartography is then introduced with the emphasis on mobile usage context. The second part is devoted to the design methodology under the constraints defined in the theoretical framework. A core issue deals with personalised mobile map services. The final part demonstrates the feasibility of the methods by using application scenarios. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the PDF-Files in colour.

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