PAPER PRESENTATION

NAVSTAR GPS

THIS TOPIC IS PRESENTED BY THIRD YEAR B.Tech (Electronic Communication Engineering) STUDENTS

CONTENTS:-Introduction -Typical operations -Advantages and -Tools and types -Applications Disadvantages -Conclusion

ABSTRACT:
The NAVSTAR global positioning system (g.p.s.) is being actively developed by the USA and is likely to become operational for both civilian and military users in the mid-1980s. Accuracy of position in three dimensions of afew metres and velocity within 0.1 m/s is predicted. The user equipment, essentially a receiver and an antenna, will employ a considerable volume of signalprocessing hardware and software. This paper aims to provide for the signal-processing community some basic understanding of the system outline and its operation as a navigation aid; a typical receiver outline is broken into a number of units whose operation is described with some emphasis on the signal-processing aspects. Areas in which improved signalprocessing methods could contribute to improved performance, particularly in interference conditions, are examined. The potential of the antenna in improving user equipment performance by providing angular selectivity against interference is examined briefly; results from the literature indicate improvement of up to 30dB. New signal-processing technologies, surface-accoustic-wave devices and c.c.d.s are likely to contribute to g.p.s receiver development in both frequency-generation and signal-processing areas.

INTRODUCTION: The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a location system based on a constellation of about 24 satellites orbiting the earth at altitudes of approximately 11,000 miles. GPS was developed by the United States Department of Defense (DOD), for its tremendous application as a military locating utility.IT mainly works with GPS Satellites GPS Ground support GPS Receivers

CONTROL SEGMENT:

TYPICAL OPERATION: Three segments of the GPS: SPACE SEGMENT: The space segment (SS) is composed of the orbiting GPS satellites, or Space Vehicles (SV) in GPS parlance. The GPS design originally called for 24 SVs, eight each in three approximately circular orbits,[39] but this was modified to six orbital planes with four satellites each.[40] The orbits are centered on the Earth, not rotating with the Earth, but instead fixed with respect to the distant stars

Ground monitor station used from 1984 to 2007, on display at the Air Force Space & Missile Museum The control segment is composed of 1. 2. 3. 4. a master control station (MCS), an alternate master control station, four dedicated ground antennas and six dedicated monitor stations

User segment The user segment is composed of hundreds of thousands of U.S. and allied military users of the secure GPS Precise Positioning Service, and tens of millions of civil, commercial and scientific users of the Standard Positioning Service IN MILITARY: Navigation Target tracking Missile and Projectile guidance Search and Rescue

Reconnaissance Nuclear detonation detecting IN COMMUNICATION: Message format Satellite frequencies

Demodulation and decoding

APPLICATIONS DISADVANTAGES:

Potential failures Ambiguity