Establishment of Software to Process Global Positioning Satellite Data Obtained from TI 4100 GPS (Global Positioning System) Receivers.

Abstract

The U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) conducted Seafloor Benchmark experiments in the summers of 1985 and 1986 which utilized the GPS satellite system as the principal source of ship positioning. The data acquired in 1985 had to be processed elsewhere as NPS lacked the software required to process the data. Software designed to process GPS satellite data was obtained from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Geodetic Survey (NOAA/NGS). The programs which compute point positions from broadcast ephemeris information (collected using the U.S. government model of the TI 4100 GPS receiver) have been modified and tested, and are now fully operational at NPS on the IBM-3033 mainframe computer. The two programs to compute relative station positions have also been extensively modified for use on the IBM mainframe at NPS but still require further testing. NPS now has the capability of computing point positions from data collected on TI 4100 GPS receivers using broadcast ephemeris information. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA176793

Entities

People

  • Marlene Mozgala

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Data Reduction
  • Doppler Effect
  • Geodetic Surveys
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Mainframe Computers
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Navigation Satellites
  • Satellite Orbits
  • Seabed
  • Spacecraft
  • World Geodetic System

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Science.
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites