All about GPS : Sherlock Holmes' Guide to the Global Positioning System
by Huang, JerryFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-08-01
Publisher(s): Acme Services
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Summary
How much fun is a Global Positioning System? Just ask Sherlock Holmes, Big Ben and science fiction writers, who have a go at GPS in this collection of fact and fantasy.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments for the Third Edition | p. x |
| How GPS Works in Five Illustrations | p. 1 |
| The Stage on Page: Holmes vs. GPS | p. 7 |
| Now, the story goes like this | p. 9 |
| Here Comes Sherlock Holmes | p. 12 |
| This is how Holmes did it | p. 13 |
| Now about GPS | p. 18 |
| What ifs | p. 19 |
| Which is which | p. 22 |
| The mysterious pseudo-random codes | p. 24 |
| Synchronization | p. 26 |
| The story continues | p. 31 |
| They don't have to stay there | p. 34 |
| Why not stay in place | p. 36 |
| GPS as a whole | p. 39 |
| Doppler | p. 40 |
| Radar and sonar | p. 44 |
| Tricky GPS | p. 45 |
| A free lunch | p. 46 |
| A Few More Details | p. 49 |
| The Industry Trend | p. 49 |
| The Hardware | p. 49 |
| The Software | p. 50 |
| From Pythagoras | p. 51 |
| Precision and Precession | p. 51 |
| Effects of the atmosphere on GPS | p. 54 |
| Mathematical models | p. 58 |
| GPS time | p. 59 |
| A Tale of Two Brothers | p. 61 |
| No Kidding | p. 62 |
| Relativity and GPS | p. 64 |
| Past, Present, and Future | p. 67 |
| The Longitude Problem | p. 68 |
| The Galileo Method | p. 70 |
| The Chronometer | p. 72 |
| The GPS Story | p. 74 |
| Differential GPS | p. 76 |
| WAAS and LAAS | p. 77 |
| GPS and GIS | p. 81 |
| Conclusion | p. 83 |
| Glossary | p. 85 |
| An Innovative GPS Car Navigation Aid | p. 109 |
| A distributed GPS processing system Utilizing FM Radio Data Broadcast | p. 113 |
| Bibliography | p. 119 |
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