Nearly every military vehicle and every satellite that flies into space uses the GPS to fix its position. In this popular 4-day short course, GPS expert Tom Logsdon will describe in detail how those precise radionavigation systems work and review the many practical benefits they provide to military and civilian users in space and around the globe.

1. Professional Development Short Course On:
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Instructor:
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Summary Off The Course Tuition.quot;
In this popular 4-day short course, GPS
expert Tom Logsdon will describe in detail
how precise radionavigation systems work
and review the many practical benefits
they provide to military and civilian users
in space and around the globe.
Through practical demonstration you will
Course Outline
learn how a GPS receiver works, how to operate it in
various situations, and how to interpret the positioning 1. Radionavigation Principles. Active and passive
solutions it provides. radionavigation systems. Spherical and hyperbolic
lines of position. Position and velocity solutions.
Each topic includes practical derivations and real-
Spaceborne atomic clocks. Websites and other
world examples using published inputs from the
sources of information. Building a $104 billion business
literature and from the instructors personal and
in space.
professional experiences.
2. The Three Major Segments of the GPS. Signal
structure and pseudorandom codes. Modulation
quot;The presenter was very energetic and techniques. Military performance enhancements.
truly passionate about the materialquot; Relativistic time dilations. Inverted navigation solutions.
3. Navigation Solutions and Kalman Filtering
Techniques. Taylor series expansions. Numerical
quot; Tom Logsdon is the best teacher I have
iteration. Doppler shift solutions. Satellite selection
ever had. His knowledge is excellent. He algorithms. Kalman filtering algorithms.
is a 10!quot; 4. Designing an Effective GPS Receiver.
Annotated block diagrams. Antenna design. Code
quot;The instructor displayed awesome tracking and carrier tracking loops. Software modules.
Commercial chipsets. Military receivers. Shuttle and
knowledge of the GPS and space technol-
space station receivers.
ogy…very knowledgeable instructor.
5. Military Applications. The worldwide common
Spoke clearly…Good teaching style. grid. Military test-range applications.Tactical and
Encouraged questions and discussion.quot; strategic applications. Autonomy and survivability
enhancements. Precision guided munitions. Smart
bombs and artillery projectiles.
quot;Mr. Logsdon did a bang-up job
6. Integrated Navigation Systems. Mechanical
explaining and deriving the theories of
and Strapdown implementations. Ring lasers and fiber-
special/general relativity–and how they optic gyros. Integrated navigation. Military applications.
are associated with the GPS navigation Key features of the C-MIGITS integrated nav system.
solutions.quot; 7. Differential Navigation and Pseudosatellites.
Special committee 104’s data exchange protocols.
Global data distribution. Wide-area differential
quot;I loved this one-page mathematical der-
navigation. Pseudosatellite concepts and test results.
ivations and the important points they
8. Carrier-Aided Solutions. The interferometry
illustrate.quot; concept. Double differencing techniques. Attitude
determination receivers. Navigation of the Topex and
quot;Instructor was very knowledgeable and NASA’s twin Grace satellites. Dynamic and Kinematic
orbit determination. Motorola’s Spaceborne Monarch
related to his students very well–and
receiver. Relativistic time dilation derivations.
with sparkling good humor!quot;
9. The Navstar Satellites. Subsystem descriptions.
On-orbit test results. The Block I, II, IIR, and IIF
quot;The lecture was truly an expert in his satellites, Block III concepts. Orbital Perturbations and
field and delivered an entertaining and modeling techniques. Stationkeeping maneuvers. Earth
shadowing characteristic. Repeating ground-trace
technically well-balanced presentation.quot;
geometry.
10. Russia’s Glonass Constellation. Performance
quot;Excellent instructor! Wonderful teach-
comparisons between the GPS and Glonass. Orbital
ing skills! This was honestly, the best mechanics considerations. Military survivability.
class I have had since leaving the univer- Spacecraft subsystems. Russia’s SL-12 Proton
booster. Building dual-capability GPS/Glonass
sity.quot;
receivers.
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