Advanced satellite positioning
ENV-542 / 4 credits
Teacher:
Language: English
Withdrawal: It is not allowed to withdraw from this subject after the registration deadline.
Remark: Pas donné en 2023-24
Summary
All fundamental principles behind modern satellite positioning to acquire, track and evaluate direct and indirect satellite signals and process them in relation to example applications: Earth monitoring (landslides,...), high precision positioning (automated driving, robots,...) and time transfer.
Content
Concept of satellite positioning
- basic principals & reference frames
- orbit computation & simple positioning
Signal modulation and structure
- RF propagation in space
- signal structure including new Galileo modulations
Receiver technology
- signal preprocessing
- signal acquisition & tracking
Error models and differencing concepts for special and high precision applications
- code and carrier phase measurements
- linear combination of observations
Algorithms for reliable positioning
- code and carrier-phase smoothed-code
- carrier-phase cycle ambiguity determination
Algorithms for environmental sensing
- water vapor estimation
- total electron content estimation
- GNSS reflectometry
Keywords
GNSS, GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, satellite, positioning, signal modulation, detection, estimation, signal processing, ionosphere, troposphere, automated vehicles, space, time-transfer, Earth sensing, drones.
Learning Prerequisites
Recommended courses
Fundamentals of satellite positioning, signals and systems, or signal processing, estimation methods
Important concepts to start the course
Linear algebra, basic signal processing, statistics, programmation in Matlab
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Implement signal acquisition and tracking
- Develop estimation procedure for precise positioning
- Interpret and analyse error sources as signal of environment
- Apply orbit calculation and algorithms for absolute positioning
- Synthesize a particular problem in GNSS for other students
- Solve carrier-phase ambiguities for cm-level positioning and ionosphere monitoring
- Choose an appropriate method and signals according to application
Transversal skills
- Make an oral presentation.
- Summarize an article or a technical report.
- Use both general and domain specific IT resources and tools
Teaching methods
Ex cathedra, exercises (part in computer room), demonstrations
Expected student activities
Active participation in the course and lab assignments, programming of algoritms and self-control (debugging), study of scientific papers.
Assessment methods
Continuous control, 3 tests on the following dates:
- 13th March 2020
- 1st May 2020
- 29th May 2020
Supervision
| Office hours | No |
| Assistants | Yes |
| Forum | No |
Resources
Bibliography
Recommended literature on Moodle.
Notes/Handbook
Slides, book chapter and scientific papers distributed via Moodle.
Moodle Link
Prerequisite for
Sensor orientation
In the programs
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced satellite positioning
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced satellite positioning
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced satellite positioning
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced satellite positioning
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced satellite positioning
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced satellite positioning
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced satellite positioning
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced satellite positioning
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced satellite positioning
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Advanced satellite positioning
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
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