1.1 - Course outline

LaintalAy2 HN recommenders · 2019–2023
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Course outline for Stanford's online GNSS course, introducing how GPS works and the many uses of satellite navigation. The series pairs short lectures with backyard experiments using smartphones.

HN commenters point to it as a thorough, free lecture series for anyone wanting the nitty-gritty of GPS and GNSS.

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@throw0101a2019 · in “The origins of GPS, and the pioneers who launched the system (2010)”

A Stanford University lecture series that is "only" 65 videos: * [VIDEO] A few of the longest ones are only 26 minutes, and some are less than 10, so it's actually bad as all that.

@throw0101c2022 · in “GPS vs. Glonass vs. Galileo”

If anyone wants to get into the nitty-gritty details of GPS / GNSS, there's a good series of lectures (course) available from Standford University; playlist: * [VIDEO] Topics include navigation message structure, signal encoding, error budgets, Keplerian parameters, path loss/antenna gain/link budget, plus orbital details of GLONASS/QZSS/BeiDou/Galileo.

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@lukasgraf2023 · in “Gis.chat – The Geospatial Community”

Not a podcast, but a Stanford MOOC (massive open online course): [VIDEO] The basic operation of a GNSS with ~30m accuracy is literally explained on one slide in lecture 1.2, and from then on the rest of the course is about implementation specifics, and enhancing performance. The basic concept at its core is so elegant and beautiful, but no less interesting are all the ways this system is augmented with different techniques to improve the accuracy down to ~1cm. This is one of those resources I've downloaded and made sure to have backed up, because it's so invaluable to me.

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