Understanding Satellite Navigation - Hardcover

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Dr. Rajat Acharya is a Senior Scientist at the Space Applications Centre, a key unit of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). With over two decades of involvement in India’s satellite navigation programs―GAGAN and NavIC―he has significant contributions in ionospheric modelling and space weather research. Dr. Acharya serves as Course Director for GNSS and SATCOM at the UN-affiliated Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (CSSTEAP). He has also been a Visiting Professor at Gujarat University, where he taught postgraduate courses in Geo-informatics and Satellite Navigation. Dr. Rajat Acharya regularly teaches Space Weather at the postgraduate level and has written extensively, authoring other popular books on the subject. He also represented India as Co-Chair of Working Group-C during the sessions of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG).

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Learn the fundamentals of satellite navigation technology, backed up by practical simulations and visualizations in MATLAB

This book explains the basic principles of satellite navigation technology with the bare minimum of mathematics and without complex equations. It helps you to conceptualize the underlying theory from first principles, building up your knowledge gradually using practical demonstrations and worked examples. A full range of MATLAB simulations is used to visualize concepts and solve problems through simulations, allowing you to see what happens to signals and systems with different configurations. Implementation and applications are discussed, along with some special topics such as Kalman Filter and Ionosphere.

• How a satellite navigation system works
• How to improve your efficiency when working with a satellite navigation system
• How to use MATLAB for simulation, helping to visualize concepts
• Various possible implementation approaches for the technologyThe most significant applications of satellite navigation systems

About the author

Dr. Rajat Acharya works as a Scientist at the Space Applications Centre, a unit of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He is involved with the Indian Satellite Navigation program of GAGAN and IRNSS for more than a decade with pertinent contributions in ionospheric modelling. He is also a Faculty member at the Centre for Space Science and Technology Education – Asia Pacific, where he teaches on the M.Tech course on Satellite Communications and Satellite Navigation. He serves as visiting Faculty at Gujurat University, teaching on the PG Diploma course on Geo-informatics and Satellite Communications. He was also a member of the working group on models and algorithms from ISRO in the second meeting of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite System (ICG).