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Title

GPS Timing-Code-Based Positioning in Mathematica
Author

Thomas H. Meyer Ph.D.
Organization: University of Connecticut
Department: Natural Resources Management and Engineering
Conference

Wolfram Technology Conference 2011
Conference location

Champaign, Illinois, USA
Description

Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver positions are computed from observed timing-code pseudoranges between GPS satellites and the receiver plus the coordinates computed for the satellites at transmission time. The Mathematica code reads observations and satellite ephemerides from RINEX files, computes satellite positions using orbital mechanics, computes and corrects the pseudorange error budget, to compute the final position using a nonlinear least-squares adjustment of the multi-lateration problem. Tests show computed positions agree with published control coordinates within the standard error expected for code-only GPS positioning.

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GPSTimingCodeBasedPositioningInMathematica.nb (60.1 MB) - Mathematica Notebook
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Subject

*Wolfram Technology
URL

http://www.wolfram.com/events/technology-conference-2011