Software receiver strategies for the acquisition and re-acquisition of weak GPS signals

Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation, National Technical Meeting

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 843-854

  O'Driscoll, C ^a   Petovello, M G ^a   Lachapelle, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Wireless Location Plan Group

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-PRIORI; ACQUISITION STRATEGIES; COHERENT INTEGRATIONS; DATA MODULATIONS; DECISION VARIABLES; DESIGN RULES; DOPPLER; GPS SIGNALS; MEAN ACQUISITION TIME; NUISANCE PARAMETERS; RECEIVER ANTENNAS; RESIDUAL FREQUENCY ERRORS; SATELLITE SIGNALS; SIGNAL OF INTERESTS; SIGNAL PARAMETERS; SOFTWARE RECEIVERS; STRATEGY USE; UNCERTAINTY SPACES; VARIABLE ATTENUATORS; WEAK SIGNALS;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MODULATION; NAVIGATION; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 57649195300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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