Course Schedule, GOG 479/579, Spring 2010

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Date	Lecture	Reading In Kennedy, unless otherwise noted
Jan 21	Overview of GPS History and general concepts	Chapter 1 Sobel article on Harrison Yionoulis article on Transit
26	GPS Signals, Ranging, and Position Determination	Chapter 3
28	Satellite orbits and celestial coordinates
Feb 2	Lab 1: Using our GPS units (due 2/9)
4	Earth coordinate systems
9	Lab 2: Acquiring Positions (due 2/23)	Spreadsheet to Compute Great Circle Distances
11
16	NO CLASS
18	GPS at DEC—Scott Crocoll
23	Lab 3: Acquiring positions and importing them into a GIS (due 3/4)	Importing Waypoints into ArcMap
25	Life before GPS 1: Celestial navigation	Bowditch, ch. 1
Mar 2	GPS error sources
4	Lab time
9	Midterm exam
11	Lab 4: Collecting and Displaying Polygon Data (due 3/25)
16	Life before GPS 2: Ground-based electronic navigation systems	Bowditch, ch. 12
18	Differential Correction
23	Search and Navigation
25	More on GPS Signals and Data Comm
30	NO CLASS
Apr 1	NO CLASS
6	Amber Tobin’s Talk on VOR Air Navigation	Amber’s notes
8
13	Carrier phase GPS
15	Lab 5: Using the Magellan ProMarkX Receiver
20	Lab 5, part 2—Differential Correction
22	Looking at Search Algorithms Again
27	Other GNSS Alternatives to GPS	GLONASS description from Novatel GLONASS overview from Space & Tech Galileo Specifications
29	Life before GPS 3: Using a compass
May 4	Review
May 13	Final, 1:00-3:00, AS B03