Course Schedule, GOG 479/579, Spring 2013

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Date	Lecture	Reading
1/24	Overview of GPS History and general concepts	Sobel article on Harrison
1/29	GPS Signals, Ranging, and Position Determination	Yionoulis article on Transit
1/31	Lab 1: Using our GPS units (due 2/12)
2/5	Satellite orbits and celestial coordinates	NY Times article on Galileo (2/7/13)
2/7	Earth coordinate systems
2/12	Lab 2: Acquiring Positions (due 2/21)	Spreadsheet to Compute Great Circle Distances
2/14	GPS error sources
2/19	Life before GPS 1: Celestial navigation	Bowditch, ch. 1
2/21	Lab 3: Using the Trimble GeoXT Receiver (due 3/7)	Importing Waypoints into ArcMap
2/26
2/28
3/5
3/7	Scott Crocoll from DEC	GPS World article on Doppler shifts Tom Clark article on Doppler shift and speed Article by Tom Chalko
3/12	Midterm exam
3/14	Differential Correction
3/19	NO CLASS
3/21	NO CLASS
3/26	Lab 4: Post Processing with Pathfinder Office (due 4/11)
3/28
4/2	Life before GPS 2: Ground-based electronic navigation systems	Bowditch, ch. 12
4/4	Location Based Services
4/9	Search and Navigation
4/11	More on GPS Signals and Data Comm
4/16	Finding the Navigation Solution	GPS SPS Signal Specification (1995)
4/18	Lab 5: Navigation Solution (due 4/25)
4/23
4/25	Carrier phase GPS
4/30	Other GNSS Alternatives to GPS	GLONASS description from Novatel GLONASS overview from Space & Tech Galileo Specifications
5/2	Life before GPS 3: Using a compass
5/7	Review
Final Exam	Monday May 13th 10:30am � 12:30pm	The final is non-cumulative and will cover the topics listed from Differential Correction through Life Before GPS 3