Course Schedule, GOG 479/579, Spring 2016

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Date	Lecture	Reading
Jan 20	Overview of GPS	Sobel article on Harrison
25	History and general concepts
27	GPS Signals, Ranging, and Position Determination	Yionoulis article on Transit
Feb 1	Lab 1: Using our GPS units (due 2/10)
3	Satellite orbits and celestial coordinates	NY Times article on Galileo Orbital mechanics (from Air Command and Staff College)
8	Earth coordinate systems
10	Lab 2: Acquiring Positions (due� 2/24)	Spreadsheet to Compute Great Circle Distances
15	GPS error sources
17
22	Lab 3: Using the Trimble GeoXT Receiver (due 3/9)	Importing Waypoints into ArcMap
24
29	Midterm review
Mar 2	GPS talk and Demo by Scott Crocoll from DEC	GPS World article on Doppler shifts Tom Clark article on Doppler shift and speed Article by Tom Chalko
7	Midterm exam
9	Life before GPS 1: Celestial navigation	Bowditch, ch. 1
14	NO CLASS
16	NO CLASS
21	Finish up Lab 3 Differential Correction
23	Lab 4: Post Processing with Pathfinder Office (due� 4/6)
28	Life before GPS 2: Ground-based electronic navigation systems	Bowditch, ch. 12
30	Location Based Services
Apr 4	Search and Navigation
6	Looking at Search Algorithms Again
11
13	More on GPS Signals and Data Comm Finding the Navigation Solution	GPS SPS Signal Specification (1995)
18
20	Carrier phase GPS VOR Navigation	Lab 5: Navigation Solution (cancelled)
25	Other GNSS Alternatives to GPS	GLONASS description from Novatel GLONASS overview from Space & Tech Galileo Specifications
27	Life before GPS 3: Using a compass	GNSS velocity estimates
May 2	GPS and Time Synchronization Applications	Why the earth�s rotation is slowing
4	Review
Final Exam	Monday, May 9^th, 10:30am � 12:30pm