Understanding Satellite Navigation
- 2nd Edition - December 1, 2025
- Latest edition
- Author: Rajat Acharya
- Language: English
Understanding Satellite Navigation, Second Edition explains the basic principles of satellite navigation technology with the bare minimum of mathematics and without complex equati… Read more
Understanding Satellite Navigation, Second Edition explains the basic principles of satellite navigation technology with the bare minimum of mathematics and without complex equations. It helps you to conceptualize the underlying theory from first principles, building up your knowledge gradually using practical demonstrations and worked examples. A full range of MATLAB simulations is used to visualize concepts and solve problems, allowing you to see what happens to signals and systems with different configurations. Implementation and applications are discussed, along with some special topics such as Space Weather, Kalman Filter and Ionosphere.
- Lucidly Explains the fundamentals of satellite navigation systems, using MATLAB as a visualization and problem-solving tool
- Worked out numerical problems are provided to aid practical understanding
- On-line support provides MATLAB scripts for simulation exercises and MATLAB based solutions, standard algorithms, and PowerPoint slides
Professional engineers working in satellite communications and satellite navigation, Graduate students taking a course in satellite navigation.
1. Introduction to Navigation
2. Satellite Navigation
3. Satellites in Orbit
4. Navigation Signals
5. Navigation Receivers
6. Navigation Solutions
7. Differential Positioning and Augmentation
8. Special Topics
9. Reliability and Security of GNSS
10. Applications and Services
Appendix 1. Satellite Navigational Systems
2. Satellite Navigation
3. Satellites in Orbit
4. Navigation Signals
5. Navigation Receivers
6. Navigation Solutions
7. Differential Positioning and Augmentation
8. Special Topics
9. Reliability and Security of GNSS
10. Applications and Services
Appendix 1. Satellite Navigational Systems
- Edition: 2
- Latest edition
- Published: December 1, 2025
- Language: English
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Rajat Acharya
Dr. Rajat Acharya works as a Scientist at the Space Applications Centre, a unit of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He is involved with the Indian Satellite Navigation program of GAGAN and IRNSS for more than a decade with pertinent contributions in ionospheric modelling. He is also a Faculty member at the Centre for Space Science and Technology Education – Asia Pacific, where he teaches on the M.Tech course on Satellite Communications and Satellite Navigation. He serves as a visiting Professor at Gujurat University, teaching on the PG Diploma course on Geo-informatics and Satellite Communications. He was also a member of the working group on models and algorithms from ISRO in the second meeting of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite System (ICG).
Affiliations and expertise
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India