The fascination of satellite navigation – what role does it play in everyday life? How does this technology work? What would happen if GPS were switched off? And what is the status of the European Galileo system?
Over the past 20 years, satellite navigation has developed from a purely military technology into an everyday technology that is taken for granted. The spectrum ranges from navigation devices in cars, smartphones and small receivers for outdoor sports enthusiasts to high-precision special devices for land surveying.
The author explains the principle behind this technology, which is very simple but requires the most advanced methods of communications and electrical engineering, geography and physics to implement.
The second edition focuses more on the European Galileo system and describes its current state of development.
Table of contents:
- Basic principles of satellite navigation
- The first satellite positioning system: Transit
- NAVSTAR GPS
- GLONASS
- Galileo
- Applications of satellite navigation
The author Tobias Schüttler has been promoting young talent at DLR_School_Lab, the student laboratory of the German Aerospace Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, since 2003. Until 2015, he taught mathematics and physics at a secondary school and is currently a research assistant at LMU Munich.
