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GIOVE Satellites Pseudorange Error Assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2011

Antonio Angrisano
Affiliation:
(Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy)
Salvatore Gaglione
Affiliation:
(Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy)
Ciro Gioia
Affiliation:
(Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy)
Umberto Robustelli
Affiliation:
(Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy)
Mario Vultaggio*
Affiliation:
(Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy)
*

Abstract

Galileo is a global civil navigation satellite system developed in Europe as an alternative to the GPS controlled by the US Department of Defense and GLONASS controlled by Russian Space Forces. It is scheduled to be operative in 2013 and it will have 30 satellites orbiting on three inclined planes with respect to the equatorial plane at an altitude of about 24 000 km. The aim of this work is the study of the pseudorange error of the GIOVE satellites. To achieve this goal, the specifications defined in Giove A-B Navigation Signal in Space Interface Control Document (ICD) are used to develop a suitable software tool in MATLAB® environment. The tool is able to compute GIOVE A and GIOVE B position from the broadcast ephemerides, to calculate the pseudorange error and to process it. From the known receiver position and the computed satellite coordinates, the geometric range is obtained and compared with the pseudorange measurement, in order to obtain the pseudorange error.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 2011

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