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GNSS Systems and Engineering

The Chinese Beidou Navigation and Position Location Satellite

 

Shusen Tan

Beijing Satellite Navigation Center, Beijing, China

 

 

 

 

 

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Preface

The contemporary satellite navigation system has become an important infrastructure in the main developed countries. The US Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), established in the middle 1990s, are not only important military equipment but also widely used in the fields of global navigation and positioning, high precision time transfer, spacecraft tracking telemetry and control, and so on. The European Union started building the Galileo Satellite Navigation System at the end of the twentieth century. China has started building the China Compass Navigation Satellite System since the mid-1990s. The Compass Satellite Navigation and Positioning Reporting System was successfully built on December 27, 2012, realizing the service capability in Asia-Pacific Region. The author, starting from the Compass Satellite Navigation and Positioning Reporting System and engineering practice and taking the Radio Determination Satellite System (RDSS) and Radio Navigation Satellite Service (RNSS) as the important content, wrote GNSS Systems and Engineering: The China Compass Navigation and Position Location Satellite.

This book consists of three parts, 15 chapters in total. The first part includes four chapters introducing the theory and engineering design of Radio Determination Satellite Service (RDSS) mainly including basic concepts, fundamental principle, engineering design, user equipment technology, and so on. Chapter 5, Theory and Engineering Design of Navigation and Determination Satellite Service, serves as a link between the previous and following chapters introducing the theory and design of Radio Navigation and Determination Satellite Service integrating RDSS and RNSS. The third part includes the next nine chapters that introduce the theory and engineering design of Radio Navigation Satellite Service (RNSS), mainly including basic concepts, fundamental principle, engineering design, application examples, user equipment testing, and so on.

During writing and compiling of this book, departments at all different levels and relevant experts provided care and support. I would like to thank Xu Qifeng and Xie Youcai for their valuable revision comments; Wang Gang, researcher, for providing the analog computation result of the relative motion features of the static-state user; and to thank the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) for providing the GLONASS document. I express my sincere thanks to Dr. Chen Xiangdong, Senior Engineer Zhao Wenjun, Zhang Aiyong, Mo Zhongqiu, Qu Wenke, Shen Fei, Yang Hua, Wei Gang, Li Yanyan, Jiao Cheng, Zhu Weigang, Zhao Jing, Hou Li, Yan Jianhua, Luo Keke; they made great effort in manuscript preparation, printing, and illustration preparation. At the same time, I express special thanks to Dr. Chen Xiangdong, Dr. Li Lin, Dr. He Feng, Dr. Sun Li, Dr. Ma Min, Dr. Li Min, Dr. Hu Caibo, Dr. Hu Zhirui, Dr. Tang Bin, Dr. Yang Huafeng, Tang Yun, Wang Sen, Shi Xin, Wang Chuhan, Zhang Linfeng, Zhang Hui, Dou Changjiang, Sha Hai, Dr. Wang Dongxia, Xin Jie, and Li Yanjie, for their great effort in translating the book.