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Understanding Satellite Navigation
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Understanding Satellite Navigation

by Rajat Acharya
August 2014
Beginner
384 pages
13h 11m
English
Academic Press
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Chapter 5

Navigation Receiver

Abstract

Chapter 5 provides technical details about the receiver in terms of its functional modules. This chapter starts with the generic receiver structure and its different classifications. It also gives details about different important prerequisite topics such as noise and some basics of signal processing, which are the bare minimum need for this chapter. Different functional units of the receiver are featured, with the finer points of their functionalities. It presents details about the front end, the correlator, and the processor. The Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) and Digital to Analog (DA) conversion are elaborated on in the process. The correlator activities of acquisition and tracking and their different options ...

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