Abstract
The global positioning system (GPS) was developed by the US Department of Defense in the early 1970s to serve military navigational requirements. The first satellite was launched in 1978 and the system was declared operational in 1995. It is based on a network of at least 24 satellites (with room for six further satellites) orbiting the Earth in nearly circular orbits with a mean radius of about 26,560 km.
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Selective availability was an intentional degradation in the GPS signal by the US Department of Defense to limit the positional accuracy to 100 m for civilian users.
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Tropospheric correction does not depend upon the ephemeris supplied data, but it is discussed in this subsection for the sake of continuity and completeness.
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There are two points of intersection, but the other point is remote and can easily be isolated and discarded.
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Noureldin, ., Karamat, T.B., Georgy, J. (2013). Global Positioning System . In: Fundamentals of Inertial Navigation, Satellite-based Positioning and their Integration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30466-8_3
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