CompuServe Thread

GPS Error

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#160666From: Robert NaylorDec 29, 1994 6:19 AM
<<. The differential GPS system also tells the user when a satellite is broadcasting bad data. It can be up to several hours before a satellite can be "turned off", thus causing positional errors to unknowing users for that time>> This is not directly the case. The corrected pseudorange for the "bad satellite" broadcast from the differential reference station(s) would compensate for the error. The DGPS technique assumes that range errors for each satellite at the reference and remote sites will be very similar. Thus, SA and some types of ranging error can be compensated by use of DGPS. In practice, the best solution is to use an "all in view" position computation, and check the results of the fix using statistical testing ( F-Test and W-Test). Of course, cheap receivers may not be able to do this! Rob