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Most known for GPS products, the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) industry is poised for dramatic growth. Many GNSS business experts are predicting ten-fold growth over the next decade to make GNSS a $300-billion industry. This book provides a detailed, accurate picture of the current GNSS marketplace, offering keen insight into future trends. This comprehensive resource provides complete descriptions of all major market segments, highlighting risks and opportunities for growth. Applications have been driving this industry's expansion, and this book discusses promising new applications for both the commercial and defense sectors. Taking a global perspective on GNSS business, this authoritative volume shows how the industry is being influenced worldwide by systems developed in the U.S., European Union, India, China, and Japan. It also details how government policy is shaping markets in the U.S. and E.U.
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GNSS Markets and Applications
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GNSS Markets and Applications Len Jacobson
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For my wife Sherry, the love of my life, and my two wonderful sons, Robert and Scott “The trouble with our younger writers is that they are all in their sixties.” —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
Contents xiii
Preface 1
Introduction
1
1.1
Perspective
1
1.2
Legacy Systems
2
1.3
Future GNSS
4
1.4
GNSS Business and Markets
4
1.5
Applications of GNSS
6
1.6
GNSS Industry
7
1.7
Organization of the Book
7
1.8
Future Considerations
8
2
A Brief History of Today’s GNSS
9
2.1
Early History of Navigation
9
2.2
Transit, Timation, and 621B
10
2.3
The Global Positioning System
13
2.4
GLONASS
19
2.5
Augmentation Systems
20
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GNSS Markets and Applications
2.5.1
SBAS
23
2.5.2
GBAS References
24 26
3
Future GNSS and SBAS
27
3.1
Overview
27
3.2
GPS Modernization
29
3.3
GLONASS Modernization
32
3.4
Galileo
34
3.5
Beidou and Compass
36
3.6
SBAS: WAAS and EGNOS
38
3.7
MSAS and QZSS
39
3.8
GAGAN and IRNS
39
3.9