The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a worldwide system of navigation data satellites currently being deployed by the United States for land, sea, air and space-borne users. Currently several development satellites have been launched for system evaluation. Eventually the system will include 18 operational satellites. The GPS system utilizes precision clocks to allow users to measure the one-way propagation delay of navigational signals from the satellites, so that users can infer their position by decoding the navigation signal and observing the delay from several satellites. Landsat-4 is the first spacecraft to carry a GPS navigation system into orbit. This paper describes the Landsat-4 GPS experiment, Landsat-4 requirements for ephemeris data and the in-flight performance of the system.
Landsat-4 on-board ephemeris determination utilizing the Global Positioning System
1983 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS ''83) ; 1983 ; San Francisco, CA
1983-01-01
Conference paper
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English
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