2 HN users recommended this course2 months2019–2023score 2.5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN commenters point to it as a thorough, free lecture series for anyone wanting the nitty-gritty of GPS and GNSS.
Course outline for Stanford's online GNSS course, introducing how GPS works and the many uses of satellite navigation. The series pairs short lectures with backyard experiments using smartphones.
“If anyone wants to get into the nitty-gritty details of GPS / GNSS, there's a good series of lectures (course) available from Standford University” (HN, 2022)
Not a podcast, but a Stanford MOOC (massive open online course): [this video] The basic operation of a GNSS with ~30m accuracy is literally explained on one slide in lecture 1.2, and from then on the rest of the course is about implementation specifics, and enhancing performance. The basic concept at its core is so elegant and beautiful, but no less interesting are all the ways this system is augmented with different techniques to improve the accuracy down to ~1cm. This is one of those resources I've downloaded and made sure to have backed up, because it's so invaluable to me.
Stanford GNSS MOOC explaining operation and accuracy improvements
If anyone wants to get into the nitty-gritty details of GPS / GNSS, there's a good series of lectures (course) available from Standford University; playlist: * [this video] Topics include navigation message structure, signal encoding, error budgets, Keplerian parameters, path loss/antenna gain/link budget, plus orbital details of GLONASS/QZSS/BeiDou/Galileo.
Stanford GNSS course covering signals, error budgets and orbits
A Stanford University lecture series that is "only" 65 videos: * [this video] A few of the longest ones are only 26 minutes, and some are less than 10, so it's actually bad as all that.
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