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GPS For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

Joel McNamara

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Need directions? Are you good at getting lost? Then GPS is just the technology you’ve dreamed of, and GPS For Dummies is what you need to help you make the most of it.

If you have a GPS unit or plan to buy one, GPS For Dummies, 2^nd Edition helps you compare GPS technologies, units, and uses. You’ll find out how to create and use digital maps and learn about waypoints, tracks, coordinate systems, and other key point to using GPS technology.

Get more from your GPS device by learning to use Web-hosted mapping services and even how to turn your cell phone or PDA into a GPS receiver. You’ll also discover:

• Up-to-date information on the capabilities of popular handheld and automotive Global Positioning Systems
• How to read a map and how to get more from the free maps available online
• The capabilities and limitations of GPS technology, and how satellites and radio systems make GPS work
• How to interface your GPS receiver with your computer and what digital mapping software can offer
• Why a cell phone with GPS capability isn’t the same as a GPS unit
• What can affect your GPS reading and how accurate it will be
• How to use Street Atlas USA, TopoFusion, Google Earth, and other tools
• Fun things to do with GPS, such as exploring topographical maps, aerial imagery, and the sport of geocaching

Most GPS receivers do much more than their owners realize. With GPS For Dummies, 2^nd Edition in hand, you’ll venture forth with confidence!

The Weekend Navigator

Robert J. Sweet

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Just Buy The Weekend Navigtor 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

When this book was published I gave it a quick look in our library and bought it. I use it in an Electronic Navigation class I teach at a local ASA Sailing School. It is the best in its field, very understandable, gorgeous illustrations and it is one of the best manuals for Maptech Chart Navigator which they provide free on the accompanying CD.
There is nothing close to this book.

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Can piloting a boat really be this easy?

Traditional navigation with its chart plotting, compass errors, and current vectors requires years to master. Serious boaters learn it eventually, but with $100 GPS receivers offering 50-foot position accuracy anywhere in the world, it’s no longer necessary to master the art before enjoying the sport. The Weekend Navigator is the first book to recognize that affordable, simple-to-use electronics demand a radically new approach to teaching navigation. Bob Sweet lets you find your way on the water immediately, learning by rather than before doing.

This innovative guide’s quick-reference format shows you how to:

• Pinpoint locations at all times
• Determine the precise ranges and bearings of destinations
• Compensate for wind and current effects
• Avoid underwater hazards

GSM Switching, Services, and Protocols

Joerg Eberspaecher, Hans-Joerg Voegel, Christian Bettstetter

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Since the publication of the first edition the number of GSM subscribers has exploeded and it is now deployed in more than 140 countries worldwide. Revised and updated GSM Switching, Services and Protocols now features the abundant new services and applications that GSM can provide. By focusing on the fundamentals of the mobile radio systems, it provides an excellent introductory insight to the whole area of GSM cellular radio. By providing an easy-to-follow instructive text, this second edition will have insight appeal to telecommunication engineers, researchers, adn developers. The highly graphical approach and numerous illustrations will also make it an indispensable reference for senior undergraduates and postgraduates in electrical and computer engineering.

- Details the GSM phase 2+ services, including new data and speech services and service platforms, such as AMR, ASCI. CAMEL and EFR
- Features a brand new chapter on General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
- Contains a completly revised and expanded chapter 'GSM - The story goes on'
- Presents new sections on Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and the migration to UMTS
- Includes expaned and updated chapters on Logical Channels and Channel Coding

GPS for Mariners

Robert J. Sweet

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The manual you wish had come with your GPS receiver. "GPS for Mariners" summarizes essential global positioning system concepts, explains the buttons, screens, and menus of your GPS receiver, and answers all your questions. Filled with helpful illustrations and hands-on examples, this complete and practical guide shows you how to: become an informed GPS buyer and user; connect GPS to your computer, autopilot, and radar; navigate with GPS using waypoints and routes; use an electronic chartplotter or navigation software to plan and monitor your course; utilize the many functions in your GPS to safely and enjoyably reach your destination whether under sail or power; enhance your receiver's performance with WAAS, DGPS, and proper antenna placement; master advanced techniques.'A must-buy for both experienced and novice boaters who want to get the most from their GPS navigation systems' - Kenneth J. Cirillo, vice president, C-Map/USA. 'Great book! "GPS for Mariners" shows boaters how to use GPS with charts and even how to use digital charts for planning and navigating with your GPS' - Edward D. Markham, president, Maptech Inc. 'A must-read for anyone planning to navigate with GPS' - Robert P.David, past president, National Boating Federation, former national education officer, U.S. Power Squadrons.

Complete Earth

Douglas Palmer

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Combining the data from 18 of the most advanced Earth satellites ever built, NASA has constructed the most detailed global portrait of our planet ever created. "The Complete Earth" reproduces this photomap in its entirety and at full-resolution, living up to its title by revealing the whole planet, cloud-free, at a resolution of 500m to every pixel, or 90 miles to every inch. At this scale we can trace the Amazon from Andean headwaters to Atlantic mouth, or explore the trackless sand seas of the Sahara, or follow the corrugated ridges of hills and mountains that mark the front line of India's tectonic assault on Eurasia as if we were in low-Earth orbit. These images are supplemented by a wealth of even higher resolution satellite imagery that zooms in on noteworthy features - from volcanoes to cities, river deltas to glaciers. In addition, 12 double-page-spreads chart one year in the life of our planet as they follow the ebb and flow of the seasons across the globe: we watch snow fall in the North as it melts in the South, and desert lands bloom and fade as the rains come and go. Accompanying the images, a brief but informative text explores the history of each landscape, explaining the how and when of its mountain ranges, deserts and plains.

Communication Satellites, Fourth Edition

Donald H. Martin

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Communication Satellites, 4th edition, chronicles the worldwide development of communication satellites over a period of more than four decades. Descriptive text and tabular data are presented for experimental and operational satellites of communications and broadcasting systems of both individual nations and international organizations. Descriptions are strengthened by drawings of satellites, communication subsystem block diagrams, and coverage maps. The book includes extensive references and a supplemental bibliography.

The Global Positioning System & Inertial Navigation

Jay A. Farrell

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With GPS and INS hardware becoming ever smaller and less expensive, innovative opportunities for commercial navigation systems are everywhereÑand continue to arise. Integrated GPS/INS systems have some real advantages, in terms of output rate, reliability, and accuracy. The Global Positioning System and Inertial Navigation is the first-ever reference to provide engineers and scientists with a detailed, top-to-bottom look at GPS and INS in a single volume.

This in-depth text provides navigation system designers comprehensive and accurate coverage of such topics as coordinate frames and transformations, Kalman filtering techniques, navigation system performance analysis, GPS receiver ephemeris and pseudo-range processing, differential GPS, carrier phase processing, and attitude determination. Extensively cross-referenced to the literature on advanced navigation system design, this superb engineering reference is ideal for navigation systems designers, analysts, and project managers.

Principles of Communications Satellites

Gary D. Gordon, Walter L. Morgan

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This is simply a classic text 5 out of 5 stars.
15 of 15 people found this review helpful.

I hesitated a bit before purchasing this book because of the price and my relative inexperience in this field. It is indeed a classic textbook because it begins every topic with a clear explanation of the underlying theory and its importance in understanding satellite communications. The authors have also provided chapter-end exercises to reinforce the key points. Though my college degree is in Chemistry and never had any class in engineering or computer science, the concepts are well understood. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a good theoretical knowledge of satellite communication technology

Editorial Review:

Explains the reasons, limitations and trade-offs inherent to communications satellites. The first half deals with link power budgets as well as communications hardware and examples of complete link budgets. Spacecraft technology and a description of the objectives and basic operating methods of each of the major supporting subsystems are covered in the last half. Contains end-of-chapter exercises and solutions.

An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.

Understanding the Navstar: GPS, GIS, IVHS (Electrical Engineering)

Tom Logsdon

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The Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) is being financed by military dollars, but the precise navigation signals it broadcasts are available free of charge to anyone, anywhere. Over the next ten years sponsors of Navstar navigation will be investing an estimated

ITU Handbook on Satellite Communications

International Telecommunications Union, International Telecommunications Union

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An essential overview of satellite communications from the organization that sets the international standards

Since their introduction in the mid-1960s, satellite communications have grown from a futuristic experiment into an integral part of today's "wired world." Satellite communications are at the core of a global, automatically switched telephony network. Assembled by the International Telecommunication Union--the international organization that sets the standards for this rapidly growing industry--the Handbook on Satellite Communications, Third Edition brings together basic facts about satellite communications as related to the fixed-satellite service (FSS). It covers the main principles, technologies, and operation of equipment in a tutorial form.

Updated to include the latest technologies and information, the Third Edition provides both the standards and technical information needed to implement and interact with satellite communication systems, including:

* The components and basic characteristics of a satellite communication system

* Regulatory considerations and system planning

* SDH and ATM satellite transmissions

* Analog and digital baseband signal processing and multiplexing

* Carrier modulation techniques

* Geostationary and non-geostationary systems

* Interconnection of satellite and terrestrial networks

* LEOS satellite networks and other recent developments

As digital modulation and transmission replace analog techniques, and as satellites in non-geostationary and lower-altitude orbits open the way to new applications, satellite communications will continue to grow in use and importance. Everyone involved in the administration and operation of satellite communications will find this a crucial resource.