GPS 570 Fundamentals of Satellite Positioning

ITRF and ICRF references frames and transformations, tectonic plate motions, precession, nutation, polar motion, rotational and atomic time scales, GPS time, normal orbits, Kepler's laws and equation, topocentric satellite motions, visibility, perturbation of satellite orbits, solar radiation pressure, impact of asymmetry of gravity field and earth's flattening; GPS, GLONASS and Galileo satellite systems.

Prerequisite: GPS 441