About the Book
GLONASS is a radio-based satellite navigation system operated for the Russian government by the Russian Space Forces. It is an alternative and complement to the United States' Global Positioning System (GPS), the Chinese Compass navigation system, and the planned Galileo positioning system of the European Union (EU) and Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System of India.Development on the GLONASS began in the Soviet Union in 1976. Beginning on 12 October 1982, numerous rocket launches added satellites to the system until the constellation was completed in 1995. Following completion, the system fell into disrepair with the collapse of the Russian economy. In the early 2000s, under Vladimir Putin's presidency, the restoration of the system was made a top government priority and funding was substantially increased. GLONASS is currently the most expensive program of the Russian Federal Space Agency, consuming a third of its budget in 2010.
By 2010, GLONASS had achieved 100% coverage of Russia's territory. As of February 2011, the constellation consists of 22 operational satellites, short of the 24 satellites needed to provide continuous global coverage, and is expected to be completed during 2011. The GLONASS satellites designs have undergone several upgrades, with the latest version being GLONASS-K.
This book is your ultimate resource for GLONASS. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.
In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about GLONASS right away, covering: GLONASS, GLONASS-K, History of GLONASS, Advanced driver assistance systems, Assisted GPS, Automatic vehicle location, Automotive navigation system, Baynavtech, Beidou navigation system, Compass navigation system, Enhanced GPS, Error analysis for the Global Positioning System, European Satellite Navigation Competition, European Satellite Navigation Industries, European Satellite Services Provider, Galileo (satellite navigation), Geographic Data Files, GIOVE, GIOVE Mission, Global Positioning System, Glospace SGK-70, GNSS applications, GNSS augmentation, GNSS positioning calculation, GNSS reflectometry, Go!Explore, GPS augmentation, GPS Block IIF, GPS for the visually impaired, Hybrid positioning system, IGO (software), Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System, Joint precision airdrop system, Joint Precision Approach and Landing System, Local Area Augmentation System, Magellan Navigation, Multi-functional Satellite Augmentation System, NavTool, NAVV, NEYRPIC ACS 450, OziExplorer, Point of interest, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System, Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring, Roboty, S-GPS, Satellite navigation, Spanner (Garmin program), Timation, Transit (satellite), Tsiklon (satellite), Turn-by-turn navigation, United States v. Pineda Moreno, Vehicle tracking system, VIrtual Reference Station, Wialon, X-ray pulsar-based navigation.
This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of GLONASS. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of GLONASS with the objectivity of experienced professionals.
