United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Education Resources

Available education, including GNSS and its applications

• UN-affiliated regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education: www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/SAP/centres /index.html
• United Nations/Italy Long-term Fellowship Programme On GNSS and Related Applications, Master in Navigation and Related Applications (MNA): www.unoosa.org/oosa/SAP/gnss/fellowships.html
• Galileo Information Center for Latin America: http://www.galileoic.org/la/?q=node/84
• Asian Institute of Technology, Geoinformatics Centre: http://www.geoinfo.ait.ac.th/gps/index.html
• NAVKIT education tool: http://www.navsas.eu/
• Research group of Astronomy and GEomatics (gAGE), Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain:  http://www.gage.es/TEACHING_MATERIAL
• ESA International Summer School on Global Navigation Satellite Systems: http://www.esa.int/esaNA/SEMQWXQVEAG_index_0.html

Public Outreach by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) as the ICG Executive Secretariat

• The International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems: A system of systems
  Yearbook and Directory of Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors 2010

Education and Public Outreach

• Global Positioning System, Serving the World: http://www.gps.gov/
• GPS Applications Exchange: http://gpshome.ssc.nasa.gov/default.aspx

Internet Courses on Global Navigation Satellite Systems:

• University of Maine, USA: http://www.gnss.umaine.edu

Relevant standard text books on GNSS and its applications

1. M.S. Grewal, L.R. Weill, A.P. Andrews: Global Positioning Systems, Inertial Navigation, and Integration, Wiley-Interscience, 2000, ISBN: 047135032X

2. J.A. Farrell: The Global Positioning System and Inertial Navigation, McGraw-Hill Professional, 1998, ISBN: 007022045X

3. A.A.L. Andrade: The Global Navigation Satellite System: Navigating into the New Millennium (Ashgate Studies in Aviation Economics and Management), Ashgate Pub Ltd, 2001, ISBN: 0754618250

4. J. A. Farrell: Aided Navigation: GPS with High Rate Sensors, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.

5. L. Letham: GPS Made Easy, Mountaineers Books

6. R. I. Egbert: The GPS Handbook, Revised and Updated Edition: A Guide for the Outdoors, Burford Books

7. L. T. Rinehart: The Captain's Guide to the Wrecks and Reefs of Florida's East and West Coast, the Keys & the Bahamas: Over 1000 GPS and Loran Coordinates for Fisherman, Boa, Hatherleigh Press

8. W. Sarasua and J. C. McCormac: Geomatics, Wiley & Sons

9. L. Harte and B. Levitan: GPS Quick Course: Technology, Systems and Operation, Althos

10. S. W. Hinch: Outdoor Navigation with GPS, Wilderness Press

11. F. K. Brunner: Advances in Positioning and Reference Frames: Iag Scientific Assembly, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, September 3-9, 1997 (International Association of Geodesy Symposia), Springer-Verlag GmbH

12. J. Karl: Celestial Navigation in the GPS Age, Paradise Cay Publications

13. Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Klaus Legat, Manfred Wieser: Navigation - Principles of Positioning and Guidance. Springer, Wien New York 2003 [ Book Summary]

14. Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Herbert Lichtenegger, Elmar Wasle: GNSS - Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and more), Springer, Wien, New York, 2008

15. Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Herbert Lichtenegger, James Collins: Global Positioning System (Theory and Practice), Springer, Wien, New York, Fifth, revised edition, 2001 [ Book Summary]

16. Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Herbert Lichtenegger, Elmar Wasle: GNSS- Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GPS, Glonass, Galileo and more), Springer, Wien, New York, 2008

17. Principles of Positioning and Guidance. Springer, Wien New York, 2003

18. Frank Van Diggelen, A-GPS, Assisted GPS, GNSS, and SBASArtech House, Boston, London, 2009

19. Werner Mansfeld, Satellitenortung und Navigation (Grundlagen,Wirkungsweise und Anwendung globaler Satellitennavigationssysteme), 3. Auflage, Praxis, Vieweg+Teubner, Berlin, 2010

Relevant educational materials

• http://www.tectonics.caltech.edu/sumatra/public.html
• http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1114-google_earth-act.html
• http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/stlouis07/GPS/symposium.aspx
• http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR614/
• http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP740/
• http://www.usps.org/e_stuff/Basic.html
• http://www.ametsoc.org/amsucar_curricula/appendices_ucar_uop.cfm
• http://www.ion.org/satdiv/education.cfm
• http://www.maps-gps-info.com/ed-resources.html
• http://www.globe.gov/tctg/tgchapter.jsp?sectionId=41

Journals on Global Navigation Satellite Systems available on the web

• InsideGNSS (Engineering Solutions for the Global Navigation Satellite System Community): http://www.insidegnss.com
• Coordinates (Positioning, Navigation and Beyond): http://www.mycoordinates.org
• GPS World (The Business and Technology of Global Navigation and Positioning): http://www.gpsworld.com
• Mobile Communications (in Russian only): http://www.mobilecomm.ru
  
  

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