Flight Trials of a Geostationary Satellite Based Augmentation System at High Latitudes and for Dual Satellite Coverage

Jan 27, 1999


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Table of Contents

Flight Trials of a Geostationary Satellite Based Augmentation System at High Latitudes and for Dual Satellite Coverage

Introduction

Flight Test System

Cabin Layout

Flight Test Aircraft

Visual Reference System

System Issues

Local-Area DGPS System

Static Verification (Zero-Baseline)

Static Verification (Zero-Baseline)

Dual-GEO Message Loss vs SNR

Dual-GEO Message Loss vs Elevation

Sensitivity to Receiver Noise Modeling

Flight Test Results-Sitka Alaska

Flight Test Results-Sitka Alaska

Flight Performance 1 Out of 2 GEOs

Flight Performance Dual GEOs

Two Distinct Systems

Flight Test Comparison

Results and Conclusions

Acknowledgements

 Authors: R Fuller, T Walter, S Houck, P Enge

Email: rfuller@stanford.edu

Home Page: http://waas.stanford.edu/~wwu/rfuller