[time-nuts] Stanford University online GPS course

[Alexander Sack]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 2:33 PM Peter Vince <petervince1952 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've just been told about an online undergraduate course on the GPS system
> done by Stanford University.  I don't remember reading about it on here,
> and a quick check of the archives drew a blank.  The course is completely
> free, and on YouTube at:
>
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Fyn_h6LKU&list=PLGvhNIiu1ubyEOJga50LJMzVXtbUq6CPo&index=1
>
> Turns out it was made in 2014, and the website mentioned is no longer
> available.  However, the course does look very interesting.  It is split
> into six sections, and the intention seems to have been for students to do
> these one a week.  Each section is split into ten videos of about ten to
> twenty minutes each, so it comes in bite-sized chunks.  I've just watched
> the first section, and it was very gentle and understandable - largely
> because it was covering material I already knew.  There is the promise of
> some heavy mathematics later on, so we'll have to see.
>
> So if you are running out of things to do in self-isolation on a rainy
> afternoon, you might care to give this a look - it may well help with our
> understanding!
>

This is indeed a fantastic course. The professor's explanation of the
pseudorange, the estimanda, and how to linearize them are absolutely must
see TV!

I found his textbook a bit lacking though (there are better texts).

-aps