Acquiring and tracking signals such as legacy GPS L1 C/A can prove challenging under adverse conditions. Increasing the processing gain by 20 dB usually requires long coherent integrations which remain limited by the 50 Hz data bits transmitted. Fortunately, the GPS has been modernized with the addition of a civil signal, namely L2C, on the L2 frequency band. In this book, acquisition and tracking methods making use of both the L1 C/A and L2C signals in a combined manner are developed and tested. Three best-performing acquisition methods are described theoretically and compared. The first...
Acquiring and tracking signals such as legacy GPS L1 C/A can prove challenging under adverse conditions. Increasing the processing gain by 20 dB usual...