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1.1 - Course outline

1.1 - Course outline on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2019–2023.

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Course outline for Stanford's online GNSS course, introducing how GPS works and the many uses of satellite navigation. The series pairs short lectures with backyard experiments using smartphones.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters point to it as a thorough, free lecture series for anyone wanting the nitty-gritty of GPS and GNSS.

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2019–2023
“If anyone wants to get into the nitty-gritty details of GPS / GNSS, there's a good series of lectures (course) available from Standford University”
— throw0101c, Nov 2022, in “GPS vs. Glonass vs. Galileo”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

lukasgrafMay 2023Strongly recommends

Not a podcast, but a Stanford MOOC (massive open online course): ▶ this video The basic operation of a GNSS with ~30m accuracy is literally explained on one slide in lecture 1.2, and from then on the rest of the course is about implementation specifics, and enhancing performance. The basic concept at its core is so elegant and beautiful, but no less interesting are all the ways this system is augmented with different techniques to improve the accuracy down to ~1cm. This is one of those resources I've downloaded and made sure to have backed up, because it's so invaluable to me.

in “Gis.chat – The Geospatial Community” · View on HN

throw0101cNov 2022Recommends

If anyone wants to get into the nitty-gritty details of GPS / GNSS, there's a good series of lectures (course) available from Standford University; playlist: * ▶ this video Topics include navigation message structure, signal encoding, error budgets, Keplerian parameters, path loss/antenna gain/link budget, plus orbital details of GLONASS/QZSS/BeiDou/Galileo.

in “GPS vs. Glonass vs. Galileo” · View on HN

throw0101aDec 2019Cites it

A Stanford University lecture series that is "only" 65 videos: * ▶ this video A few of the longest ones are only 26 minutes, and some are less than 10, so it's actually bad as all that.

in “The origins of GPS, and the pioneers who launched the system (2010)” · View on HN

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University lectures & coursesSpace exploration & spaceflightInformation theory & signal processinggpsgnssstanfordsatellite navigationmooc