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Educational Material

Available education, including GNSS and its applications, and Space Weather

• Education Curriculum on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), ST/SPACE/59
• UN-affiliated regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education
• NAVKIT education tool: http://www.navsas.eu/
• EMBRACE (Estudo e Monitoramento Brazileiro Do Clima Espacial), Brazil: http://www2.inpe.br/climaespacial/portal/category/public/
• The SOHO/LASCO CME CATALOGUE: https://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/CME_list/index.html
• • This catalogue contains all CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejections) manually identified since 1996. It is web-based and fully searchable with plots, movies and measured parameters of CMEs. Details: https://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/CME_list/catalog_description.htm
• GPS-based STEM Curriculum: https://www.gps.gov/students/
• Ancient Chinese Navigation Technology
• Course on Time Transfer Through GNSS Pseudorange Measurements (BIPM)

• • The course aims to provide knowledge and processing capacity on time transfer through GNSS pseudorange measurements. It includes a tutorial and interactive open-source software with a dedicated user manual and video demonstration.

GNSS Online Lectures and Webinar

Website (External Link): http://www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~dinesh/WEBINAR.htm

GNSS Training Materials: http://www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~dinesh/

NAVIPEDIA: European Space Agency - "The Reference for Global Navigation Satellite Systems"

Website (External Link): http://www.navipedia.net/

MEDUSA - MEDiterranean follow-Up for EGNOS Adoption

The MEDUSA project is part of the Euromed GNSS II project, funded by the European Commission in the frame of the Euromed Transport prohramme, whose objective is to extended/exploit the use of EGNOS in the Euromed countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia). MEDUSA aids the Euromed countries towards the operational introduction and the exploitation of the European GNSS (EGNOS/Galileo) in various applications, mainly in the transport sectors. Led by Telespazio (Italy) and supported by a team of EU experts, MEDUSA runs a programme of technical assistance actions, aimed at capacity building, development of enablers and regional cooperation. Contact MEDUSA at gemco.medusa@outlook.com

Open Source Softwares related to GNSS

• RTKLib - GNSS differential processing including real-time and post-processed solutions: http://www.rtklib.com
• gLAB - Research Group of Astronomy and GEomatics, gAGE: https://gage.upc.edu/en/learning-materials/software-tools/glab
• GNSS Internet Radio - Open Source NTRIP software: http://igs.bkg.bund.de/ntrip/download
• QGIS - Open Source GIS software: http://www.qgis.org
• DraftSight - Open Source CAD package: http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/overview
• NeQuick Model: http://t-ict4d.ictp.it/nequick2

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

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

Education and Public Outreach

• Global Positioning System, Serving the World: http://www.gps.gov/

Relevant standard text books on GNSS and its applications

• GNSS Data Processing Book: http://www.gage.upc.edu/gnss_book
• • Volume I: Fundamentals and Algorithms
  • Volume II: Laboratory Exercises
• Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Klaus Legat, Manfred Wieser: Navigation - Principles of Positioning and Guidance. Springer, Wien New York 2003 [ Book Summary]
• Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Herbert Lichtenegger, James Collins: Global Positioning System (Theory and Practice), Springer, Wien, New York, Fifth, revised edition, 2001 [ Book Summary]
• Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Herbert Lichtenegger, Elmar Wasle: GNSS- Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GPS, Glonass, Galileo and more), Springer, Wien, New York, 2008
• Frank Van Diggelen, A-GPS, Assisted GPS, GNSS, and SBASArtech House, Boston, London, 2009
• Werner Mansfeld, Satellitenortung und Navigation (Grundlagen,Wirkungsweise und Anwendung globaler Satellitennavigationssysteme), 3. Auflage, Praxis, Vieweg+Teubner, Berlin, 2010
• Shumway, R H, D S Stoffer, Time Series Analysis and Its Applications (with R examples) (3rd ed). Springer Verlag. New York, NY, 2011
• J-M. Zogg, GPS: Essentials of navigation (Compedium). u-blox AG. Thalwill, Switzerland, 2010
• W. Zucchini and O Nenadić, Time Series Analysis with R - Part I. University of Goettingen, Germany, 2011. Availbale at: http://bit.ly/HsiVH

Relevant educational materials

• GNSS Tutorials: http://www.gage.upc.edu/tutorials
• Sumatran Plate Boundary Project: http://www.tectonics.caltech.edu/sumatra/public.html
• The NSTA Learning Center: http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/stlouis07/GPS/symposium.aspx
• RAND Corporation: http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR614/
• RAND Corporation, Global Positioning System, Market Projections and Trends in the Newest Global Information Utility: http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP740/
• United States Power Squadrons: Educational Department: http://www.usps.org/e_stuff/Basic.html
• Schools in the Atmosheric, Oceanic, Hydrologic and Related Sciences: http://www.ametsoc.org/amsucar_curricula/appendices_ucar_uop.cfm
• GPS Educational Resources: http://www.maps-gps-info.com/ed-resources.html
• International GNSS Service (IGS, formerly the International GPS Service): http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/
• European Position Determination System (EUPOS): http://bit.ly/hPxPLa
• Space Physics Interactive Data Resource (NOAA): http://bit.ly/fOA26E
• The R project for statistical computing and graphics (free software, manuals and tutorials): http://www.r-project.org/
• GPStk (GPS Toolkit, University of Texas in Austin): http://bit.ly/JMGpy
• The Toolkit for GPS/GLONASS/Galileo/SBAS Data, Unavco Facility: http://bit.ly/hxDeGn

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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