GNSS for Rail Transportation Challenges and Opportunities /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lo Presti, Letizia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sabina, Salvatore (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: PoliTO Springer Series,
• Subjects: Signal processing.; Image processing.; Speech processing systems.; Transportation engineering.; Traffic engineering.; Geographical information systems.; Special purpose computers.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.

This book proposes a general methodology to introduce Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) integrity, starting from a rigorous mathematical description of the problem. It highlights the major issues that designers need to resolve during the development of GNSS-based systems requiring a certain...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and book objectives
• Review of common navigation algorithms and measurements errors
• Fundamentals of integrity monitoring
• Fundamentals of integrity monitoring
• Methods for protection level evaluation with augmented-data
• The rail environment: a Challenge for GNSS
• A New Perspective for GNSS Based Safe Train Position.