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Experimental and Professional Galileo Receivers

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GALILEO Positioning Technology

Part of the book series: Signals and Communication Technology ((SCT,volume 182))

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This chapter provides a review of existing experimental and professional Galileo receivers, related application projects and selected design topics, such as generic tracking channels, fast acquisition algorithms and AltBOC tracking. Although at the time of writing Galileo as a GNSS system is not yet fully deployed, quite a number of Galileo receivers have already been created with the help of Galileo simulators, mainly in the context of European projects, the most significant being the Galileo Test User Receiver project (TUR). Some Galileo receivers have also been developed to test the signals of experimental Galileo satellites GIOVE-A/B.

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Notes

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    Another chapter of this book contains more information on available Galileo software simulators.

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    The first real Galileo position fix obtained with the four-satellite IOV constellation and with the use of the TUR receivers was reported by ESA in April 2013.

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    Another chapter of this book provide more details on the architecture of GMS.

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We are thankful to our colleagues Tom Willems, Wim De Wilde, Frank Boon and Jan Van Hees for discussions and reviewing and to ESA for continuous and dedicated support of Galileo-related activities at Septentrio.

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Simsky, A., Sleewaegen, JM. (2015). Experimental and Professional Galileo Receivers. In: Nurmi, J., Lohan, E., Sand, S., Hurskainen, H. (eds) GALILEO Positioning Technology. Signals and Communication Technology, vol 182. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1830-2_12

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