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Analysis of Stand-alone Differential GPS for Precision Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

Ronald Braff  and
Robert Loh
Ronald Braff
Affiliation:
(The MITRE Corporation)
Robert Loh
Affiliation:
(Federal Aviation Administration)
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Abstract

Recently, there has been wide-spread interest in the use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for precision approaches in a civil aviation environment. However, most of the work to date in Europe and North America has treated a GPS/inertial reference system (IRS) combination as the source of guidance for this phase of flight. Since the US has a very large general aviation population, the FAA is very interested in determining the role of a stand-alone implementation of differential GPS (DGPS) as a navigation sensor for precision approaches. This paper has two parts: a summary of the analysis of this application of DGPS; and a discussion of the navigation satellite test bed that is under development at the FAA's Technical Center.

The first part contains proposed accuracy, integrity and availability operational requirements, and their air traffic implications. A stand-alone DGPS concept is developed, and analysed. The major results of the analysis indicate that stand-alone DGPS may not fully meet Category I (CAT I) accuracy requirements. The results of the analysis are then used to provide the rationale for the major recommendation: that FAA pursue an implementation of a wide-area DGPS (WADGPS) to achieve a Near CAT I precision approach capability. The second part of the paper discusses the three-phase navigation satellite experimental programme that is being developed to acquire the data to validate the enhancements to GPS, including a GPS Integrity Channel (GIC) and WADGPS. The objectives of each of the experimental phases are presented and discussed. Then the experiments of Phase I that address GIC/WADGPS are discussed.

Keywords

1. Satellite navigation2. Precision approach3. Terminal area navigation
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , May 1992 , pp. 217 - 228
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1992

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