1.1 - Course outline
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.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2019 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec lukasgraf · 2023-05 · on “Gis.chat – The Geospatial Community”
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.
Recommends throw0101c · 2022-11 · on “GPS vs. Glonass vs. Galileo”
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.
Cites throw0101a · 2019-12 · on “The origins of GPS, and the pioneers who launched the system (2010)”
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.