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- From: gsulliva@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Glenn A Sullivan)
- Subject: Re: GPS questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.035354.10587@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
- Summary: What is the necessary length of GPS correlator
- Keywords: GPS
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- Organization: Arizona State University
- References: <greg.714049408@coombs> <1992Aug19.135140.5815@esseye.si.com>
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:53:54 GMT
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- >arkusins@esseye.si.com (Andy Arkusinski) writes:
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- > Each GPS satellite transmits a course acquisition (C/A) code that is unique
- > to the satellite. This code is a pseudorandom noise (PN) code that repeats
- > every millisecond. PN codes have the attribute that the mathematical
- > cross-correlation function between two PN codes is a large positive number
- > when the two codes are identical, and close to zero otherwise.
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- I would expect there to be problems in discriminating among codes if very
- short sublengths were tested for. For example, 1100111000 probably occurs
- in all the codes. So once "trial correlation" happens, longer/entire pattern
- matches must be done. What is a useful sublength to use, to adequately avoid
- false trial correlations?
- Allen Sullivan gsulliva@enuxha.eas.asu.edu
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