Carrier phase ranging

1. What is a carrier phase?
2. What is carrier based ranging?
3. What is phase ranging?
4. What is carrier phase tracking GPS?

What is a carrier phase?

Simply put, the carrier phase. measurement is a measure of the range between a satellite and receiver expressed in units of cycles of the carrier frequency.

What is carrier based ranging?

5.2. 5.2 Carrier phase-based ranging. The technique of carrier phase-based ranging is also done on the assumption that the transmitting and the receiving clocks are synchronous. Under this condition, the transmitter at the satellite and the receiver will be generating the same phase of the carrier at the same instant.

What is phase ranging?

phase ranging systems eliminates the whole cycle ambiguity by transmitting continuous wave signals at different frequencies ( Figure 2). For example, the ver- ifier first transmits a signal with a frequency f 1 to which the prover locks its local oscillator and retransmits the signal back to the verifier. ...

What is carrier phase tracking GPS?

Carrier phase tracking is a highly accurate means of positioning used in GNSS surveying applications. The product of the period of the carrier frequency times the speed of light gives the wavelength, which is about 1900mm for the GPS L1 carrier.