Galileo appears in the Google's Summer of Code 2013 competition
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Contact: grow-galileo@ec.europa.eu
With the advent of new in-orbit satellites, the landscape of Global navigation by Satellite is rapidly changing.
In this context, Software Defined Receiver (SDR) philosophy find a great response.
Currently, the open source GNSS-SDR can acquire, track, decode and produce PVT (Position, Velocity and Time) solutions considering GPS signals only. For the Galileo constellation, it just allows to track the first four in-orbit satellites.
Hence, the aim of this project is to :
- implement add-ons for Galileo satellites
- develop new blocks to decode Galileo navigation messages
- generate observables
- compute PVT solutions using both Galileo E1 and GPS L1 frequencies.
Her project, financed from Google, is part of GNSS-SDR software and her mentor is Javier Arribas from CTTC (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya).
- GNSS-SDR is an open-source GNSS software receiver freely available to the research community. This project provides a common framework for GNSS signal processing which can operate in a variety of computer platforms (http://gnss-sdr.org/)
- Galileo is the name of the European Satellite Navigation programme.