Ephemeris download from weak signals

Details Ephemeris download from weak signals Ephemeris download from weak signals

2011-03-08

2011-03-08

Tarcza, Thomas H (Department: 3662)

Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g.,

Directive

Including a satellite

Reexamination Certificate

active

07903028

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides systems and methods for downloading navigation data to a satellite receiver under weak signal conditions. In an embodiment, the receiver uses a tracking algorithm to estimate the Doppler frequency and rate of change of the Doppler frequency to compensate the phases of the I/Q samples from the received signal to reduce the effect of the Doppler frequency. In an embodiment, differential detection based data bit decoding is provided. In another embodiment, phase compensation based data bit decoding is provided, in which the phase of samples are rotated to compensate for phase error. In an embodiment, a multiple frame strategy is provided to increase signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and improve sensitivity, in which similar placed samples in consecutive frames are coherently summed over the consecutive frames. In an embodiment, the samples are weighted to reduce the impact of noise in the multiple frame strategy.

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