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Principles of the Global Positioning System
Lecture 02
YUAN Linguo
Email: lgyuan@163.com
Dept. of Surveying Engineering,
Southwest Jiaotong University
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Coordinate Systems
? Definition of coordinates
? Conventional “realization” of coordinates
? Modern realizations using spaced based geodetic
systems (such as GPS).
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Coordinate system definition
To define a coordinate system you need to define:
? Its origin (3 component)
? Its orientation (3 components, usually the direction
cosines of one axis and one component of
another axes, and definition of handed-ness)
? Its scale (units)
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Geodetic Coordinates
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Geodetic coordinates
Easiest global system is Cartesian XYZ but not
common outside scientific use
Conversion to geodetic Lat, Long and Height
X = (N + h)cosφ cosλ
Y = (N + h)cosφ sinλ
Z = (
b
2
a
2
N + h)sinφ
N =
a
2
a
2
cos
2
φ +b
2
sin
2
φ
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Parameter Notation Magnitude
Semi-major Axis a 6378137.0 meters
Reciprocal of Flattening 1/f 298.257223563
Angular Velocity of the Earth ω 7292115.0 x 10
-11
rad sec
-1
Earth’s GravitationalConstant GM 3986004.418 x 10
8
m
3
/s
2
(Mass of Earth’s Atmosphere Included)
WGS 84 Four Defining
Parameters
a and 1/f are the same as in the original definition of WGS 84
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What is ITRF ?
? The International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) has been established in
1988 jointly by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). The IERS mission is
to provide to the worldwide scientific and technical community reference
values for Earth orientation parameters and reference realizations of
internationally accepted celestial and terrestrial reference systems
? In the geodetic terminology, a reference frame is a set of points with their
coordinates (in the broad sense) which realize an ideal reference system
? The frames produced by IERS as realizations of ITRS are named
International Terrestrial Reference Frames (ITRF).
? Such frames are all (or a part of) the tracking stations and the related
monuments which constitute the IERS Network, together with coordinates and
their time variations.
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Behavior 1993-2001
-10.0
-5.0
0.0
5.0
10.0
0.05.010.015.020.0
Pole Position
X Pole (m)
Y Pole (m)
1993
2001
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UT1-UTC
-0.60
-0.40
-0.20
0.00
0.20
0.40
0.60
0.80
1993.0 1994.0 1995.0 1996.0 1997.0 1998.0 1999.0 2000.0 2001.0
UT1-UTC (discontinuities are leap-seconds)
UT1-UTC (s)
UT1-UTC (s)
Year
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Web Resources
? International Earth Rotation and Reference
Systems Service (IERS) http://www.iers.org/
? U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) GPS Operations
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/gps.html
? The GPS Toolbox http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/gps-
toolbox
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Assignment
1. What are space-fixed and earth-fixed coordinate
2. systems? Give the examples.
3. What is sidereal time and solar time?
4. What is GPS time? Convert March 4, 2005 to JD and
MJD
5. Convert geodetic position 290 deg Long 42 deg latitude
ellipsoidal height 0 m into Cartesian and geocentric
coordinates. What would be the error in position if
geocentric coordinates were confused with geodetic
coordinates at this latitude?
6. Please program to realize 4 and 5.