GPS - Re: Observed GPS and WAAS Signal-to-Noise Degradation Due to Solar

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Re: Observed GPS and WAAS Signal-to-Noise Degradation Due to Solar

Mike

2006-09-29, 12:33 pm

Sam Wormley wrote: Since solar radio

> bursts affect all satellites in view of a receiver, all receivers in
> the sun-lit hemisphere, the new Galileo navigation system, and all
> space-based augmentation systems such as WAAS and EGNOS, they are a
> potential threat to life-critical systems.

Won't RAIM address these issues for "life-critical" aviation systems?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAIM

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