Professional training courses on GNSS topics

GNSS professional training courses

GNSS professional training courses

Gnss IP.tech provides professional training courses on GNSS topics. Such training courses are provided in French or English languages online (via WebEx or equivalent), or in-person at the headquarter of the company located in the city center of Toulouse in France, or at the Customer's premises when possible.

The advanced training courses are composed by:
- one lecture course part, dealing with the theoretical context and the state-of-the-art of the studied topics, the features, the principles, the execution modes, the pros and cons of each different modes, etc...;
- one tutorial part, where the Trainees are invited to experiment by themselves the topics of the course using pedagogical applications executed on GNU OCTAVE.
The short training courses are only composed by a lecture course part.

At the end of the courses, the Trainees will receive an authenticated certificate of attendance.

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Currently available training courses

GNSS/TC001	Basics on GNSS systems and GNSS receiver technology	1 day
GNSS/TC002	Basics on GNSS signal processing	1 day
GNSS/TC003	Advanced training on GNSS signal processing	3 days
GNSS/TC004	Advanced training on GNSS systems, receiver technology, and augmentation systems	4 days

Detailed descriptions

Ref.:	GNSS/TC001
Title:	Basics on GNSS systems and GNSS receiver technology
Duration:	1 day (up to 7 hours)
Prerequisites:	None
Targeted audience:	This course is suitable for professionals making use of GNSS receivers or GNSS measurements in the field of their activities, and who wish to have a better idea of the concepts that operate in order to be fully aware of contributions and limits of the GNSS technologies in their own operation context.
Training goals:	- To understand and acquire the basics on GNSS systems and technologies; - To enforce the control of the trainee on its usage of the GNSS technologies by a better understanding of the key parameters, the observables, the vulnerabilities and limits of the system.
Contents:	- History and introduction on the major GNSS and augmentation systems (GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BEIDOU, SBAS); - Physical principles that operate in GNSS; - GNSS signal structures and properties; - GNSS signal processing techniques; - GNSS receiver architectures; - Key measurements performed by a GNSS receiver; - Key performance parameters of a GNSS receiver; - Main vulnerabilities of a GNSS receiver; - Use cases and associated level of performance and confidence. The course ends with a free question-and-answer session where the trainees can submit to the instructor their questions concerning their own use cases.
Price:	Online attendance: 550 euros excluding tax In-person attendance: 650 euros excluding tax
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Ref.:	GNSS/TC002
Title:	Basics on GNSS signal processing
Duration:	1 day (up to 7 hours)
Prerequisites:	- Basics on digital signal processing
Targeted audience:	This course is suitable for professionals being already familiar with the use of GNSS technologies who wish to deepen their knowledges about signal processing principles and techniques which operate inside a GNSS receiver.
Training goals:	- To understand and acquire the basics related to the end-to-end GNSS signal processing chain.
Contents:	- Introduction about GNSS; - Structures and properties of the GNSS signals; - Key performance parameters of a GNSS receiver; - Description of end-to-end GNSS signal processing chain: radio-frequency front-end, digitalization, base-band processing and raw measurements provision, orbitography computation, Position-Velocity-Time solution computation; - Main vulnerabilities of the signal processing chain and introduction to robustification methods. The course ends with a free question-and-answer session with the participants.
Price:	Online attendance: 550 euros excluding tax In-person attendance: 650 euros excluding tax
Next session:	Please contact us.
Downloadable presentation leaflet:	.

Ref.:	GNSS/TC003
Title:	Advanced training on GNSS signal processing
Duration:	3 days (up to 21 hours)
Prerequisites:	- Basics on digital signal processing (linear filtering, Fourier transform, correlation, spectral analysis); - Basics on GNSS (the training courses GNSS/TC001 and/or GNSS/TC002 are advised for the trainees having no prerequisite on GNSS).
Targeted audience:	This course is suitable for professionals wishing to deepen their knowledge on GNSS signal processing issues in prevision of future specification or development activities closely related to the GNSS technology core.
Training goals:	- To understand and acquire the principles, methods and algorithms, and characteristics of the functions that operate in the signal processing chain of a GNSS receiver; - To know how to characterize such functions in term of computation complexity, implementation issues, performances and vulnerabilities.
Contents:	Day 1: - Introduction on GNSS, operating principles, and key performance parameters of a GNSS receiver; - GNSS signals structures and inherent expected performances for the major GNSS systems: characteristics and properties of the GNSS multiplexes (CDMA, FDMA); characteristics and properties of the GNSS modulations (BPSK, QPSK, BOC, CBOC, TMBOC and ALTBOC); characteristics and properties of the navigation data message (NAV, CNAV, INAV, FNAV, ...); - Detailed description of the GNSS signal processing chain (part 1): radio-frequency front-end processing and digitalization. Day 2: - Detailed description of the GNSS signal processing chain (part 2): base band processing (acquisition, tracking and raw measurements provisioning); - Tutorials on the first two days studied topics: applications using Gnss IP.tech IP core modules operating on COTS computing platforms. Day 3: - Detailed description of the GNSS signal processing chain (part 3): data demodulation, orbitography and Position-Time-Velocity solution computation methods; - Tutorials on the last day studied topics: applications using Gnss IP.tech IP core modules operating on COTS computing platforms. The course ends with a free question-and-answer session with the participants.
Price:	Online attendance: 1650 euros excluding tax In-person attendance: 1950 euros excluding tax
Next session:	Please contact us.
Downloadable presentation leaflet:	.

Ref.:	GNSS/TC004
Title:	Advanced training on GNSS systems, receiver technology, and augmentation systems
Duration:	4 days (up to 28 hours)
Prerequisites:	- Basics on digital signal processing.
Targeted audience:	This course is suitable for professionals wishing to have a detailed overall view on Global Navigation per Satellite Systems and augmentation systems principles, architectures, applications, and on receiver architectures, processing techniques and performances.
Training goals:	- To enforce knowledge on GNSS and augmentation systems principles and applications; - To enforce knowledge on architectures, principles, methods, algorithms and functions that operate in the signal processing chain of the GNSS receivers; - To enforce knowledge on performances and vulnerabilities of the system.
Contents:	Day 1: Part I: Introduction, principles and concepts involved into the GNSS: - Introduction on Global Navigation per Satellite Systems and Regional Navigation per Satellite Systems; - Services provided by the GNSS; - Description of the four major GNSS systems: GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS, BEIDOU; - Physical principles and concepts that get involved into the radio-navigation per satellites; - Reference documents. Day 2: Part II: GNSS signal structures and properties: - GNSS signal structures, modulation and properties; - key requirements and expected performances. Part III: Detailed description of the overall GNSS signal processing chain: - Architectures of the GNSS receivers; - Detailed functional architecture. Day 3: Part III: Detailed description of the overall GNSS signal processing chain (follow-up): - Detailed description of the signal processing chain: RF front-end, digitization, baseband, raw measurements provision, orbitography, PVT computation. Part IV: Vulnerabilities into the GNSS signal processing chain, and robustness methods: - Vulnerabilities into the RF front-end; - Vulnerabilities into the baseband signal processing stage; - Vulnerabilities into the navigation stage; - Robustness methods. Day 4: Part V: Augmentation systems, principles and applications: - Architectures and principles of GBAS and SBAS; - Provided services; - The integrity concept; - Description of the major SBAS augmentation systems; - SBAS signal structures, data structures, broadcasted data and corrections; - Use cases. The course ends with an open discussion session.
Price:	Online attendance: 2200 euros excluding tax In-person attendance: 2600 euros excluding tax
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