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That's part of what the 4th connected satellite does. Also this is one of the better descriptions of trilateration I've seen. http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/12866/why-does-gps-po...



Andrew Holme explains a some of these things succinctly on his home made GPS receiver project page[0]. Search for "Solving for user position", where he even mentions ionospheric propagation. He also has an appendix showing his math[1]

[0] http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm [1] http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/user_position_solution.pdf




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