**Meet the editors**

Associate Prof. Dr. Rustam B. Rustamov was born on May 25, 1955, in Azerbaijan. He is a freelance expert on space science and technology. In the past he was in charge of Azerbaijan National Aerospace Agency activities as an Acting Director General. Rustam B. Rustamov graduated with a PhD at the Russian Physical-Technical Institute (St. Petersburg). He was invited to work at the

European Space Agency within the Framework of the United Nations Program on Space Applications at the European Space Research and Technology Center, Netherlands. He is a Cambridge Scholars Publishing International Editorial Advisory Board member on Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science, London, UK. He is the author of 12 books published by the European and United States noted publishers and more than 120 scientific papers.

Arif M. Hashimov was born on September 28, 1949, in Shahbuz, Nakchivan, Azerbaijan. Since 1993 he has been Professor of Power Engineering and from 2007 he was made First Vice-President of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences. He is laureate of the Azerbaijan State Prize, an Honored Scientist of Azerbaijan, and co-chairman of the International Conferences "Techni-

cal and Physical Problems of Power Engineering" research area: theory of non-linear electrical chains with distributed parameters, neutral earthing and ferroresonance processes, alternative energy sources, high-voltage physics and technology, and electro physics. He is the author of 280 articles, one patent, and five monographs.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Receivers 3**

and C. Venkatramanan

**Section 2 GPS Technology Applications 21**

**Section 3 GPS in Artificial Neural Networks 45**

**Networks 47** Daniel Okoh

Chapter 4 **GNSS Error Sources 69**

**Section 1 Navigation System – Advances of Software Application 1**

Chapter 1 **Review on Sparse-Based Multipath Estimation and Mitigation:**

Chapter 2 **Integrity Monitoring: From Airborne to Land Applications 23** Davide Imparato, Ahmed El-Mowafy and Chris Rizos

Chapter 3 **GPS Modeling of the Ionosphere Using Computer Neural**

Malek Karaim, Mohamed Elsheikh and Aboelmagd Noureldin

**Section 4 Technological Progress of Navigation System 67**

Chapter 5 **GNSS Application in Retrieving Sea Wind Speed 89**

**Section 5 GPS in Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System 87**

Dongkai Yang and Feng Wang

**Intense Solution to Counteract the Effects in Software GPS**

Ganapathy Arul Elango, B. Senthil Kumar, Ch.V.M.S.N. Pavan Kumar
