CONTENTS

 

 1     Introduction
 
2     Inhomogeneities characteristics
a)     Spectral density
b)     Correlation length
c)     Height of irregularities
 
3     Dependency of inhomogeneities on the latitude
a)     Equatorial scintillations
b)     High latitude scintillations
 
4     GISM propagation model
        4.1     Medium modelling
        4.2     Algorithm
Random medium synthesis
FFT limitations
 
5     Scintillations at receiver level
        5.1     GPS receiver architecture
        5.2     Phase noise at receiver level
 
6     Loss of lock probability
 
7     Positioning errors
 
8     Simultaneous loss of lock
 
9     Comparisons models results and measurements