Positioning, Navigation and Navigational Warfare

1. Define the methods of determining the position
2. Identify the procedures for measuring the parameters of radio signals
3. Define and analyze the performance of navigation systems with an emphasis on NATO standards for positioning, navigation and precise timing (PNT)
4. Describe safety criteria in navigation
5. Relate knowledge of positioning system errors
6. Define and recognize the shortcomings of satellite navigation systems with special emphasis on the doctrines and methods of navigational warfare (NAVWAR)
7. Relate and understand the need to combine multiple systems for navigation in contemporary and future crisis and war environments
8. Apply PNT in military operations at the national level and in NATO-led operations

obligatory presence

exercises and professional vistation

practical exercises (obligatory presence)

1. Lectures: Coordinate systems, cartography, inertial navigation systems, computational navigation Exercises: Application of the inertial navigation system
2. Lectures: Propagation of radio signals, division of radio navigation systems, methods of determining position, radio direction finding and radio location Exercises: Radio direction finder, antenna effect and measuring the directional characteristics of the antenna
3. Lectures: Safety requirements for navigation systems, hyperbolic navigation systems, Loran C, e-Loran Exercises: STANAG norms
4. Lectures: Aviation navigation systems: NDB, VOR, DME, TACAN, ILS Exercises: Simulation of NDB and VOR/DME navigation and approach
5. Lectures: Aviation navigation systems: instrument landing categories, MLS, PAR, GNSS procedures in aviation, air traffic control services, TCAS/ACAS, ADS-B Exercises: Simulation of VOR/DME approach and ILS landing
6. Lectures: Satellite navigation: introduction, satellite orbits, use of Doppler shift, Exercises: Software-based ADS-B receiver
7. Midterm exam
8. Lectures: Satellite navigation: Structure of the GNSS system Exercises: Geometric errors (DOP - English Dilution Of Precision) in position determination procedures
9. Lectures: Satellite navigation: GPS and Galileo signals and services Exercises: Availability of GNSS signals in an urban environment
10. Lectures: Satellite navigation: GLONASS and BeiDou signals and services Exercises: Delay of determining the position of the GNSS receiver (cold, warm and hot start)
11. Lectures: Satellite navigation: GNSS system errors, GNSS system augmentation Exercises: Protocols for the exchange of navigation data
12. Lectures: Satellite navigation: vulnerability of GNSS, jamming and spoofing of GNSS signals, navigational warfare Exercises: Post-processing of navigation data on the computer
13. Lectures: Use of signals of opportunity for positioning purposes, indoor positioning, importance of communications for integration of navigational information Exercises: Allied Navigation Plan (ANP-1)
14. Visit to the Croatian air traffic control, CROCONTROL
15. Final exam