Global Positioning System Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) Performance Standard

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Global Positioning System
• Publication/ Report Number:
  GPS WAAS PS
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
• Description:
  The U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) Standard Positioning Service (SPS) consists of space-based positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) signals generated from space vehicles orbiting the earth and delivered free of direct user fees for civil, commercial, and scientific uses worldwide. The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) provides an augmentation signal to GPS, delivered free of direct user fees, that provides correction and integrity information intended to improve positioning navigation and timing (PNT) service over the United States (U.S.) and portions of Canada and Mexico. WAAS is the first operational implementation of an International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) compliant Space Based augmentation System (SBAS). This WAAS Performance Standard (WAAS PS) specifies the levels of navigation performance that will be available to suitably equipped users who use both the GPS SPS broadcast signals and the WAAS augmentation signal. The U.S. Government is committed to meeting the minimum levels of service specified in this WAAS PS. Refer to the GPS SPS PS for specific information regarding the USG commitment for the GPS SPS.
  
  Since WAAS was commissioned in 2003, actual performance has typically met and exceeded the minimum accuracy, integrity, continuity, and availability performance requirements specified in this WAAS PS and users can therefore generally expect improved performance over the minimum levels described here. Actual real-time performance, statistical performance and real-time data are provided on-line by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Quarterly Performance Analysis Reports for both GPS and WAAS are also available at the FAA Technical Center WAAS Test Bed web site (http://www.nstb.tc.faa.gov/). Interested readers are encouraged to refer to this site and other sources for updated GPS and WAAS performance information. Note that the number of WAAS-based Localizer Performance with Vertical (LPV) guidance procedures now exceeds the number of Instrument Landing System (ILS) procedures in the United States. GPS will provide three new modernized civil signals in the future: L2C, L5, and L1C. With the additional signal on L5, airborne receivers will be able to correct for the line of sight ionospheric propagation delay error. This dual frequency (L1/L5) mode of operation will allow changes to be made in the delivery of GPS-based augmentation services, such as WAAS, but this Performance Standard does not consider those future changes. This WAAS Performance Standard only applies to WAAS augmented GPS SPS users of the L1 (1575.42 MHz) Coarse/Acquisition (C/A) signal and the WAAS Signal-In-Space (SIS) broadcast by a geostationary satellite (GEO). The WAAS PS will be updated as required to reflect substantial changes to WAAS augmentation services. In addition to the WAAS PS, readers are referenced to the GPS SPS PS and FAA Technical Standard Order (TSO)-145/146 for details in both the fundamental GPS SPS service and WAAS receiver equipment. WAAS also meets or exceeds the ICAO Annex 10, Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS).
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/16922/dot_16922_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.38 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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