receiver autonomous integrity monitoring


receiver autonomous integrity monitoring

[ri‚sēv·ər ȯ¦tän·ə·məs in′teg·rəd·ē ‚män·ə·triŋ] (navigation) A method of providing consistency for the Global Positioning System (GPS) within the user avionics by checking the consistency of range measurements from redundant observations on GPS satellites. Abbreviated RAIM.

receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM)

A technique in which an airborne global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver/processor autonomously monitors the integrity of the navigation signals from GNSS satellites. See also global navigation satellite system.