A differential GPS landing system having at least three GPS receivers at
known locations in spatial proximity to each other, wherein each GPS
receiver independently receives GPS signals from the plurality of GPS
satellites and at least three reference stations, wherein each reference
station receives a signal from a different two of the at least three GPS
receivers and calculates two separate differential corrections for each
satellite, wherein each differential correction is independently
calculated using the signals received from a different one of the two GPS
receivers. The reference stations preferably average the two calculated
differential corrections for each satellite to produce an averaged
differential correction for each satellite. The system then validates the
averaged differential correction for each satellite calculated by each
reference station using two integrity monitors, wherein each integrity
monitor receives the averaged differential corrections from a different
two of the at least three reference stations, and each integrity monitor
compares, with respect to each GPS satellite, the averaged differential
corrections from the two of the at least three reference stations to
produce a validated set of differential corrections, and broadcasts the
averaged differential correction for each satellite calculated by one of
the three reference stations. The preferred differential GPS landing
system further includes a method that utilizes current differential
correction error statistics, prior differential correction error
statistics and a Bayesian interval estimation bounding process to provide
an error bound on the broadcast differential corrections.