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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2009, Article ID 106870, 20 pages doi:10.1155/2009/106870 Research Article GPS/Galileo Multipath Detection and Mitigation Using Closed-Form Solutions Khaled Rouabah1 and Djamel Chikouche2 1 LMSE Laboratory, Electronics Department, The University Center of Bordj Bou Arreridj, Elanasser - Bordj ´ Bou Arreridj 34265, Algeria ´ 2 LIS Laboratory, Electronics Department, University of M’sila, M’sila 28000, Algeria Correspondence should be addressed to Khaled Rouabah, khaled rouabah@yahoo.fr Received 11 March 2009; Accepted 3 September 2009 Recommended by Francesco Pellicano We propose an efficient method for the detection of Line of Sight LOS and Multipath MP signals in global navigation satellite systems GNSSs which is based on the use of virtual MP mitigation VMM technique. By using the proposed method, the MP signals’ delay and coefficient amplitudes can be efficiently estimated. According to the computer simulation results, it is obvious that our proposed method is a solution for obtaining high performance in the estimation and mitigation of MP signals and thus it results in a high accuracy in GNSS positioning. Copyright q 2009 K. Rouabah and D. Chikouche. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction In GNSS systems such as Global Positioning System GPS and future Galileo the positioning accuracy is seriously degraded in the presence of MP propagation 1. In effect, MP signals provoke