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Remote sensing and its applications using GNSS reflected signals: advances and prospects

Satellite Navigation
The Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), including the US’s GPS, China’s BDS, the European Union’s Galileo, and Russia’s GLONASS, offer real-time, all-weather, any-time, anywhere and high precision observations by transmitting L band signals ...
Shuanggen Jin, Adriano Camps, Yan Jia, Feng Wang, Manuel Martin-Neira, Feixiong Huang, Qingyun Yan, Shuangcheng Zhang, Zhongyu Li, Komi Edokossi, Dongkai Yang, Zhiyu Xiao, Zhongmin Ma, Weihua Bai   +13 more
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Review of GNSS-R Technology for Soil Moisture Inversion

Remote Sensing
Soil moisture (SM) is an important parameter in water cycle research. Rapid and accurate monitoring of SM is critical for hydrological and agricultural applications, such as flood detection and drought characterization.
Changzhi Yang, Kebiao Mao, Zhonghua Guo, Jiancheng Shi, Sayed M. Bateni, Zijin Yuan   +5 more
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Analysis of GNSS Interference Events Based on TRITON GNSS-R Measurements

Navigation
Although the issue of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) interference has been addressed in the community of satellite navigation, the extent of GNSS interference in the past couple of years has raised serious concerns for air and marine ...
Jyh-Ching Juang, Yung-Fu Tsai
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Derivation of the Cramér-Rao Bound in the GNSS-Reflectometry Context for Static, Ground-Based Receivers in Scenarios with Coherent Reflection

Sensors, 2016
The use of the reflected Global Navigation Satellite Systems’ (GNSS) signals in Earth observation applications, referred to as GNSS reflectometry (GNSS-R), has been already studied for more than two decades.
Miguel Angel Ribot, Cyril Botteron, Pierre-André Farine   +2 more
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Potential Applications of GNSS-R Observations over Agricultural Areas: Results from the GLORI Airborne Campaign

Remote Sensing, 2018
The aim of this study is to analyze the sensitivity of airborne Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) on soil surface and vegetation cover characteristics in agricultural areas.
Mehrez Zribi, Erwan Motte, Nicolas Baghdadi, Frédéric Baup, Sylvia Dayau, Pascal Fanise, Dominique Guyon, Mireille Huc, Jean Pierre Wigneron   +8 more
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A full-polarization GNSS-R Delay-Doppler-Map (DDM) simulator for bare soil freeze/thaw process detection

Geoscience Letters, 2020
The soil freeze/thaw processes have a significant impact on the surface energy and moisture balance, which play a key role in ecosystem diversity and productivity. The air-/space-borne Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) is a
Xuerui Wu, Shuanggen Jin, Xinqiu Ouyang
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UAV-Based GNSS-R for Water Detection as a Support to Flood Monitoring Operations: A Feasibility Study

Applied Sciences, 2019
Signals from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) can be utilized as signals of opportunity in remote sensing applications. Geophysical properties of the earth surface can be detected and monitored by processing the back-scattered GNSS signals from
Rayan Imam, Marco Pini, Gianluca Marucco, Fabrizio Dominici, Fabio Dovis   +4 more
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From field experiments to salinity products: a tribute to the contributions of Jordi Font to the SMOS mission

Scientia Marina, 2016
This article summarizes some of the activities in which Jordi Font, research professor and head of the Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC, Spanish National Research Council) in Barcelona, has been ...
Adriano Camps, Carolina Gabarró, Mercè Vall-llossera, Sebastià Blanch, Albert Aguasca, Francesc Torres, Ignasi Corbella, Nuria Duffo, Antonio Turiel, Marcos Portabella, Joaquim Ballabrera-Poy, Verónica González-Gambau, Justino Martínez, Ramón Villarino, Luís Enrique, Alessandra Monerris, Xavier Bosch, Roberto Sabia, Marco Talone, Maria Piles, Míriam Pablos, Enric Valencia   +21 more
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Separation of Overlapped Direct and Reflected Waveforms for Low-Altitude UAV-Based GNSS-R Altimetry

Remote Sensing
GNSS reflectometry (GNSS-R) altimetry has been widely used for retrieving surface elevation over oceans, cryosphere, and land. Recently, UAV-borne GNSS-R systems have gained attention due to their flexibility for low-altitude and localized observations ...
Ziyin Xu, Xianyi Wang, Junming Xia, Yueqiang Sun, Cheng Liu, Zhuoyan Wang, Yusen Tian, Tongsheng Qiu, Dongwei Wang   +8 more
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First Evaluation of Topography on GNSS-R: An Empirical Study Based on a Digital Elevation Model

Remote Sensing, 2019
Understanding the effects of Earth’s surface topography on Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry (GNSS-R) space-borne data is important to calibrate experimental measurements, so as to provide accurate soil moisture content (SMC ...
Hugo Carreno-Luengo, Guido Luzi, Michele Crosetto   +2 more
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