Soil moisture sensing using spaceborne GNSS reflections: Comparison of CYGNSS reflectivity to SMAP soil moisture

CC Chew, EE Small - Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper quantifies the relationship between forward scattered L‐band Global Navigation
Satellite System (GNSS) signals, recorded by the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite …

Tutorial on remote sensing using GNSS bistatic radar of opportunity

VU Zavorotny, S Gleason… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In traditional GNSS applications, signals arriving at a receiver's antenna from nearby
reflecting surfaces (multipath) interfere with the signals received directly from the satellites …

Demonstrating soil moisture remote sensing with observations from the UK TechDemoSat‐1 satellite mission

C Chew, R Shah, C Zuffada, G Hajj… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The ability of spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) bistatic radar receivers
to sense changes in soil moisture is investigated using observations from the low Earth …

[BUKU][B] GPS

G Xu, Y Xu - 2007 - Springer
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a navigation system based on satellite technology.
Its fundamental technique involves measuring the ranges between the receiver and a few …

[HTML][HTML] Sea surface wind speed retrieval from the first Chinese GNSS-R mission: Technique and preliminary results

C **g, X Niu, C Duan, F Lu, G Di, X Yang - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Launched on 5 June 2019, the BuFeng-1 A/B twin satellites were part of the first Chinese
global navigation satellite system reflectometry (GNSS-R) satellite mission. In this letter, a …

An algorithm for soil moisture estimation using GPS-interferometric reflectometry for bare and vegetated soil

C Chew, EE Small, KM Larson - GPS solutions, 2016 - Springer
Ground-reflected global positioning system signals measured by a geodetic-quality GPS
system can be used to infer temporal changes in near-surface soil moisture for the area …

The CYGNSS level 1 calibration algorithm and error analysis based on on-orbit measurements

S Gleason, CS Ruf, AJ O'Brien… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The calibration algorithm used by the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System
(CYGNSS) mission to produce version 2.1 of its Level 1 (L1) science data products is …

First spaceborne observation of an Earth-reflected GPS signal

ST Lowe, JL LaBrecque, C Zuffada, LJ Romans… - Radio …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the first spaceborne observation of a Global Positioning System (GPS) signal
reflected from the Earth's surface, specifically from the Pacific Ocean. This result is scaled to …

Theoretical description of a bistatic system for ocean altimetry using the GPS signal

GA Hajj, C Zuffada - Radio Science, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the fundamental characteristics of bistatic altimetry performed using the
Global Positioning System (GPS) signal scattered off the ocean surface and collected by a …

Calibration and unwrap** of the normalized scattering cross section for the cyclone global navigation satellite system

S Gleason, CS Ruf, MP Clarizia… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper develops and characterizes the algorithms used to generate the Level 1 (L1)
science data products of the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) …