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

S **, A Camps, Y Jia, F Wang, M Martin-Neira… - Satellite …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract 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 …

Latest advances in the global navigation satellite system—reflectometry (GNSS-R) field

N Rodriguez-Alvarez, JF Munoz-Martin, M Morris - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The global navigation satellite system-reflectometry (GNSS-R) field has experienced an
exponential growth as it is becoming relevant to many applications and has captivated the …

[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 …

Spaceborne GNSS-R minimum variance wind speed estimator

MP Clarizia, CS Ruf, P Jales… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Minimum Variance (MV) wind speed estimator for Global Navigation Satellite System-
Reflectometry (GNSS-R) is presented. The MV estimator is a composite of wind estimates …

Development of the CYGNSS geophysical model function for wind speed

CS Ruf, R Balasubramaniam - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Geophysical model functions (GMFs) are developed which map the Level 1 observables
made by the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) radar receivers to …

CYGNSS: Enabling the future of hurricane prediction [remote sensing satellites]

C Ruf, M Unwin, J Dickinson, R Rose… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The CYGNSS mission introduces a new paradigm in low-cost Earth science missions that
employs a constellation of science-based microsats to fill a gap in capabilities of existing …

Sensitivity of CyGNSS bistatic reflectivity and SMAP microwave radiometry brightness temperature to geophysical parameters over land surfaces

H Carreno-Luengo, G Luzi… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an assessment of the correlation between CyGNSS-derived global
navigation satellite systems reflectometry (GNSS-R) bistatic reflectivity, Γ rl, and soil moisture …

A review of the BuFeng-1 GNSS-R mission: calibration and validation results of sea surface and land surface

C **g, W Li, W Wan, F Lu, X Niu, X Chen… - Geo-spatial …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we will conclude the results of Bufeng-1 (BF-1) A/B data processing, calibration
workflow, and validation of the calibrated sea surface winds, land surface soil moisture, and …

3Cat-2—An experimental nanosatellite for GNSS-R earth observation: Mission concept and analysis

H Carreno-Luengo, A Camps, P Via… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Global navigation satellite system reflectometry is a multistatic radar using navigation
signals as signals of opportunity. It provides wide-swath and improved spatiotemporal …

Soil moisture estimation synergy using GNSS-R and L-Band microwave radiometry data from FSSCat/FMPL-2

JF Munoz-Martin, D Llaveria, C Herbert, M Pablos… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Federated Satellite System mission (FSSCat) was the winner of the 2017 Copernicus
Masters Competition and the first Copernicus third-party mission based on CubeSats. One of …