End-to-end simulator for Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry space mission

Author

Park, Hyuk ; Marchan-Hernandez, Juan Fernando ; Rodriguez-Alvarez, Nereida ; Valencia, Enric ; Ramos-Perez, Isaac ; Bosch-Lluis, Xavier ; Camps, Adriano

Author_Institution

Dept. of Signal Theor. & Commun., Univ. Politec. de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

4294

Lastpage

4297

Abstract

This paper presents an end-to-end simulator to assess the performances of Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) space missions for altimetry or sea state determination. The presented simulator is capable of simulating the GNSS-R observation scenario including the states of the transmitting and receiving satellites, the full instrument modeling, and scattering physical modeling based on an actual geophysical database. It provides useful tools for research and development on GNSS-R remote sensing.

Keywords

artificial satellites; height measurement; oceanographic techniques; reflectometry; remote sensing; satellite navigation; GNSS-R remote sensing; GNSS-R space missions; altimetry; end-to-end simulator; geophysical database; global navigation satellite system reflectometry space mission; instrument modeling; receiving satellites; scattering physical modeling; sea state determination; transmitting satellites; Arrays; Computational modeling; Global Positioning System; Receivers; Remote sensing; Satellites; Scattering; Delay-Doppler map; GNSS reflectometry; satellite remote sensing; simulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650564

Filename

5650564