GNSS-reflectometry and remote sensing of soil moisture: A review of measurement techniques, methods, and applications

K Edokossi, A Calabia, S Jin, I Molina - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The understanding of land surface-atmosphere energy exchange is extremely important for
predicting climate change and weather impacts, particularly the influence of soil moisture …

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 …

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

S Jin, 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 …

Revisiting the GNSS-R waveform statistics and its impact on altimetric retrievals

W Li, A Rius, F Fabra, E Cardellach… - … on Geoscience and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper analyzes the ocean altimetry precision of global navigation satellite systems'
reflectometry (GNSS-R) by characterizing the noise statistics of the measured waveform. For …

In-orbit validation of the FMPL-2 instrument—The GNSS-R and L-band microwave radiometer payload of the FSSCat mission

JF Munoz-Martin, L Fernandez, A Perez… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Flexible Microwave Payload-2 is the GNSS-R and L-band Microwave Radiometer
Payload on board 3 Cat-5/A, one of the two 6-unit CubeSats of the FSSCat mission, which …

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 …

The Flexible Microwave Payload-2: A SDR-Based GNSS-Reflectometer and L-Band Radiometer for CubeSats

JF Munoz-Martin, LF Capon… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the FMPL-2 on board the FSSCat mission, the 2017 ESA Small Sentinel
Satellite Challenge and overall Copernicus Masters Competition winner. FMPL-2 is a …

Sea surface salinity and wind speed retrievals using GNSS-R and L-band microwave radiometry data from FMPL-2 onboard the FSSCat mission

JF Munoz-Martin, A Camps - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Federated Satellite System mission (FSSCat), winner of the 2017 Copernicus Masters
Competition and the first ESA third-party mission based on CubeSats, aimed to provide …

A matched filter for spaceborne GNSS-R based sea-target detection

BJ Southwell, JW Cheong… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The motion of any potential sea-targets in a sequence of delay Doppler maps (DDMs)
collected by a spaceborne global navigation satellite system-reflectometry (GNSS-R) …

The IEEE-SA working group on spaceborne GNSS-R: Scene study

H Carreno-Luengo, A Camps, C Ruf, N Floury… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Geoscience and Remote
Sensing Society (GRSS) created the GRSS “Standards for Earth Observation Technical …