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A phase-altimetric simulator : studying the sensitivity of Earth-reflected GNSS signals to ocean topography / Aaron Maximilian Semmling in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 54 n° 11 (November 2016)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 54 n° 11 (November 2016) . - pp 6791 - 6802 Titre : A phase-altimetric simulator : studying the sensitivity of Earth-reflected GNSS signals to ocean topography Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Aaron Maximilian Semmling, Auteur ; Vera Leister, Auteur ; Jan Saynisch, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2016 Article en page(s) : pp 6791 - 6802 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] altimétrie [Termes IGN] analyse de sensibilité [Termes IGN] océanographie spatiale [Termes IGN] positionnement par GNSS [Termes IGN] réflectométrie par GNSS [Termes IGN] signal GNSS [Termes IGN] surface de la mer Résumé : (Auteur) This paper presents a simulation study on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) reflections focusing on a phase altimetric method for ocean topography retrieval. It examines carrier phase residuals of Earth-reflected GNSS signals in preparation for the GNSS Reflectometry Radio Occultation and Scatterometry experiment aboard the International Space Station (GEROS-ISS). The residuals' sensitivity to ocean topography (maximum of 2-m amplitude variation of global sea level) is shown. A trigonometric approach to determine the specular reflection point is proposed. Reflection events are simulated assuming different low Earth orbit receivers and GNSS-type transmitters. Suitable events for phase altimetry are assumed between 5° and 30° elevation lasting between 10 and 15 min with ground tracks length of > 3000 km. Typical along-track footprints (1 s integration time) have a length of about 5 km. Within the assumed elevation range the coherent footprint ellipse has a major axis between 1 and 6 km. A Master-Slave sampling is proposed to approximate large-scale delay and Doppler variations of the reflected signal (Slave channel) relative to the direct signal (Master channel). Slave residuals of an example event are simulated to retrieve a small-scale phase delay for ocean topography inversion. The signal-to-noise ratio restricts the quality of the topography results. Height precision on sub-decimeter level for 30-dB SNR is degraded up to a meter level for 20-dB SNR. Ionosphere-free linear combination allows keeping the precision level. Troposphere refraction degrades precision particularly at the low elevation limit. Precision improves toward higher elevations. The tolerance to ocean roughness decreases in the same way. Numéro de notice : A2016-918 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2591065 En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2016.2591065 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=83147 [article]