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Coastal GNSS-R phase altimetry based on the combination of L1 and L5 signals under high sea states / Yunqiao He in Journal of geodesy, vol 97 n° 2 (February 2023)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 97 n° 2 (February 2023) . - n° 19 Titre : Coastal GNSS-R phase altimetry based on the combination of L1 and L5 signals under high sea states Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Yunqiao He, Auteur ; Fan Gao, Auteur ; Tianhe Xu, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2023 Article en page(s) : n° 19 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] diffusion de Rayleigh [Termes IGN] hauteurs de mer [Termes IGN] niveau de la mer [Termes IGN] phase GNSS [Termes IGN] précision altimétrique [Termes IGN] Quasi-Zenith Satellite System [Termes IGN] rapport signal sur bruit [Termes IGN] récepteur bifréquence [Termes IGN] réflectométrie par GNSS [Termes IGN] signal GNSS [Vedettes matières IGN] Altimétrie Résumé : (auteur) High-precision sea surface heights retrieved from the Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) measurements will be valuable in the fields of geodesy and oceanography studies. Due to the short wavelengths and low power of GNSS signals, the continuously tracked carrier phase measurements of reflected signals are usually unavailable for sea surfaces with big roughness, varying over space and time. In coastal conditions, persisting spatial coherence assumption can be made within the antenna coverage when the waves are not greatly breaking. To deal with temporal incoherence, we propose an improved algorithm to extract the combined interferometric phase difference measurements between direct and reflected signals under high sea states. After initial tracking the direct signals, dual-frequency observations are combined in the complex domain and the resulting interferometric signal is refined through open-loop tracking with 60-s coherent integration before the phase difference measurements are extracted, without tracking their respective carrier phase measurements in advance. In order to verify our method, a coastal experiment under different sea conditions was conducted and raw intermediate frequency data were collected. The raw data were then processed by a GNSS-R software-defined receiver to compute the path delay measurements of Quasi-Zenith Satellite System signals, which had good visibility during our experiment. For high sea states, that is, when the Rayleigh criterion is not fulfilled for the individual wavelengths, the phase delay measurements of L1 and L5 were random over time, while phase delay can still be well recovered for their combination. Also, the phase delay combination can be well extracted with a higher elevation angle than the previous studies. Finally, the altimetry solutions derived from the carrier phase delay measurements combination were compared with the in situ observations from a 26-GHz radar altimeter. The results show that centimeter-level altimetry accuracy using the combined measurements of L1 and L5 can be achieved under high sea states. Numéro de notice : A2023-132 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-023-01712-6 Date de publication en ligne : 27/03/2023 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-023-01712-6 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=102675 [article]