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Design and performance evaluation of a novel ranging signal based on an LEO satellite communication constellation / Jingfang Su in Geo-spatial Information Science, vol 26 n° 1 (March 2023)  

Public [article]  inGeo-spatial Information Science > vol 26 n° 1 (March 2023) . - pp 107 - 124 Titre : Design and performance evaluation of a novel ranging signal based on an LEO satellite communication constellation Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jingfang Su, Auteur ; Jia Su, Auteur ; Qingwu Yi, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2023 Article en page(s) : pp 107 - 124 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement du signal [Termes IGN] bruit blanc [Termes IGN] orbite basse [Termes IGN] rapport signal sur bruit [Termes IGN] transformation de Fourier [Termes IGN] transformation inverse Résumé : (auteur) Driven by improvements in satellite internet and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) navigation augmentation, the integration of communication and navigation has become increasingly common, and further improving navigation capabilities based on communication constellations has become a significant challenge. In the context of the existing Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems, this paper proposes a new ranging signal design method based on an LEO satellite communication constellation. The LEO Satellite Communication Constellation Block-type Pilot (LSCC-BPR) signal is superimposed on the communication signal in a block-type form and occupies some of the subcarriers of the OFDM signal for transmission, thus ensuring the continuity of the ranging pilot signal in the time and frequency domains. Joint estimation in the time and frequency domains is performed to obtain the relevant distance value, and the ranging accuracy and communication resource utilization rate are determined. To characterize the ranging performance, the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) is selected as an evaluation criterion. Simulations show that when the number of pilots is 2048 and the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) is 0 dB, the ranging accuracy can reach 0.8 m, and the pilot occupies only 50% of the communication subcarriers, thus improving the utilization of communication resources and meeting the public demand for communication and location services. Numéro de notice : A2023-209 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1080/10095020.2022.2121229 Date de publication en ligne : 17/11/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2022.2121229 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=103136 [article]

The importance of co-located VLBI Intensive stations and GNSS receivers / Christopher Dieck in Journal of geodesy, vol 97 n° 3 (March 2023)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 97 n° 3 (March 2023) . - n° 21 Titre : The importance of co-located VLBI Intensive stations and GNSS receivers Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Christopher Dieck, Auteur ; Megan C. Johnson, Auteur ; Daniel S. MacMillan, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2023 Article en page(s) : n° 21 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] Hawaii (Etats-Unis) [Termes IGN] interférométrie à très grande base [Termes IGN] positionnement par ITGB [Termes IGN] rapport signal sur bruit [Termes IGN] récepteur GNSS [Termes IGN] station GNSS [Termes IGN] station VLBI [Termes IGN] temps universel coordonné Résumé : (auteur) Frequent, low-latency measurements of the Earth’s rotation phase, expressed as UT1−UTC critically support the current estimate and short-term prediction of this highly variable Earth orientation parameter (EOP). Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) Intensive sessions provide the required data. However, the Intensive UT1− UTC measurement accuracy depends on the accuracy of numerous models, including the VLBI station position. Intensives observed with the Maunakea (Mk) and Pie Town (Pt) stations of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) illustrate how a geologic event (i.e., the Mw 6.9 Hawai‘i Earthquake of May 4th, 2018) can cause a station displacement and an associated offset in the values of UT1−UTC measured by that baseline, rendering the data from the series useless until it is corrected. Using the nonparametric Nadaraya–Watson estimator to smooth the measured UT1−UTC values before and after the earthquake, we calculate the offset in the measurement to be 75.7 ± 4.6 μs. Analysis of the sensitivity of the Mk-Pt baseline’s UT1−UTC measurement to station position changes shows that the measured offset is consistent with the 67.2 ± 5.9 μs expected offset based on the 12.4 ± 0.6 mm total coseismic displacement of the Maunakea VLBA station determined from the displacement of the co-located global navigation satellite system (GNSS) station. GNSS station position information is known with a latency on the order of tens of hours and thus can be used to correct the a priori position model of a co-located VLBI station such that it can continue to provide accurate measurements of the critical EOP UT1−UTC as part of Intensive sessions. In the absence of a co-located GNSS receiver, the VLBI station position model would likely not be updated for several months, and a near real-time correction would not be possible. This contrast highlights the benefit of co-located GNSS and VLBI stations in support of the monitoring of UT1−UTC with single-baseline Intensives. Numéro de notice : A2023-133 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-022-01690-1 Date de publication en ligne : 03/03/2023 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-022-01690-1 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=102678 [article]

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]

Multi‑constellation GNSS interferometric reflectometry for the correction of long-term snow height retrieval on sloping topography / Wei Zhou in GPS solutions, vol 26 n° 4 (October 2022)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 26 n° 4 (October 2022) . - n° 140 Titre : Multi‑constellation GNSS interferometric reflectometry for the correction of long-term snow height retrieval on sloping topography Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Wei Zhou, Auteur ; Liangke Huang, Auteur ; Bing Ji, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 140 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] hauteur (coordonnée) [Termes IGN] manteau neigeux [Termes IGN] pente [Termes IGN] Ransac (algorithme) [Termes IGN] rapport signal sur bruit [Termes IGN] réflectométrie par GNSS [Termes IGN] signal GNSS [Termes IGN] système de référence altimétrique [Termes IGN] topographie locale [Termes IGN] transformation en ondelettes [Termes IGN] valeur aberrante [Vedettes matières IGN] Altimétrie Résumé : (auteur) Snow is a key parameter for global climate and hydrological systems. Global Navigation Satellite System interferometric reflectometry (GNSS-IR) has been applied to accurately monitor snow height (SH) with low cost and high temporal–spatial resolution. We proposed an improved GNSS-IR method using detrended signal-to-noise ratio (δSNR) arcs corresponding to multipath reflection tracks with different azimuths. After using wavelet decomposition and random sample consensus, noise with various frequencies for SNR arcs and outliers of reflector height (RH) estimations have been sequentially mitigated to enhance the availability of the proposed method. Thus, a height datum based on the ground RHs retrieved from multi-GNSS SNR data is established to compensate for the influence of topography variation with different azimuths in SH retrieval. The approximately 3-month δSNR datasets collected from three stations deployed on sloping topography were used to retrieve SH and compared with the existing method and in situ measurements. The results show that the root mean square errors of the retrievals derived from the proposed method for the three sites are between 4 and 8 cm, and the corresponding correlation surpasses 0.95 when compared to the reference SH datasets. Additionally, we compare the performance of a retrieval with the existing GNSS-IR Web App, and it shows an improvement in RMSE of about 7 cm. Furthermore, because topography variation has been considered, the average correction of SH retrievals is between 2 and 4 cm. The solution with the proposed method helps develop the applications of the GNSS-IR technique on complex topography. Numéro de notice : A2022-712 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1007/s10291-022-01333-0 Date de publication en ligne : 15/09/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-022-01333-0 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101590 [article]

PPP rapid ambiguity resolution using Android GNSS raw measurements with a low-cost helical antenna / Xingxing Li in Journal of geodesy, vol 96 n° 10 (October 2022)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 96 n° 10 (October 2022) . - n° 65 Titre : PPP rapid ambiguity resolution using Android GNSS raw measurements with a low-cost helical antenna Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Xingxing Li, Auteur ; Hao Wang, Auteur ; Xin Li, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 65 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] Androïd [Termes IGN] antenne [Termes IGN] données GNSS [Termes IGN] positionnement cinématique en temps réel [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] précision du positionnement [Termes IGN] rapport signal sur bruit [Termes IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté [Termes IGN] téléphone intelligent Résumé : (auteur) The release of GNSS raw measurement acquisition privileges on Google Android makes high-precision positioning on the low-cost smart devices possible. However, influenced by the inner linearly polarized antenna, the pseudorange and carrier phase noises of the smart device are much larger than those of the geodetic receiver. As a result, only meter-level positioning accuracy can be obtained based on the smart device’s original antenna. With the external survey-grade antenna enhancing, positioning accuracy of decimeter-level to centimeter-level can be obtained, but it still takes tens of minutes to converge and fix the ambiguity. However, a PPP-RTK method is proposed to achieve rapid integer ambiguity resolution (AR) with the regional atmospheric augmentation. In this contribution, an uncombined PPP-RTK model is developed using Android GNSS raw measurements with an external antenna, after carefully considering the coexistence of single- and dual-frequency signals on smart devices. A low-cost helical antenna is employed to enhance the Android GNSS data as it is capable to provide observation data of comparable quality with the survey-grade antenna and has several advantages of low weight, low-power consumption, and portability. Moreover, a series of quality control methods in the data preprocessing and ambiguity resolution are proposed for smartphone-based PPP-RTK to enhance the positioning results. To validate the proposed method, several experiments are carried out using raw measurements of Xiaomi Mi8 with an external low-cost helical antenna. The result shows that the ambiguity fixed solution can be obtained within 3 min in both static and kinematic scenarios. After the ambiguity resolution, centimeter-level positioning accuracy of (1.7, 2.1, 4.1) cm and (7.2, 4.5, 8.1) cm for the east, north, and up components can be achieved in static and kinematic scenarios, respectively. Numéro de notice : A2022-735 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-022-01661-6 Date de publication en ligne : 27/09/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-022-01661-6 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101706 [article]

Ground surface elevation changes over permafrost areas revealed by multiple GNSS interferometric reflectometry / Yufeng Hu in Journal of geodesy, vol 96 n° 8 (August 2022)  

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A dual-generator translation network fusing texture and structure features for SAR and optical image matching / Han Nie in Remote sensing, Vol 14 n° 12 (June-2 2022)  

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Combination of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data for tree species classification in a Central European biosphere reserve / Michael Lechner in Remote sensing, vol 14 n° 11 (June-1 2022)  

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An algorithm to assist the robust filter for tightly coupled RTK/INS navigation system / Zun Niu in Remote sensing, vol 14 n° 10 (May-2 2022)  

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Coastal observation of sea surface tide and wave height using opportunity signal from Beidou GEO satellites: analysis and evaluation / Feng Wang in Journal of geodesy, vol 96 n° 4 (April 2022)  

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Flood monitoring by integration of remote sensing technique and multi-criteria decision making method / Hadi Farhadi in Computers & geosciences, vol 160 (March 2022)  

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A batch algorithm for GNSS carrier phase cycle slip correction / Brian Breitsch in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 60 n° 2 (February 2022)  

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A multipath and thermal noise joint error characterization and exploitation for low-cost GNSS PVT estimators in urban environment / Eustachio Roberto Matera (2022)  

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Non-linear GNSS signal processing applied to land observation with high-rate airborne reflectometry / Hamza Issa (2022)  

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Python software to transform GPS SNR wave phases to volumetric water content / Angel Martín in GPS solutions, vol 26 n° 1 (January 2022)  

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