Exploració per autor "Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco"

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    • A stratospheric balloon GNSS-R experiment: The 3Cat-2 project in DLR/SNSB BEXUS 

      Carreño Luengo, Hugo; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Querol Borràs, Jorge; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Díez, Raúl (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) - BarcelonaTech Remote Sensing Laboratory focus on the development of breakthrough concepts. The 3Cat-2 mission is on the synergy of GNSS reflectometry and the CubeSat concept. ...

    • Calibration, performance, and imaging tests of a fully digital synthetic aperture interferometer radiometer 

      Ramos Pérez, Isaac; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Bosch Lluís, Xavier; Valencia Domènech, Enric; Rodríguez Álvarez, Nereida; Hyuk, Park; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena (2012-06-28)
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      This work presents the calibration, characterization, and imaging tests of the Passive Advanced Unit-Synthetic Aperture instrument (PAU-SA). PAU-SA is a fully digital -shaped two-dimensional synthetic aperture interferometric ...

    • Digital back-end for RFI detection and mitigation in earth observation 

      Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Querol Borràs, Jorge; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
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      A powerful real time Radio-frequency interference (RFI) mitigation back-end system is presented in this work. The interfering signals are estimated by using the wavelet transform to utilize its effective denoising capability. ...

    • Digital back-end for RFI detection and mitigation in microwave radiometers 

      Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Ramos, I.; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012)
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      Radio-frequency interference (RFI) is a serious problem in microwave radiometry. In order to process the received data in real time, a powerful back-end for RFI detection and mitigation system must be implemented. This ...

    • Dual-polarization GNSS-R interference pattern technique for soil moisture mapping 

      Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Aguasca Solé, Alberto; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Monerris Belda, Alessandra; Rudiger, Christoph; Walker, Jeffrey; Hyuk, Park; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl (2014-05-01)
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      The interference pattern technique (IPT) consists of the coherent addition of the direct and reflected global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) signals in the receiving antenna. The detected power oscillates (fading), ...

    • Experimental study on the performance of RFI detection algorithms in microwave radiometry: Toward an optimum combined test 

      Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Tarongí Bauzá, José Miguel; Depau, Veronica; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-10)
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      Radio-frequency interference (RFI) is probably today's most serious limitation to the accurate retrieval of geophysical parameters from microwave radiometric measurements. Strong RFI inducing a change in the detected power ...

    • First results of a GNSS-R experiment from a stratospheric balloon over boreal forests 

      Carreño Luengo, Hugo; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Querol Borràs, Jorge; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015-12-18)
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      The empirical results of a global navigation satellite systems reflectometry (GNSS-R) experiment onboard the Balloon EXperiments for University Students (BEXUS) 17 stratospheric balloon performed north of Sweden over boreal ...

    • Land monitoring using GNSS-R techniques: a review of recent advances 

      Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Rodríguez Álvarez, Nereida; Valencia Domènech, Enric; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Ramos Pérez, Isaac; Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Bosch Lluís, Xavier (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
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      Soil moisture is required to improve meteorological and climate predictions. Global soil moisture maps are nowadays produced daily from SMOS satellite data, with a basic spatial resolution of ~50 km. Recently, using data ...

    • Optimum intercalibration time in synthetic aperture interferometric radiometers: application to SMOS 

      Ramos Pérez, Isaac; Bosch Lluís, Xavier; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; González Gambau, Veronica; Rodríguez Álvarez, Nereida; Valencia Domènech, Enric; Hyuk, Park; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco (2012)
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      Interpolation strategies for calibration of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission of the European Space Agency are tested and compared. Calibration strategy (how and how often) is critical in achieving the ...

    • PAU-SA: a synthetic aperture interferometric radiometer test bed for potential improvements in future missions 

      Ramos Pérez, Isaac; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Bosch Lluís, Xavier; Rodríguez Álvarez, Nereida; Valencia Domènech, Enric; Hyuk, Park; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena (2012-06)
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      The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is an Earth Explorer Opportunity mission from the European Space Agency (ESA). Its goal is to produce global maps of soil moisture and ocean salinity using the Microwave ...

    • Preliminary performance study of different radio-frequency interference detection and mitigation algorithms in microwave radiometry 

      Depau, Veronica; Tarongí Bauzá, José Miguel; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012)
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      This work presents the preliminary performance study of several RFI detection and mitigation algorithms applied to real data. The used algorithms include statistical analysis in the time and frequency domains and time and ...

    • Real-time RFI detection and mitigation system for microwave radiometers 

      Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Querol Borràs, Jorge; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-10)
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      Microwave radiometers are very sensitive passive sensors that measure the power of the thermal noise within a determined bandwidth. Therefore, any other signal present in the band modifies the value of the measured power, ...

    • Recent advances in land monitoring using GNSS-R techniques 

      Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Ramos, I.; Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Martinez, Philippe; Crespo, Luis; Alcayde Egea, Antonio (2012)
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      Soil moisture and land surface’s temperature are proxys of forest fires risk. In the frame of the DANTE project, ADTelecom (Barcelona, Spain) is working in the design of an instrument: 1) to estimate the risk of forest ...

    • Review of GNSS-R instruments and tools developed at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech 

      Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Marchán Hernández, Juan Fernando; Bosch Lluís, Xavier; Rodríguez Álvarez, Nereida; Ramos Pérez, Isaac; Valencia Domènech, Enric; Tarongí Bauzá, José Miguel; Hyuk, Park; Carreño Luengo, Hugo; Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Querol Borràs, Jorge (2014)
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      Reflectometry using Global Navigation Satellite System's signals of opportunity (GNSS-R) was originally conceived in the early 90s for mesoscale altimetry, and since then, many studies have shown its applicability to other ...

    • Soil moisture mapping using forward scattered GPS L1 signals 

      Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Hyuk, Park; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Jové Casulleras, Roger (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
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      This work presents a novel technique for the determination of soil moisture obtaining 2-D Soil Moisture (SM) information with a single instrument. Both the instrument and the retrieval algorithm used, which is based on ...

    • Study of radio frequency interference effects on radiometry bands in urban environments 

      Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Tarongí Bauzá, José Miguel; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012)
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      Microwave radiometers are very accurate passive sensors that have been successfully used in Earth remote sensing during the last decades. Microwave radiometers measure thermal noise, therefore any other signal (radio-frequency ...

    • Study of RFI signals in protected GNSS bands generated by common electronic devices: effects on GNSS-R measurements 

      Querol Borràs, Jorge; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) signals are a threat for GNSS-R (Global Navigation Satellite Systems - Reflectometry) due to the very low power of the navigation signals. Interference signals coming from computers or ...

    • The dual polarization GNSS-R interference pattern technique 

      Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Monerris Belda, Sandra; Ruudiger, C.; Walker, Jeffrey; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Hyuk, Park; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      Since 2003 several field experiments using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) have demonstrated the feasibility of retrieving Soil Moisture (SM) from GNSS-R observations. Different techniques ...

    • The light airborne reflectometer for GNSS-R observations (LARGO) instrument: initial results from airborne and Rover field campaigns 

      Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Monerris Belda, Sandra; Rudiger, Christoph; Walker, Jeffrey; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Hyuk, Park; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) has proved to be a useful technique for the estimation of Soil Moisture (SM). In the past 10 years, different techniques such as the Interference Pattern ...

    • Validation and experimental tests of the PAU-synthetic aperture radiometer 

      Ramos Pérez, Isaac; Forte Veliz, Giuseppe Francesco; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Bosch Lluís, Xavier; Rodríguez Álvarez, Nereida; Valencia Domènech, Enric; Hyuk, Park; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012)
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      This paper presents calibration and the radiometric performance of the Passive Advanced Unit Synthetic Aperture (PAU-SA) in order to verify the instrument's characterization.