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    • 3CAT-3/MOTS, an experimental nanosatellite for multispectral and GNSS-R earth observation: airborne optical and GNSS-R campaign 

      Castellví Esturi, Jordi; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Alamús, Ramón; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Querol Borràs, Jorge; Hyuk, Park (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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      The 3 Cat-3/MOTS mission is a joint initiative between the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech (UPC) to foster new and innovative technologies on ...
    • A controlled ground-based experiment to assess the capabilities of GNSS-R for marine litter detection in a flume 

      Gonga i Siles, Amadeu; Pérez Portero, Adrián; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; de Fockert, Anton; de Maagt, Peter (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
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      Detection of marine litter is an urgent task given the large amount of plastics that end up in all water systems. This manuscript provides the description and results obtained from a ground-based Global Navigation Satellite ...
    • A generic level 1 simulator for spaceborne GNSS-R missions and application to GEROS-ISS ocean reflectometry 

      Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Kang, Yujin; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Querol Borràs, Jorge; Alonso Arroyo, Alberto (2017-07-18)
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      In the past decade Global Navigation Satellites System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) has emerged as a new technique for earth remote sensing for various applications, such as ocean altimetry and sea state monitoring. After the ...
    • A polarimetric approach to marine litter detection using GNSS-reflectometry in a controlled flume 

      Pérez Portero, Adrián; Gonga i Siles, Amadeu; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; de Fockert, Anton; de Maagt, Peter (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
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      Over 14 million tons of plastic end up yearly in the ocean, originating from polluted waterways such as rivers, sewers, or storm waters, or from industrial and nautical activities with improper garbage disposal methods. ...
    • A radio-frequency interference detector for GNSS navigation and GNSS-reflectometry applications 

      Querol Borràs, Jorge; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
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      Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) is a growing problem for applications based on the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), including Earth observation using GNSS - Reflectometry (GNSS-R). Nowadays, many efforts are ...
    • Advanced GNSS-R signals processing with GPUs 

      Cervelló Nogués, Oriol; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-01-01)
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      Global navigation satellite system reflectometry (GNSS-R) is a group of techniques that uses satellite navigation signals as signals of opportunity for remote sensing applications. In GNSS-R, large amounts of data are ...
    • Advances in the MIR instrument: integration, control subsystem and analysis of the flight dynamics for beamsteering purposes 

      Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Garrucho, Lidia; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Hyuk, Park; Querol Borràs, Jorge; Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (2015)
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      The MIR (Microwave Interferometric Reflectometer) is a new dual frequency Global Navigation Satellite Systems Re- flectometry (GNSS-R) instrument that implements conventional and interferometric reflectometry, both with ...
    • Altimetry performance and error budget of the PARIS in-orbit demonstration mission 

      Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Hyuk, Park; Martín Alemany, Francisco; Rius, Antonio; Ribó Vedrilla, Serni; Benito, Javier; Andrés, A.; Saameno, Paula; Staton, Gavin; Martín Neira, Manuel; D'Addio, Salvatore; Willemsen, P. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
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      Reflectometry using Global Navigation Satellite System's signals of opportunity (GNSS-R) was originally conceived for mesoscale altimetry [1], although its applicability to sea state determination, soil moisture, vegetation, ...
    • Analysis of GNSS-R delay and doppler tracking errors 

      Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Valencia Domènech, Enric; Carreño Luengo, Hugo; Martín Alemany, Francisco; Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Pascual Biosca, Daniel (2012)
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      The compensation of the delay and Doppler errors using tracking is important to accurately estimate the sea height in spaceborne GNSS-R. This work presents the impacts of the tracking residual errors on the GNSS-R observables, ...
    • Analysis of spaceborne GNSS-R delay-doppler tracking 

      Hyuk, Park; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Martínez Mindeguía, Francisco; Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Carreño Luengo, Hugo (2014-05-01)
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      For spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS-R), the delay and Doppler frequency conditions dynamically change, so the compensation of the delay and Doppler errors using tracking is important to ...
    • Antena Bi-banda con conformación de dos haces simultáneos para sistemas GNSS-R 

      Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Querol Borràs, Jorge; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Unión Científica Internacional de Radio (URSI), 2018)
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      Global Navigation Satellite Systems – Reflectometry (GNSS-R) is a relatively new remote sensing technique that benefits from GNSS signals as signals of opportunity as a bistatic radar. These signals can be processed as ...
    • Assessment of back-end RFI mitigation techniques in passive remote sensing 

      Querol Borràs, Jorge; Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (2015)
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      Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) is a growing problem specially for those systems that work with low power signals such as passive remote sensing instruments. Consequently, RFI mitigation techniques are currently under ...
    • Assessment of DME/TACAN RFI mitigation techniques in GNSS-R 

      Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Querol Borràs, Jorge; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Hyuk, Park; Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry (GNSSR) is now being recognized as a powerfull tool for remote sensing. With the addition of new frequency bands and codes, it is possible to increase the resolution and ...
    • Beamformer characterization of the MIR instrument: the microwave interferometric reflectometer 

      Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Querol Borràs, Jorge; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
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      Global Navigation Satellite Systems - Reflectometry (GNSS-R) has opened promising results for remote sensing applications. The broadcast of new signals with wider bandwidth provides an opportunity to increase the performance ...
    • Calibration of GNSS-R receivers with PRN signal injection: methodology and validation with the microwave interferometric reflectometer (MIR) 

      Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Querol Borràs, Jorge; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
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      The demonstration of the feasibility of navigation signals signals for remote sensing has lead to a significant increase of new GNSS-R instruments in the recent years. Despite of the type instrument, the observables are ...
    • Can we measure vegetation water content and vegetation opacity at L-band with a single GPS receiver? 

      Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Querol Borràs, Jorge; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Hyuk, Park; Pascual Biosca, Daniel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      This work shows a technique to estimate the vegetation opacity and infer the vegetation water content using a single GPS receiver located under the vegetation layer being analyzed. It is based on the measurement of the ...
    • Comparison of GNSS-R processing techniques for spaceborne ocean altimetry 

      Martín Alemany, Francisco; d'Addio, Salvatore; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Martín Neira, Manuel; Hyuk, Park; Pascual Biosca, Daniel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
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      Earth-reflected Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) have become an attractive tool to be employed in low-Earth-orbit spaceborne missions, for applications such as ocean mesoscale altimetry and scatterometry. For such ...
    • Comparison of GPS L1 and Galileo E1 signals for GNSS-R ocean altimetry 

      Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
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      In the last years, the GPS signals have been validated as opportunity signals in a wide range of reflectometry-based remote sensing applications for sea, land or ice scenarios. Recently, the first Galileo satellites have ...
    • Comparison of real-time time-frequency RFI mitigation techniques in microwave radiometry 

      Querol Borràs, Jorge; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) is a well-known problem for Microwave Radiometers (MWR). A number of RFI mitigation techniques have been studied to deal with RFI from the receiver's side. In this study, a comparison in ...
    • Cross-correlation waveform analysis for conventional and interferometric GNSS-R approaches 

      Martín Alemany, Francisco; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Hyuk, Park; d'Addio, Salvatore; Martín Neira, Manuel; Pascual Biosca, Daniel (2014-05-01)
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      Reflectometry using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS-R) signals has become an attractive tool for Earth remote sensing. Back to 1993, it was proposed as an alternative to the conventional spaceborne ocean altimetry ...