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    • 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 evidence of swell signatures in airborne L5/E5a GNSS-reflectometry 

      Muñoz Martin, Joan Francesc; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Rudiger, Christoph; Walker, Jeffrey; Monerris Belda, Alessandra (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020-05-29)
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      As compared to GPS L1C/A signals, L5/E5a Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) improves the spatial resolution due to the narrower auto-correlation function. Furthermore, the larger transmitted power ...
    • First experimental evidence of wind and swell signatures in L5 GPS and E5A Galileo GNSS-R waveforms 

      Muñoz Martin, Joan Francesc; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Rudiger, Christoph; Walker, Jeffrey; Monerris Belda, Alessandra (2020)
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      As compared to the using L1C/A signals, L5/E5a Global Navigation Satellite System - Reflectometry (GNSS-R), gives improved resolution over the Earth's surface due to the sharper auto-correlation function. Furthermore, the ...
    • Improved gnss-r altimetry methods: Theory and experimental demonstration using airborne dual frequency data from the microwave interferometric reflectometer (mir) 

      Cervelló i Nogués, Oriol; Muñoz Martín, Joan Francesc; Hyuk, Park; Camps, Adriano; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raul; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Rudiger, Christoph; Walker, Jeffrey; Monerris Belda, Alessandra (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2021-10-01)
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      Altimetric performance of Global Navigation Satellite System - Reflectometry (GNSS-R) instruments depends on receiver’s bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The altimetric delay is usually computed from the time ...
    • On the correlation between GNSS-R reflectivity and L-band microwave radiometry 

      Alonso Arroyo, Alberto; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Monerris Belda, Sandra; Rudiger, Christoph; Walker, Jeffrey; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Querol Borràs, Jorge; Hyuk, Park; Pascual Biosca, Daniel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016-12)
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      This work compares microwave radiometry and global navigation satellite systems-reflectometry (GNSS-R) observations using data gathered from airborne flights conducted for three different soil moisture conditions. Two ...
    • Parameter considerations for the retrieval of surface soil moisture from spaceborne GNSS-R 

      Muñoz Martin, Joan Francesc; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Rudiger, Christoph; Walker, Jeffrey; Monerris Belda, Alessandra (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
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      The Microwave Interferometric Reflectometer (MIR) is an airborne GNSS-R instrument developed by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. In 2018, it was flown twice over the agricultural Yanco area, New South Wales, Australia, ...
    • Predicting the extent of wildfires using remotely sensed soil moisture and temperature trends 

      Chaparro Danon, David; Vall-Llossera Ferran, Mercedes Magdalena; Piles Guillem, Maria; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Rudiger, Christoph; Riera Tatche, Ramón (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016-06-01)
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      Recent climate trends evidence a rise of temperatures and an increase in the duration and intensity of droughts which is in turn leading to the occurrence of larger wildfires, which threaten the environment as well as human ...
    • Preliminary end- to-end results of the MIR instrument: the microwave interferometric reflectometer 

      Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Pascual, D.; Querol Borràs, Jorge; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Rudiger, Christoph; Walker, Jeffrey (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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      Global Navigation Satellite Systems - Reflectometry (GNSS-R) has shown his potential for remote sensing. Since new wider band signals are being broadcasted, and new systems are becoming available, a performance comparison ...
    • Satellite cross-talk impact analysis in airborne interferometric global navigation satellite system-reflectometry with the microwave interferometric reflectometer 

      Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Rudiger, Christoph; Walker, Jeffrey; Monerris Belda, Alessandra (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2019-05-01)
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      This work analyzes the satellite cross-talk observed by the microwave interferometric reflectometer (MIR), a new global navigation satellite system (GNSS) reflectometer, during an airborne field campaign in Victoria and ...
    • 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 ...
    • Untangling the GNSS-R coherent and incoherent components: Experimental evidences over the ocean 

      Muñoz Martin, Joan Francesc; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raul; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Rudiger, Christoph; Walker, Jeffrey; Monerris Belda, Alessandra (2020)
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      Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflected (GNSS-R) signals exhibit an incoherent and a coherent components [1], [2]. Current models assume that one or the other are dominant, and the calibration, and geophysical parameter ...
    • Untangling the incoherent and coherent scattering components in GNSS-R and novel applications 

      Muñoz Martin, Joan Francesc; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Rudiger, Christoph; Walker, Jeffrey; Monerris Belda, Alessandra (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020-04-09)
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      As opposed to monostatic radars where incoherent backscattering dominates, in bistatic radars, such as Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry (GNSS-R), the forward scattered signals exhibit both an incoherent ...
    • Vegetation canopy height retrieval using L1 and L5 airborne GNSS-R 

      Muñoz Martínez, Francisco José; Pascual Biosca, Daniel; Onrubia Ibáñez, Raúl; Hyuk, Park; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Rudiger, Christoph; Walker, Jeffrey; Monerris Belda, Alessandra (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021-11-29)
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      Vegetation canopy height (CH) is one of the important remote-sensing parameters related to forests’ structure, and it can be related to the biomass and the carbon stock. Global navigation satellite system-reflectometry ...