Effects of PRN-dependent ACF deviations on GNSS-R wind speed retrieval

W Li, E Cardellach, F Fabra, S Ribó… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2018ieeexplore.ieee.org
In global navigation satellite systems reflectometry (GNSS-R), the autocorrelation property of
the transmitted GNSS signal is an important factor in the delay-Doppler map of the scattered
power. The autocorrelation functions (ACFs) of the GPS Level 1 (L1) coarse/acquisition
signals exhibit sidelobes. For some of the pseudorandom noise (PRN) codes, the high-
amplitude sidelobes are located within one chip from the main lobe and, thus, broaden or
narrow its width. These PRN-dependent ACF deviations can introduce significant biases into …
In global navigation satellite systems reflectometry (GNSS-R), the autocorrelation property of the transmitted GNSS signal is an important factor in the delay-Doppler map of the scattered power. The autocorrelation functions (ACFs) of the GPS Level 1 (L1) coarse/acquisition signals exhibit sidelobes. For some of the pseudorandom noise (PRN) codes, the high-amplitude sidelobes are located within one chip from the main lobe and, thus, broaden or narrow its width. These PRN-dependent ACF deviations can introduce significant biases into the GNSS-R scatterometric observables and the wind speed measurements. Simulation results for Cyclone GNSS (CYGNSS) mission show that the ACF deviation induced wind speed error can be larger than 10% (e.g., 2-3 m/s for 20 m/s and 7-8 m/s for 40 m/s wind speeds). These effects can be corrected efficiently by applying empirical factors on the CYGNSS L1 observables.
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