Assessment of modernized GPS L5 SNR for ground-based multipath reflectometry applications

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1104-1116

  Tabibi, Sajad ^a   Nievinski, Felipe G ^b   Van Dam, Tonie ^a   Monico, João F G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Coherent; GPS; Modernization; Multipath; Reflectometry

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; INTEROPERABILITY; MODERNIZATION; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COHERENT; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; GLOBAL SATELLITE NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; LINE-OF-SIGHT TRANSMISSION; MODULATION PROPERTIES; MULTIPATH; REFLECTOMETRY; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84921601895     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: 18791948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2014.11.019     Document Type: Article

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