Global Positioning System (GPS) tide gauges have been realized in different configurations, e.g., with one zenith-looking antenna, using the multipath interference pattern for signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) analysis, or with one zenithand one nadir-looking antenna, analyzing the difference in phase delay, to estimate the sea level height. In this study, for the first time, we use a true Global Nav...

Global Positioning System (GPS) signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) measurements can be employed to retrieve environmental variables in multipath reception conditions, whereby direct or line-of-sight transmission is received simultaneously with coherent reflections thereof. Previous GPS SNR multipath studies of soil moisture and snow depth have focused on the legacy GPS L1 and L2 bands. In the present ...

This paper describes a proposal for a rapid, low cost, nanosatellite mission to demonstrate the concept of GPS ocean reflectometry and to investigate the feasibility of determining sea state for a future operational space-based storm warning systems. The aims of this mission are to prove the general feasibility of GPS ocean reflectometry, to demonstrate sea state determination and to enable the...

When synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) technology is applied in the monitoring of land subsidence, the sensor band plays an important role. An X-band SAR system as TerraSAR-X (TSX) provides high resolution and short revisit time, but it has no capability of global coverage. On the other side, an L-band sensor as Advanced Land Observing Satellite-Phased Array L-band Synthetic Apert...

The development of small, high-performance instruments to receive Global Positioning System (GPS) signals has created an opportunity for active remote sounding of the Earth’s atmosphere by radio occultation techniques. A prototype demonstration of this capability has been provided by the GPS Meteorology (GPS/MET) experiment. Although it was shown that high vertical resolution profiles of atmosp...

A new planar antenna with double access and three separated bands is presented in this article. The first access operates over two bands, a narrow band for GPS standard (1.575 GHz), and a wideband covering PCS (1.85-1.99 GHZ) and UMTS (1.92-2.17 GHz) standards and also six sub bands of the new norm 3GPP (LTE). The second access operates over a wideband covering WLAN applications (2.4-2.484 GHz)...

This paper presents a Wide Bandwidth Microstrip Yagi antenna with very good performance at two operating frequencies (1.128GHz and 1.986GHz).This microstrip antenna works on two band of frequencies .The first band lies between 1.06 GHz to 1.196 GHz and it resonates at 1.128 GHz frequency then its calculated bandwidth is 12.05% and the second band is lies between 1.621GHz to 2.351GHz and it reso...