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Theory of GNSS Reflectometry

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The GNSS-reflectometry works as a bi-static radar system in which the transmitter and the receiver are separated by a significant distance. This Chapter compiles different theoretical aspects to understand the GNSS signals after their reflection of the Earth surface, including multi-static system, specular and diffuse scattering, delay and doppler, reflectivity levels and polarization issues, scattering theories, noise and coherence Issues, systematic error and PARIS Interferometric technique (PIT).

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  1. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China People’s Republic

    Shuanggen Jin

  2. Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (ICE/IEEC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

    Estel Cardellach

  3. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, USA

    Feiqin Xie

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Jin, S., Cardellach, E., Xie, F. (2014). Theory of GNSS Reflectometry. In: GNSS Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7482-7_8

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