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Derivation of the Cramér-Rao Bound in the GNSS-Reflectometry Context for Static, Ground-Based Receivers in Scenarios with Coherent Reflection

Ribot Sanfelix, Miguel Angel  
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Botteron, Cyril  
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Farine, Pierre-André  
2016
Sensors

The use of the reflected Global Navigation Satellite Systems’ (GNSS) signals in Earth observation applications, referred to as GNSS reflectometry (GNSS-R), has been already studied for more than two decades. However, the estimation precision that can be achieved by GNSS-R sensors in some particular scenarios is still not fully understood yet. In an effort to partially fill this gap, in this paper, we compute the Cramér–Rao bound (CRB) for the specific case of static ground-based GNSS-R receivers and scenarios where the coherent component of the reflected signal is dominant. We compute the CRB for GNSS signals with different modulations, GPS L1 C/A and GPS L5 I/Q, which use binary phase-shift keying, and Galileo E1 B/C and E5, using the binary offset carrier. The CRB for these signals is evaluated as a function of the receiver bandwidth and different scenario parameters, such as the height of the receiver or the properties of the reflection surface. The CRB computation presented considers observation times of up to several tens of seconds, in which the satellite elevation angle observed changes significantly. Finally, the results obtained show the theoretical benefit of using modern GNSS signals with GNSS-R techniques using long observation times, such as the interference pattern technique.

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DOI
10.3390/s16122063
Web of Science ID

WOS:000391303000083

Author(s)
Ribot Sanfelix, Miguel Angel  
Botteron, Cyril  
Farine, Pierre-André  
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Mdpi Ag

Published in
Sensors
Volume

16

Issue

12

Start page

29

Subjects

GNSS-R

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Cramér-Rao Bound (CRB)

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coherent reflection

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L-band

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soil moisture estimation

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altimetry

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interference pattern technique (IPT)

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http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/12/2063
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