Snow-covered lake ice in GPS multipath reception – theory and measurement Export

@article{citeulike:6051863, abstract = {Speculary reflected signals from the ground can significantly affect the performance of Global Positioning System receivers. For this type of multipath condition, the received powers are primarily the sum of the speculary reflected and direct signals. These reflected signals can provide useful information about the land-surface composition. In this paper, we discuss the special case of a snow-covered frozen lake, with incident energy at 1.57542 GHz with right-hand circularly polarization at elevation angles between 2° and 40°. The relative received powers are computed and measured for various thicknesses of lake ice. The received powers for both theory and measurement have the same behavior throughout a range of elevation angles. The potential for inferring lake ice thickness is explored for a snow-covered lake ice case study.}, author = {Jacobson, M. D.}, citeulike-article-id = {6051863}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2009.10.013}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0273117709006760}, day = {24}, doi = {10.1016/j.asr.2009.10.013}, issn = {02731177}, journal = {Advances in Space Research}, month = {October}, posted-at = {2009-10-31 22:04:14}, title = {Snow-covered lake ice in GPS multipath reception – theory and measurement}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2009.10.013}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6051863 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6051863 N2 - Speculary reflected signals from the ground can significantly affect the performance of Global Positioning System receivers. For this type of multipath condition, the received powers are primarily the sum of the speculary reflected and direct signals. These reflected signals can provide useful information about the land-surface composition. In this paper, we discuss the special case of a snow-covered frozen lake, with incident energy at 1.57542 GHz with right-hand circularly polarization at elevation angles between 2° and 40°. The relative received powers are computed and measured for various thicknesses of lake ice. The received powers for both theory and measurement have the same behavior throughout a range of elevation angles. The potential for inferring lake ice thickness is explored for a snow-covered lake ice case study. JF - Advances in Space Research SN - 02731177 TI - Snow-covered lake ice in GPS multipath reception – theory and measurement AU - Jacobson, MD PY - 2009/10/24/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2009.10.013 ER -