GNSS-R Earth Remote Sensing from SmallSats
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2023) | Viewed by 32980
Special Issue Editors
Interests: GNSS-reflectometry; microwave radiometry; bistatic scattering; SmallSats; planetary sciences; water cycle; carbon cycle
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Dear Colleagues,
Small satellites are changing the paradigm in Earth remote sensing, taking advantage of innovative payloads. As such, the operation of constellations of these instruments has the potential to observe Earth’s dynamic processes with a higher spatio-temporal sampling than traditional techniques. In particular, the so-called Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry (GNSS-R) is a sort of L-band passive multi-static radar (as many transmitters as navigation satellites are in view) that provides a wide swath up to ~1500 km. GNSS-R spatio-temporal sampling properties could open new process insights on mesoscale studies, wind speed determination, soil moisture content determination, vegetation water content monitoring etc
This Special Issue aims to trigger the development of a potential virtual network of satellites providing inter-comparable data to the scientific community, based on the new GRSS Standard for GNSS-Reflectometry. New and novel GNSS-R scientific applications, methodologies, and retrieval algorithms are the focus of this Special Issue, including contributions from academia, international space agencies, and private industry. Works arising from present and future GNSS-R missions are invited to participle in this scientific forum:
- CYGNSS
- BuFeng-1
- Spire CubeSats series
- Fengyun-3 series
- FSSCat
- PRETTY
- Triton
- HydroGNSS
Dr. Hugo Carreno-Luengo
Dr. Chun‐Liang Lin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- GNSS-R ocean surface wind speed
- GNSS-R ocean altimetry
- GNSS-R soil moisture content
- GNSS-R biomass
- GNSS-R inland water bodies
- GNSS-R cryosphere
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