FGH1  GNSS and Radio Beacon Remote Sensing

Saturday, January 6  08:20-11:40  Room 150

Session Chairs:  Carl Siefring, Clara Chew, John Swoboda

08:20  FGH1-1  FORWARD MODELING OF CYGNSS GNSS-R LAND REFLECTION MEASUREMENTS

Andrew J. O'Brien*, Mohammad Al-Khaldi, Joel T. Johnson

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH


08:40  FGH1-2  AN ANALYSIS OF CYGNSS REFLECTIONS OVER LAND

Mohammad Al-Khaldi*, Joel Johnson, Jeonghwan Park, Andrew O'Brien

ElectroScience Lab, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio


09:00  FGH1-3  A Theoretical Study of the Relationship Between Bistatic scattering Cross Sections and GPS Reflectometry Delay-Doppler Maps Over Vegetated Land In Support of Soil Moisture Retrieval

Amir Azemati*1, Mahta Moghaddam1, Arvind Bhat2

1Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI), Rockville


09:20  FGH1-4  RESULTS FROM A WETLANDS GNSS-R AIRCRAFT CAMPAIGN

Stephen T. Lowe*1, Clara C. Chew2, Jesal Shah1, Michael Kilzer1, Son Nghiem1

1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, LaCanada, CA
2UCAR, Boulder, CO


09:40  FGH1-5  GPS STOCHASTIC TEC AND PHASE SCINTILLATION

Charles L. Rino*1, Brian Breitsch1, Yu Morton1, Charles Carrano2

1Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
2Institute of Scientific Research, Boston College, Boston, Mass


10:20  FGH1-6  COMPARISON OF SIMULATED AND REAL-WORLD DIFFRACTION EFFECTS IN GNSS PHASE MEASUREMENTS USING THE GEOMETRY-IONOSPHERE-FREE COMBINATION

Brian Breitsch*1, Charles Rino2, Jade Morton1

1Aerospace / Remote-Sensing, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
2Institute for Scientific Research, Boston College, Boston, MA


10:40  FGH1-7  CHARACTERIZATION OF GNSS SCINTILLATIONS OVER THREE NIGERIAN STATIONS; NSUKKA, ILE-IFE AND ILORIN DURING 2010?2012

Andrew Akala*1, Patricia Doherty2, Keith Groves2, Charles Carrano2, Christopher Bridgwood2

1UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, LAGOS, NIGERIA
2ISR, BOSTON COLLEGE, BOSTON


11:00  FGH1-8  BEACON DATA PROCESSING FOR THE 2017 RAPID DEPLOYMENT TO JICAMARCA

John P. Swoboda*, Ryan Volz, Anthea J. Coster, Frank D. Lind

Atmospheric Sciences Group, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA


11:20  FGH1-9  PRELIMINARY SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATIONS OF THE IONOSPHERE WITH BEACONS, IN-SITU HF RECEIVER AND INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR IN THE POLAR CAP

Carl L. Siefring*1, Paul A. Bernhardt1, H. Gordon James2, Andrew W. Yau2, Roger H. Varney3

1Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, CANADA
3Center for GeoSpace Studies, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA