Spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R): Techniques, Applications, and Challenges
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: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 1029
Special Issue Editors
Interests: GNSS-R; ocean wind; data assimilation
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Interests: global navigation satellite system; earth observation; remote sensing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) technique leverages L-band signals from existing GNSS satellites, offering significant advantages in terms of cost efficiency, penetration capability and high spatiotemporal resolution for Earth observation. Over the past decade, a number of GNSS-R missions, including CYGNSS, SMAP-R, FSSCAT, Bufeng-1, FengYun-3 series, PRETTY and Triton, have successfully launched. In recent years, private companies such as Spire, Tianmu, Yunyao, and Muon have also developed or are developing small-satellite constellations, enhancing the GNSS-R landscape. New missions such as HydroGNSS and the next generation of FengYun-3 series are also expected to launch in the coming years. These missions, with different instrument and signal processing designs, such as multi-GNSS and polarimetry techniques, have provided valuable datasets for advancing GNSS-R research and applications.
This Special Issue on “Spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R): Techniques, Applications, and Challenges” welcomes submissions related to spaceborne GNSS-R techniques including mission design, data applications, theoretical models and supporting experiments.
We invite manuscripts on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Mission introduction
- Instrument design, signal processing and calibration
- Scattering model
- Applications in ocean, land, cryosphere and ionosphere
- Target detection and novel applications
- Ground experiment that supports spaceborne missions
- Synergies between spaceborne GNSS-R data with other remote sensing techniques
- Data assimilation of spaceborne GNSS-R data
Dr. Feixiong Huang
Dr. Wei Wan
Dr. Feng Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- GNSS-R
- satellite mission
- small satellite
- ocean surface
- soil moisture
- sea ice
- biomass
- target detection
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