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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,191 Views
20 Pages

Simulations and Analysis of GNSS Multipath Observables for Frozen and Thawed Soil under Complex Surface Conditions

  • Chao Gao,
  • Weihua Bai,
  • Zhiqiang Wang,
  • Xuerui Wu and ,
  • Lijun Liu,
  • Nan Deng and
  • Junming Xia
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 July 2021

The transition of the freeze–thaw state of the land surface soil occurs every year with the season and is closely related to the human living environment. The freezing and thawing changes of the ground surface have important effects on hydrological a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Application on Soil Moisture)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Views
22 Pages

10 November 2026

This article presents a comprehensive overview of the applications of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) in the energy sector. Based on 161 publications selected from the Web of Science database, it outlines the role of measurement techniques...

  • Article
  • Open Access
957 Views
25 Pages

This study aims to evaluate the potential of Global Navigation Satellite System Interferometric Reflectometry (GNSS-IR) based on signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) analysis for monitoring crop structure and moisture. Data were collected using a GNSS antenna...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Farming Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,982 Views
25 Pages

A GNSS-IR Soil Moisture Inversion Method Considering Multi-Factor Influences Under Different Vegetation Covers

  • Yadong Yao,
  • Jixuan Yan,
  • Guang Li,
  • Weiwei Ma and ,
  • Xiangdong Yao,
  • Miao Song,
  • Qiang Li and
  • Jie Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

The Global Navigation Satellite System Interferometric Reflectometry (GNSS-IR) has demonstrated significant potential for soil moisture content (SMC) monitoring due to its high spatiotemporal resolution. However, GNSS-IR inversion experiments are not...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Soils)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,046 Views
21 Pages

GNSS-IR Snow Depth Retrieval from Multi-GNSS and Multi-Frequency Data

  • Jinsheng Tu,
  • Haohan Wei,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Lei Yang and ,
  • Jichao Lv,
  • Xiaoming Li,
  • Shihai Nie,
  • Peng Li,
  • Yanxia Wang and
  • Nan Li
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

26 October 2021

Global navigation satellite system interferometric reflectometry (GNSS-IR) represents an extra method to detect snow depth for climate research and water cycle managing. However, using a single frequency of GNSS-IR for snow depth retrieval is often f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GNSS, Space Weather and TEC Special Features)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,072 Views
27 Pages

Retrieval of Soil Moisture Content Based on Multisatellite Dual-Frequency Combination Multipath Errors

  • Shihai Nie,
  • Yanxia Wang,
  • Jinsheng Tu,
  • Peng Li and ,
  • Jianhui Xu,
  • Nan Li,
  • Mengke Wang,
  • Danni Huang and
  • Jia Song
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

3 July 2022

Global navigation satellite system interferometric reflectometry (GNSS-IR) is a new type of microwave remote sensing technology that can measure soil moisture content (SMC). GNSS-IR soil moisture retrieval methods based on the satellite signal-to-noi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GNSS, Space Weather and TEC Special Features)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,665 Views
14 Pages

27 March 2023

Previous studies of GNSS-IR mainly focused on the legacy L1C signal; the potential of modernized signals (L2C and L5Q) has not yet been fully exploited. In this paper, we applied the Multichannel Singular Spectrum Analysis (M-SSA) method to extract c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of GNSS Reflectometry for Earth Observation III)
  • Article
  • Open Access
471 Views
25 Pages

2 June 2026

Accurate and continuous high-frequency water level monitoring is essential for flood control, water resource regulation, and hydrological studies in the Yellow River. However, traditional methods are often limited in complex inland river environments...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Satellite Geodesy for Sea-Level Change Observation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,301 Views
11 Pages

14 May 2022

Using the navigation signal transmitted by GNSS (global navigation satellite system), satellites for tide level monitoring comprise one of the important research fields of GNSS marine remote sensing. Regarding the problem that GNSS-MR (multipath refl...

(This article belongs to the Topic Multi-Sensor Integrated Navigation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,680 Views
21 Pages

Soil moisture is one of the critical variables in maintaining the global water cycle balance. Moreover, it plays a vital role in climate change, crop growth, and environmental disaster event monitoring, and it is important to monitor soil moisture co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,212 Views
21 Pages

PAU/RAD: Design and Preliminary Calibration Results of a New L-Band Pseudo-Correlation Radiometer Concept

  • Xavier Bosch-Lluis,
  • Adriano Camps,
  • Isaac Ramos-Perez,
  • Juan Fernando Marchan-Hernandez and ,
  • Nereida Rodriguez-Alvarez and
  • Enric Valencia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 July 2008

The Passive Advanced Unit (PAU) for ocean monitoring is a new type of instrument that combines in a single receiver and without time multiplexing, a polarimetric pseudo-correlation microwave radiometer at L-band (PAU-RAD) and a GPS reflectometer (PAU...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,090 Views
40 Pages

3 September 2026

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) are playing an increasingly important role in monitoring climate change, providing precise and continuous data on processes occurring in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Understanding Ecosystem Dynamics in Cold and Arid Regions Under Global Change: A Remote Sensing Perspective)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,092 Views
19 Pages

A Study of GNSS-IR Soil Moisture Inversion Algorithms Integrating Robust Estimation with Machine Learning

  • Rui Ding,
  • Nanshan Zheng,
  • Hao Zhang,
  • Hua Zhang and ,
  • Fengkai Lang and
  • Wei Ban
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 April 2023

Soil moisture monitoring is widely used in agriculture, water resource management, and disaster prevention, which is of great significance for sustainability. The global navigation satellite system interferometric reflectometry (GNSS-IR) technology p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,621 Views
16 Pages

9 September 2025

Global Navigation Satellite System Interferometric Reflectometry (GNSS-IR) technology has emerged as a research hotspot in the remote sensing field in recent years due to its advantages of low cost and high precision for soil moisture monitoring. Add...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,356 Views
20 Pages

Comparative Performance Analysis of Heterogeneous Ensemble Learning Models for Multi-Satellite Fusion GNSS-IR Soil Moisture Retrieval

  • Yao Jiang,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Hang Jiang,
  • Bo Zhang and ,
  • Kangyi Chen,
  • Jichao Lv,
  • Jie Chen and
  • Yunfan Song
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 August 2025

Given the complexity of near-surface soil moisture retrieval, a single machine learning algorithm often struggles to capture the intricate relationships among multiple features, resulting in limited generalization and robustness. To address this issu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,549 Views
20 Pages

Soil Moisture Retrieval Using GNSS-IR Based on Empirical Modal Decomposition and Cross-Correlation Satellite Selection

  • Qin Ding,
  • Yueji Liang,
  • Xingyong Liang,
  • Chao Ren and ,
  • Hongbo Yan,
  • Yintao Liu,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Xianjian Lu,
  • Jianmin Lai and
  • Xinmiao Hu
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

21 June 2023

Global Navigation Satellite System interferometric reflectometry (GNSS-IR), as a new remote sensing detection technology, can retrieve surface soil moisture (SM) by separating the modulation terms from the effective signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data....

(This article belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,326 Views
23 Pages

Monitoring the Variation of Vegetation Water Content with Machine Learning Methods: Point–Surface Fusion of MODIS Products and GNSS-IR Observations

  • Qiangqiang Yuan,
  • Shuwen Li,
  • Linwei Yue,
  • Tongwen Li and ,
  • Huanfeng Shen and
  • Liangpei Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 June 2019

Vegetation water content (VWC) is recognized as an important parameter in vegetation growth studies, natural disasters such as forest fires, and drought prediction. Recently, the Global Navigation Satellite System Interferometric Reflectometry (GNSS-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,369 Views
18 Pages

22 December 2017

Frozen soil and permafrost affect ecosystem diversity and productivity as well as global energy and water cycles. Although some space-based Radar techniques or ground-based sensors can monitor frozen soil and permafrost variations, there are some sho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Constellation Global Navigation Satellite Systems: Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,658 Views
17 Pages

A GNSS-IR Method for Retrieving Soil Moisture Content from Integrated Multi-Satellite Data That Accounts for the Impact of Vegetation Moisture Content

  • Jichao Lv,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Jinsheng Tu,
  • Mingjie Liao and ,
  • Jiatai Pang,
  • Bin Yu,
  • Kui Li,
  • Wei Xiang,
  • Yin Fu and
  • Guoxiang Liu
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

22 June 2021

There are two problems with using global navigation satellite system-interferometric reflectometry (GNSS-IR) to retrieve the soil moisture content (SMC) from single-satellite data: the difference between the reflection regions, and the difficulty in...

(This article belongs to the Topic GNSS Measurement Technique in Aerial Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,827 Views
21 Pages

GNSS-IR Soil Moisture Retrieval Using Multi-Satellite Data Fusion Based on Random Forest

  • Yao Jiang,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Bo Sun,
  • Tianyu Wang and ,
  • Bo Zhang,
  • Jinsheng Tu,
  • Shihai Nie,
  • Hang Jiang and
  • Kangyi Chen
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

15 September 2024

The accuracy and reliability of soil moisture retrieval based on Global Positioning System (GPS) single-star Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) data is low due to the influence of spatial and temporal differences of different satellites. Therefore, this pap...