GNSS Reflected Signal Processing: Fundamentals and Applications (Navigation: Science and Technology, 16)

This open access book presents the fundamental methods and applications of GNSS-reflected signal reception processing. On the basis of systematic analysis of GNSS signals, it delves into the typical characteristics of signals after reflection, discussing the software and hardware design of GNSS-reflected signal receivers from different perspectives, including RF reception, IF processing, and extraction of observations. It offers a comprehensive introduction and exploration of ocean remote sensing, land remote sensing, and several new applications (such as airborne moving target detection, river boundary monitoring, and surface water body identification). The content covers a variety of different configuration modes such as shore-based, ground-based, airborne, and satellite-based and also includes two signal processing methods: single-antenna interferometry and dual-antenna cooperative method. The data used in the theoretical modeling and algorithm performance simulation validation are both from experiments conducted by the authors' research team and from experiments carried out with partners, as well as results processed from publicly available datasets domestically and internationally.

This book is suitable for faculty and students in the fields related to satellite navigation (such as electronic communication, radar remote sensing, aerospace, and computer), earth observation, and also serves as a reference book for engineers and scientific management personnel engaged in application research in the fields of oceanography, meteorology, agriculture, water conservancy, and environment studies. 

Dongkai Yang was born in China in 1972. He received his B.S. degree in electronic engineering from the North University of China, Taiyuan, China, in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in communication and information systems from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. From 2001 to 2002, he was a research fellow with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is now a full professor at School of Electronic Information Engineering, Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University, and worked as a chair professor on GNSS for UN affiliated Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia Pacific (China). His research interests include the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and its applications.

Feng Wang received his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. degree in information and signal processing from the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2012 and 2019, respectively. In 2020, he began his post-doctoral work at the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University. His research interest is the Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) applications in ocean observations. 

The following are translators of this book from Chinese to English. 

Shuyan Liu received her B.A. degree at Harbin Institute of Technology University, Heilongjiang, China, in 1999 and M.E. degree in Sydney, Australia in 2006. Since Oct. 2007, Shuyan Liu has been at Foreign Language School of Beihang University as a lecturer.

Jie Li received a bachelor’s degree from the School of Electronic and Information Engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, China, in 2016. From 2016 to 2018, he worked on his master’s degree in communication and information engineering. He worked for Huawei from 2018-2020. He received his Ph.D. in information and communication engineering from Beihang University in 2024 and continued his post-doctoral research in the same year. His interest is Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) application in land observation.

Yi Yang is from Shandong Province. He graduated from Beihang University and is now working in China Communications Information & Technology Group Co., Ltd. / CCCG Xingyu Technologies Co., Ltd as a senior engineer. His major working fields include engineering informatization, computer network, Beidou satellite positioning and navigation, satellite communications, etc.