Experimental study on interferometric altimetry using a ground-based dual-antenna cGNSS-R
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摘要:
地基场景下,传统全球导航卫星系统反射计(cGNSS-R)的直射、反射天线会接收到持续的反射、直射多径,对载波相位测高应用极为不利,但也为双天线干涉测高提供了可能。针对地基cGNSS-R双天线干涉测高的可行性问题,开展了水面测高试验研究。采集上视右旋圆极化(RHCP)天线和下视左旋圆极化(LHCP)天线接收的全球定位系统(GPS)L1 C/A信号数据,处理得到两天线实际接收信号的相关功率序列,利用干涉测高方法处理该序列实现了天线高度反演。结果显示:RHCP天线和LHCP天线干涉测高结果与实测天线高度的相关系数分别为0.77和0.95,测高结果平均绝对误差分别为0.15 m和0.04 m,均方根误差分别为0.17 m和0.04 m。试验证明了传统全球卫星导航系统反射计的RHCP天线和LHCP天线均具备干涉测高能力,且LHCP天线干涉测高在有限开阔场景下的性能更优。
Abstract:The direct and reflected signals can be concurrently received by both antennas of a conventional global navigation satellite system reflectometer (cGNSS-R) in ground-based settings. It is unfavorable for cGNSS-R carrier phase altimetry, but it also provides cGNSS-R the possibility of retrieving reflector height in the way of interferometric reflectometry. An initial ground-based water surface experiment was carried out to investigate the feasibility of cGNSS-R interferometric altimetry. GPS L1 C/A signals were received by an up-looking right hand circularly polarized (RHCP) antenna and a down-looking left hand circularly polarized (LHCP) antenna and then collected by a dual-channel sampler. The raw signals were postprocessed to generate their correlation power sequences. These sequences were then subjected to the GNSS interferometric reflectometry altimetry technique in order to estimate the LHCP antenna heights. Experimental results show that the correlation coefficients between the retrieved values and the true values are 0.77 and 0.95 for the RHCP antenna and the LHCP antenna, respectively. The mean absolute errors of the results are 0.15 m and 0.04 m, and the root mean square errors are 0.17 m and 0.04 m. It indicates that both the RHCP antenna and the LHCP antenna of a conventional GNSS reflectometer can be used for ground-based interferometric altimetry, and the LHCP antenna performs better in this openness-limited scenario.
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Key words:
- global positioning system /
- reflectometer /
- interferometry /
- water level /
- altimetry
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表 1 信号采集系统技术参数
Table 1. Specifications of the signal acquisition system
增益/dBi 半功率波束宽度/(°) GNSS信号采集器
中频频率/MHzGNSS信号采集器
采样频率/MHzGNSS信号采集器
量化位数/bitRHCP天线 LHCP天线 RHCP天线 LHCP天线 5 13 75 43 3.996 16.369 2 表 2 试验采集的数据及对应天线高度
Table 2. Raw data and antenna heights collected during the experiment
数据块编号 采集时间 LHCP天线高度/m 1 2023-07-05 15:24—17:42 ≈3.18 2 2023-07-06 12:13—14:58 ≈3.03 3 2023-07-06 15:31—18:16 ≈2.83 表 3 干涉测高性能
Table 3. Performance of interferometric altimetry
天线 相关系数 MAE/m RMSE/m RHCP 0.77 0.15 0.17 LHCP 0.95 0.04 0.04 -
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