GPS bistatic signals have applications for remote sensing in collecting data such as soil moisture content, surface altitude or wave speed. Prior research using these signals has been limited by the low signal power of the bistatic GPS signals. NAVSYS Corporation has developed an advanced bistatic GPS receiver that uses a 109-element GPS antenna array and digital beam steering to provide gain to increase the ability to detect the weak bistatic GPS signals. This provides up to 20 dB of gain over previous receivers. In this paper, the design of the Digital Beam-Steering receiver is described and data collected during flight tests with the array are presented. The data was collected with the antenna array installed on a Cessna aircraft. Flights were conducted over terrain and water and the data was recorded for post-test analysis. The results of the flight test show the increase in fidelity and observability of the bistatic GPS signals by using digital beam steering. The digital scanning capability of the receiver also increases the area of coverage over which data can be collected from a single aircraft pass. The enhanced data collected will be of benefit for all remote sensing applications using bistatic GPS signals.


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    Title :

    Remote Sensing using Bistatic GPS and a Digital Beam-Steering Receiver


    Contributors:
    A. K. Brown (author)

    Publication date :

    2005


    Size :

    5 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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