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In situ observations of the Swiss periglacial environment using GNSS instruments

Alessandro Cicoira

Monitoring of the periglacial environment is relevant for many disciplines including glaciology, natural hazard management, geomorphology, and geodesy. Since October 2022, Rock Glacier Velocity (RGV) is a new Essential Climate Variable (ECV) product within ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2022

GNSS/INS Kalman Filter Integrity Monitoring with Uncertain Time Correlated Error Processes

Omar Garcia Crespillo

Safety-critical navigation applications require that estimation errors be reliably quantified and bounded. Over the last decade, significant effort has been put to guarantee a bounded position estimation by using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) ...

EPFL2022

Ion temperature spectroscopic measurements in high rotation discharges by means of X-ray diagnostic at JET

Henri Weisen

Measurement of the X-ray spectra of the He-like Ni ions (Ni26+) and their dielectronic satellites (Ni25+, Ni24+, and Ni23+) plays a crucial role in determination of electronic and ion temperature of plasma in the JET device. Because n >= 3 satellites of Ni ...

2022

Uncooperative Rendezvous in Space: Design of an Electronic Architecture for High Performance Avionic with Multi Sensor Input and Intensive Data Rate

Michaël Yannick Juillard

Active Debris Removal missions consist of sending a satellite in space and removing one or more debris from their current orbit. A key challenge is to obtain information about the uncooperative target. By gathering the velocity, position, and rotation of t ...

EPFL2022

QUIC: Opportunities and threats in SATCOM

Emmanuel Qays Dubois, Ludovic Bernard Gérard Thomas

This article proposes a discussion on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats related to the deployment of QUIC end-to-end from a satellite-operator point-of-view. The deployment of QUIC is an opportunity for improving the quality of experienc ...

IEEE2020

Satellite constellation design algorithm for remote sensing of diurnal cycles phenomena

Luzius Gregor Kronig

This paper proposes an algorithm to find the smallest satellite constellation satisfying a given set of Earth observation requirements. This methodology is exemplified with the Satellites Observing Lakes and Vegetation Environments (SOLVE) study, which aim ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2018

Correction of CCI cloud data over the Swiss Alps using ground-based radiation measurements

Alexis Berne

The validation of long-term cloud data sets retrieved from satellites is challenging due to their worldwide coverage going back as far as the 1980s. A trustworthy reference cannot be found easily at every location and every time. Mountainous regions presen ...

Copernicus GmbH2018

Feature article: High sensitivity acquisition of GNSS signals with secondary code on FPGAs

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

The modern global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) signals, such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) L5 and L1C, and Galileo E5 and E1, have brought several innovations: the introduction of a pilot channel that does not contain any data to allow very ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

An adaptive GNSS-based reduced dynamic approach for real time autonomous navigation from the Earth to the Moon

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano, Paul David Blunt, Endrit Shehaj

In this research study we describe our last effort in further improving the achievable Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) based navigation performance in an Earth-Moon Transfer Orbit (MTO). The GNSS-based orbital filter we implemented previously wit ...

2017

Validation of functional calibration and strap-down joint drift correction for computing 3D joint angles of knee, hip, and trunk in alpine skiing

Kamiar Aminian, Benedikt Fasel

To obtain valid 3D joint angles with inertial sensors careful sensor-to-segment calibration (i.e. functional or anatomical calibration) is required and measured angular velocity at each sensor needs to be integrated to obtain segment and joint orientation ...

Public Library of Science2017

Robust Software Development for University-Built Satellites

Simon Bliudze, Anton Ivanov

Satellites and other complex systems now become more and more software dependent. Even nano satellites have complexity that can be compared to scientific instruments launched to Mars. COTS components and subsystems may now be purchased to support payload d ...

IEEE2017

FFT Splitting for Improved FPGA-Based Acquisition of GNSS Signals

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

With modern global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals, the FFT-based parallel code search acquisition must handle the frequent sign transitions due to the data or the secondary code. There is a straightforward solution to this problem, which consis ...

2015

Point rainfall statistics for ecohydrological analyses derived from satellite integrated rainfall measurements

Andrea Rinaldo

Satellite rainfall measurements, nowadays commonly available, provide valuable information about the spatial structure of rainfall. In areas with low-density rain gage networks, or where these networks are nonexistent, satellite rainfall measurements can a ...

Amer Geophysical Union2015

GNSS-based Orbital Filter for Earth Moon Transfer Orbits

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano

Numerous applications, not only Earth-based, but also space-based, have strengthened the interest of the international scientific community in using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) as navigation systems for space missions that require good accu ...

Cambridge University Press2016

Implementation and Performance of a GPS/INS Tightly Coupled Assisted PLL Architecture Using MEMS Inertial Sensors

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Phillip Tomé, Youssef Tawk, Yannick Stebler

The use of global navigation satellite system receivers for navigation still presents many challenges in urban canyon and indoor environments, where satellite availability is typically reduced and received signals are attenuated. To improve the navigation ...

Mdpi Ag2014

MERIS observations of phytoplankton blooms in a stratified eutrophic lake

Alfred Johny Wüest

The use of spaceborne medium resolution imaging spectrometers with neural network algorithms has proven a large potential for application with optically complex inland waters. We make use of this approach to investigate the bio-physical dynamics in a eutro ...

Elsevier Science Inc2012

Two-Step Galileo E1 CBOC Tracking Algorithm:When Reliability and Robustness Are Keys!

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Aleksandar Jovanovic

The majority of 3G mobile phones have an integrated GPS chip enabling them to calculate a navigation solution. But to deliver continuous and accurate location information, the satellite tracking process has to be stable and reliable. This is still challeng ...

2012

Dual Channel Optimization of Tracking Schemes for E1 CBOC Signal

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Youssef Tawk

New generation of satellite navigation signals, such as AltBOC (Alternative Binary Offset Keying), CBOC (Composite Binary Offset Keying) and TMBOC (Time Multiplex Binary Offset Keying) bring enhancements in the tracking process, such as more signal power, ...

IEEE2011

Implementation and Robustness Analysis of the Two-Step CBOC Tracking Algorithm in the scope of the GAMMA-A Project

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Youssef Tawk

Numerous mobile applications and services require that devices are aware of their location. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are the predominant enabling technology. But in order to deliver continuous and accurate location information provided by ...

2010