Publications by Jérôme Leclère

Comparison of L1 and L5 Bands GNSS Signals Acquisition

Nowadays, civil Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals are available in both L1 and L5 bands. A receiver does not need to acquire independently the signals in both bands coming from a same satellite, since their carrier Doppler and code delay ar ...

2018

Study on the cross-correlation of GNSS signals and typical approximations

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

In global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers, the first signal processing stage is the acquisition, which consists in detecting the received GNSS signals and determining the associated code delay and Doppler frequency by means of correlations wit ...

Springer Verlag2017

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

How does one compute the noise power to simulate real and complex GNSS signals?

Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

Simulation of GNSS signals is very important to test and validate algorithms. With some algorithms, such as acquisition or tracking, we do not need to simulate a realistic constellation with actual ranges, Doppler or navigation data. We can simply simulate ...

2016

Standalone GPS L1 C/A Receiver for Lunar Missions

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère, Vincenzo Capuano, Jia Tian, Yanguang Wang, Paul David Blunt

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) were originally introduced to provide positioning and timing services for terrestrial Earth users. However, space users increasingly rely on GNSS for spacecraft navigation and other science applications at severa ...

Mdpi Ag2016

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

Acquisition of modern GNSS signals using a modified parallel code-phase search architecture

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

The acquisition of global navigation satellite system signals can be performed using a fast Fourier transform (FFT). The FFT-based acquisition performs a circular correlation, and is thus sensitive to potential transitions between consecutive periods of th ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Normalized GNSS Interference Pattern Technique for Altimetry

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère, Mohammed Benjelloun, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

It is well known that reflected signals from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) can be used for altimetry applications, such as monitoring of water levels and determining snow height. Due to the interference of these reflected signals and the motio ...

Mdpi Ag2014

Resource-efficient parallel acquisition architectures for modernized GNSS signals

Jérôme Leclère

EPFL2014

An Efficient Time-frequency Algorithm for the Weak Signal Acquisition of Modernized GNSS Signals

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère, Vincenzo Capuano, Jia Tian, Yanguang Wang

The new GPS/Galileo/Compass signals use much longer code lengths and higher code frequencies than the GPS L1 C/A signal. As a result, they can provide improved ranging and anti-jamming performances. Unfortunately, their acquisition complexity is significan ...

2014

Soil Moisture & Snow Properties Determination with GNSS in Alpine Environments: Challenges, Status, and Perspectives

Jan Skaloud, Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère, Steven Vincent Weijs

Moisture content in the soil and snow in the alpine environment is an important factor, not only for environmentally oriented research, but also for decision making in agriculture and hazard management. Current observation techniques quantifying soil moist ...

2013

Comparison Framework of FPGA-based GNSS Signals Acquisition Architectures

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

The acquisition of Global Navigation Satellite Systems signals using Code Division Multiple Access can be performed through classical correlation or using a Fourier transform. These methods are well known but what is missing is a comparison of their perfor ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Modified parallel code-phase search for acquisition in presence of sign transition

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

One of the method to have a fast acquisition of GNSS signals is the parallel code-phase search, which uses the fast Fourier transform (FFT) to perform the correlation. A problem with this method is the potential sign transition that can happen between two ...

2013

Demands of the Road An Assisted-GNSS Solution Uses the EGNOS Data Access Service

Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

For use in billing drivers in road-user charging schemes, onboard units employing GNSS must meet stringent reliability and availability requirements, and at the same time, be based on low-cost equipment systems. The SIGNATURE unit includes an assistance se ...

2011

A New FFT-Based Algorithm for Secondary Code Acquisition for Galileo Signals

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

The innovative spreading codes used to modulate the new Galileo signals creates new challenges for receiver designers. It is well known in GNSS systems that longer integration times are needed to obtain a better sensitivity. However, the existence of the n ...

IEEE2011

An Assisted-GNSS Solution for Demanding Road Applications using the EGNOS Data Access System (EDAS)

Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

Roads right across Europe are becoming more congested and governments and regional authorities are looking for ways to better manage the existing road network. One tool that is being increasingly promoted to tackle the congestion challenge is Road User Cha ...

2010

Resource and Performance Comparisons for Different Acquisition Methods that can be Applied to a VHDL-based GPS Receiver in Standalone and Assisted Cases

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

There are mainly three well-known techniques to acquire a GNSS signal. The first, called Serial Search Acquisition, consist in correlating the Pseudo-Random Noise (PRN) codes for all the codes phases and all the frequency bins. The two others make use of t ...

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An Assisted-GNSS Solution for Demanding Road Applications using the EGNOS Data Access System (EDAS)

Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

This paper describes a prototype solution which has been developed to provide both the positioning availability and integrity required for this application. The SIGNATURE (SImple GNSS Assisted & TrUsted REceiver) solution includes an assistance service whi ...

2010