Publications by Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

Parameter Estimation with GNSS-Reflectometry and GNSS Synthetic Aperture Techniques

Aside from intentional interference, multipath is the most significant error source for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers in many operational scenarios. In this thesis, we study the multipath estimation from two different perspectives: t ...

EPFL2018

Carrier Tracking using Extended Kalman Filters for GNSS Synthetic Aperture Processing with a Rotating Antenna

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix, Joaquin Cabeza de Pablo

A single GNSS antenna moving along a known trajectory can be used to synthesize a virtual array in order to apply spatial diversity techniques, e.g. beamforming. With these techniques, referred as synthetic aperture (SA) techniques, the receiver can mitiga ...

2017

GNSS Multipath Estimation and Mitigation Using a Rotating Antenna

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix, Joaquin Cabeza de Pablo

We describe the experimental framework that we have developed to study the use of synthetic aperture in GNSS receivers to estimate and mitigate multipath interference. By combining the signal received by a single moving antenna during different time instan ...

2017

Estimation Bounds for GNSS Synthetic Aperture Techniques

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix, Joaquin Cabeza de Pablo

This paper characterizes the estimation performance of synthetic aperture (SA) techniques in the context of moving GNSS receivers. Under the assumption of a stationary channel, SA techniques transform a single antenna into a virtual array. We first introdu ...

2017

Derivation of the Cramér-Rao Bound in the GNSS-Reflectometry Context for Static, Ground-Based Receivers in Scenarios with Coherent Reflection

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

The use of the reflected Global Navigation Satellite Systems’ (GNSS) signals in Earth observation applications, referred to as GNSS reflectometry (GNSS-R), has been already studied for more than two decades. However, the estimation precision that can be ac ...

Mdpi Ag2016

A New Estimation Algorithm for the GNSS-R Interference Pattern Technique: The Segmented Maximum-Likelihood

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Miguel Angel Ribot Sanfelix

During the last years, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) reflectometry (GNSS-R) receivers have proven in several field experiments that GNSS signals reflected and scattered from the Earth’s surface can be used in passive remote sensing application ...

2015

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