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8 November 2014 Radio occultation based on BeiDou satellite navigation
Hu Jiang, Haiying Hu, Xue-min Shen, Wenbin Gong, Yonghe Zhang
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Abstract
With the development of GNSS systems, it has become a tendency that radio occultation is used to sense the Earth’s atmosphere. By this means, the moisture, temperature, pressure, and total electron content can be derived. Based on the sensing results, more complicated models for atmosphere might come into being. Meteorology well benefits from this technology. As scheduled, the BD satellite navigation system will have a worldwide coverage by the end of 2020. Radio occultation studies in China have been highlighted in the recent decade. More and more feasibilities reports have been published in either domestic or international journals. Herein, some scenarios are proposed to assess the coverage of radio occultation based on two different phases of BD satellite navigation system. Phase one for BD is composed of GEO,IGSO and several MEO satellites. Phase two for BD consists mostly of 24 MEO satellites, some GEO and IGSO satellites. The characteristics of radio occultation based on these two phases are presented respectively.
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Hu Jiang, Haiying Hu, Xue-min Shen, Wenbin Gong, and Yonghe Zhang "Radio occultation based on BeiDou satellite navigation", Proc. SPIE 9259, Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Clouds, and Precipitation V, 925922 (8 November 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2083135
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KEYWORDS
Satellites

Satellite navigation systems

Earth's atmosphere

Global Positioning System

Receivers

Atmospheric sensing

Atmospheric modeling

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