GNSS environmental sensing : revolutionizing environmental monitoring / Joseph Awange.
Awange, Joseph L., 1969-
2018
QH541.15.M64
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Title GNSS environmental sensing : revolutionizing environmental monitoring / Joseph Awange.
Author Awange, Joseph L., 1969-
Edition 2nd ed.
ISBN 9783319584188 (electronic book)
3319584189 (electronic book)
3319584170
9783319584171
9783319584171
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58418-8
Publication Details Cham : Springer, ©2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (462 pages).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-58418-8 doi
Call Number QH541.15.M64
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.7/063
333.7
Summary This book is the second edition of Environmental Monitoring using GNSS and highlights the latest developments in global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). It features a completely new title and additional chapters that present emerging challenges to environmental monitoring--"climate variability/change and food insecurity." Since the publication of the first edition, much has changed in both the development and applications of GNSS, a satellite microwave remote sensing technique. It is the first tool to span all four dimensions of relevance to humans (position, navigation, timing and the environment), and it has widely been used for positioning (both by military and civilians), navigation and timing. Its increasing use is leading to a new era of remote sensing that is now revolutionizing the art of monitoring our environment in ways never imagined before. On the one hand, nearly all GNSS satellites (Global Positioning System (GPS), Glo bal Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), Galileo and Beidou) have become operational, thereby providing high-precision, continuous, all-weather and near real- time remote sensing multi-signals beneficial to environmental monitoring. On the other hand, the emerging challenges of precisely monitoring climate change and the demand for the production of sufficient food for ever-increasing populations are pushing traditional monitoring methods to their limits. In this regard, refracted GNSS signals (i.e., occulted GNSS signals or GNSS meteorology) are now emerging as sensors of climate variability, while the reflected signals (GNSS reflectometry or GNSS-R) are increasingly finding applications in determining, e.g., soil moisture content, ice and snow thickness, ocean heights, and wind speed and direction, among others. Furthermore, the increasing recognition and application of GNSS-supported unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAV)/drones in agriculture (e.g., through the determination of water holding capacity of soil) highlights the new challenges facing GNSS. As such, this new edition three new chapters address GNSS reflectometry and applications; GNSS sensing of climate variability; and the applications in UAV/drones. Moreover, it explores the application of GNSS to support integrated coastal zone management.
Note 9.3 GNSS Contribution to Remote Sensing of Gravity Variations.
Bibliography, etc. Note References6 Data Processing and Adjustment; 6.1 Introductory Remarks; 6.2 Processing of Observations; 6.2.1 Data; 6.2.2 Baseline Processing; 6.2.3 Solution Types; 6.2.4 Quality Assessment; 6.2.5 Adjustment of GNSS Network Surveys; 6.3 Least Squares Solution; 6.4 Online Processing; 6.5 Concluding Remarks; References; 7 Basics of Galileo Satellites; 7.1 Introductory Remarks; 7.2 Galileo Design and Operation; 7.2.1 User Component; 7.2.2 Global Component; 7.2.3 Regional Component; 7.2.4 Local Component; 7.3 Galileo Signals; 7.4 Concluding Remarks; References.
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Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Contents; 1 Environmental Monitoring; 1.1 Monitoring; 1.2 Satellite Monitoring; 1.3 Integration of GNSS with Remote Sensing Satellites; 1.4 Objectives and Aims of the Book; References; Part I Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS); 2 Modernization of GNSS; 2.1 Introductory Remarks; 2.2 GNSS Family and the Future; 2.3 Benefits of the Expanding GNSS Family; 2.4 Concluding Remarks; References; 3 The Global Positioning System; 3.1 Introductory Remarks; 3.2 GPS Design and Operation; 3.2.1 Space Segment.

3.2.2 Control Segment3.2.3 User Segment; 3.3 GPS Observation Principles; 3.3.1 GPS Signals; 3.3.2 Measuring Principle; 3.4 Errors in GPS Measurements; 3.4.1 Ephemeris Errors; 3.4.2 Clock Errors; 3.4.3 Atmospheric Errors; 3.4.4 Multipath; 3.4.5 Satellite Constellation ``Geometry''; 3.4.6 Other Sources of Errors; 3.5 Concluding Remarks; References; 4 Mathematical Modelling ; 4.1 Introductory Remarks; 4.2 Observation Equations; 4.3 Models; 4.3.1 Static and Kinematic Positioning; 4.3.2 Differential GPS (DGPS); 4.3.3 Relative Positioning; 4.4 Concluding Remarks; References.

5 Environmental Surveying and Surveillance5.1 Environmental Monitoring Parameters; 5.2 Design of GNSS Monitoring Survey; 5.3 Mission Planning and Reconnaissance; 5.4 GNSS Field Procedures; 5.4.1 Single Point Positioning; 5.4.2 Static Relative Positioning; 5.4.3 Real-Time GNSS (RTGNSS); 5.4.4 Differential and Augmented GNSS; 5.4.5 Rapid Positioning Methods; 5.4.6 Real-Time Kinematic (RTK); 5.4.7 Precise Point Positioning (PPP); 5.5 Environmental Surveillance: CORS Monitoring; 5.6 Coordinate Reference System; 5.6.1 Datum; 5.6.2 Coordinate Systems; 5.6.3 Map Projection; 5.7 Concluding Remarks.

Part II Applications to Environmental Monitoring8 GNSS Maps in Environmental Monitoring; 8.1 Maps and Their Environmental Applications; 8.2 Types of Maps; 8.2.1 Thematic Maps; 8.2.2 Topographical Maps; 8.2.3 GNSS-Derived Topographical Maps; 8.2.4 Application to the Monitoring of Lake Jack Finney; 8.3 Concluding Remarks; References; 9 GNSS Remote Sensing of the Environment ; 9.1 Introductory Remarks; 9.2 GNSS Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere; 9.2.1 Background to GNSS-Meteorology; 9.2.2 GNSS-Derived Atmospheric Parameters; 9.2.3 GNSS Remote Sensing Techniques.

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