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Typhoon monitoring utilizing reflected GNSS signals is a new application of GNSS-R technique. Coastal observations are an efficient way for the model of geophysical parameters retrieval in Typhoon and identified as a promising complementary technique with respect to the satellite instruments. However, the relationship between GNSS-R observables and the sea surface wind speed in Typhoon could not be fully described through theoretical models for the coastal regions. Meanwhile the instability of the coastal GNSS-R geometry makes it difficult to optimize an empirically calibrated model. The BeiDou GEO satellites could provide stable geometry and better coverage capability in mid- and low-latitude region where most of the typhoons occur. Based on this consideration, ocean reflected signals from BeiDou GEO satellites are exploited for coastal Typhoon observation in this paper. The relationship between reflected waveform parameters, such as coherent time, and the ocean geophysics parameters, such as wind speed is analysed. Preliminary analysis of the BeiDou reflected signal collected during the TIGRIS experiment shows good agreement between the GNSS-R measured wind speeds and the in situ measurements, the average deviation is 1.6 m/s with the root-mean-square error of 2.4 m/s.
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The authors would like to thank Prof. Xia Qing and Prof. Li Huang from China Meteorological Administration during the experiment and the preparation of this paper. The authors would also like to acknowledge the support of colleagues at Guangdong Meteorological Administration and Shenzhen Meteorological Administration during the experiment. The work of W. Li was supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project (2013M530513). This work was supported in part by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (SS2013AA120602) and the BeiDou Application Program (GFZX03030303).
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Li, W., Yang, D., Fabra, F., Cao, Y., Yang, W. (2014). Typhoon Wind Speed Observation Utilizing Reflected Signals from BeiDou GEO Satellites. In: Sun, J., Jiao, W., Wu, H., Lu, M. (eds) China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2014 Proceedings: Volume I. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 303. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54737-9_18
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