The Software PARIS Interferometric Receiver

The Software PARIS Interferometric Receiver (SPIR) is a multichannel GNSS-R recording receiver. It is capable to record the GNSS signals at L1, L2 or L5 bands from eight up-looking and eight down-looking antenna elements simultaneously at a rate of 80 MHz. A software post-processor processes the recorded data off-line to obtain altimetric estimates. Its development has been carried out in order to validate experimentally the synoptic capabilities of GNSS-R using the PARIS Interferometric Technique and to allow the comparison of different GNSS-R processing techniques on exactly the same set of recorded data. The paper presents the instrument's main characteristics and preliminary results.

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