PARIS Altimetry with L1 Frequency Data from the Bridge 2 Experiment

Abstract

A portion of 20 minutes of the GPS signals collected during the Bridge 2 experimental campaign, performed by ESA, have been processed. An innovative algorithm called Parfait, developed by Starlab and implemented within Starlab's GNSS-R Software package STARLIGHT (STARLab Interferometric Gnss Toolkit), has been successfully used with this set of data. A comparison with tide values independently collected and with differential GPS processed data has been performed. We report a successful PARIS phase altimetric measure of the Zeeland Brug over the sea surface with a rapidly changing tide, with a precision better than 2 cm.

Abridged Starlab ESA/ESTEC Technical Report from the Paris Alpha CCN3, Courtesy of ESA/ESTEC and Starlab