Ionospheric scintillation monitoring is becoming an increasing research activity in order to devise countermeasures to the harmful effects ionospheric activity has on positioning services based on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). The amount of amplitude fluctuations in GNSS signals due to scintillation is estimated by the S4 index. For this purpose, traditional closed loop architectures are employed in the receiver. In this paper we investigate an alternative measurement parameter based on the Skewness of the histogram of the processed samples. The new metric could relay information akin to that of the S4 and it is estimated on an open loop receiver architecture.

A novel approach to ionospheric scintillation detection based on an open loop architecture / ROMERO GAVIRIA, RODRIGO MANUEL; Linty, NICOLA UMBERTO; Dovis, Fabio; Field, RONALD VINCENZO. - ELETTRONICO. - 2016:(2017), pp. 1-9. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2016 8th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies and European Workshop on GNSS Signals and Signal Processing (NAVITEC) tenutosi a Noordwijk, Netherlands nel 14-16 Dec. 2016) [10.1109/NAVITEC.2016.7931741].

A novel approach to ionospheric scintillation detection based on an open loop architecture

ROMERO GAVIRIA, RODRIGO MANUEL;LINTY, NICOLA UMBERTO;DOVIS, Fabio;FIELD, RONALD VINCENZO
2017

Abstract

Ionospheric scintillation monitoring is becoming an increasing research activity in order to devise countermeasures to the harmful effects ionospheric activity has on positioning services based on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). The amount of amplitude fluctuations in GNSS signals due to scintillation is estimated by the S4 index. For this purpose, traditional closed loop architectures are employed in the receiver. In this paper we investigate an alternative measurement parameter based on the Skewness of the histogram of the processed samples. The new metric could relay information akin to that of the S4 and it is estimated on an open loop receiver architecture.
2017
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