Webinar: GPS As Signals-of-Opportunity for Remote Sensing
GPS has impacted nearly every aspect of our modern society. Yet, it relies on extremely low power signals traversing a vast space to reach receivers on the Earth surface. Numerous factors interfere with the signals along their propagation path, including ionosphere plasma, moisture in the lower troposphere, and multipath reflections from Earth surface. Understanding these effects on navigation signals is the pre-requisite for developing robust navigation technologies. Moreover, these effects enable satellite navigation signals to function as signals-of-opportunity for low cost, distributed, passive sensing of the signal propagation environments. This lecture will discuss the effects of the space and local environments on satellite navigation signals, followed by the latest technology development to mitigate these effects, and finally case studies demonstrating the powerful applications of the satellite navigation signals for space weather monitoring, atmospheric profiling, ocean wind speed mapping, and precision altimetry measurements over ocean, sea ice, inland water bodies, and land cover.
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- Date: 08 Dec 2020
- Time: 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
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Prof Jade Morton of University of Colorado, Boulder
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Dr. Y. Jade Morton is an Aerospace Engineering Professor, Thomas F. Austin Faculty Fellow, and Director of the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She received a PhD in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Penn State, MS in EE from Case Western Reserve University, and BS in Physics from Nanjing University, China. Prior to joining the University of Colorado in 2017, she was an electrical engineering professor at Colorado State University and Miami University, and a post-doc research fellow at the University of Michigan. Dr. Morton’s research interests lie at the intersection of satellite navigation technologies and remote sensing of the Earth’s ionosphere, atmosphere, and surface. She is a recipient of the IEEE Kershner Award, the Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Burka, Thurlow, and Kepler Awards, and is a Fellow of the ION, RIN and the IEEE. She is the current ION president.