ESTIMATION OF SATELLITE ALTIMETER ECHO-SIGNAL PARAMETERS BY STATISTICAL FITTING METHODS IN THE COURSE OF RETRACKING

Satellite radar altimeters play a key role in numerous space missions for the remote Earth sensing. The data they provide are used in solving various fundamental and applied problems of geophysics, oceanography, meteorology, etc. In many modern measuring systems the altimeter data is processed in se...

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Main Authors: D. S. Borovitsky, A. E. Zhesterev, V. P. Ipatov, R. M. Mamchur
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" 2019-02-01
Series:Известия высших учебных заведений России: Радиоэлектроника
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Online Access:https://re.eltech.ru/jour/article/view/285
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author D. S. Borovitsky
A. E. Zhesterev
V. P. Ipatov
R. M. Mamchur
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A. E. Zhesterev
V. P. Ipatov
R. M. Mamchur
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description Satellite radar altimeters play a key role in numerous space missions for the remote Earth sensing. The data they provide are used in solving various fundamental and applied problems of geophysics, oceanography, meteorology, etc. In many modern measuring systems the altimeter data is processed in several stages. One of them is the ground-based retracking of the information streamed from the spacecraft. The goal of this work is to study altimeter parameter estimators in the course of the satellite altimeter data retracking by ground-based complex. The main task of delay-lock loop onboard a satellite carrier is a reliable keeping of received echo-signal within the tracking window. More accurate estimates of information parameters are worked out by the ground segment where data from the satellite is delivered via telemetry. Retracking can be performed either without using any physical echo model, or relying on some mechanism under generation of response of an illuminated surface to the probing signal. In the latter case, the measuring results become more trustworthy. The paper deliberations are based on the model close to the classical Brown’s one, they include algorithms of its parameters statistical fitting to the observation and computer simulation of fitting according to the maximal likelihood (ML) and the least squares (LS) methods. The results obtained are compared to the potential attainable and show that while LS fitting yields noticeably to the potential, experimental accuracy of ML-fitting practically coincides with the potential one.
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spelling doaj.art-b5bf83dd04be43a9a433dad4ba669a202023-03-13T09:20:23ZrusSaint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI"Известия высших учебных заведений России: Радиоэлектроника1993-89852658-47942019-02-010151610.32603/1993-8985-2019-22-1-5-16267ESTIMATION OF SATELLITE ALTIMETER ECHO-SIGNAL PARAMETERS BY STATISTICAL FITTING METHODS IN THE COURSE OF RETRACKINGD. S. Borovitsky0A. E. Zhesterev1V. P. Ipatov2R. M. Mamchur3АО "Российский институт радионавигации и времени"АО "Российский институт радионавигации и времени"Санкт-Петербургский государственный электротехнический университет "ЛЭТИ" им. В. И. Ульянова (Ленина)Санкт-Петербургский государственный электротехнический университет "ЛЭТИ" им. В. И. Ульянова (Ленина)Satellite radar altimeters play a key role in numerous space missions for the remote Earth sensing. The data they provide are used in solving various fundamental and applied problems of geophysics, oceanography, meteorology, etc. In many modern measuring systems the altimeter data is processed in several stages. One of them is the ground-based retracking of the information streamed from the spacecraft. The goal of this work is to study altimeter parameter estimators in the course of the satellite altimeter data retracking by ground-based complex. The main task of delay-lock loop onboard a satellite carrier is a reliable keeping of received echo-signal within the tracking window. More accurate estimates of information parameters are worked out by the ground segment where data from the satellite is delivered via telemetry. Retracking can be performed either without using any physical echo model, or relying on some mechanism under generation of response of an illuminated surface to the probing signal. In the latter case, the measuring results become more trustworthy. The paper deliberations are based on the model close to the classical Brown’s one, they include algorithms of its parameters statistical fitting to the observation and computer simulation of fitting according to the maximal likelihood (ML) and the least squares (LS) methods. The results obtained are compared to the potential attainable and show that while LS fitting yields noticeably to the potential, experimental accuracy of ML-fitting practically coincides with the potential one.https://re.eltech.ru/jour/article/view/285спутниковый высотомерэхосигналфизическая модельдообработкаподгонкадискриминатороценка по максимуму правдоподобияметод наименьших квадратов
spellingShingle D. S. Borovitsky
A. E. Zhesterev
V. P. Ipatov
R. M. Mamchur
ESTIMATION OF SATELLITE ALTIMETER ECHO-SIGNAL PARAMETERS BY STATISTICAL FITTING METHODS IN THE COURSE OF RETRACKING
Известия высших учебных заведений России: Радиоэлектроника
спутниковый высотомер
эхосигнал
физическая модель
дообработка
подгонка
дискриминатор
оценка по максимуму правдоподобия
метод наименьших квадратов
title ESTIMATION OF SATELLITE ALTIMETER ECHO-SIGNAL PARAMETERS BY STATISTICAL FITTING METHODS IN THE COURSE OF RETRACKING
title_full ESTIMATION OF SATELLITE ALTIMETER ECHO-SIGNAL PARAMETERS BY STATISTICAL FITTING METHODS IN THE COURSE OF RETRACKING
title_fullStr ESTIMATION OF SATELLITE ALTIMETER ECHO-SIGNAL PARAMETERS BY STATISTICAL FITTING METHODS IN THE COURSE OF RETRACKING
title_full_unstemmed ESTIMATION OF SATELLITE ALTIMETER ECHO-SIGNAL PARAMETERS BY STATISTICAL FITTING METHODS IN THE COURSE OF RETRACKING
title_short ESTIMATION OF SATELLITE ALTIMETER ECHO-SIGNAL PARAMETERS BY STATISTICAL FITTING METHODS IN THE COURSE OF RETRACKING
title_sort estimation of satellite altimeter echo signal parameters by statistical fitting methods in the course of retracking
topic спутниковый высотомер
эхосигнал
физическая модель
дообработка
подгонка
дискриминатор
оценка по максимуму правдоподобия
метод наименьших квадратов
url https://re.eltech.ru/jour/article/view/285
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