TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND RADIO ENGINEERING - 2011 Vol. 70,
No 19 		 

 

 

 

ON THE POSSIBILITY OF SEA STATE DIAGNOSTICS USING THE RADIO SIGNALS FROM GPS SATELLITES AT LAW ANGLES

V.B. Sinitsky
A. Usikov Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics,
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
12, Academician Proskura St., Kharkiv 61085, Ukraine
E-mail: vs@ire.kharkov.ua

Abstract
Results of real measurements of radio signals from GPS satellites during the satellite setting over the sea surface are presented. It has been found that the diffuse component of the signal scattered by sea surface shows time-to-time variability which effect is dependent on the wind speed in the region of measurements.
KEY WORDS: GPS satellites, moving average method, diffuse component of the signal, sea state diagnostics

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