SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION RADIO OCCULTATION MEASUREMENT THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE

摘要

A constellation of individual satellites are employed to concurrently collect occultation data from multiple GPSS originating signals that pass through atmospheric sections of interest. By coordinating the collection and processing of the data using state of the art receivers on a constellation of low earth orbit satellites and networked processing, highly accurate calculation of atmospheric conditions and related future weather events are possible.

主权项

1. A system for determining atmospheric conditions, comprising:
a transmission link to a plurality of satellite-based radio transmitters from one or more Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), wherein the transmitters transmit radio signals and said signals comprise data reflecting occultation of GNSS based radio signals collected from multiple paths by a constellation of satellites placed in low earth orbit; a computer linked database storing said data; and a computer processor implementing a occultation analysis algorithm to ascertain atmospheric conditions for use in identifying weather conditions associated with said occultation data.