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. 2019 Feb 27;19(5):1019. doi: 10.3390/s19051019
ADC Analog-to-Digital Converter
BPSK Binary Phase Shifting Keying
Bw −3 dB Bandwidth
cGNSS-R conventional Global Navigation Satellite Systems—Reflectometry
COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf
DAC Digital-to-Analog Converter
DCM Direction Cosine Matrix
DUT Device Under Test
ECEF Earth Centered Earth Fixed
fc Cut-off frequency at −3 dB
fLO LO frequency
FM Frequency Modulation
G Gain
GEROSS-ISS GNSS rEflectometry, Radio Occultation and Scatterometry onboard the International Space Station
GLONASS GLObalnaya NAvigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite Systems
GNSS-R Global Navigation Satellite Systems—Reflectometry
GPS Global Positioning System
GPS-DO GPS Disciplined Oscillator
GSM Global System for Mobile communications
G-TERN GNSS Transpolar Earth Reflectometry exploriNg system
I In-phase component
IF Intermediate Frequency
iGNSS-R interferometric Global Navigation Satellite Systems—Reflectometry
IMU Inertial Measurement Unit
L Losses, attenuation
LHCP Left Hand Circular Polarized
LNA Low Noise Amplifier
LO Local Oscillator
MIR Microwave Interferometric Reflectometer
Msps Mega Samples Per Second
NED North East Down
NF Noise Figure
PARIS-IoD PAssive Reflectometry and Interferometry System In-orbit Demonstration
PPS Pulse Per Second
PRN PseudoRandom Noise
Q Quadrature phase component
RF Radio Frequency
RFI Radio Frequency Interference
RMS Root Mean Square
RHCP Right Hand Circular Polarized
SAW Surface Acoustic Wave
SBAS Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems
SDR Software Defined Radio
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
Tc Chip time of a PRN code
Tcoh Coherent integration time
Tcode PRN time length
USRP Universal Software Radio Peripheral
VNA Vector Network Analyzer
λL1 Wavelength of GPS at L1 central frequency (19.04 cm)
λL5 Wavelength of GPS at L5 central frequency (25.5 cm)