G003
Applications of Low-cost, Mass-market and Consumer-grade GNSS in Geosciences

Session ID#: 161035

Session Description:
The precise positioning at centimeter level with GPS has been available for decades, which is lately strenghthened by the emerging Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as the European Galileo, Chinese BeiDou, and Russian GLONASS, making positioning cost-effective and compact. OEM boards of various qualities and single-board microcontrollers allow construction of low-cost/mass-market/consumer-grade GNSS receivers that are used for applications requiring precise positioning, sensor synchronisation, GNSS reflectometry, phase time delay and signal attenuation. These applications are spread over fields such as geodesy, hydrology, (hydro-)meteorology, volcanology, natural hazards, cryospheric and biospheric sciences and (urban) navigation. Moreover, they are valuable for deriving and monitoring geophysical phenomena such as sea-level rise, crustal or surface deformation. We solicit abstracts on instrumentation and innovative applications in different fields of research, as well as algorithms, and sensor calibration and integration. We welcome any other contributions that highlight the benefits and challenges of using low-cost GNSS receivers and antennas.
Co-Organized:
  • C - Cryosphere
Index Terms:

0794 Instruments and techniques [CRYOSPHERE]
1294 Instruments and techniques [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]
4307 Methods [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Primary Convener:  Balaji Devaraju, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Department of Civil Engineering, Kanpur, India
Conveners:  Tobias Kersten, Leibniz University Hannover, Institut für Erdmessung, Hannover, Germany, Franziska Koch, BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute for Hydrology and Water Management, Vienna, Austria and Jens-Andre Paffenholz, Clausthal University of Technology, Institute of Geo-Engineering, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
 
Altimetry Validation and Snow Surface Monitoring with an On-Ice Array of Open Source Multi-GNSS Instruments (1151059)
Derek Pickell, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States and Robert L Hawley, Dartmouth College; IASC Cryosphere WG Member, Hanover, United States
 
Seamless Positioning Accuracy Evaluation In Indoor/Outdoor Environment Using Geospatial Tools (1171497)
Veerendra Yadav, Rahul Dev Garg and Pradeep Kumar Garg, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Civil Engineering, Roorkee, India
 
An Analysis of Online GNSS Postprocessing Services in for Short Occupation Times in Bolivia and Colombia (1171669)
Ben Kurtz, The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Geodetic Science, Columbus, United States
 
Determination of atmospheric parameters from globally crowdsourced GNSS data (1176820)
Benedikt Soja1, Vicente Navarro2, Grzegorz Kłopotek1, Yuanxin Pan1, Laura Crocetti1, Mudathir Awadaljeed1, Markus Rothacher1, Linda M See3, Tobias Sturn3, Rudi Weinacker3 and Ian McCallum3, (1)ETH Zurich, Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)European Space Agency, European Space Astronomy Centre, Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain, (3)IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
 
Deployment and Operation of Low-cost GNSS Stations for Atmospheric Monitoring in the East Africa Tropical Region (Invited) (1086173)
Eugenio Realini1, Alessandra Mascitelli2, Giulio Tagliaferro3, Andrea Gatti1, Alessandro Fumagalli1, Richard Cliffe Ssenyunzi4, Florence Mutonyi D'ujanga5, Richard Muita6, Lorenzo Benvenuto7, Giovanna Venuti8 and Nick Van De Giesen9, (1)GReD - Geomatics Research & Development s.r.l., Lomazzo, Italy, (2)Italian Civil Protection Department, Rome, Italy, (3)BIPM - International Bureau of Weights and Measures, Sèvres, France, (4)Busitema University, Department of Physics, Tororo, Uganda, (5)Makerere University, Department of Physics, Kampala, Uganda, (6)Kenya Meteorological Department, Nairobi, Kenya, (7)algoWatt S.p.A., Genoa, Italy, (8)Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milan, Italy, (9)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands
 
Quality of positioning in a heterogenous Low-cost GNSS network (1106245)
Ibaad Anwar, Md Shahid Iqbal Ansari and Balaji Devaraju, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Department of Civil Engineering, Kanpur, India
 
The use of recent low-cost GNSS equipment in geodesy and climate applications (Invited) (1104488)
Katarzyna Stepniak, Jacek Paziewski, Karol Dawidowicz, Pawel Wielgosz and Jacek Rapinski, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
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