scholarly journals Spatial interpolation techniques for a near real-time mapping of pressure and temperature data

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Ferrando ◽  
Pierluigi De Rosa ◽  
Bianca Federici ◽  
Domenico Sguerso
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Physical Model ◽  
Digital Terrain Model ◽  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Total Delay ◽  
Local Pressure ◽  
Precipitable Water Vapour ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite

Among the different techniques for atmosphere monitoring, the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) can provide an innovative contribution (Bevis et al.,1992; Crespi et al., 2004; Sguerso et al., 2013, 2015). The Laboratory of Geomatics, Geodesy and GIS of the University of Genoa has identified a GIS procedure and a simplified physical model to monitor the Precipitable Water Vapour (PWV) content, using data measured by existing infrastructures. The starting points are local estimations of Zenith Total Delay (ZTD) from a GNSS Permanent Stations (PSs) network, a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and local Pressure (P) and Temperature (T) measurements (Sguerso et al., 2014; Ferrando et al., 2016). The present paper shows the study of the most appropriate interpolation technique for P and T data to create PWV maps in a quick, stable and automatic way, to support the monitoring of intense meteorological events for both a posteriori and near real-time applications. The resulting P and T maps were compared to meteorological re-analysis, to check the reliability of the simplified physical model. Additionally, the Regression Kriging (RK) was employed to evaluate the data correlation with elevation and to study the applicability of the technique.

scholarly journals Spatial interpolation techniques for a near real-time mapping of pressure and temperature data

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Ferrando ◽  
Pierluigi De Rosa ◽  
Bianca Federici ◽  
Domenico Sguerso
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Physical Model ◽  
Digital Terrain Model ◽  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Total Delay ◽  
Local Pressure ◽  
Precipitable Water Vapour ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite

Among the different techniques for atmosphere monitoring, the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) can provide an innovative contribution (Bevis et al.,1992; Crespi et al., 2004; Sguerso et al., 2013, 2015). The Laboratory of Geomatics, Geodesy and GIS of the University of Genoa has identified a GIS procedure and a simplified physical model to monitor the Precipitable Water Vapour (PWV) content, using data measured by existing infrastructures. The starting points are local estimations of Zenith Total Delay (ZTD) from a GNSS Permanent Stations (PSs) network, a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and local Pressure (P) and Temperature (T) measurements (Sguerso et al., 2014; Ferrando et al., 2016). The present paper shows the study of the most appropriate interpolation technique for P and T data to create PWV maps in a quick, stable and automatic way, to support the monitoring of intense meteorological events for both a posteriori and near real-time applications. The resulting P and T maps were compared to meteorological re-analysis, to check the reliability of the simplified physical model. Additionally, the Regression Kriging (RK) was employed to evaluate the data correlation with elevation and to study the applicability of the technique.

scholarly journals Spatial interpolation techniques for a near real-time mapping of Pressure and Temperature data

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Ferrando ◽  
Pierluigi De Rosa ◽  
Bianca Federici ◽  
Domenico Sguerso
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Physical Model ◽  
Digital Terrain Model ◽  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Total Delay ◽  
Local Pressure ◽  
Precipitable Water Vapour ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite

Among the different techniques for atmosphere monitoring, the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) can provide an innovative contribution (Bevis et al.,1992; Crespi et al., 2004; Sguerso et al., 2013, 2015). The Laboratory of Geomatics, Geodesy and GIS of the University of Genoa has identified a GIS procedure and a simplified physical model to monitor the Precipitable Water Vapour (PWV) content, using data measured by existing infrastructures. The starting points are local estimations of Zenith Total Delay (ZTD) from a GNSS Permanent Stations (PSs) network, a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and local Pressure (P) and Temperature (T) measurements (Sguerso et al., 2014; Ferrando et al., 2016). The present paper shows the study of the most appropriate interpolation technique for P and T data to create PWV maps in a quick, stable and automatic way, to support the monitoring of intense meteorological events for both a posteriori and near real-time applications. The resulting P and T maps were compared to meteorological re-analysis, to check the reliability of the simplified physical model. Additionally, the Regression Kriging (RK) was employed to evaluate the data correlation with elevation and to study the applicability of the technique.

scholarly journals Effect of broadcast and precise satellite orbits in the estimation of Zenith tropospheric delay and integrated precipitable water vapour from GPS

MAUSAM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-202
Author(s):  
J. K. S. YADAV ◽  
R. K. GIRI ◽  
D. K. MALIK
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Water Vapour ◽  
Nuisance Parameter ◽  
India Meteorological Department ◽  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Tropospheric Delay ◽  
Satellite Orbits ◽  
Neutral Atmosphere ◽  
Total Delay ◽  
Precipitable Water Vapour

Global Positioning System (GPS) estimates the total delay in zenith direction by the propagation delay of the neutral atmosphere in presence of water vapour present in the troposphere. This total delay has been treated as a nuisance parameter for many years by the geodesists. The above delay have two parts dry delay and wet delay and known as Zenith Hydrostatic Delay (ZHD) and Zenith Wet Delay (ZWD) respectively. The Integrated Precipitable Water Vapour (IPWV) is estimated through ZWD overlying the receiver at ground-based station. The accuracy of the above said estimates depends on the quality of the predicted satellite orbits, which are not the same for each individual satellite. India Meteorological Department (IMD) is operationally estimating the IPWV on near real time basis at five places and matches fairly well (error ~6.7 mm) with Radisonde (RS) data. This paper examine the effect of International GPS Service (IGS) predicted precise orbits and near real time predicted rapid or broadcast orbits supplied by the Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center (SOPAC) on Zenith Total Delay (ZTD) and IPWV estimates by calculating the mean Bias and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) for ZTD and IPWV in mm for all the five stations. The observed bias for ZTD is almost of the order of less than 1 mm in most cases and RMSE is less than 6 mm. Similarly the bias observed in the case of derived IPWV is almost negligible and RMSE is less than 1 mm.

Investigation of Foehn Events on South Georgia Island using Meteorological Surface Data and GNSS Precipitable Water Vapour

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eshetu Erkihune ◽  
Addisu Hunegnaw ◽  
Felix Norman Teferle
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapour ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Precipitable Water Vapour ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
South Georgia ◽  
Circumpolar Current ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite

<p>As one of the most important components of the global hydrologic cycle, atmospheric water vapor shows significant variability in both space and time over a large range of scales. This variability results from the interactions of many different factors, including topography and the presence of specific atmospheric processes. One of the key regions for affecting global climatic variations lies in the sub-Antarctic zone over the Southern Ocean with its Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the associated Antarctic Convergence. There, in this cold and maritime region, lies South Georgia Island with its weather and climate being largely affected by both the dominating ocean currents and the westerly winds in this zone. While the island forms an important outpost for various surface observations in this largely under sampled and extremely remote region, it also forms a barrier for these winds due to its high topography. This, in turn, leads to various local meteorological phenomena, such as warm Foehn winds, which have a significant impact on the near-surface meteorology and contribute to the accelerated glacier retreat observed for the northeast of the island.</p><p>Surface meteorological data have been available for several stations near King Edward Point (KEP) in South Georgia for much of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Since 2013 and 2014, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data have been available at five locations around the periphery of the island. In this study, we investigate the consistency between the different surface meteorological data sets and along with GNSS Precipitable Water Vapour we use these to analyse historic Foehn events.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Empirical Model for Total Precipitable Water Retrieval from Ground-based GNSS Observations in Thailand

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weeranat Phasamak ◽  
Seubson Soisuvarn ◽  
Yuttapong Rangsanseri
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite System ◽  
Weather Prediction ◽  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Navigation Satellite ◽  
Total Precipitable Water ◽  
Global Navigation ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite ◽  
Gnss Observations

Retrieval of Total Precipitable Water (TPW) using ground-based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations is a challenging task due to its real‐time and high temporal resolution. In this paper, we present a method for establishing an analytic model for retrieving the total precipitable water (TPW) based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations over one-year period from 12 distributed stations across Thailand. The derived zenith total delay (ZTD) at all stations agrees well with the TPW data available from Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS) Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model. At first, a unique relationship between the ZTD and the TPW was established by taking into account of the variation of station altitudes. In addition, the bias correction technique using probability distribution function (PDF) matching was also applied to improve the final model. The inversion model of TPW from ZTD is then easily obtained using a numerical technique. The performance of our method has been successfully evaluated on an independent test data. This model can be useful in the further near real-time TPW measurements from widely available GNSS receivers.

scholarly journals Water Vapor Retrievals from Spectral Direct Irradiance Measured with an EKO MS-711 Spectroradiometer—Intercomparison with Other Techniques

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Rosa Delia García ◽  
Emilio Cuevas ◽  
Victoria Eugenia Cachorro ◽  
Omaira E. García ◽  
África Barreto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Precipitable Water ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Infrared Spectrometry ◽  
Radiative Balance ◽  
Direct Normal Irradiance ◽  
Routine Basis ◽  
Solar Power Plants ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite

Precipitable water vapor retrievals are of major importance for assessing and understanding atmospheric radiative balance and solar radiation resources. On that basis, this study presents the first PWV values measured with a novel EKO MS-711 grating spectroradiometer from direct normal irradiance in the spectral range between 930 and 960 nm at the Izaña Observatory (IZO, Spain) between April and December 2019. The expanded uncertainty of PWV (UPWV) was theoretically evaluated using the Monte-Carlo method, obtaining an averaged value of 0.37 ± 0.11 mm. The estimated uncertainty presents a clear dependence on PWV. For PWV ≤ 5 mm (62% of the data), the mean UPWV is 0.31 ± 0.07 mm, while for PWV > 5 mm (38% of the data) is 0.47 ± 0.08 mm. In addition, the EKO PWV retrievals were comprehensively compared against the PWV measurements from several reference techniques available at IZO, including meteorological radiosondes, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), CIMEL-AERONET sun photometer and Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometry (FTIR). The EKO PWV values closely align with the above mentioned different techniques, providing a mean bias and standard deviation of −0.30 ± 0.89 mm, 0.02 ± 0.68 mm, −0.57 ± 0.68 mm, and 0.33 ± 0.59 mm, with respect to the RS92, GNSS, FTIR and CIMEL-AERONET, respectively. According to the theoretical analysis, MB decreases when comparing values for PWV > 5 mm, leading to a PWV MB between −0.45 mm (EKO vs. FTIR), and 0.11 mm (EKO vs. CIMEL-AERONET). These results confirm that the EKO MS-711 spectroradiometer is precise enough to provide reliable PWV data on a routine basis and, as a result, can complement existing ground-based PWV observations. The implementation of PWV measurements in a spectroradiometer increases the capabilities of these types of instruments to simultaneously obtain key parameters used in certain applications such as monitoring solar power plants performance.

scholarly journals Methodology for the Correction of the Spatial Orientation Angles of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using Real Time GNSS, a Shoreline Image and an Electronic Navigational Chart

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 2810
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Naus ◽  
Piotr Szymak ◽  
Paweł Piskur ◽  
Maciej Niedziela ◽  
Aleksander Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Spatial Orientation ◽  
Orientation Angle ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Angle Measurement ◽  
Angle Correction ◽  
Lidar Measurements ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Marine Applications ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite

Undoubtedly, Low-Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming more common in marine applications. Equipped with a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) receiver for highly accurate positioning, they perform camera and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) measurements. Unfortunately, these measurements may still be subject to large errors-mainly due to the inaccuracy of measurement of the optical axis of the camera or LiDAR sensor. Usually, UAVs use a small and light Inertial Navigation System (INS) with an angle measurement error of up to 0.5∘ (RMSE). The methodology for spatial orientation angle correction presented in the article allows the reduction of this error even to the level of 0.01∘ (RMSE). It can be successfully used in coastal and port waters. To determine the corrections, only the Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) and an image of the coastline are needed.

APLICAÇÃO DE GEOTECNOLOGIAS NA ANÁLISE DE VIABILIDADE TÉCNICA E ECONÔMICA DO PROJETO DE IMPLANTAÇÃO DO IFMA - CAMPUS ITAQUI-BACANGA.

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Maelckson Bruno Barros Gomes ◽  
André Luis Silva Santos
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite System ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Navigation Satellite ◽  
Real Time Kinematic ◽  
Global Navigation ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite

<p class="04CorpodoTexto">Este artigo tem por objetivo aplicar geotecnologias para obtenção de informações planialtimétricas a fim de avaliar a viabilidade de implantação do campus Centro Histórico/Itaqui-Bacanga do IFMA. Considerando que para realização de levantamento por métodos tradicionais é recomendado que seja realizado o destocamento e a limpeza do terreno previamente, avaliou-se a realização do levantamento planialtimétrico a partir de um par de receptores <em>Global Navigation Satellite System</em> (GNSS) pelo método <em>Real Time Kinematic</em> (RTK) pós processado e também a partir da realização de levantamento fotogramétrico, utilizando aeronave remotamente pilotada (ARP), popularmente conhecida como drone. Esta análise permitiu demonstrar que o aerolevantamento com a ARP pode ser aplicado na concepção inicial de um projeto de engenharia, conforme classificação do Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU) para níveis de precisão, pois obteve-se uma diferença orçamentária de 19% entre os projetos elaborados a partir das duas geotecnologias.</p><div> </div>

scholarly journals Online Near real-time Mine Disaster Monitoring System Based on Geosensor Networks

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Haifeng Hu
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Complex Data ◽  
Disaster Monitoring ◽  
Process Observation ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite ◽  
Safety And Stability

Abstract—An online automatic disaster monitoring system can reduce or prevent geological mine disasters to protect life and property. Global Navigation Satellite System receivers and the GeoRobot are two kinds of in-situ geosensors widely used for monitoring ground movements near mines. A combined monitoring solution is presented that integrates the advantages of both. In addition, a geosensor network system to be used for geological mine disaster monitoring is described. A complete online automatic mine disaster monitoring system including data transmission, data management, and complex data analysis is outlined. This paper proposes a novel overall architecture for mine disaster monitoring. This architecture can seamlessly integrate sensors for long-term, remote, and near real-time monitoring. In the architecture, three layers are used to collect, manage and process observation data. To demonstrate the applicability of the method, a system encompassing this architecture has been deployed to monitor the safety and stability of a slope at an open-pit mine in Inner Mongolia.

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