GNSS signal-to-noise snow depth inversion based on robust empirical mode decomposition

Using global navigation satellite system (GNSS) to monitor snow depth helps scientists study the impacts of climate change and predict future climate patterns. In the process of extracting reflection signals from signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data, traditional methods usually use low order polynomials...

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Main Authors: Dengao Li, Xinyu Luo, Jumin Zhao, Fanming Wu, Hairong Jiang, Danyang Shi
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Published: Tsinghua University Press 2025-06-01
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Online Access:https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.23919/ICN.2025.0007
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Jumin Zhao
Fanming Wu
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Danyang Shi
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description Using global navigation satellite system (GNSS) to monitor snow depth helps scientists study the impacts of climate change and predict future climate patterns. In the process of extracting reflection signals from signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data, traditional methods usually use low order polynomials for detrending terms. However, this traditional algorithm cannot completely eliminate the environmental noise in the SNR during signal decomposition, resulting in other noise sources still existing in the detrended SNR, which affects the inversion results. In order to make the inversion results more accurate, this paper proposes a robust empirical mode decomposition (REMD) based method. In signal decomposition, REMD is applied to improve the algorithm, and the correlation coefficient method is used to denoise the decomposed signal. The proposed algorithm is validated using the data from the U.S. Plate Boundary Observatory network SG27 site from winter 2016 to spring 2017 as the study data. The obtained experimental results are compared with the actual snow depth provided by Snowpack Telemetry. When the improved algorithm is used, the root mean square error and mean absolute error of the snow depth inversion at the SG27 site are improved, respectively.
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spelling doaj-art-a430b7a4c4d44477a56831e44bc35bdd2025-08-20T03:29:23ZengTsinghua University PressIntelligent and Converged Networks2708-62402025-06-016211512810.23919/ICN.2025.0007GNSS signal-to-noise snow depth inversion based on robust empirical mode decompositionDengao Li0Xinyu Luo1Jumin Zhao2Fanming Wu3Hairong Jiang4Danyang Shi5College of Computer Science and Technology (College of Data Science), Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, ChinaCollege of Electronic Information Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, ChinaCollege of Electronic Information Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology (College of Data Science), Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, ChinaCollege of Electronic Information Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology (College of Data Science), Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, ChinaUsing global navigation satellite system (GNSS) to monitor snow depth helps scientists study the impacts of climate change and predict future climate patterns. In the process of extracting reflection signals from signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data, traditional methods usually use low order polynomials for detrending terms. However, this traditional algorithm cannot completely eliminate the environmental noise in the SNR during signal decomposition, resulting in other noise sources still existing in the detrended SNR, which affects the inversion results. In order to make the inversion results more accurate, this paper proposes a robust empirical mode decomposition (REMD) based method. In signal decomposition, REMD is applied to improve the algorithm, and the correlation coefficient method is used to denoise the decomposed signal. The proposed algorithm is validated using the data from the U.S. Plate Boundary Observatory network SG27 site from winter 2016 to spring 2017 as the study data. The obtained experimental results are compared with the actual snow depth provided by Snowpack Telemetry. When the improved algorithm is used, the root mean square error and mean absolute error of the snow depth inversion at the SG27 site are improved, respectively.https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.23919/ICN.2025.0007global navigation satellite system interferometric reflectometry (gnss-ir)snow depthsignal-to-noise ratio (snr)robust empirical mode decomposition (remd)
spellingShingle Dengao Li
Xinyu Luo
Jumin Zhao
Fanming Wu
Hairong Jiang
Danyang Shi
GNSS signal-to-noise snow depth inversion based on robust empirical mode decomposition
Intelligent and Converged Networks
global navigation satellite system interferometric reflectometry (gnss-ir)
snow depth
signal-to-noise ratio (snr)
robust empirical mode decomposition (remd)
title GNSS signal-to-noise snow depth inversion based on robust empirical mode decomposition
title_full GNSS signal-to-noise snow depth inversion based on robust empirical mode decomposition
title_fullStr GNSS signal-to-noise snow depth inversion based on robust empirical mode decomposition
title_full_unstemmed GNSS signal-to-noise snow depth inversion based on robust empirical mode decomposition
title_short GNSS signal-to-noise snow depth inversion based on robust empirical mode decomposition
title_sort gnss signal to noise snow depth inversion based on robust empirical mode decomposition
topic global navigation satellite system interferometric reflectometry (gnss-ir)
snow depth
signal-to-noise ratio (snr)
robust empirical mode decomposition (remd)
url https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.23919/ICN.2025.0007
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