Walchensee Experiment

Measurement installation on Fahrenberg. The reflectometry antennae are mounted on a mast and oriented southwards towards Walchensee lake.

© A. Helm (GFZ)

Fahrenberg is a mountain in the Bavarian Alps (47.61° N; 11.32° E). Its summit rises 1625 m above mean sea level. At the foot of the moutain lake Walchensee spreads on an area of about 16 km² with a lake level of about 800 m above mean sea level. The vicinity of lake and mountain offers an ideal location for Reflectometry experiments with the GORS receiver.

References:

[1] Helm, A. et al. „GORS - A GNSS Occultation, Reflectometry and Scatterometry Space Receiver“ ION GNSS 2007, pp. 2011-2021, 2007.

[2] Helm, A.: Ground-based GPS altimetry with the L1 OpenGPS receiver using carrier phase-delay observations of reflected GPS signals, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Scientific Technical Report, vol. 8, No. 10, PhD Thesis, 2008.