An Efficient Algorithm to the Simulation of Delay–Doppler Maps of Reflected Global Navigation Satellite System Signals

Abstract

A new and efficient algorithm to compute delay-Doppler maps is presented. It improves by more than an order of magnitude the required computation time and memory resources. This approach is based on the derivation of explicit expressions of the space coordinates as a function of the delay offset and Doppler shift. Using this technique, the limitation posed by the number of sampling points of the observed surface is drastically attenuated, and a wide range of scenarios from low- to medium-height airborne-to-spaceborne scenarios can now be simulated with standard desktop computers.