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Jens Wickert is affiliated with the Technical University of Berlin in Germany. Their research activity spans across multiple fields of study, including Earth and Planetary Sciences, Engineering, and Environmental Science.

The scientist's work notably covers several subfields such as Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Astronomy and Astrophysics. Key topics addressed in their publications include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, GNSS positioning and interference, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Ionosphere and Magnetosphere Dynamics, Climate Change and Permafrost, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, and Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics.

Jens Wickert has contributed to journals that frequently publish their research, including Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, and GPS Solutions.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jens Wickert include:

  • SNR-based GNSS reflectometry for coastal sea-level altimetry: results from the first IAG inter-comparison campaign (2020, Journal of Geodesy)
  • Consistency and structural uncertainty of multi-mission GPS radio occultation records (2020, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques)
  • GNSS reflectometry global ocean wind speed using deep learning: Development and assessment of CyGNSSnet (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Occurrence climatology of equatorial plasma bubbles derived using FormoSat-3∕COSMIC GPS radio occultation data (2020, Annales Geophysicae)
  • Real-Time Retrieval of Precipitable Water Vapor From Galileo Observations by Using the MGEX Network (2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jens Wickert include:

  • Wei Liu
  • Harald Schuh
  • Yuan Hu
  • Maximilian Semmling
  • Galina Dick

Best Publications

  • Accuracy and reliability of multi-GNSS real-time precise positioning: GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, and Galileo

    Xingxing Li;Xingxing Li;Maorong Ge;Xiaolei Dai;Xiaolei Dai;Xiaodong Ren

  • Atmosphere sounding by GPS radio occultation: First results from CHAMP

    Jens Wickert;Christoph Reigber;Georg Beyerle;Rolf König

  • Precise positioning with current multi-constellation Global Navigation Satellite Systems: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou

    Xingxing Li;Xiaohong Zhang;Xiaodong Ren;Mathias Fritsche

  • A global climatology of ionospheric irregularities derived from GPS radio occultation

    C. Arras;J. Wickert;G. Beyerle;S. Heise

  • A method for improving uncalibrated phase delay estimation and ambiguity-fixing in real-time precise point positioning

    Xingxing Li;Xingxing Li;Maorong Ge;Hongping Zhang;Jens Wickert

  • Development of a GNSS water vapour tomography system using algebraic reconstruction techniques

    Michael Bender;Galina Dick;Maorong Ge;Zhiguo Deng

  • Earth Observation with CHAMP Results from Three Years in Orbit

    Christoph Reigber;Hermann Lühr;Peter Schwintzer;Jens Wickert

  • GAMP: An open-source software of multi-GNSS precise point positioning using undifferenced and uncombined observations

    Feng Zhou;Danan Dong;Weiwei Li;Xinyuan Jiang

  • Multi-GNSS phase delay estimation and PPP ambiguity resolution: GPS, BDS, GLONASS, Galileo

    Xingxing Li;Xingxing Li;Xin Li;Yongqiang Yuan;Keke Zhang

  • The Falling Lake Victoria Water Level: GRACE, TRIMM and CHAMP Satellite Analysis of the Lake Basin

    Joseph L. Awange;Mohammad A. Sharifi;Godfrey Ogonda;Jens Wickert

  • A computationally efficient approach for estimating high-rate satellite clock corrections in realtime

    Maorong Ge;Junping Chen;Jan Douša;Gerd Gendt

  • GPS radio occultation with GRACE: Atmospheric profiling utilizing the zero difference technique

    G. Beyerle;T. Schmidt;G. Michalak;S. Heise

  • Initial assessment of the COMPASS/BeiDou-3: new-generation navigation signals

    Xiaohong Zhang;Xiaohong Zhang;Mingkui Wu;Wanke Liu;Wanke Liu;Xingxing Li

  • The Radio Occultation Experiment aboard CHAMP: Operational Data Analysis and Validation of Vertical Atmospheric Profiles

    Jens Wickert;Torsten Schmidt;Georg Beyerle;Rolf König

  • Multi-GNSS Meteorology: Real-Time Retrieving of Atmospheric Water Vapor From BeiDou, Galileo, GLONASS, and GPS Observations

    Xingxing Li;Galina Dick;Cuixian Lu;Maorong Ge

  • GPS radio occultation with CHAMP and GRACE: A first look at a new and promising satellite configuration for global atmospheric sounding

    J. Wickert;G. Beyerle;R. König;S. Heise

  • Estimating the uncertainty of using GPS radio occultation data for climate monitoring: Intercomparison of CHAMP refractivity climate records from 2002 to 2006 from different data centers

    Shu-peng Ho;Gottfried Kirchengast;Stephen Leroy;Jens Wickert

  • GPS radio occultation: results from CHAMP, GRACE and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC.

    Jens Wickert;Grzegorz Michalak;Torsten Schmidt;Georg Beyerle

  • Estimation of ionospheric sporadic E intensities from GPS radio occultation measurements

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  • Tropical tropopause parameters derived from GPS radio occultation measurements with CHAMP

    T. Schmidt;J. Wickert;G. Beyerle;C. Reigber

  • GEROS-ISS: GNSS REflectometry, Radio Occultation, and Scatterometry Onboard the International Space Station

    Jens Wickert;Estel Cardellach;Manuel Martin-Neira;Jorge Bandeiras

  • Reproducibility of GPS radio occultation data for climate monitoring: Profile-to-profile inter-comparison of CHAMP climate records 2002 to 2008 from six data centers

    Shu-peng Ho;Doug Hunt;Andrea K. Steiner;Anthony J. Mannucci

  • Real‐time GPS sensing of atmospheric water vapor: Precise point positioning with orbit, clock, and phase delay corrections

    Xingxing Li;Galina Dick;Maorong Ge;Stefan Heise

  • GPS radio occultation with CHAMP and SAC-C: global monitoring of thermal tropopause parameters

    T. Schmidt;S. Heise;J. Wickert;G. Beyerle

  • Real‐time high‐rate co‐seismic displacement from ambiguity‐fixed precise point positioning: Application to earthquake early warning

    Xingxing Li;Xingxing Li;Maorong Ge;Xiaohong Zhang;Yong Zhang;Yong Zhang

  • Semidiurnal tidal signature in sporadic E occurrence rates derived from GPS radio occultation measurements at higher midlatitudes

    C. Arras;C. Jacobi;J. Wickert

Frequent Co-Authors

Torsten Schmidt
Torsten Schmidt Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Maorong Ge
Maorong Ge Technical University of Berlin
Harald Schuh
Harald Schuh Technical University of Berlin
Galina Dick
Galina Dick Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Gottfried Kirchengast
Gottfried Kirchengast University of Graz
Christoph Reigber
Christoph Reigber Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Klemens Hocke
Klemens Hocke University of Bern
Antonio Rius
Antonio Rius Spanish National Research Council
Ying-Hwa Kuo
Ying-Hwa Kuo University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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