Publications
2025
GSSC: ESA Thematic Exploitation Platform for Navigation Digital Transformation. Enhancing GNSS Scientific Research
Author/s: Maria del Mar Millan, Raul Garcia, Pablo Garcia, Enrique Saiz, Sara del Rio, Natalia Castrillo, Jean-Christophe Berton
Publication: presentation at the 2025 conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS’25) in Riga, Latvia
Date: September-October, 2025
Link to proceedings of the 2025 conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS’25)
2024
Digital innovation at the core of the PROcessing Archiving and Dissemination (PROAD) System of ESA’s GENESIS mission
Author/s: Vicente Navarro
Publication: presentation at the 9th GNSS Science Colloquium in Wroclaw, Poland
Date: September, 2024
Link to 9th GNSS Science Colloquium proceedings
ESA GSSC: An Open Door to GNSS Science
Author/s: Natalia Castrillo, Vicente Navarro, Jordi Prados, Sara del Rio, Luis Angel Gomez, Luis Mendes, Javier Ventura-Traveset
Publication: presentation at the 9th GNSS Science Colloquium in Wroclaw, Poland
Date: September, 2024
Link to 9th GNSS Science Colloquium proceedings
GSSC Now: ESA GNSS Digital Platform for Open Science
Author/s: Vicente Navarro, Natalia Castrillo, Sara del Rio, Jordi Prados, Luis Angel Gomez, Luis Mendes, Javier Ventura-Traveset
Publication: presentation at the 30th International GNSS Service (IGS) Symposium in Bern, Switzerland
Date: July, 2024
IGS 2024 Workshop – International GNSS Service
GSSC Now: ESA Thematic Exploitation Platform for Navigation Digital Transformation. Enhancing GNSS Scientific Research
Author/s: V. Navarro, S. del Río, M.M, Millán, A. Messina, J. Ventura-Traveset
Publication: Advances in Space Research
Date: February, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2024.02.016
2023
GSSC Now: Data-Centric Digital Platform to Boost Exploitation of GNSS Science Opportunities
Author/s: V. Navarro, S. del Río, L. Mendes, J. Prados, E. Fraile, M.M. Millán, A. Messina, M. Barragán, M. Castro, J. Ventura-Traveset
Publication: 36th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2023) in Denver, Colorado, USA
Date: September, 2023
Do Solid Earth Tides have a local behaviour? First results from the analysis of 20-year GNSS timeseries
Author/s: F. Vespe, J. Dousa, P. Václavovic, J. Nosek, G. Nico, C. Doglioni, E. Ficini, G. Sottili, O. Masci, L. Mendes, E. Fraile-Garcia, F. Amarillo-Fernandez
Publication: XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) at Berlin
Date: July, 2023
https://doi.org/10.57757/IUGG23-3575
GSSC Now – ESA’s Thematic Exploitation Platform for Navigation Science Data
Author/s: V. Navarro, S. del Río, E. Fraile, L. Mendes, J. Ventura-Traveset
Publication: EGU23, the 25th EGU General Assembly, held 23-28 April, 2023 in Vienna, Austria and Online. Online at https://egu23.eu/, id. EGU-15907
Date: May, 2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-15907
2022
Verification of the Lense-Thirring and De Sitter effects using GNSS orbits
Author/s: K. Sośnica, G. Bury, R. Zajdel, L. Mendes, J. Ventura-Traveset
Publication: 8th International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS at Sofia, Bułgaria
Date: September, 2022
https://gssc.esa.int/education/galileo-science-colloquium/
GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo orbit geometry variations caused by general relativity focusing on Galileo in eccentric orbits
Author/s: K. Sośnica, G. Bury, R. Zajdel, J. Ventura-Traveset, L. Mendes
Publication: GPS Solutions
Date: January, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-021-01192-1
2021
Data Fusion and Machine Learning for Innovative GNSS Science Use Cases
Author/s: V. Navarro, R. Grieco, B. Soja et al.
Publication: 34th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2021)
Date: September, 2021
https://doi.org/10.33012/2021.18115
A Data-Intensive Approach To Exploit New GNSS Science Opportunities
Author/s: V. Navarro, J. Ventura-Traveset
Publication: Proceedings – 3rd Congress in Geomatics Engineering – CIGeo
Date: July, 2021
https://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CiGeo2021.2021.12740
Sensitivity of GNSS orbits to General Relativistic effects
Author/s: K. Sośnica, G. Bury, R. Zajdel, J. Ventura-Traveset, L. Mendes
Publication: Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Geodesy “Geodesy for a Sustainable Earth” (IAG 2021)
Date: July, 2021
http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.29014.98887
General Relativistic effects acting on GNSS orbits with a focus on Galileo satellites launched into incorrect orbital planes
Author/s: K. Sośnica, G. Bury, R. Zajdel, K. Kaźmierski, J. Ventura-Traveset, R. Prieto-Cerdeira, L. Mendes
Publication: EGU General Assembly 2021
Date: April, 2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7127
General relativistic effects acting on the orbits of Galileo satellites
Author/s: K. Sośnica, G. Bury, R. Zajdel, J. Ventura-Traveset, R. Prieto-Cerdeira, L. Mendes
Publication: Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy
Date: March, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-021-10014-y
Removing day-boundary discontinuities on GNSS clock estimates: Methodology and Results
Author/s: J.M. Juan, J.Ventura-Traveset et al.
Publication: GPS Solutions, The Journal of Global Navigation Satellite Systems, 2021
Date: January, 2021
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10291-021-01085-3
2020
Towards Galileo+GPS seismology: Validation of high-rate GNSS-based system for seismic events characterisation
Author/s: J. Paziewski, G. Kurpinski, P. Wielgosz, L. Stolecki, R. Sieradzki, M. Seta, S. Oszczak, M. Castillo, F. Martín-Porqueras
Publication: Elsevier, Science Direct
Date: December, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2020.108236
POSITRINO: Positioning, Navigation and Timing with Neutrino Particles
Author/s: J. Fidalgo, S. Melis, A. Cezón, C. Prajanu, F. J. Mata, M. Azaola, C. Andreopoulos, C. Barry, J. Tena Vidal, M. Roda, F.-C. Grec, L. Mendes
Publication: ION GNSS+ 2020 Virtual Proceedings of the 33rd International Technical Meeting of the satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation
Date: September, 2020
https://doi.org/10.33012/2020.17701
Atmosferic Characterization of Antarctic Polar Regions and Validation of Tropospheric and Ionospheric Models based on GNSS Experimental Campaign Data
Author/s: C. Moriana-Varo, C. Sanz-Garzón, F. Martín-Porqueras, M. Castillo-Fraile, J. Ventura-Traveset
Publication: ION Congress+ 2020 Virtual
Date: September, 2020
https://www.ion.org/gnss/
A new test of gravitational redshift using Galileo satellites: The GREAT experiment
Author/s: P. Delva, N. Puchades, E. Schönemann, F. Dilssner, C. Courde, S. Bertone, F. Gonzalez, A. Hees, Ch. Le Poncin-Lafitte, F. Meynadier, et al.
Publication: HAL archives, Science Direct
Date: August, 2020
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02187651/document
Use of GNSS for lunar missions and plans for lunar in-orbit development
Author/s: A. Delépauta, P. Giordano, J. Ventura-Traveset, D. Blonskia, M. Schönfeldt, P. Schoonejans, S. Aziza, R. Walkera
Publication: Science Direct
Date: May, 2020
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117720303410
2019
GNSS Scientific Activities at ESA
Author/s: J. Ventura-Traveset
Publication: Fourteenth meeting of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG-14) at Bengaluru, India
Date: December, 2019
https://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/icg/2019/icg14/10.pdf
POSTER: POSITRINO: Positioning, Navigation, and Timing with Neutrino Particles”
Author/s: J. Fidalgo, S. Melis, A. Cezón, C. Andreopoulos, C. Barry, J. Tena Vidal, M. Roda, F.C. Grec, L. Mendes, S. Strataki
Publication: 7th International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS at Zurich, Switzerland
Date: September, 2019
https://gssc.esa.int/education/galileo-science-colloquium/
Towards the provision of Global GNSS Space Users Data for Scientific Applications
Author/s: F. Martín-Porqueras, M. Castillo, L. Mendes, V. Navarro, R. Prieto-Cerdeira, S. del Río, J. Ventura-Traveset
Publication: 7th International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS at Zurich, Switzerland
Date: September, 2019
https://gssc.esa.int/education/galileo-science-colloquium/
GNSS Space Receiver for ON-Board Precise Time and Frequency and Signal regeneration
Author/s: C. Botteron, P. Giordano, P. Blunt, M. Rico, M. Roda, C. Barraud
Publication: 7th International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS at Zurich, Switzerland
Date: September, 2019
https://gssc.esa.int/education/galileo-science-colloquium/
Next generation technology for high-accuracy real-time positioning and timing on-board LEO satellites
Author/s: J. Tegedor, O. Orpen, P. Giordano, P. Zoccarato, J. Palomo, L. Hansen
Publication: 7th International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS at Zurich, Switzerland
Date: September, 2019
https://gssc.esa.int/education/galileo-science-colloquium/
GSSC, a world-wide reference GNSS environment for scientific communities
Author/s: V. Navarro, S. del Río, J. Cegarra, J. Lera
Publication: 7th International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS at Zurich, Switzerland
Date: September, 2019
https://gssc.esa.int/education/galileo-science-colloquium/
GESTA: Galileo Experimentation and Scientific Test in Antarctica
Author/s: M. Castillo-Fraile, F. Martín-Porqueras, R. Orús, X. Otero, F. Amarillo, R. Prieto-Cerdeira, J. Ventura-Traveset, R. Larramendi, M. Olivera, H. Mmoreno, I. Oficialdegui
Publication: 7th International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS at Zurich, Switzerland
Date: September, 2019
https://gssc.esa.int/education/galileo-science-colloquium/
Galileo Satellite Metadata for scientific products, source and future updates
Author/s: F. González, F. Dilssner
Publication: 7th International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS at Zurich, Switzerland
Date: September, 2019
https://gssc.esa.int/education/galileo-science-colloquium/
GNSS Science Support Centre (GSSC) – Integrating Big Data, Machine Learning and Notebook technologies for Open Science
Author/s: V. Navarro, S. del Río, F. Martín, L. Mendes, R. Prieto, J. Ventura-Traveset
Publication: 7th International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS at Zurich, Switzerland
Date: September, 2019
https://gssc.esa.int/education/galileo-science-colloquium/
Use of GNSS for lunar missions
Author/s: A. Delepaut, P. Giordano, J. Ventura-Traveset, D. Blonski, M. Schönfeldt, P. Schoonejans, S. Aziz, R. Walker
Publication: 7th International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS at Zurich, Switzerland
Date: September, 2019
https://gssc.esa.int/education/galileo-science-colloquium/
Testing the gravitational redshift with Galileo satellites
Author/s: P. Delva, N. Puchades, E. Schönemann, F. Dilssner, C. Courde, S. Bertone, F. Gonzalez, A. Hees, Le Poncin-Lafitte, F. Meynadier, R. Prieto-Cerdeira, B. Sohet, J. Ventura-Traveset, P. Wolf
Publication: CCSD –Centre pour la Comunication Scientifique Directe
Date: July, 2019
https://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/SYRTE/hal-02193938v1
A new test of gravitational redshift using Galileo satellites: The GREAT experiment
Author/s: P. Delva, N. Puchades, E. Schönemann, F. Dilssner, C. Courde, S. Bertone, F. Gonzalez , A. Hees, Ch. Le Poncin-Lafitte, F. Meynadier, R. Prieto-Cerdeira, B. Sohet, J. Ventura-Traveset, P. Wolf
Publication: Science Direct
Date: March-April, 2019
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631070519300271
A new test of gravitational redshift using eccentric Galileo satellites
Author/s: P.Delva, N. Puchades, E. Schönemann, F. Dilssner, C. Courde, S.Bertone, F. Gonzalez, A. Hees, Ch. Le Poncin-Lafitte, F. Meynadier, R. Prieto-Cerdeira, B. Sohet, J. Ventura-Traveset and P. Wolf
Publication: Rencontres de Moriond 2019: Gravitation. La Thuile, Italy.
Date: March, 2019
http://moriond.in2p3.fr/2019/Gravitation/transparencies/2_monday/1_morning/4_delva.pdf
Big Data GNSS for Intermediate Frequency Recording Stations
Author/s: V. Navarro, R. Dittrich, K. Skaburskas et al.
Publication: Big Data from Space (BIDs 2019) Conference
Date: February, 2019
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.19920.64005
2018
Test of the Gravitational Redshift with Galileo Satellites in an Eccentric Orbit
Author/s: S. Herrmann, F. Finke, M. Lülf, O. Kichakova, D. Puetzfeld, D. Knickmann, M. List, B. Rievers, G. Giorgi, C. Günther, H. Dittus, R. Prieto-Cerdeira, F. Dilssner, F. Gonzalez, E. Schönemann, J. Ventura-Traveset, and C. Lämmerzahl
Publication: Physical review letters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231102
Date: December, 2018
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.231102
Gravitational Redshift Test Using Eccentric Galileo Satellites
Author/s: P. Delva, N. Puchades, E. Schönemann, F. Dilssner, C. Courde, S. Bertone, F. Gonzalez, A. Hees, Ch. Le Poncin-Lafitte, F. Meynadier, R. Prieto-Cerdeira, B. Sohet, J. Ventura-Traveset, and P. Wolf
Publication: Physical review letters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231101
Date: December, 2018
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.231101
Galileo 5 and 6 Eccentric Satellites: Mission Recovery and Exploitation Part I
Author/s: N. Sirikan, H. Côme, I. Stojković, J. Ventura-Traveset, R. Lucas
Publication: Inside GNSS
Date: August, 2018
https://insidegnss.com/galileo-5-and-6-eccentric-satellites-mission-recovery-and-exploitation-part-i/
2017
GNSS Science Archive and Service Centre
Author/s: V. Navarro
Publication: International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS at Valencia, Spain
Date: October, 2017
https://gssc.esa.int/education/galileo-science-colloquium/
High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellites (HAPS) for PNT and Science
Author/s: R. Prieto-Cerdeira, J. V. Perello, G. Lopez-Risueño
Publication: 6th International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS/Galileo at Valencia, Spain
Date: October, 2017
https://gssc.esa.int/education/galileo-science-colloquium/
The Galileo System: a major enabler for GNSS Science, Plenary Talk at the 6th International Colloquium of Scientific and Fundamental aspects of GNSS/Galileo
Author/s: J. Ventura-Traveset
Publication: 6th International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS/Galileo at Valencia, Spain
Date: October, 2017
https://gssc.esa.int/education/galileo-science-colloquium/
2015
An SLR campaign on Galileo satellites 5 and 6 for a test of the gravitational redshift – the GREAT experiment
Author/s: P. Delva, M. Aimar, D. Albanese, S. Bertone, C. Courde, F. Deleflie, P. Exertier, D. Feraudy, A. Hees, S. Herrmann, S. Loyer, N.D. Luong, H. Mariey, G. Martinot-Lagarde, R. Prieto, N. Puchades, E. Richard, E. Samain, E. Schoenemann, T. Springer, J.-M. Torre, J. Ventura-Traveset, H. Viot, and P. Wolf
Publication: 2015 ILRS Technical Workshop at Matera, Italy
Date: October, 2015
https://ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2015_Technical_Workshop/docs/papers/1.14_Delva_paper.pdf
2012
Navipedia – The GNSS wiki. A reference for Global Navigation Satellite Systems
Author/s: T. Ferreira, R. Barradas Pereira, J. Caro, T. Kouwenhoven, C. López, J. Ventura-Traveset, J. A. Ávila-Rodríguez, G. Hein
Publication: Inside GNSS
Date: November/December, 2012
https://insidegnss.com/auto/IGM_WP-novdec12.pdf
Navipedia — The GNSS Wiki
Author/s: T. Ferreira, R. Barradas Pereira, J. Caro, T. Kouwenhoven, C. López, J. Ventura-Traveset, J. A. Ávila-Rodríguez, G. Hein
Publication: Inside GNSS
Date: November, 2012
https://insidegnss.com/navipedia-the-gnss-wiki/
2004
Galileo Positioning Technology
An introduction to EGNOS: The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System
Author/s: J. Ventura-Traveset et al.
Publication: Chapter 14 of the Book “GALILEO Positioning Technology Book,” Published by Springer
Date: September, 2004
http://www.springer.com/engineering/electronics/book/978-94-007-1829-6