First Pioneering Soil Moisture Estimation Software Leveraging Navigation Signals from India’s NavIC Satellite

Global Navigation Satellite System Interferometric Reflectometry (GNSS-IR) is commonly employed to extract information about the vicinity around an antenna. Within the GNSS-IR domain, Navigation with Indian Constellation Interferometric Reflectometry (NavIC-IR) represents a recent addition. This research paper delineates the fundamental principles and methodologies for creating a standalone software application that preprocesses and estimates the amplitude of NavIC multipath signals to gauge soil moisture content. The primary objective of this research is to disseminate the software within the technical community, aiding users in NavIC-IR analysis using navigational satellite signals.