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Using only a single GNSS antenna, it is difficult to determine the crop growth status and soil water content (SWC) in vegetation-covered regions due to plenty of multi-path signals. Based on the empirical mode decomposition and the spectrum difference, this study presents an algorithm that can decompose and separate signals reflected by the soil surface or corn canopy. Because the low-roughness soil surface is isotropic while the corn canopy is anisotropic, the signals reflected by the soil surface have a higher proportion of coherent components than those reflected by the corn canopy. The moduli between the retrieved heights and the actual heights (for the same interval from different satellites) have the least variance. In this study, the signals reflected by the soil surface and the corn canopy are separated using the variance of retrieved heights. When the corn grows taller than the GNSS antenna, the vegetation water content (VWC) of the corn leaves becomes the primary factor affecting the direct signal\u2019s intensity, as the leaves obstruct the signal. Hence, the VWC of corn leaves can be calculated through the power attenuation of signals. An experiment performed on a plot of land covered with corn shows that, after multi-GPS-satellite fusion, the correlations between the retrieved corn canopy height, leaf VWC, soil water content (SWC), and in situ data reach 0.94, 0.92, and 0.88, respectively. The corresponding root mean square errors are 0.195 m, 0.0055 kg\/cm2, and 0.0484 cm3\/cm3, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15071738","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,24]],"date-time":"2023-03-24T02:34:54Z","timestamp":1679625294000},"page":"1738","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Simultaneous Retrieval of Corn Growth Status and Soil Water Content Based on One GNSS Antenna"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3013-3918","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jie","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]},{"given":"Xuebao","family":"Hong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9046-3388","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Feng","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5702-5474","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lei","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"},{"name":"School of Information Science and Technology, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China"}]},{"given":"Dongkai","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"471","DOI":"10.1016\/S0034-4257(02)00135-9","article-title":"Monitoring vegetation phenology using MODIS","volume":"84","author":"Zhang","year":"2003","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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