Systems and methods for satellite noise and interference calibration using terminal measurements

A method comprising:

• receiving over a communications network a plurality of signal to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) measurements made by a plurality of terminals for a plurality of inroute frequency channels (IFCs);
• computing initial statistics for the plurality of SINR measurements;
• normalizing the SINR measurements for each of the plurality of terminals;
• and
• determining one or more clear channels of the plurality of IFCs using at least the normalized SINR measurements.

A method, comprising:

• a satellite gateway instructing a plurality of terminals over an outroute channel to measure a signal to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of a plurality of inroute frequency channels (IFCs) corresponding to a satellite network partition;
• in response to the instruction, the satellite gateway receiving over an inroute channel a plurality of SINR measurements made by the plurality of terminals for the plurality of IFCs;
• the satellite gateway using at least the received plurality of SINR measurements made by the plurality of terminals for the plurality of IFCs to determine a final calibrated IFC SINR offset for each of the plurality of IFCs;
• and
• transmitting, to the plurality of terminals, the final calibrated IFC SINR offsets.