Year: 2020

Alticube concept presented at IAC conference

A paper entitled “AltiCube: A Ka-band Altimeter CubeSat Constellation for Ocean Monitoring” by J.Guo, Y.Li, S.H.Mok, B.Krijnen, P. Hoogeboom, P.Lopez-Dekker and C.Buck was presented at the 71st International Astronautical Congress (IAC), 12-14 October 2020. The paper is available in the resource page. Abstract: A feasibility study of a Ka-band altimeter …

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Altimeter breadboard paper now published

(click on the title or on “Continue Reading” to see this post in full, including links) Further to the post on Ka-band radar altimeter breadboard for NL-RIA a paper on the subject has been presented by Ozan Dogan to the 2020 IEEE International IOT, Electronics and Mechatronics Conference (IEMTRONICS) and …

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SwarmSAR concept presented at the IEEE Radarcon 2020 event

A work with title “A Highly Flexible and Scalable S-band SwarmSAR from Very Simple Nodes” from authors Lorenzo Iannini, Paco Lopez-Dekker and Peter Hoogeboom has been presented at the IEEE Radarcon 2020 conference. The presentation and the paper proceeding are available in the resource page. Abstract: The paper introduces the …

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IEEE GRSL paper by Ozan Dogan published and downloadable

A recent publication by Ozan Dogan, Faruk Eysal and Paco Lopez-Dekker in IEEE GRSL can now be downloaded from the Resources page on this website.  Small satellite radar technology is emerging due to its promising mission concept variety. A modern satellite radar system shall be capable of generating not only …

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The NetherLands knowledge network on Radar Instruments and Applications (acronym NL-RIA) allies scientific and knowledge institutes, companies and governmental agencies to strengthen the international position of The Netherlands in the field of small spaceborne microwave remote sensing instruments, missions and applications.
The network is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) under a program executed by the Netherlands Space Office (NSO).
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The need for NL-RIA’s cubesat altimeter constellation

Author: Yuanhao Li. Nowadays spaceborne data from several altimeters (e.g., from Jason-1/2, Cryosat, etc.) can already resolve oceanographic phenomena with sizes in the order of 100 km. However, we cannot observe very well the submeso-scale oceanic features which may derive from smaller-scale eddies and currents. In this view, the observation …

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