NL-RIA – Page 2 – Dutch Knowledge Network on Radar Instruments and Applications

New logo for NL-RIA

After two years, Peter Hoogeboom’s old temporary NL-RIA logo has been replaced by a brandnew logo, designed by Rens Swart. Consider it as a strong impulse to continue NL-RIA’s activities. We hope you like it!

Peter Hoogeboom January 27, 2022 January 27, 2022 announcements

Possible continuation of radar altimeter development

Recently in a meeting with NSO the possibility of continuing NL-RIA’s radar altimeter development was discussed. The primary aim would be to raise the TRL level of the radar design from currently 2-3 to at least 6. If this is successful we could aim at a space qualified design and …

Peter Hoogeboom November 18, 2021 November 18, 2021 announcements

Alticubes orbits for better coverage

Postdoc Yuanhao Li came up with some interesting orbit designs during his study for ESA into new concepts for miniature radar altimeter constellations. In this post we show two examples of constellation orbits that were optimized according to specific requirements. In the first example the goal was to extend a …

Peter Hoogeboom February 2, 2021 February 2, 2021 Results

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 …

Peter Hoogeboom October 20, 2020 October 20, 2020 publications

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 …

Peter Hoogeboom October 13, 2020 October 13, 2020 announcements / publications / Results

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 …

admin October 13, 2020 October 13, 2020 publications

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 …

Peter Hoogeboom October 9, 2020 October 9, 2020 publications

Meetings postponed

On 28 May 2020 a meeting was planned by NSO with the presently active knowledge networks. Unfortunately the meeting had to be postponed for unknown period due to the corona virus. For NL-RIA this would have been a wonderful occasion to demonstrate our progress and good cooperative spirit, slightly more …

Peter Hoogeboom May 24, 2020 May 24, 2020 announcements / meetings

Ka-band radar altimeter breadboard for NL-RIA

Ozan Dogan of the Microwave Sensing, Signals & Systems department at TU Delft is tasked with the design of a Ka-band radar altimeter. Radar altimeters are known to be an elegant tool for estimation of the sea surface height, significant wave height and wind speed. In the radar system engineering …

Peter Hoogeboom April 14, 2020 April 14, 2020 Results

Welcome to NL-RIA

Mission

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).
Read more about NL-RIA

Members

Currently 19 institutions participate in NL-RIA. See the list of network partners and their expertises.

Join us!

NL-RIA performs low TRL-level research to accomplish its goals. Results of all activities are available to the contributing members through the resources base. The members aim at successful acquisition of projects to raise the TRL-level and strive for capable instruments and missions.
Contact us for more information on membership and cooperation.

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