In order to develop the TRL level of NL-RIA’s miniature radar altimeter a proposal entitled “AltiCube – A Dutch CubeSat radar altimetry instrument” has been submitted to NSO by TU Delft, Swartvast, Robin radar and ISISpace. RFx solutions and TNO Defence and Security will be subcontracted in the course of …
Robin radar is a newcomer in the world of spaceborne radar. Due to their possible involvement in the realization of new radar hardware for cubesat style satellites, a short introductory course on small satellites was given by Dr. Jian Guo of TU Delft during a preparatory meeting. Several NL-RIA members …
On 23 November 2022 KNMI joined the NL-RIA knowledge network. Contact person is Ad Stoffelen. Together with colleagues he performs scientific research on the use and performance of spaceborne radar instruments, including windscatterometers and altimeters. KNMI’s membership brings in expertise in this field, which strengthens the user side of NL-RIA. …
Recently NL-RIA’s partner RFx solutions managed to realize the first radarboard for the 35 GHz miniaturized altimeter. The design is based on work from Ozan Doğan, during his post-doc assignment. The development was sincerely delayed by Covid-19 and by the worldwide shortages in chips. But after a long period of …
After two years, Peter Hoogeboom’s old temporary NL-RIA logo has been replaced by a brandnew logo, designed by Rens Swart.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!
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 …
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 …
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 …
(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 …
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 …
