The Dutch company Hermess delivered the report User needs on radar altimetry data for offshore, oceanographic and maritime applications for the NL-RIA knowledge network. Hermess provides services for the maritime sector. These services are based on weather and wave modelling and are used to support, among others, design of offshore …
Alden Yellowhorse of the Mechatronic Systems Design department at TU Delft is tasked with the research on future foldable antenna systems for micro satellites. Discussion topics in coming project meetings will include antenna designs suitable for small satellites. This includes antenna performance requirements and analyses of multiple designs under consideration. …
On 19 February 2020 an NL-RIA mission and platform workshop will be held at the premises of ISIS, Motorenweg 23, Delft. All technical participants of the NL-RIA network have been invited. The goal is to discuss the progress and technological roadmap of our NL-RIA radar altimeter and SAR missions. Focus …
TU Delft attended with several persons the ARSI-KEO workshop at ESTEC, Noordwijk, officially named the 6th edition of the Advanced RF Sensors and Remote Sensing Instruments workshop, together with the 4th Ka-band for Earth Observation workshop. A poster presentation was prepared by Yuanhao Li, entitled “Alticubes: a Ka-Band Cubesat Altimeter …
Upstream partners have been invited at the TU-Delft campus the 29th May to discuss the technological feasibility of the concepts investigated by TUD. The list includes TNO, Metasensing, Lionix, Airbus and ISIS (Innovative Solutions In Space). The meeting started by introducing the ‘dream’ concepts and the work done by the …
NL-RIA downstream partners (HERMESS, FutureWater, Deltares), NLR and TUD had a joint meeting on 11th February 2019 at TUD campus to brainstorm on the priority needs for the altimetry user community and to relate them to the technological requirements raised by the TUD-promoted concepts. Three short presentations were given at …
In the first half of 2019 the NL-RIA consortium initiative and its satellite concepts have been presented by TU-Delft at several key international events for the remote sensing community. March2019. The swarmSAR concept is for the first time introduced at the workshop “Bi and Multistatic SAR Systems and Applications” organized by …
At Wednesday 26 September 2018, we had a meeting at the 3ME Faculty of Delft University of Technology to discuss mission concepts for a small spaceborne microwave satellite or cluster of satellites. The meeting was attended by NL-RIA network parties that deal with satellite and orbit design, antennae and microwave …
On 4 April 2018 the NSO KNW project NL-RIA (Dutch network on small spaceborne radar instruments and applications) started with a kick-off meeting in the Science centre at TU Delft. The meeting was widely attended by both users and instrument researchers/ developers from various institutes, companies and TU Delft. In …
