Three Decades of Remote Sensors Development at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech
Channel: IEEE GRSS
Date: 2022-12-01

Three Decades of Remote Sensors Development at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech: from ground-based instruments to CubeSat payloads

by Prof. Adriano Camps,
CommSensLab-UPC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain) and
Visiting professor at the UAE University, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi (UAE)

Over the past 30 years, the Remote Sensing lab at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech has participated in a number of remote sensing satellite missions, it has developed ground-based and airborne active and passive microwave sensors, and LIDARs, and it has conceived and developed calibration and geophysical parameter retrieval algorithms…
In this talk, a brief overview of the lab activities will be presented first. Then, the evolution and limitations of Earth Observation (EO) using CubeSats will be explained to provide the context of the UPC CubeSat program, which started in 2007 as a way to test innovative remote sensors. Finally, the past, present, and future UPC CubeSat missions and payloads will be described in detail, including L-band microwave radiometers, GNSS-Reflectometers, VNIR imagers, and IoT communication systems for on-demand EO services.

More details at: https://www.grss-ieee.org/events/three-decades-of-remote-sensors-development-at-the-universitat-politecnica-de-catalunya-barcelonatech-from-ground-based-instruments-to-cubesat-payloads/