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    • 3D pain face expression recognition using a ML-MIMO radar profiler 

      López Montero, María José; Palacios Arias, César Augusto; Romeu Robert, Jordi; Jofre Roca, Lluís (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-03-29)
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      This study proposes a new method for the detection of facial expressions of pain using a 3D profiler that combines a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar system with a machine learning (ML) model (ML-MIMO radar ...
    • A new coastal upwelling index generated with surface current estimations from high-frequency radars 

      Lorente Jiménez, Pablo; Rubio, Anna; Reyes Reyes, Emma; Solabarrieta Odriozola, Lohitzune; Piedracoba Varela, Silvia; Montero Vilar, Pedro; Ruiz, María Isabel; Manso Narvarte, Ivan; López Fernández, Guiomar; Ayensa Aguirre, Garbiñe; Tintoré Subirana, Joaquín; Mader, Julien (SARTI, 2024)
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      Coastal upwelling has been extensively studied as it plays a critical role in the connectivity between offshore waters and coastal ecosystems, which has impacts on water quality, fisheries, and aquaculture production. ...
    • A bluetooth low energy indoor positioning system with channel diversity, weighted trilateration and Kalman filtering 

      Cantón Paterna, Vicente; Calveras Augé, Anna M.; Paradells Aspas, Josep; Perez Bullones, Maria Antonia (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2017-12-01)
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      Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology are currently becoming real and available, which has made them grow in popularity and use. However, there are still plenty of challenges related ...
    • A compact prototype of an FM-CW RADAR for biomedical applications 

      García i Jareño, Eduard (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-01-02)
      Bachelor thesis
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    • A comparative study of operational vessel detectors for maritime surveillance using satellite-borne synthetic aperture radar 

      Stasolla, Mattia; Mallorquí Franquet, Jordi Joan; Margarit, Gerard; Santamaría, Carlos; Walker, Nick (2016-06-01)
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      This paper presents a comparative study among four operational detectors that work by automatically post-processing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired from the satellite platforms RADARSAT-2 and COSMO-SkyMed. ...
    • A dual-mode Ultra-Wideband wireless platform for remote patient monitoring systems 

      Bisbe Novoa, Sergi; Reyes Navarro, Carlos Alberto (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-07-11)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      The combination of two factors demands the need to find a solution that guarantees the well-being of the people suffering from chronic diseases. On the one hand, the increase of the life expectancy leads to an older world's ...
    • A near field 3D radar imaging technique 

      Broquetas Ibars, Antoni (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1993)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      The paper presents an algorithm which recovers a 3D reflectivity image of a target from near-field scattering measurements. Spherical wave nearfield illumination is used, in order to avoid a costly compact range installation ...
    • A near field spherical wave inverse synthetic aperture radar technique 

      Broquetas Ibars, Antoni; Jofre Roca, Lluís; Cardama Aznar, Ángel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1992)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      The authors present an imaging near-field spherical wave inverse synthetic aperture radar (SWISAR) algorithm based on a focusing operator of the scattered fields on the target surface. A spherical wave can be easily generated ...
    • A new approach to DInSAR pixel selection with a combined multi resolution selection method 

      Centolanza, Giuseppe; Iglesias González, Rubén; Monells Miralles, Daniel; Mallorquí Franquet, Jordi Joan (2012)
      Conference report
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      In DInSAR processing it is possible to detect different kinds of targets at different resolutions. Point like scatters can be selected with high resolution selection methods, like amplitude dispersion. Distributed scatters ...
    • A new approach to DInSAR pixel selection with spectral correlation along time between Sublooks 

      Iglesias González, Rubén; Monells Miralles, Daniel; Centolanza, Giuseppe; Mallorquí Franquet, Jordi Joan (2012)
      Conference report
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      This paper presents a full resolution pixel selection method, alternative to the traditional ones, which is based on the study of the spectral correlation coefficient along time among different Sublooks of the image ...
    • A new methodology to characterise the radar bright band using doppler spectral moments from vertically pointing radar observations 

      Garcia Benadí, Albert; Bech, Joan; González Herrero, Sergi; Udina, Mireia; Codina Sánchez, Bernat (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2021-10-27)
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      The detection and characterisation of the radar Bright Band (BB) are essential for many applications of weather radar quantitative precipitation estimates, such as heavy rainfall surveillance, hydrological modelling or ...
    • A novel algorithm for ship detection in SAR imagery based on the wavelet transform 

      Tello Alonso, Mª Victoria; López Martínez, Carlos; Mallorquí Franquet, Jordi Joan (IEEE, 2005-04-30)
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      Carrying out an effective control of fishing activities is essential to guarantee a sustainable exploitation of sea resources. Nevertheless, as the regulated areas are extended, they are difficult and time consuming to ...
    • A novel linear feature detector for SAR images 

      He, Chu; Liao, Z.X.; Yang, Fang; Deng, Xinping; Liao, M.S. (2012-11-12)
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      A new linear feature detector for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is presented in this article by embedding a three-region filter into the wedgelet analysis framework. One of its main features is that it can detect ...
    • A novel strategy for radar imaging based on compressive sensing 

      Tello Alonso, Mª Victoria; López Dekker, Francisco J.; Mallorquí Franquet, Jordi Joan (2008)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      This paper aims at introducing the recent theory of compressive sensing to radar imaging systems in order to retrieve the imaged scene with better resolution and a reduced amount of collected samples. As a result of ...
    • A persistent scatterer interferometry procedure to monitor urban subsidence 

      Crosetto, Michele; Monserrat, Oriol; Barra, Anna; Cuevas-González, Maria; Krishnakumar, Vrinda; Mróz, Marek; Crippa, Bruno (2019)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      This paper describes a Persistent Scatterer Interferometry procedure for deformation monitoring. Its more original part concerns an approach to estimate the atmospheric phase component. The procedure can be used to monitor ...
    • A polarimetric ultra-wide band field scatterometer 

      Broquetas Ibars, Antoni; Fabregas Canovas, Francisco Javier (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1995)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      “TERESA” (Terrestrial Radar Equipment for Scattering Analysis) is a ground-based, fully polarimetric scatterometer operative in the S, C, X, and Ku bands. It has been designed to obtain the complete backscattering matrix ...
    • A pulsed carrier recovery using a discrete conception of the PLL 

      Aguasca Solé, Alberto; Broquetas Ibars, Antoni (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1992)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      A bistatic radar system requires accurate synchronization between the transmitter and the remote receiver in order to achieve a correct coherent target detection and positioning. An unlinked receiver carrier phase/frequency ...
    • A review and test of shoreline extraction techniques 

      Angelini, Riccardo; Angelats Company, Eduard; Luzi, Guido; Ribas Prats, Francesca; Masiero, Andrea; Mugnai, Francesco (2023-05-25)
      Article
      Open Access
      Shoreline represents the boundary between land and sea, and its accurate extraction is of utmost importance because of the economic and ecological value of coastal areas. Nowadays, satellite remote sensing is widely used ...
    • A Small Baseline DIFSAR Approach for Investigating Deformations on Full Resolution SAR Interferograms 

      Lanari, Ricardo; Mora Sacristan, Óscar; Manunta, Michele; Mallorquí Franquet, Jordi Joan; Berardino, P.; Sansoti, Eugenio (IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 2004-07-31)
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      This paper presents a differential synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry (DIFSAR) approach for investigating deformation phenomena on full-resolution DIFSAR interferograms. In particular, our algorithm extends ...
    • A suboptimum rank test for radar detection 

      Sanz González, José Luis; Figueiras Vidal, Aníbal R.; Mariño Acebal, José Bernardo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 1983)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      In this communication, a new nonparametric rank scheme is in traduced for Radar application and its performance briefly analyzed. The proposed scheme has a suboptimum character, since it is introduce as a simplification ...