RSLAB - Remote Sensing Research Group
The Remote Sensing Research Group is organized in two lines, Active Remote Sensing and Passive Remote Sensing, each with their own staff and resources.
Research Areas:
- SAR processing
- SAR Interferometry
- SAR Polarimetry
- Scatterometer
- Synthetic aperture radiometry
- Interferometric radiometry
- Polarimetric radiometry
- Elastic/Raman/Doppler Lidar (laser radar) remote sensing
- Lidar processing and inversion
- Lidar instrument design
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Col·leccions
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Articles de revista [463]
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Presentacions [1]
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Reports de recerca [21]
Enviaments recents
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Feasibility of precise navigation in high and low latitude regions under scintillation conditions
(2018-02-06)
Article
Accés obertScintillation is one of the most challenging problems in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) navigation. This phenomenon appears when the radio signal passes through ionospheric irregularities. These irregularities ... -
A radio-frequency interference detector for GNSS navigation and GNSS-reflectometry applications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialRadio-Frequency Interference (RFI) is a growing problem for applications based on the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), including Earth observation using GNSS - Reflectometry (GNSS-R). Nowadays, many efforts are ... -
Beamformer characterization of the MIR instrument: the microwave interferometric reflectometer
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialGlobal Navigation Satellite Systems - Reflectometry (GNSS-R) has opened promising results for remote sensing applications. The broadcast of new signals with wider bandwidth provides an opportunity to increase the performance ... -
Vertical Azimuth Display simulator for wind-Doppler lidar error assessment
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
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Accés obertThis works presents a simplified Vertical Azimuth Display (VAD) motion simulator for off-shore wind lidars. The simulator is rooted to the case of a conically-scanning lidar (e.g., the Zephyr lidar), where the wind speed ... -
Calibration of GNSS-R receivers with PRN signal injection: methodology and validation with the microwave interferometric reflectometer (MIR)
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialThe demonstration of the feasibility of navigation signals signals for remote sensing has lead to a significant increase of new GNSS-R instruments in the recent years. Despite of the type instrument, the observables are ... -
Sea target detection using spaceborne GNSS-R delay-doppler maps: theory and experimental proof of concept using TDS-1 data
(2017-09-01)
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Accés obertThis study addresses a novel application of global navigation satellite system-reflectometry (GNSS-R) delay-Doppler maps (DDMs), namely sea target detection. In contrast with other competing remote sensing technologies, ... -
Wind direction signatures in GNSS-R observables from space
(2018-01-29)
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Internet of Satellites (IoSat): an interconnected space paradigm
(2017)
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Accés obertDuring the last years the space has been populated by Distributed Satellite Systems, which some of them have started to implement Inter-Satellite Communication. However, current solutions are composed of a unique mission ... -
3Cat-3/MOTS nanosatellite mission for optical multispectral and GNSS-R Earth Observation: concept and analysis
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2018-01-06)
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Accés obertThe 3Cat-3/MOTS (3: Cube, Cat: Catalunya, 3: 3rd CubeSat mission/Missió Observació Terra Satèl·lit) mission is a joint initiative between the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC) and the Universitat Politècnica ... -
On the amount of information content in microwave radiometry for wet delay estimation
(2017-07-01)
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Accés obertThis paper aims at determining the set of optimum frequencies to be used in the companion microwave radiometers in future synthetic aperture radar altimeters, to provide higher spatial resolution of the atmospheric water-vapor ... -
A wind-lidar buoy for offshore wind measurements: first commissioning test-phase results
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialThis paper presents the development of a new commercial floating lidar system aimed to measure the wind resource and other environmental variables at candidate wind farm locations. This work describes this new lidar system ... -
An architecture providing depolarization ratio capability for a multi-wavelength Raman lidar: implementation and first measurements
(MDPI AG, 2017-12-20)
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Accés obertA new architecture for the measurement of depolarization produced by atmospheric aerosols with a Raman lidar is presented. The system uses two different telescopes: one for depolarization measurements and another for ...
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