“The Living Planet Fellowship is a great opportunity to pursue a two-year project with high innovative potential, for which I would like to thank ESA and my supervisors. The LPF program allows fellows to spend time on carefully investigating new research perspectives, which is not always possible at postdoc level. During this two-year period, I …
MODULATE is designed to assess how L-band radar systems can complement existing approaches to slope monitoring in complex alpine environments. Its main goals are to identify current shortcomings of C-band SAR interferometry (such as the results obtained from the ESA Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission), to analyse the added value and limitations of L-band systems in preparation …
Building on the story published last February, this update highlights new advanced innovative Inverse-SAR (ISAR) algorithms developed and tailored for satellite platforms within the EO4Security ISAR project. These innovations support a wide range of use cases and represent significant progress in Earth observation for security applications. Techniques explored The following techniques were investigated: Parametric …
The SARWAVE project is developing a new sea state processor from SAR images to be applied over open ocean, sea ice, and coastal areas, and exploring potential synergy with other microwave and optical EO products.
The activity aims to develop and industrialize new algorithms that exploit multistatic and bistatic SAR data, leveraging angular diversity to improve target detection and moving target identification techniques. The project has explored advanced SAR processing algorithms across four main research areas: moving target indication for ground and maritime applications, high-resolution imaging with continuous coverage, detection …
The activity aims to develop and validate a software package for conducting Video-SAR processing of SAR data, exploiting very long dwell time acquisitions and subaperture techniques. It also includes the performance assessment of the proposed approach and the demonstration of its effectiveness through application to real-data scenarios. In the final phase of the project, a …
Advancements in space technologies in the last decades have laid the basis for a new era for space-based sensing exploiting Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging, spurred on by the potential to deploy constellations of micro-satellites equipped with antennae possessing significant gain and steering capabilities. Long dwell-time products with fine spatial resolution enable the extraction of …
The project aims to consolidate existing results in the field of micro-Doppler information extraction from spaceborne SAR and to enhance the overall understanding of the phenomenology, models, processing algorithms, applications, and commercial value. The project focuses on assessing the performance of emerging information extraction methods as novel applications and on demonstrating the added value of …
The project aims to develop and validate robust micro-Doppler (m-D) algorithms by demonstrating their reliability through real-world use cases and operational scenarios, with a specific focus on the monitoring of critical infrastructures such as bridges and water towers. Validation activities include detailed testing and the production of comprehensive test reports. The project involves the comparison …
The project aims to consolidate and expand current findings in the field of information extraction from spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) using Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) techniques. Its objective is to enhance the understanding of various aspects, including the underlying phenomena, mathematical models, data processing algorithms, practical applications, and the overall utility of this …
