FSSCat: the Federated Satellite Systems 3 Cat Mission: demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle
The Federated Satellite Systems/ 3 Cat-5 (FSSCat) mission was the winner of the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel Small Satellite (S 3 ) Challenge and overall winner of the 2017 Copernicus Masters competition. It consisted of two six-unit CubeSats. The Earth observation payloads were 1) the Flexi...
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ftcranfield:oai:dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk:1826/19156 2023-05-15T18:18:33+02:00 FSSCat: the Federated Satellite Systems 3 Cat Mission: demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle Camps, Adriano Munoz-Martin, Joan Francesc Ruiz-de-Azua, Joan Adrià Garzaniti, Nicola 2022-11-30 https://doi.org/10.1109/MGRS.2022.3219778 https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/19156 en eng IEEE Camps A, Munoz-Martin JF, Ruiz-de-Azua JA, et al., (2022) FSSCat: the Federated Satellite Systems 3 Cat Mission: demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle. IEEE Geoscience And Remote Sensing Magazine, Available online 30 November 2022 2473-2397 https://doi.org/10.1109/MGRS.2022.3219778 https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/19156 Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ CC-BY-NC Article 2022 ftcranfield https://doi.org/10.1109/MGRS.2022.3219778 2023-02-09T23:38:51Z The Federated Satellite Systems/ 3 Cat-5 (FSSCat) mission was the winner of the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel Small Satellite (S 3 ) Challenge and overall winner of the 2017 Copernicus Masters competition. It consisted of two six-unit CubeSats. The Earth observation payloads were 1) the Flexible Microwave Payload 2 (FMPL-2) onboard 3 Cat-5/A, an L-band microwave radiometer and GNSS reflectometer (GNSS-R) implemented using a softwaredefined radio (SDR), and 2) the HyperScout-2 onboard 3 Cat-5/B, a hyperspectral camera, with the first experiment using artificial intelligence to discard cloudy images. FSSCat was launched on 3 September 2020 and injected into a 535-km synchronous orbit. 3 Cat-5/A was operated for three months until the payload was probably damaged by a solar flare and coronal mass ejection. During this time, all scientific requirements were met, including the generation of coarse-resolution and downscaled soil moisture (SM) maps, sea ice extent (SIE) maps, concentration and thickness maps, and even wind speed (WS) and sea surface salinity (SSS) maps, which were not originally foreseen. 3 Cat-5/B was operated a few more months until the number of images acquired met the requirements. This article briefly describes the FSSCat mission and the FMPL-2 payload and summarizes the main scientific results. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice Cranfield University: Collection of E-Research - CERES IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine 10 4 260 269 |
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The Federated Satellite Systems/ 3 Cat-5 (FSSCat) mission was the winner of the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel Small Satellite (S 3 ) Challenge and overall winner of the 2017 Copernicus Masters competition. It consisted of two six-unit CubeSats. The Earth observation payloads were 1) the Flexible Microwave Payload 2 (FMPL-2) onboard 3 Cat-5/A, an L-band microwave radiometer and GNSS reflectometer (GNSS-R) implemented using a softwaredefined radio (SDR), and 2) the HyperScout-2 onboard 3 Cat-5/B, a hyperspectral camera, with the first experiment using artificial intelligence to discard cloudy images. FSSCat was launched on 3 September 2020 and injected into a 535-km synchronous orbit. 3 Cat-5/A was operated for three months until the payload was probably damaged by a solar flare and coronal mass ejection. During this time, all scientific requirements were met, including the generation of coarse-resolution and downscaled soil moisture (SM) maps, sea ice extent (SIE) maps, concentration and thickness maps, and even wind speed (WS) and sea surface salinity (SSS) maps, which were not originally foreseen. 3 Cat-5/B was operated a few more months until the number of images acquired met the requirements. This article briefly describes the FSSCat mission and the FMPL-2 payload and summarizes the main scientific results. |
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Camps, Adriano Munoz-Martin, Joan Francesc Ruiz-de-Azua, Joan Adrià Garzaniti, Nicola FSSCat: the Federated Satellite Systems 3 Cat Mission: demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle |
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FSSCat: the Federated Satellite Systems 3 Cat Mission: demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle |
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FSSCat: the Federated Satellite Systems 3 Cat Mission: demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle |
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FSSCat: the Federated Satellite Systems 3 Cat Mission: demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle |
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FSSCat: the Federated Satellite Systems 3 Cat Mission: demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle |
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fsscat: the federated satellite systems 3 cat mission: demonstrating the capabilities of cubesats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle |
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Camps A, Munoz-Martin JF, Ruiz-de-Azua JA, et al., (2022) FSSCat: the Federated Satellite Systems 3 Cat Mission: demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle. IEEE Geoscience And Remote Sensing Magazine, Available online 30 November 2022 2473-2397 https://doi.org/10.1109/MGRS.2022.3219778 https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/19156 |
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