The Flexible Microwave Payload-2: A SDR-Based GNSS-Reflectometer and L-Band Radiometer for CubeSats
This article presents the FMPL-2 on board the FSSCat mission, the 2017 ESA Small Sentinel Satellite Challenge and overall Copernicus Masters Competition winner. FMPL-2 is a passive microwave instrument based on a software-defined radio that implements a conventional global navigation satellite syste...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/236333 2024-02-11T10:08:30+01:00 The Flexible Microwave Payload-2: A SDR-Based GNSS-Reflectometer and L-Band Radiometer for CubeSats Muñoz-Martín, Joan Francesc Capon, Lara Ruíz-de-Azúa, Joan Adrià Camps, Adriano Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España) Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España) Generalitat de Catalunya 2020 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/236333 https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2977959 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002809 unknown Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers #PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE# info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/RTI2018-099008-BC21 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/MDM-2016-0600 Publisher's version http://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2977959 Sí doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2977959 issn: 2151-1535 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 13: 1298-1311 (2020) http://hdl.handle.net/10261/236333 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002809 open Cubesats GNSS-R L-band Radiometry RFI Sea ice Soil moisture (SM) artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 2020 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2020.297795910.13039/50110000332910.13039/501100002809 2024-01-16T11:06:11Z This article presents the FMPL-2 on board the FSSCat mission, the 2017 ESA Small Sentinel Satellite Challenge and overall Copernicus Masters Competition winner. FMPL-2 is a passive microwave instrument based on a software-defined radio that implements a conventional global navigation satellite system - Reflectometer and an L-band radiometer, occupying 1 U of a 6 U CubeSat. The article describes the FSSC at mission context, the payload design and implementation phases, the tests results in a controlled environment, and finally the calibration algorithms applied to the downloaded data in order to extract the appropriate geophysical parameters: sea-ice coverage, sea-ice thickness (SIT), and low-resolution soil moisture. This article covers the overall payload design, from a high-level block diagram down to single-component specifications from both hardware and software points of view. The main block of the instrument is based on the combination of an FPGA, which virtualizes a dual-core ARM processor, where most of the calculus are performed, and a software-defined radio module, in charge of I/Q data demodulation. The article also explains the design and implementation of a signal conditioning board required for the correct operation and calibration of both instruments. This work was supported in part by the ESA S3 challenge award (FSSCat project) 2017 Copernicus Masters overall winner [44], in part by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, “Sensing with Pioneering Opportunistic Techniques” SPOT under Grant RTI2018-099008-BC21, in part by the de Excelencia Maria de Maeztu MDM-2016-0600, and in part by the ICREA Academia award by the Generalitat de Catalunya. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 13 1298 1311 |
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This article presents the FMPL-2 on board the FSSCat mission, the 2017 ESA Small Sentinel Satellite Challenge and overall Copernicus Masters Competition winner. FMPL-2 is a passive microwave instrument based on a software-defined radio that implements a conventional global navigation satellite system - Reflectometer and an L-band radiometer, occupying 1 U of a 6 U CubeSat. The article describes the FSSC at mission context, the payload design and implementation phases, the tests results in a controlled environment, and finally the calibration algorithms applied to the downloaded data in order to extract the appropriate geophysical parameters: sea-ice coverage, sea-ice thickness (SIT), and low-resolution soil moisture. This article covers the overall payload design, from a high-level block diagram down to single-component specifications from both hardware and software points of view. The main block of the instrument is based on the combination of an FPGA, which virtualizes a dual-core ARM processor, where most of the calculus are performed, and a software-defined radio module, in charge of I/Q data demodulation. The article also explains the design and implementation of a signal conditioning board required for the correct operation and calibration of both instruments. This work was supported in part by the ESA S3 challenge award (FSSCat project) 2017 Copernicus Masters overall winner [44], in part by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, “Sensing with Pioneering Opportunistic Techniques” SPOT under Grant RTI2018-099008-BC21, in part by the de Excelencia Maria de Maeztu MDM-2016-0600, and in part by the ICREA Academia award by the Generalitat de Catalunya. |
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Muñoz-Martín, Joan Francesc Capon, Lara Ruíz-de-Azúa, Joan Adrià Camps, Adriano |
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The Flexible Microwave Payload-2: A SDR-Based GNSS-Reflectometer and L-Band Radiometer for CubeSats |
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The Flexible Microwave Payload-2: A SDR-Based GNSS-Reflectometer and L-Band Radiometer for CubeSats |
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The Flexible Microwave Payload-2: A SDR-Based GNSS-Reflectometer and L-Band Radiometer for CubeSats |
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The Flexible Microwave Payload-2: A SDR-Based GNSS-Reflectometer and L-Band Radiometer for CubeSats |
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The Flexible Microwave Payload-2: A SDR-Based GNSS-Reflectometer and L-Band Radiometer for CubeSats |
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flexible microwave payload-2: a sdr-based gnss-reflectometer and l-band radiometer for cubesats |
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