FSSCat Mission Description and First Scientific Results of the FMPL-2 Onboard 3CAT-5/A
2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 11-16 July 2021, Brussels, Belgium FSSCat, the “Federated Satellite Systems/ 3 Cat-5” mission was the winner of the 2017 ESA S^3 (Sentinel Small Satellite) Challenge and overall winner of the Copernicus Masters competition. FS...
Published in: | 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS |
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Language: | English |
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/257542 https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554589 |
Summary: | 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 11-16 July 2021, Brussels, Belgium FSSCat, the “Federated Satellite Systems/ 3 Cat-5” mission was the winner of the 2017 ESA S^3 (Sentinel Small Satellite) Challenge and overall winner of the Copernicus Masters competition. FSSCat consists of two 6 unit cubesats carrying on board UPC's Flexible Microwave Payload - 2 (FMPL-2), an L-band microwave radiometer and GNSS-Reflectometer implemented in a software defined radio, and Cosine's HyperScout-2 visible and near infrared + thermal infrared hyperspectral imager, enhanced with PhiSat-1, a on board Artificial intelligence experiment for cloud detection. Both spacecrafts include optical and UHF inter-satellite links technology demonstrators, provided by Golbriak Space and UPC, respectively. This paper describes the mission, and the main scientific results of the FMPL-2 obtained during the first three months of the mission, notably the sea ice concentration and thickness, and the downscaled soil moisture products over the Northern hemisphere Peer reviewed |
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