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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ftupcatalunyair:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/339659 2023-11-12T04:25:59+01:00 The flexible microwave payload-2: A SDR-based GNSS-reflectometer and L-Band radiometer for CubeSats Muñoz Martin, Joan Francesc Fernandez Capon, Lara Pilar Ruiz De Azúa Ortega, Juan Adrián Camps Carmona, Adriano José Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Doctorat en Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Doctorat en Enginyeria Telemàtica Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. RSLAB - Grup de Recerca en Teledetecció Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. WNG - Grup de xarxes sense fils 2020-03-23 14 p. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2117/339659 https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2977959 eng eng Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9044708 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FEDER/MDM-2016-0600 Muñoz, J. [et al.]. The flexible microwave payload-2: A SDR-based GNSS-reflectometer and L-Band radiometer for CubeSats. "IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing", 23 Març 2020, p. 1298-1311. 1939-1404 http://hdl.handle.net/2117/339659 doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2977959 Attribution 3.0 Spain http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ Open Access Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació Optical communications Cosmology Microwave radiometry L-band CubeSat Payloads Sea ice Ocean temperature Satellite broadcasting Nanosatèl·lits Comunicacions òptiques Cosmologia Article 2020 ftupcatalunyair https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2977959 2023-10-24T23:05:29Z 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. The authors are with the Department of Signal Theory and Communications,Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Unidad de Excellencia María de Maeztu Peer Reviewed Postprint (published version) Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech: UPCommons - Global access to UPC knowledge IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 13 1298 1311 |
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Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació Optical communications Cosmology Microwave radiometry L-band CubeSat Payloads Sea ice Ocean temperature Satellite broadcasting Nanosatèl·lits Comunicacions òptiques Cosmologia |
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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. The authors are with the Department of Signal Theory and Communications,Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Unidad de Excellencia María de Maeztu Peer Reviewed Postprint (published version) |
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Doctorat en Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Doctorat en Enginyeria Telemàtica Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. RSLAB - Grup de Recerca en Teledetecció Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. WNG - Grup de xarxes sense fils |
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Muñoz Martin, Joan Francesc Fernandez Capon, Lara Pilar Ruiz De Azúa Ortega, Juan Adrián Camps Carmona, Adriano José |
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Muñoz Martin, Joan Francesc Fernandez Capon, Lara Pilar Ruiz De Azúa Ortega, Juan Adrián Camps Carmona, Adriano José |
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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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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
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2020 |
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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9044708 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FEDER/MDM-2016-0600 Muñoz, J. [et al.]. The flexible microwave payload-2: A SDR-based GNSS-reflectometer and L-Band radiometer for CubeSats. "IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing", 23 Març 2020, p. 1298-1311. 1939-1404 http://hdl.handle.net/2117/339659 doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2977959 |
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