FSSCat: The Federated Satellite Systems 3Cat 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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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 software-defined 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. This work was supported by the 2017 ESA S3 challenge and Copernicus Masters overall winner award (FSSCat project) and ESA project FSSCat Validation Experiment in MOSAIC; Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities Sensing With Pioneering Opportunistic Techniques grant RTI2018-099008-BC21/AEI/10.13039/501100011033; GNSS Environmental and Societal Missions grant PID2021- 126436OB-C21; and Unidad de Excelencia Maria de Maeztu grant MDM-2016-0600. Peer Reviewed Article signat per 30 autors/es: Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab ... |
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Doctorat en Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CommSensLab-UPC - Centre Específic de Recerca en Comunicació i Detecció UPC |
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FSSCat: The Federated Satellite Systems 3Cat Mission: Demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle |
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FSSCat: The Federated Satellite Systems 3Cat Mission: Demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle |
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FSSCat: The Federated Satellite Systems 3Cat Mission: Demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle |
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FSSCat: The Federated Satellite Systems 3Cat Mission: Demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle |
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FSSCat: The Federated Satellite Systems 3Cat Mission: Demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle |
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fsscat: the federated satellite systems 3cat mission: demonstrating the capabilities of cubesats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle |
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ftupcatalunyair:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/385353 2024-09-15T18:35:39+00:00 FSSCat: The Federated Satellite Systems 3Cat Mission: Demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle Camps Carmona, Adriano José Muñoz Martin, Joan Francesc Ruiz De Azúa Ortega, Juan Adrián Fernandez Capon, Lara Pilar Pérez Portero, Adrián Llaveria Godoy, David Herbert, Christoph Josef Pablos Hernández, Miriam Golkar, Alessandro Gutiérrez Peña, Antonio Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Doctorat en Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CommSensLab-UPC - Centre Específic de Recerca en Comunicació i Detecció UPC 2022-12 10 p. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2117/385353 https://doi.org/10.1109/MGRS.2022.3219778 eng eng Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9967434 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/RTI2018-099008-B-C21/ES/SENSING WITH PIONEERING OPPORTUNISTIC TECHNIQUES/ info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/PLAN ESTATAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TÉCNICA Y DE INNOVACIÓN 2017-2020/PID2021-126436OB-C21/ES/GENESIS. Gnss ENvironmEntal and Societal mISsions/ Camps, A. [et al.]. FSSCat: The Federated Satellite Systems 3Cat Mission: Demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle. "IEEE geoscience and remote sensing magazine", Desembre 2022, vol. 10, núm. 4, p. 260-269. 2168-6831 http://hdl.handle.net/2117/385353 doi:10.1109/MGRS.2022.3219778 Open Access Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Satèl·lits i ràdioenllaços Artificial satellites in earth sciences Remote sensing Microwave radiometry Microwave integrated circuits Microwave FET integrated circuits Ocean temperature Payloads Global navigation satellite system L-band Satèl·lits artificials en ciències de la terra Teledetecció Article 2022 ftupcatalunyair https://doi.org/10.1109/MGRS.2022.3219778 2024-07-25T10:53:25Z 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 software-defined 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. This work was supported by the 2017 ESA S3 challenge and Copernicus Masters overall winner award (FSSCat project) and ESA project FSSCat Validation Experiment in MOSAIC; Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities Sensing With Pioneering Opportunistic Techniques grant RTI2018-099008-BC21/AEI/10.13039/501100011033; GNSS Environmental and Societal Missions grant PID2021- 126436OB-C21; and Unidad de Excelencia Maria de Maeztu grant MDM-2016-0600. Peer Reviewed Article signat per 30 autors/es: Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech: UPCommons - Global access to UPC knowledge IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine 10 4 260 269 |