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Reverberation chambers (RCs) were recently reported as a low-cost alternative to anechoic chambers (ACs) to perform radar cross-section (RCS) pattern measurements. The method consists of using transmitting and receiving antennas pointing…

Rotation averaging (RA) is a fundamental problem in robotics and computer vision. In RA, the goal is to estimate a set of $N$ unknown orientations $R_{1}, ..., R_{N} \in SO(3)$, given noisy measurements $R_{ij} \sim R^{-1}_{i} R_{j}$ of a…

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Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is an increasingly important remote sensing technique that enables three-dimensional (3D) sensing applications such as the generation of accurate digital elevation models (DEMs). In this…

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This paper introduces ASCENT (context Aware Spectrum Coexistence Design and Implementation) toolset, an advanced context-aware terrestrial satellite spectrum sharing toolset designed for researchers, policymakers, and regulators. It serves…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Ta-seen Reaz Niloy , Saurav Kumar , Aniruddha Hore , Zoheb Hassan , Carl Dietrich , Eric W. Burger , Jeffrey H. Reed , Vijay K. Shah

The analysis of ocean surface is widely performed using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery as it yields information for wide areas under challenging weather conditions, during day or night, etc. Speckle noise constitutes however the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Oktay Karakuş , Igor Rizaev , Alin Achim

In-orbit automated servicing is a promising path towards lowering the cost of satellite operations and reducing the amount of orbital debris. For this purpose, we present a pipeline for automated satellite docking port detection and state…

We present the experimental realization of a laser system for ground to satellite optical Doppler ranging at the atmospheric turbulence limit. Such a system needs to display good frequency stability (a few parts in 10^{-14}) whilst allowing…

Optics · Physics 2013-11-12 Nicola Chiodo , Khelifa Djerroud , Ouali Acef , Andre Clairon , Peter Wolf

We study Doppler velocity measurements at multiple heights in the solar atmosphere using a set of six filtergrams obtained by the Helioseismic magnetic Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory. There are clear and significant phase…

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In this paper, we introduce HEEPS/MARE, the end-to-end simulator developed for the SAR oceanographic products of ESA Earth Explorer 10 mission, Harmony, expected to launch in Decembre 2029. Harmony is primarily dedicated to the observation…

Radars are an ideal complement to cameras: both are inexpensive, solid-state sensors, with cameras offering fine angular resolution, while radars provide metric depth and robustness under adverse weather. However, radar data is more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chuhan Chen , Tianshu Huang , Akarsh Prabhakara , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Zhongxiao Cong , Anthony Rowe , Matthew O'Toole , Deva Ramanan

The sea surface height (SSH) field measured by Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission's wide-swath altimeter is analyzed with a focus on submesoscale features. Along-track wavenumber spectra of SSH variance are estimated for the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Xihan Zhang , Jörn Callies

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can measure the phase with antenna and microwave, which cannot be directly extended to visible light imaging due to phase lost. In this letter, we reported an active remote sensing with visible light via…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-26 Meng Xiang , An Pan , Yiyi Zhao , Xuewu Fan , Hui Zhao , Chuang Li , Baoli Yao

The Herschel Space Observatory of ESA was launched in May 2009 and is in operation since. From its distant orbit around L2 it needs to transmit a huge quantity of information through a very limited bandwidth. This is especially true for the…

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Incorporating rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) into integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) presents a significant security challenge, particularly in scenarios where the location of a potential eavesdropper (Eve) is unidentified.…

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Doppler spectroscopy has uncovered or confirmed all the known planets orbiting nearby stars. Two main techniques are used to obtain precision Doppler measurements at optical wavelengths. The first approach is the gas cell method, which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Guillem Anglada-Escudé , R. Paul Butler

We propose a newly configured optical correlation-domain reflectometry (OCDR) without the use of an electrical spectrum analyzer (ESA) for high-speed distributed reflectivity measurement with an enhanced spatial resolution. First, the…

The paper defines a new coordinate system that was developed in 1977-78 for the world's first digital synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ground processor for images from the Seasat-A satellite. The coordinate system is for the range-Doppler…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 P. H. Robert Orth

This paper presents the assessment of altimetric data from Sentinel-3A satellite operating in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mode for sea level research studies and applications over the largest archipelagos at Southeast Asia. Both…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 N. H. Idris , S. Vignudelli , X. Deng

Oceanic processes at fine scales are crucial yet difficult to observe accurately due to limitations in satellite and in-situ measurements. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission provides high-resolution Sea Surface Height…

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