Hardware implementation of an earth observation payload for a CubeSat mission

Due to global warming, desertification and flooding events are more common and extreme. Earth observation (EO) satellite missions with the acquisition of climate variables are important for understanding and addressing the impacts. With the rise of NewSpace missions, new possibilities to monitor and...

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Autor: Badia Ballús, Marc
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/427804
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/427804
Access Level:acceso embargado
Palabra clave:Detectors
Artificial satellites in telecommunication
Hardware
CubeSat
RF
Earth Observation
Satèl·lits artificials en telecomunicació
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Satèl·lits i ràdioenllaços
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Sumario:Due to global warming, desertification and flooding events are more common and extreme. Earth observation (EO) satellite missions with the acquisition of climate variables are important for understanding and addressing the impacts. With the rise of NewSpace missions, new possibilities to monitor and create new technologies and demonstrators appears, due to its low price compared to traditional satellite missions. The EO payload called RITA combines a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Software Defined Radio (SDR) module with the execution of a microwave radiometer (MWR), a Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) detector, a LoRa transceiver and a COTS hyper-spectral camera (HSCam). By integrating sensors for the mentioned experiments, this payload enhances the accuracy and reliability of the measurements with processing parameters such as: soil moisture content derived from the MWR, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NVDI) obtained from the HSCam, improved acquisition of vegetation-related measurements through the LoRa transceiver, or even the construction of world-wide interference maps. In this document, the design, the implementation of hardware of the RITA payload and the technologies related are described.