Projects and experiments of Active Remote Sensing in RSLab
Rain Radar
Based on previous developments (X-band GB-SAR), the Rain Radar is a new approach in meteorological radar technique to get complete Doppler spectra of hydrometeors in a height between 100 and 8000 meters. It is highly reconfigurable for different cell resolution (1.5m, 15m 50m & 100m). It will be able to …
First Interferogram with PAZ data at UPC
The interferogram has been obtained from two Stripmap SLC images acquired by PAZ over Mojave desert on May 20th and May 31th 2018. The short revisit time and the characteristics of the terrain allow obtaining an amazing quality interferogram. Coherence, which estimates the phase quality, is very high in most …
Geosynchronous – Continental Land-Atmosphere Sensing System (G-CLASS)
G-CLASS is a space mission currently under feasibility study (Phase A). It was selected by the ESA’s Advisory Committee for Earth Observation (ACEO) to compete as the tenth Earth Explorer mission together with two different mission concepts. G-CLASS involves many universities and remote sensing research centers from all over Europe …
Geostationary Orbital Determination Project (GEODE)
The GEODE concept In order to operate a synthetic aperture radar from geostationary orbit (GEOSAR) such as G-CLASS, the orbital determination must be very accurate. Since the G-CLASS mission operates at C-Band, the orbit would have to be determined with a precision in the order of meters which is well …
Persistent Scatter Interferometry (PSI) processing
Persistent Scatter (PS) Interferometry (PSI) is a powerful remote sensing technique able to measure and monitor displacements of the Earth’s surface over time. PSI represents a specific class of DInSAR (Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) techniques, which exploits multiple SAR images acquired over the same area. It utilizes appropriate data …
120GHz Radar for Medical Applications
Doppler radar for measuring vital signs has been a research topic in recent years. The noncontact radar method requires neither internal nor external surrogates, but it can provide reliable respiration and heart-beat measurements. With this 120GHz high sensitive radar, it is possible to directly detect and measure the chest wall …
94GHz Radar for civilian structure monitoring
This is an experimental 94 GHz (W-Band) CW-FM Radar that can be configured as a Ground Based SAR for high resolution imaging and interferometry. Several experimental campaigns have been carried out to assess the capability of the system to remotely observe submillimetric deformation and vibration in infrastructures. Several ground based …
94GHz Cloud Radar
In 2014, RSLAB began to explore our capabilities to develop a small size, 94GHz band, single pol, high sensitivity Radar, capable to provide range profiles of parameters that contain information about scatterers in the atmosphere such as cloud particles, raindrops, snowflakes and insects. The radar utilizes (again, as in previous …
SAR in DRONE
Low-weight full-polarimetric SAR in Drone Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors have been commonly used during the last decades to monitor different phenomena in medium-scale areas of observation, such as object detection and characterization or topographic mapping. The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a cost-effective solution that offers …
Risk SAR
The RS-lab full polarimetric-interferometric GB-SAR Ground-based synthetic aperture radar (GB-SAR) sensors represent a cost-effective solution for change detection and ground displacement assessment of small-scale areas in real time early warning applications. The main differences between GB-SARs and classical Orbital or Airborne SARs are the way the aperture is …