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Title: | A New Orbiting Deployable System for Small Satellite Observations for Ecology and Earth Observation | Authors: | MARTELLATO, Elena PICCIRILLO, Alice Maria Ferraioli, Giampaolo Rotundi, Alessandra DELLA CORTE, Vincenzo PALUMBO, Pasquale Alcaras, Emanuele Appolloni, Luca Aulicino, Giuseppe Bertini, Ivano Capozzi, Vincenzo Catucci, Elena DIONNET, ZELIA Di Palma, Pasquale Esposito, Flavio Ferrentino, Emanuele Innac, Anna INNO, LAURA Pennino, Silvia Saviano, Simona Tirimberio, Giuseppina Campopiano, Stefania Chianese, Elena Franzese, Pier Paolo Fusco, Giannetta Gaglione, Salvatore Iadicicco, Agostino Nunziata, Ferdinando Parente, Claudio Piscopo, Vincenzo Riccio, Angelo Russo, Giovanni Fulvio Zambianchi, Enrico |
Issue Date: | 2022 | Journal: | REMOTE SENSING | Number: | 14 | Issue: | 9 | First Page: | 2066 | Abstract: | In this paper, we present several study cases focused on marine, oceanographic, and atmospheric environments, which would greatly benefit from the use of a deployable system for small satellite observations. As opposed to the large standard ones, small satellites have become an effective and affordable alternative access to space, owing to their lower costs, innovative design and technology, and higher revisiting times, when launched in a constellation configuration. One of the biggest challenges is created by the small satellite instrumentation working in the visible (VIS), infrared (IR), and microwave (MW) spectral ranges, for which the resolution of the acquired data depends on the physical dimension of the telescope and the antenna collecting the signal. In this respect, a deployable payload, fitting the limited size and mass imposed by the small satellite architecture, once unfolded in space, can reach performances similar to those of larger satellites. In this study, we show how ecology and Earth Observations can benefit from data acquired by small satellites, and how they can be further improved thanks to deployable payloads. We focus on DORA—Deployable Optics for Remote sensing Applications—in the VIS to TIR spectral range, and on a planned application in the MW spectral range, and we carry out a radiometric analysis to verify its performances for Earth Observation studies. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/34860 | URL: | https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85130569568 https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/9/2066 |
ISSN: | 2072-4292 | DOI: | 10.3390/rs14092066 | Fulltext: | open |
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