Current and near-term advances in Earth observation for ecological applications

CubeSail for Near Earth Object Observation

Microsatellites known as “CubeSats” have recently been developed to enable comparatively inexpensive and timely access to space for small payloads. As a new standard for small satellites, the CubeSat has shown great promise for space applications such as earth observation, planetary science and space physics mission. In this paper a “CubeSail” mission – a CubeSat deployed with a solar sail –for...

“ Advances in Earth observation for water cycle science ”

Since observing the Earth from space became possible more than forty years ago, satellite Earth Observation (EO) missions have become central to the monitoring and understanding of the Earth system, its different components and how they interact with each other. The continuous growth and improvements in the quality of the data and information provided by satellites has resulted in significant p...

Current Advances in Uncertainty Estimation of Earth Observation Products of Water Quality

Earth-Observation Applications of Navigation Satellites

Introduction The development of Earth-observation techniques based on the use of navigation signals can be traced back to the use of GPS in geodetic applications to provide astonishing precision, such as the determination to within a few centimetres of the relative positions of points on the Earth’s surface separated by several thousand kilometres. This ultra-precise positioning of fixed GPS re...

Likely Near-term Advances in SAT Solvers1

Recent work on microprocessor testing and verification has begun to consider the possible applicability of general-purpose satisfiability tools to this domain. In this paper, we will discuss some of the likely upcoming representational enhancements to these solvers, and the extent to which these representational improvements are likely to impact work in MTV. 1Presented at the MTV02 workshop, Ju...