Stealth Startup Umbra Lab is Flying Under the Radar
Editors Note: Umbra Lab "declines to be interviewed" but updated their website October 2017 with insights to their mission. More information about Umbra Lab can be found in this article: New Space…
SAR to Map Wetlands in Rwanda
by, Phillip Gentry UAH junior Alex McVey (pictured) spent the summer in the NASA-UAH DEVELOP lab, using satellites to map wetlands in Rwanda. The next group assigned to this project…
ASNARO-2 Being Branded as “Small & Cheap”
Photo: New satellite ASNARO-2 is unveiled to the media at an NEC Corp. facility in Tokyo’s Fuchu city Aug. 9. After launch an antenna on the satellite opens up. (Takahiro…
Ocean Oil Spill Classification with SAR with Neural Network
Article PDF:Ocean Oil Spill Classification with RADARSAT-2 SAR Based on an Optimized Wavelet Neural Network Ocean Oil Spill Classification with RADARSAT-2 SAR Based on an Optimized Wavelet Neural Network Dongmei…
Volcanic Deformations Using InSAR
Ground deformation before the 2015 eruptions of Cotopaxi volcano detected by InSAR PDF: Ground deformation before the 2015 eruptions of Cotopaxi volcano detected by InSAR Morales Rivera, A. M., F. Amelung,…
Reaper Synthetic Aperture Radar System
MQ-9 Reapers like this one have been hunting and killing terrorists in Syria and Iraq. With the Guard's 119th Wing planning to fly a pair of Reapers out of their…
COSMO-SkyMed to Partner with OPTSAT-3000
The Italian Ministry of Defence (MoD) is set to launch its OPTSAT-3000 satellite from the Kourou European spaceport in French Guyana on 2 August. The satellite was supplied by Leonardo…
Detecting Russian Inflatable Decoys with SAR
The Andrew Kramer, New York Times article A New Weapon in Russia’s Arsenal, and It’s Inflatable details a factory which is building inflatable Russian military decoys. One effort includes the Kremlin contracting…
Ursa Space Systems Hardware Accelerator Demo Day
We have been continually impressed by Ursa Space Systems. Adam Maher is a well spoken and brilliant entrepreneur, Ursa Space Systems and companies using space based radar for intelligence is…
Novel Vector Approach to SAR Imaging
A Multiple Measurement Vector Approach To Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging PDF: A Multiple Measurement Vector Approach To Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging We study a multiple measurement vector (MMV) approach to synthetic…