Small Satellite Missions for Earth Observation : New Developments and Trends - Sandau, Rainer; Roeser, Hans-Peter.; Valenzuela, Arnoldo; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
New Earth Observation Missions -- Overview on CNES Micro Satellites Missions: In Flight, Under Development and Next -- Small Earth Observing Satellites Flying with Large Satellites in the A-Train -- INTA?Sat-1 First Earth Observation Mission -- VEN?S (Vegetation and Environment Monitoring on a New Micro Satellite) -- The "Ulingo" Mid-Low Latitudes Observation (MILO) Mission -- The Italian Precursor of an Operational Hyperspectral Imaging Mission -- Earth Environment Missions -- Space System "Radiomet" for GLONASS/GPS Navigation Signal Radio Occultation Monitoring of Lower Atmosphere and Ionosphere Based on Super-Small Satellites -- The Study of Electromagnetic Parameters of Space Weather, Micro-Satellite "Chibis-M" -- SEPSAT - A Nanosatellite to Observe Parameters of Space Weather -- Small Satellite Constellations for Measurements of the Near-Earth Space Environment -- Distributed Space Systems -- Satellite Formation for a Next Generation Gravimetry Mission -- EO Small Satellite Missions and Formation Flying -- Relative Trajectory Design for Bistatic SAR Missions -- Conceptual Design of the FAST-D Formation Flying Spacecraft -- Earth Observation Using Japanese/Canadian Formation Flying Nanosatellites -- A Bi/Multi-Static Microsatellite SAR Constellation -- Mission Design of the Dutch-Chinese FAST Micro-Satellite Mission -- University Satellites -- SPRITE-SAT: A University Small Satellite for Observation of High-Altitude Luminous Events -- SwissCube: The First Entirely-Built Swiss Student Satellite with an Earth Observation Payload -- German Russian Education Satellite - Mission Outline and Objectives -- University Microsatellites Equipped with an Optical System for Space Debris Monitoring -- A First-MOVE in Satellite Development at the TU-München -- Design of a Small Educational Satellite for the Italian High School Students: The EduSAT Project -- Testing of Critical Pico-Satellite Systems on the Sounding Rocket Rexus-4 -- Laboratory Facility for Simulation and Verification of Formation Motion Control Algorithms -- Asynchronous Parallel Reactive System for Intelligent Small Satellite on-Board Computing Systems -- NanoSiGN - Nanosatellite for scientific interpretation of GNSS dual-frequency signals in the low Earth orbit -- Instruments and Technologies -- The Vegetation Instrument for the PROBA-V Mission -- Software Defined LFM CW SAR Receiver for Microsatellites -- PhytoMapper - Compact Hyperspectral Wide Field of View Instrument -- Development of Spaceborne Small Hyperspectral sensor HSC-III for Micro Satellite -- Towards a Miniaturized Photon Counting Laser Altimeter and Stereoscopic Camera Instrument Suite for Microsatellites -- A Plan of Spaceborne ISAR Satellite Imaging System Aiming at Space Objects -- Increasing the Data Volume Returned from Small Satellites -- Integrated Design Based Plug-and-Play Small SAR Satellite Project -- Attitude Control Systems -- Star Sensor Development Based on the TUBSAT Experience -- Small Sensors Big Choices -- Robust and Fault Tolerant AOCS of the TET Satellite -- Implementation of the T3?PS in the Delfi-n3Xt Satellite -- A Novel AOCS Cold-Gas Micro-Propulsion System Design and Applications to Micro and Nano Satellites -- Navigation -- Navigation Needs for ESA's Earth Observation Missions -- Benefits of Galileo for Future Satellite Missions -- Differential GPS: An Enabling Technology for Formation Flying Satellites -- GPS-Based Relative Navigation in Earth Observation Missions Relying on Cooperative Satellites.
Keywords: Remote sensing; Space sciences; Aerospace engineering; Astronautics; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics