3U CubeSat mission to assess vegetation hydration status and hydrological instability risk
- Paper number
IAC-22,E2,3-GTS.4,1,x72036
- Author
Mrs. Luisa Iossa, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
- Coauthor
Mr. Alfredo Gili, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Domenico Parrinello, Italy, Turin Polytechnical University
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Mr. Davide Cosenza, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Nicolae Tabacaru, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Niccolò Scolari, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Filippo Vitucci, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Luca Bartolucci, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Vincenzo Saladino, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mrs. Chiara Lughi, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mrs. Emanuela La Bella, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Alessandro Allegrini, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Simone Calamia, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Leonardo Ferrari, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Francesco Ferrario, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Simone Bollattino, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Alessio Taretto, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Manuel Pecorilla, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Garino Cristiano, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mrs. Marianna Centrella, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mrs. Carmela Marika Accettura, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Liborio Luca Mininni, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Lorenzo Galante, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Batuhan Ergun, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Dr. Tommaso Giovara, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Rafael Sofi-Zada, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Dr. Luca de Pasquale, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
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Mr. Vincenzo Calabretta, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
- Year
2022
- Abstract
The CubeSat team is a university student team based in Polytechnic of Turin which has a great tradition in developing cubesats missions. Its first launch dates back to 2012, when the cubesat e-st@r-I was delivered into orbit during Vega maiden flight; the second one, e-st@r-II, was launched in 2016, and it is still operative after being six years in orbit. Looking to the future is a necessity to continue a great tradition, and the new CubeSat team mission takes a step into one of the most pressing challenges of modern time: climate change. Climate change might have a catastrophic impact on humanity, and it requires an effort from all sectors of society to mitigate its effects. The CubeSat team contribution to the cause is to design a modular, cheap, and efficient 3U cubesat which will study the hydration status of vegetation by using an optical payload. The images collected by the onboard instrumentation are processed and enhanced through data fusion techniques and reconstruction algorithms. The idea is to use data obtainable in different frequency bands and from different images, and to combine them to have a more refined and high-resolution final data set. These algorithms would allow to collect higher quality data without requiring a higher quality (and thus more expensive) equipment. The novelty of this work is in these reconstruction algorithms applied in a educational CubeSat mission. Then, these data are sent to the CubeSat team ground station to assess the terrain hydration status. At this point, physical and propagation models are used to estimate the firing and the hydrologic instability risk. That helps identifying the best mitigation strategies and preserving the environment. The CubeSat team goal is to increase awareness on the theme and to encourage the academic community to focus on climate change researches.
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