Debris proliferation in space environment is an impending problem for preserving future missions. Although prevention measures (IADC guidelines, NASA Handbook for Limiting Orbit Debris) with the intent to regulate and ...

The aim of this project is To bring together current commercially available technology and relevant Microsystems Technology (MST) into a small, standardised spacecraft primary systems architecture, multiple units of which ...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging from geosynchronous orbit has significant potential advantages over conventional low-Earth orbit (LEO) radars, but also challenges to overcome. This thesis investigates both active ...

This thesis outlines the necessary requirements to determine an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s) pose relative to a lead aircraft or target, thus enabling a UAV to successfully follow a lead aircraft or target. The use ...

In this thesis, a new concept of space systems called metastructures is studied. Applications are in very large space structures (1 km) that can take many shapes and be reconfigured during operations. This concept is ...

This research will investigate the problem of position estimation for planetary rovers. Diverse algorithmic filters are available for collecting input data and transforming that data to useful information for the purpose ...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been identified as a good candidate to provide high-resolution soil moisture information over extended areas. SAR data could be used as observations within a global Data Assimilation ...

Despite today’s intensive efforts directed at the recycling and recovery of solid wastes, the controlled disposal of refuse into land remains an important and necessary means of effective waste management. The work presented ...