FSSCat: the Federated Satellite Systems 3 Cat Mission: demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle

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dc.contributor.authorCamps, Adriano
dc.contributor.authorMunoz-Martin, Joan Francesc
dc.contributor.authorRuiz-de-Azua, Joan AdriĆ 
dc.contributor.authorGarzaniti, Nicola
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-08T15:42:43Z
dc.date.available2023-02-08T15:42:43Z
dc.date.issued2022-11-30
dc.description.abstractThe Federated Satellite Systems/ 3 Cat-5 (FSSCat) mission was the winner of the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel Small Satellite (S 3 ) Challenge and overall winner of the 2017 Copernicus Masters competition. It consisted of two six-unit CubeSats. The Earth observation payloads were 1) the Flexible Microwave Payload 2 (FMPL-2) onboard 3 Cat-5/A, an L-band microwave radiometer and GNSS reflectometer (GNSS-R) implemented using a softwaredefined radio (SDR), and 2) the HyperScout-2 onboard 3 Cat-5/B, a hyperspectral camera, with the first experiment using artificial intelligence to discard cloudy images. FSSCat was launched on 3 September 2020 and injected into a 535-km synchronous orbit. 3 Cat-5/A was operated for three months until the payload was probably damaged by a solar flare and coronal mass ejection. During this time, all scientific requirements were met, including the generation of coarse-resolution and downscaled soil moisture (SM) maps, sea ice extent (SIE) maps, concentration and thickness maps, and even wind speed (WS) and sea surface salinity (SSS) maps, which were not originally foreseen. 3 Cat-5/B was operated a few more months until the number of images acquired met the requirements. This article briefly describes the FSSCat mission and the FMPL-2 payload and summarizes the main scientific results.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationCamps A, Munoz-Martin JF, Ruiz-de-Azua JA, et al., (2022) FSSCat: the Federated Satellite Systems 3 Cat Mission: demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycle. IEEE Geoscience And Remote Sensing Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 4, December 2022, pp. 2060-269en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2473-2397
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1109/MGRS.2022.3219778
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/19156
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherIEEEen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.titleFSSCat: the Federated Satellite Systems 3 Cat Mission: demonstrating the capabilities of CubeSats to monitor essential climate variables of the water cycleen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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