CubeSats Applications for Earth and Prospectives for Planetary Remote Sensing
A special issue of Universe (ISSN 2218-1997). This special issue belongs to the section "Space Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 740
Special Issue Editor
Interests: planetary science; planetary spectroscopy; astrobiology; hyperspectral data analysis; instrumentation for planetary remote sensing
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Dear Colleagues,
CubeSats are involved in a wide range of remote sensing applications. They provide technology demonstrations for Earth science missions, but the scientific community is just starting to exploit CubeSats and CubeSat-derived small satellites in other fields.
CubeSats and platforms taking advantage of CubeSat technology have the potential to make unique contributions to planetary science by creating unique vantage points or multipoint measurements. CubeSats can also be used as platforms for technology demonstration to enable future large missions.
This Special Issue aims at collecting new developments and methodologies, best practices and applications of CubeSats for Earth with perspectives for planetary remote sensing. We would like to invite you to submit articles about your recent research, including, but not limited to (review articles covering one or more of these topics are also very welcome):
- Current and future programs
- Technology developments
- Platforms and new sensors on board (multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal, lidar, dust, magnetic field, gas or radioactivity sensors, etc.)
- Data analysis (image classification, feature extraction, target detection, change detection, etc.)
- Real time processing, onboard data storage and transmission
- Data fusion: integration of CubeSat imagery with satellite, aerial or terrestrial data, integration of heterogeneous data captured by CubeSats
- Applications: (geology, minerals mapping, 3D mapping, atmospheric science, climatology and meteorology, etc.)
- CubeSats for education with applications to remote sensing
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Remote Sensing.
Dr. Giancarlo Bellucci
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- CubeSats
- Sensors
- Multispectral imaging
- Hyperspectral imaging
- Geology
- Spectroscopy
- Atmospheric science
- Feature extraction
- Data fusion
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