The CEOI-ST held a 2-day Technology Conference at Cosener’s House in Abingdon in April 2015. This conference was open to all interested parties, and brought together personnel from recent CEOI projects to showcase and discuss their work and its context of science needs, commercial needs and mission opportunities. We also invited NSTP participants who are performing projects related to Earth Observation to attend and present their work as posters.
There were sessions on:
- Recent CEOI Projects
- EO Convoy and Constellation missions, and their associated instrumentation needs;
- Emerging technologies for EO instrumentation;
- UKSA/CEOI-ST initiative to examine opportunities for future national bilateral missions.
In addition to oral sessions, there were poster sessions where this material and other relevant projects were presented. The final agenda can be found here.
Presentations from the Conference are available here:
| Session 1: Welcome and Introductions | ||
| Welcome from the CEOI-ST Director | Mick Johnson | CEOI-ST |
| CEOI Technology Review | Chris Brownsword | CEOI-ST |
| Sessions 2 & 3: Recent CEOI Projects | ||
| LOCUS: A Low Cost Upper Atmosphere Terahertz Sounder For In-Orbit Demonstration | Edmund Linfield & Brian Ellison | University Of Leeds/RAL Space |
| Heavy Ion Radiation Testing of the Large Format Near Infrared Detector | Peter Knowles | SELEX ES |
| Mechanised Alignment for Component Positioning and Joining | Dave Robertson | University Of Glasgow |
| 183 GHz Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) | Raymond Dickie | Queens University Belfast |
| Contactless Power and Data Transfer for an Instrument Scan Mechanism | Andrew Bacon | Thales Alenia Space (UK) Ltd |
| WIVERN: A Conically Scanning Dopplerised 94ghz Cloud Radar Mission To Measure Global In-Cloud Winds | Alessandro Battaglia | University Of Leicester |
| Spectroscopic Measurements with the SHIRM | Olivier Auriacombe | RAL Space & The Open University |
| TRUTHS Progress | Paul Green | National Physical Laboratory |
| Wavemill | Meric Srokosz | National Oceanography Centre |
| MISRLite | Richard Cole | UCL MSSL |
| Photon Counting Techniques from Space Science | Jon Lapington | University Of Leicester |
| SGR-ReSI Latest Results from TDS-1 | Martin Unwin | Surrey Space Technology Limited |
| Session 4: New Projects Poster Sessions (Inc EO NSTP Projects) | ||
| Demonstration and Assessment of Laser Heterodyne Radiometry for CO2 Sounding | Alex Hoffmann | RAL Space |
| Understanding NovaSAR-S | Sam Lavender | Pixalytics |
| Real Time Demonstration of SAR Image Focussing on an FPGA | Alex Wishart | Airbus Defence & Space |
| CMOS Image Sensors with High Quantum Efficiency | Konstantin Stefanov | Open University |
| One per Element Radar | David Hall | Airbus Defence & Space |
| Next Generation SAR Electronics | Mike Gibbons | Airbus Defence & Space |
| Enabling High Rate Telemetry from EO Missions With HF Comms | Spiros Ventouras | RAL Space |
| Discussion, Posters & Close of Day 1 | ||
| Session 5: Convoy and Constellation Missions | ||
| ESA Convoy Missions & Technology Needs | Amanda Regan | ESA ESTEC |
| The NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) Mission | Marie-Paola Clarizia | University of Michigan/National Oceanographic Centre |
| The Compact Infrared Imager and Radiometer - Earth System Science from a 6U Cubesat | Neil Bowles | University of Oxford |
| Session 6: Emerging Technologies | ||
| TRUTHS Imager Design | Dan Lobb | SSTL |
| Graphene as an Enabler for EO | Jamie Williams | University of Leicester |
| New Developments in Large Format IR Detectors | Keith Barnes/Peter Knowles | SELEX ES |
| Cold Atom Technologies at ESA | Bruno Leone | ESA ECSAT |
| Gravity Measurements with Cold Atoms | Tristan Valenzuela-Salazar | RAL Space |
| National Ambitions for EO Bilaterals | Maria Adams | UKSA |
| The EOMAG Activity | Mick Johnson | CEOI-ST |
| Bilateral Carbon Mission | Hugh Kelliher | (Leics/Edinb+) |
| UTLS Activities at RAL (SHIRM, STEAMR, ALiSS, MARSCHALS, StratoClim, Micro-FTS | Daniel Gerber | RAL Space |
| ICEMuSIC – A New THz instrument concept for Climatology and Meteorology Applications | Peter Hargrave | University of Cardiff |
| OmniSat-HAPI Constellation | Claire Parfitt | TAS UK |