The CEOI held a 2-day Emerging Technologies for Earth Observation Conference at Cosener’s House in Abingdon on 1st and 2nd May 2019. The goal of the meeting was to reveal and discuss new and emerging developments in EO instrumentation and mission concepts, and to examine how these developments will benefit the UK in terms of science, societal and commercial benefit.
The conference held sessions on:
- New detectors and detector concepts
- New on-board calibration techniques
- EO payloads for small spacecraft – miniature high-performance instrumentation.
- Instrument technology and mission architecture considerations for commercial missions
- Recent advances in additive layer and other advanced manufacturing techniques for EO instrumentation
- Advanced on-board image processing concepts for imaging missions, such as super-resolution and AI/deep learning
- Latest developments in LIDAR for EO
- New techniques and future concepts – more left-field/exotic techniques from around the laboratories.
- New mission opportunities
Please click on links below to see presentations from both days:
Day 1 – 1st May 2019
| Subject/ Activity | Speaker | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Session 1: Welcome and Introduction | ||
| Welcome to the CEOI Emerging Technologies Challenge Workshop | Mick Johnson | CEOI |
| Session 2: CEOI Technology in Missions | ||
| HAPS in the Global EO System (TBC) | Dai Stanton (TBC) | Airbus |
| New EO Imaging Mission Concepts (TBC) | Andrew Haslehurst | SSTL |
| Session 3: Miniature & Deployable Systems | ||
| Photonics Integration Technologies for Small EO Platforms | Damien Weidmann | STFC RAL Space |
| HighRes: Laboratory Validation of a Deployable CubeSat Concept for High-Resolution EO | Noah Schwartz & 7 co-Authors | STFC UKATC & RAL Space |
| The Faraday IOD/Early Service Programme - An Ultra-Low Cost Commercial Service Providing Access To Space | Doug Liddle | In-Space Missions Ltd |
| Supersharp - A Light Weight Unfolding Telescope for High Definition EO | Ian Parry | Institute of Astronomy |
| Session 4: Plans and Strategy | ||
| Funding and Impact of Space UK | Daniel Carew | Seraphim |
| UKSA Plans for EO | Beth Greenaway | UKSA |
| UKSA/CEOI Strategy for EO Instrumentation Technology | Mick Johnson | CEOI |
| TRUTHS in the Earth Watch context – a proposal by UKSA | Beth Greenaway | UKSA |
| Session 5: LIDAR (Revisited) | ||
| Developments in Single-Photon Lidar | Gerald Buller | Heriot Watt |
| Software Defined Multifunction LIDAR | Peter Keightley | QinetiQ |
| Earth Observation Science with LIDAR | Steven Hancock | University of Edinburgh |
Day 2 – 2nd May 2019
| Subject/ Activity | Speaker | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| ESA Perspectives on EO Technology | Massimiliano Pastena | ESA |
| Session 7: Innovative Microwave & Radar Developments | ||
| High Resolution Millimetre-Wave Passive & Active Imaging | Brian Ellison | STFC RAL Space |
| Current & Imminent Developments in Microwave EO Applications | Peter Hargrave | University of Cardiff |
| Session 8: Technologies for Calibration | ||
| Advances in Infrared Calibration Techniques | Dan Peters | STFC RAL Space |
| Session 9: Advanced Data Processing | ||
| Distributed Edge & Cloud Processing for EO & Implications for Future Missions and Applications | Owen Hawkins | Earth-i |
| Cloud Detection Using Deep Learning on GPUs for Landsat 8 | Alistair Francis | University College London |
| Super-Resolution & 3D Reconstruction | Jan-Peter Muller | University College London |
| Session 10: Detectors | ||
| New Optical Detectors | Charles Woffinden | Teledyne-e2v |
| New High-Performance Infrared Detectors for Space | Harald Weller | Leonardo MW Ltd |
| Session 11: Advanced Manufacturing Techniques | ||
| Additive manufacturing of mirror components for space | Carolyn Atkins + 15 co-authors | STFC UKATC |
| Deployable Optics and ALM | Guglielmo Aglietti | Surrey Space Centre |
| Laser Fabrication, Sensors and Instrumentation for Earth Observation | James Morris | Fraunhofer CAP |
| Session 12: New Techniques and Future Trends | ||
| Large-Area Metasurface Lenses Operating in the Near-Infrared | Mitchell Kenney | University of Glasgow |
| Cold Atom Interferometry - Towards a new Gravity Sensing Technology | Stephen Maddox | Teledyne e2v |