Paper Category: Earth Science
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Evaluation of Heterogeneous Data Fusion for Real-Time Agricultural Stress Monitoring in Small-Scale Farming Ecosystems
Smallholder agricultural systems represent a critical frontier for climate resilience strategies, yet they are often underserved by traditional remote sensing frameworks due to fragmented land parcels and low-frequency reporting. This research investigates an autonomous geospatial framework designed to synthesize multi-source satellite data, specifically Sentinel-2 MSI optical imagery and CHIRPS precipitation datasets, to detect and characterize…
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Cubesats for Earthquake Detection and Disaster Avoidance
Earthquakes are an essential and unavoidable geological event that have been continuing since the formation of Earth and they are nature’s way of reshaping our world. Unfortunately, they are also very devastating when they happen near cities and settlements. Especially near fault lines, earthquakes can cause extensive damage. Moreover, when there is an earthquake that…
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Low SWaP Flight Board for High-Speed On-Board Data Handling, Processing and AI Inference
The continuous increase in payload data volume and mission autonomy requirements is driving the need for increasingly advanced on-board data handling and processing technologies in satellite systems. In particular, next-generation Earth observation, telecommunications, and distributed space architectures require high-performance processing capabilities to enable real-time data reduction, intelligent decision-making, and efficient use of downlink resources. Within…
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Environmental Design-for-Demise: Quantifying Stratospheric Emissions from High-Cadence SmallSat Re-entry
As European and global regulators move toward a zero-debris approach to satellite mission design, small satellites designed for demise have been viewed favourably, as they typically ablate during re-entry and pose minimal risk of ground casualties. However, the increasing flux of ablating satellites introduces a new regulatory concern through the injection of anthropogenic material into…
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Integrated Earth Observation Data Processing and Climate Analysis Using SmallSat Remote Sensing: Enhancing Urban Resilience and Emission Accountability in Egypt (2020–2024)
Earth Observation (EO) platforms, particularly those utilizing SmallSats, are rapidly becoming vital assets for monitoring global climate and environmental trends due to their adaptability, lower cost, and rapid deployment capabilities. This research addresses the persistent technical challenge of integrating disparate, multi-resolution satellite data into unified, actionable geospatial products suitable for urban-scale climate analysis. Specifically, the…