Barragán Cuesta, Rubén (Date of defense: 2019-07-05)
This Ph.D. thesis focuses on: (i) the design and integration of a polarimetric channel for the multi-spectral Raman lidar station of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Remote Sensing, ...
Mendoza Montoya, Jesús Fabián (Date of defense: 2019-04-24)
The recent technological advances in the satellite domain such as the use of High Throughput Satellites (HTS) with throughput rates that are magnitudes higher than with previous ones, or the use of large ...
Urquiza Aguiar, Luis Felipe (Date of defense: 2016-04-05)
One of the main concerns of the cities' administration is mobility management. In Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), pedestrians, vehicles and public transportation systems could share information ...
Bou Balust, Elisenda (Date of defense: 2017-07-17)
Resonant Inductive Coupling Wireless Power Transfer (RIC-WPT) has been proven to provide very high power transfer efficiencies (above 80%) for moderate distances, and is hence foreseen as a key technology ...
Trulls Fortuny, Xavier (Date of defense: 2012-07-06)
System-on-Chip (SoC) was adopted in recent years as one of the solutions to reduce the cost of integrated systems. When the SoC solution started to be used, the final product was actually more expensive ...
Rubio López, Javier (Date of defense: 2016-06-22)
his dissertation proposes novel techniques for assigning resources of wireless networks by considering that the coverage radii are small, implying that some power consumption sinks not considered so far ...
Alonso González, Alberto (Date of defense: 2014-06-13)
This thesis deals with the processing of different types of multidimensional SAR data for distinct applications. Instead of handling the original pixels of the image, which correspond to very local ...
López Méndez, Adolfo (Date of defense: 2012-12-10)
Human motion analysis is as a broad area of computer vision that has strongly attracted the interest of researchers in the last decades. Motion analysis covers topics such as human motion tracking and ...
Pham, Thi Quynh Anh (Date of defense: 2019-12-18)
The power efficiency and linearity of radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PAs) are critical in wireless communication systems. The main scope of PA designers is to build the RF PAs capable to maintain ...
Grün, Alexander (Date of defense: 2014-11-07)
In this thesis I investigate two methods for generating ultrashort laser pulses in spectral regions which are ordinarily difficult to achieve by the existing techniques. These pulses are specially ...