Tadesse, Girmaw Abebe (Date of defense: 2018-04-26)
Advances in wearable technologies are facilitating the understanding of human activities using first-person vision (FPV) for a wide range of assistive applications. In this thesis, we propose robust ...
Amézaga, Adrià (Date of defense: 2020-11-25)
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has proven a valuable tool in the monitoring of the Earth, either at a global or local scales. SAR is a coherent radar system able to image extended areas with high ...
Krishnakumar, Vrinda (Date of defense: 2022-09-29)
Persistent Scatterer interferometry (PSI) is a group of advanced differential interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) techniques used to measure and monitor terrain deformation. Sentinel-1 has ...
Batet Torrell, Óscar (Date of defense: 2011-07-27)
The techniques for detection of the atmosphere constituents and their distribution in the space have evolved in the last years driven by needs in the environmental, meteorological and climate science ...
Oikonomakou, Maria (Date of defense: 2019-04-10)
During the recent years, a huge augmentation of the data traffic volume has been noticed, while a further steep increase is expected in the following years. As a result, questions have been raised over ...
Cardoso Duarte, Amanda (Date of defense: 2022-06-27)
Signed languages are complete and natural languages used as the first or preferred mode of communication by millions of people worldwide. However, they, unfortunately, continue to be marginalized ...
Luo, Chengyang (Date of defense: 2022-06-21)
Radio frequency identification over measurable ultra-high frequency textile substrates (UHF-RFID) is a promising technology to develop new applications in the field of health and the Internet of Things ...
Ardanuy Della, Antoni (Date of defense: 2020-12-14)
This thesis aims at exploring the limits of low peak-power, low-cost, all-semiconductor, compact lidars (laser radars) for range-resolved remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols and clouds. The systems ...
Montero Herrera, Rafael (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)
Upon the demanding requirements brought by next-generation services, current network infrastructures are required to evolve in the way they manage different types of resources at the data layer. To this ...
Alonso Arroyo, Alberto (Date of defense: 2016-11-10)
This PhD thesis researches the use of passive remote sensing techniques using signals transmitted from the navigation satellites (GNSS) in order to retrieve different geophysical parameters. The thesis ...