Carrizo, Carlos E. (Date of defense: 2019-09-20)
Massive amounts of information are created daily in commercial fields like earth observation, that must be downloaded to earth ground stations in the short time of a satellite pass. Today, much of the ...
Pablos Hernández, Miriam (Date of defense: 2016-10-03)
The first three of a series of new generation satellites operating at L-band microwave frequencies have been launch in the last decade. L-band is particularly sensitive to the presence of water content ...
Serra Puertas, Jorge (Date of defense: 2016-11-11)
We are living in a data deluge era where the dimensionality of the data gathered by inexpensive sensors is growing at a fast pace, whereas the availability of independent samples of the observed data ...
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 ...
Kalalas, Charalampos (Date of defense: 2018-07-19)
The next-generation electric power system, known as smart grid, relies on a robust and reliable underlying communication infrastructure to improve the efficiency of electricity distribution. Cellular ...
Tsitsimelis, Achilleas (Date of defense: 2020-10-14)
Since their inception, more than one century ago, electrical grids have played the role of a critical infrastructure. During the majority of this time, power systems have not faced radical changes. In ...
Bousia, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2016-02-18)
The rapid expansion of mobile services and the emerging demand for multimedia applications have led to an impressive traffic growth. To this end, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) seek to extend their ...
Khan, Umair (Date of defense: 2021-01-11)
In speaker recognition, i-vectors have been the state-of-the-art unsupervised technique over the last few years, whereas x-vectors is becoming the state-of-the-art supervised technique, these days. ...
Portal González, Gerard (Date of defense: 2022-05-27)
Soil moisture is an essential climate variable that plays a crucial role linking the Earth’s water, energy, and carbon cycles. It is responsible for the water exchange between the Earth’s surface and ...
Moysen, Jessica (Date of defense: 2016-10-07)
Nowadays, the rapid growth of mobile communications is changing the world towards a fully connected society. Current 4G networks account for almost half of total mobile traffic, and in the forthcoming ...