A geodetic approach to precise, accurate, available and reliable navigation 

    Parés Calaf, M. Eulàlia (Fecha de defensa: 2021-01-14)

    The determination of a body position, velocity and attitude is the purpose of the navigation techniques. The most extended navigation systems (INS/GNSS), as any other HW and SW system, provide precise and accurate enough ...

    A systematic approach to airborne sensor orientation and calibration: method and models 

    Blázquez González, Marta (Fecha de defensa: 2012-07-03)

    Avui dia, s'estima que el mercat de la geom atica mou pels volts de 30 bilions d'euros. Al darrera del creixement d'aquest mercat hi trobem noves tecnologies,projectes i aplicacions, com per exemple, \Global Positioning ...

    Active flow control methods for aerodynamic applications 

    Sarwar, Wasim (Fecha de defensa: 2020-07-17)

    The cylinder in cross flow has been the subject of many numerical and experimental studies since it provides a deep insight of the physical phenomena occurring in a wide range of flow regimes. Despite a number of investigations ...

    Advanced modeling of InSAR time series for ground displacement hazard assessment 

    Mirmazloumi, Seyed Mohammad (Fecha de defensa: 2024-01-30)

    (English) Natural movements of Earth and human-based activities generate continuous ground displacements, affecting human life and the economy. In order to mitigate and reduce the impact of such displacements, accurate and ...

    Aircraft trajectory estimation and guidance mode identification using bayesian filtering techniques 

    Khaledian, Homeyra (Fecha de defensa: 2024-09-27)

    (English) The dissertation explores advanced methods for aircraft trajectory estimation and trajectory prediction (TP), which are critical for the next generation of Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems operating under the ...

    An analysis of two-phase flows in conditions relevant to microgravity 

    Arias Calderon, Santiago (Fecha de defensa: 2011-09-23)

    Promising technological applications of two-phase flows in space have captured the increasing interest of the space sector, provoking a strong demand for more fundamental knowledge. Great efforts have been made in recent ...

    Collective dynamics of bulk metallic glasses studied by molecular dynamics simulations 

    Valles Sales, Araceli (Fecha de defensa: 2014-09-25)

    The development of new materials impacts on all branches of engineering and, in particular, in aerospace engineering. Metallic glasses (MG) are relatively newcomers to the world of materials science and have excellent ...

    Comparison of the response of different configurations of aircraft repair patches under static and dynamic loading 

    Pitta, Siddharth (Fecha de defensa: 2020-07-10)

    In the modern era of transportation, air travel has gained a huge pace and still kept increasing. The global demand for air transport is increasing at a rate of 6%, because of population growth and ticket price reductions. ...

    Consolidation and assessment of a technique to provide fast and precise point positioning (Fast-PPP) 

    Rovira Garcia, Adrià (Fecha de defensa: 2016-01-21)

    The research of this paper-based dissertation is focused on the Fast Precise Point Positioning (Fast-PPP) technique. The novelty relies on using an accurate ionosphere model, in combination with the standard precise satellite ...

    Contribution to the development of pico-satellites for Earth observation and technology demonstrators 

    Jové Casulleras, Roger (Fecha de defensa: 2015-02-17)

    The submitted Ph.D. thesis is a contribution to the development of pico-satellites and nano-satellites for Earth Observation and Technology Demonstrators. Development of satellites with a mass from 1 kg up to 10 kg has ...

    Contributions to eco-friendly satellite lean design for a sustainable space environment 

    Buitrago Leiva, Jeimmy Nataly (Fecha de defensa: 2024-09-16)

    (English) Currently, half of the satellites do not reach 20% of their expected lifetime. The possibility of recycling these "zombie satellites" (ZS) with limited capabilities would optimize this on-orbit infrastructure, ...

    Contributions to GNSS-R earth remote sensing from nano-satellites 

    Carreno-Luengo, Hugo (Fecha de defensa: 2016-01-21)

    Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry (GNSS-R) is a multi-static radar using navigation signals as signals of opportunity. It provides wide-swath and improved spatio-temporal sampling over current space-borne ...

    Contributions to high accuracy snapshot GNSS positioning 

    Liu, Xiao (Fecha de defensa: 2022-11-10)

    (English) Snapshot positioning is the technique to determine the position of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver using only a very brief interval of the received satellite signal. In recent years, this ...

    Contributions to ionospheric determination with global positioning system: solar flare detection and prediction of global maps of total electron content 

    García Rigo, Alberto (Fecha de defensa: 2012-12-17)

    Two research studies have been addressed in this thesis. Both of them are of actual scientific interest and are based on processing GNSS data. The first part of this thesis is devoted to GNSS detection and monitoring of ...

    Contributions to ionospheric electron density retrieval 

    Aragón Àngel, Angela (Fecha de defensa: 2010-02-22)

    La transformada de Abel es una técnica de inversión usada frecuentemente en radio ocultaciones (RO) que, en el contexto ionosférico, permite deducir densidades electrónicas a partir de datos de STEC (Slant Total Electron ...

    Contributions to ionospheric modeling with GNSS in mapping function, tomography and polar electron 

    Lyu, Haixia (Fecha de defensa: 2020-11-17)

    This dissertation focuses on determining the vertical electron content distribution in low and high vertical resolution from ground-based and LEO on board GNSS data and improving the knowledge of ionosphere climatology in ...

    Contributions to Libration Orbit Mission Design using Hyperbolic Invariant Manifolds 

    Canalias Vila, Elisabet (Fecha de defensa: 2007-07-24)

    Aquesta tesi doctoral està emmarcada en el camp de l'astrodinàmica. Presenta solucions a problemes identificats en el disseny de missions que utilitzen òrbites entorn dels punts de libració, fent servir la teoria de sistemes ...

    Contributions to multi-purpose GNSS positioning to support multi-frequency and multi-constellation with high accuracy and integrity 

    Ibáñez Segura, Deimos (Fecha de defensa: 2023-10-23)

    (English) Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) have revolutionized location and timing technologies due to their low cost and wide availability. Initially, GNSS was limited to the american Global Positioning System ...

    Contributions to real-time monitoring of the ionosphere using GNSS signals 

    Timoté Bejarano, Cristhian Camilo (Fecha de defensa: 2023-03-27)

    (English) This document presents the collection of four manuscripts published during my Doctoral academic formation, which main goal has been the real-time implementation of tools to monitor the ionosphere using Global ...

    Contributions to the 3D ionospheric sounding with GPS data 

    García Fernández, Miquel (Fecha de defensa: 2004-03-15)

    La tesi proposa una sèrie d'algoritmes destinats a obtenir informació del contingut d'electrons lliures presents a la ionosfera. El tipus de dades que s'utilitzaran seran bàsicament les corresponents a receptors de dades ...