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What are the next priorities for  research and innovation 

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What are the next priorities for  research and innovation 

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An opportunity to reflect and share your insights from the workshop - what really caught your attention that should be a priority for future discussion and focus?

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You will join a dialogue with one of our expert users who have been with us during the day and will now focus on their current and future use of this technology.

The dialogue will be shaped by the questions that you ask in your group.

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This is a participative workshop which aims to bring together experts working with SAR and Radar for Earth Observation Instrumentation for a series of structured conversations.

The aims of the workshop are to

1. To bring together engineers, scientists and innovators working in this field to strengthen cross-disciplinary networks and open the possibilities of future collaborations

2. To identify potential user needs that might be a focus for future research and innovation investment

3. To inform and shape a future update of the EO Technology Strategy for UKSA

Registration and coffee is at 9.45 with the opening session at 10.15 and the workshop will by finished 16.45.

“Fantastic, fully engaged, good networking platform”

“It was pleasant to have an engaging experience with other experts in the CEOI field and not just gather expertise but also thoughts and future views”

In addition to short coffee breaks, there is a longer break of an hour at lunchtime to catch up on emails and calls or develop your network through conversations with others at the event.

The materials generated from the workshop will be shared immediately with those attending and longer term will be used to contribute to the shaping of future research programmes

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Friend's House is a few minutes walk from Euston mainline station in central London.

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London Meeting Rooms & Conference Venue near Euston Station

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Friends House is an award-winning, ethical and sustainable venue. Our meeting rooms and event spaces are competitively priced and equipped with the latest AV.

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If you find it helpful to prepare some thoughts in advance, then please use our detailed agenda to make some notes and help yourself to prepare for the workshop.

We will be asking you to contribute to three main discussions:

1. Technology Pipelines - what have been some of our challenges in this field in moving up the Technological Readiness Levels (TRL) levels?

2. What do users hope to see developing from this technology?

3. Where might some of the future direction of this technology take us? What might be some of the gamechangers that could affect our direction of travel?

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SAR and Radar Detailed Participant Agenda

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We have invited some of our participants to take part in "expertise" sessions. This includes a panel discussion on future technologies and to be part of a series of small group "Conversations with End Users"

These sessions will help to shape the future agenda.

You will see details of their profiles in the lower sections of the Padlet

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During the workshop, the facilitators will be adding notes from plenary sessions onto this document.

You are welcome to view and add further reflections, and we would love some direct quotes as well.

The document will be used for the formal workshop reporting process which will start on

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SAR Radar  29th Jan- live workshop report

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Dr Pasquale Iervolino - EO Applications Technical Team Lead | Geospatial Business UK (TCAAKD) Airbus Defence and Space

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Dr Pasquale Iervolino - EO Applications Technical Team Lead | Geospatial Business UK (TCAAKD) Airbus Defence and Space

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I received the B.S. and M.S. (both cum laude) degrees in telecommunications engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, in 2008 and 2010, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey, in 2016. From 2015 to 2019, I was a Research Fellow with the Surrey Space Centre on national and international research projects on Earth Observation. In September 2019, I joined Airbus Defence and Space, Guildford, U.K., where I aim at developing novel applications and services from satellite products. My research interests include microwave remote sensing, the development and inversion of scattering models from natural and man-made surfaces, synthetic aperture radar ship-detection algorithms and satellite imagery data fusion.

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Tim Wright, COMET, University of Leeds, and SatSense Ltd

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Tim Wright, COMET, University of Leeds, and SatSense Ltd

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I'm a user of satellite radar data for multiple applications, particularly in geohazards, and particularly for measuring ground deformation.

I'm the co-director of COMET, the UK Natural Environment Research Council's Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes Volcanoes and Tectonics.

I am also co-founder of spinout company SatSense Ltd, which aims to make ground movement data more accessible, particularly for infrastructure owners and managers.

I am a member of the ESA mission advisory group for Hydroterra+, an Earth Explorer 12 candidate mission. Hydroterra+ would be a geosynchronous SAR satellite, offering sub-daily imaging and retrievals of key parameters such as atmospheric water vapour.

I am based at the University of Leeds in the school of Earth and Environment, and my university page listing publications etc is here.

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Dr Rob Scott is a physicist who has been involved in space since 1980. He worked in academia for UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory, involved initially in image processing and X-ray astronomy. He then moved to the remote sensing group, working on the Along Track Scanning Radiometer for ERS-1, and on a string of radar altimeter missions including ERS 1 & 2, and Envisat.

Rob left UCL in 1997 and joined the Guildford-based consultancy ESYS, where he developed advice-side skills and learnt the commercial aspects of the space industry. He continued his work in Radar Altimetry by project managing UCL's CryoSat software team and also contributed code to the Level 2 processing chains for the mission.

On joining the space team at QinetiQ in 2005, he became the European Space Agency Account Manager, developing extensive contacts in ESA as well as industry, academia, Innovate UK and the Satellite Applications Catapult, and the UK Space Agency (UKSA).

For 5 years, until leaving QinetiQ in mid 2012, Rob was the Technology Programme Director for UKSA’s Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation, and has held the Chair of the UKspace Space Science and Exploration Committee.

Since forming ScottSpace Limited he has worked under contract to RAL Space and UKSA among others. He will continue to support RAL's role in the new incarnation of CEOI.

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We will have some printed copies of this chart available on the day.

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CEOI Missions Bar Chart - Jan 2025 update

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Christine has over 25 years experience in ocean remote sensing and physical oceanography. Her research explores how microwave electromagnetic signals interact with the ocean to develop new and improved satellite-based ocean measurements, products, applications, services, sensors and missions. Her pioneering work led to new spaceborne observations of ocean wave period, coastal sea level and wave height, ocean winds and total surface currents in the open ocean and the coastal zone. She has an established international reputation in satellite altimetry, SAR interferometry, GNSS-Reflectometry and L-band radiometry. Scientific interests include atmosphere-ocean exchanges, current/wind/wave interactions, submesoscale dynamics and long-term variability and trends of key ocean ECVs, notably sea state and sea level.

Christine is a promoter and proposer of innovative Earth Observation technology and new satellite missions, working extensively with private stakeholders in the space sector. She frequently works also with end-users in operational agencies, government and the commercial sector to support greater understanding and uptake of marine Earth Observation capabilities. Christine is Principal Investigator of the SEASTAR Earth Explorer mission concept, heading an international science team of 70+ scientists and engineers to deliver new high-accuracy wide-swath images of total ocean surface current and wind vectors at 1km resolution.

She is a member of the SWOT science team, PI of the CNES-approved SWOT VORTICES project, and PI of the SWOT-UK project funded by NERC and the UK Space Agency. Christine serves on many national and international Earth Observation advisory boards for the European Space Agency, the UK Space Agency and Copernicus. She currently chairs the International Science Board of the National Centre for Earth Observation. She co-proposed and co-manages the NERC Centre for Doctoral Training for Satellite Data in Environmental Science (SENSE) in partnership with Universities of Leeds, Edinburgh and British Antarctic Survey.

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David leads the development of the Met Office’s next-generation observation processing and data assimilation systems. He also leads research into the assimilation of surface-based observations for both global and regional NWP.

Areas of expertise

Data assimilation

Observation processing

Uncertainty quantification

Novel observations

Weather radar

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Rosemary Willatt became a Lecturer in the department in 2024. She studies sea ice in the polar oceans which plays key roles in Earth’s climate. She conducts experiments in cold laboratories as well as on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice to advance our understanding of the physical properties of snow and ice and capability to monitor polar Essential Climate Variables via remote sensing, for example using satellite radar altimetry data used to estimate sea ice and snow thickness. She plans and conducts polar field campaigns, analyses geophysical and radar data from surface-based, airborne and satellite instruments and advises space agencies on Earth Observation satellite mission development.

One of her current focuses is on development of a novel technique for estimation of snow depth on sea ice, and the European Space Agency (ESA) awarded her the inaugural Konrad Steffen award for a presentation on the early stages of this work. She is now Principal Investigator (PI) of an ESA-funded project developing the Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter (PoSARA) concept.

Rosie is also the PI for Sea Ice Earth Observation at the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, and a champion for EDI and sustainability.

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With the explosion of mega-constellations, miniaturisation of satellites and instruments, and the implementation of connex technology (e.g. onboard processing and AI), what could be the impact on the design of SAR and radar instruments over the next decade?

Miniaturised, cheaper instruments or increased capabilities (swath, resolution, observation frequency band, power), or both? What instruments and technologies are needed "today" and "tomorrow"?

What are the challenges, barriers and risks with the development of radar and SAR instruments / technologies?

As an industry, how could we adapt to these? And what could be the resulting opportunities?

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Petronilo Martin-Iglesias (EO Microwave Instrument Engineer, European Space Agency)

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Petronilo Martin-Iglesias (EO Microwave Instrument Engineer, European Space Agency)

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Petronilo Martín-Iglesias received the Telecommunication Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, in 2002 and the Master's degree from the University of Leeds, UK, in 2012. He has been working in the industry for over 15 years as a Microwave Engineer for active (high power amplifiers for Radar applications) and passive (filters, multiplexers, couplers, etc.) RF hardware design. He has 2 years of experience as a Radar System Engineer, working for INDRA SISTEMAS, ISDEFE S.A., and Thales Alenia Space Spain.

Since 2012 he has been working in the European Space Agency following R&D activities related with RF passive hardware (filter synthesis theory, EM design, ferrite-based components, and high power prediction as well as advanced manufacturing techniques for RF passive hardware). He has also provided support to projects such as the MetOp-SG Scatterometer (particularly for the RF front-end), BIOMASS (high power aspects), and ELECTRA, among others.

He is currently part of the Microwave Instruments Section (EOP-FMM), Future Missions and Instruments Division, where he is working on the early study phases for new microwave remote sensing instruments. He has been involved in missions such as EE11-SEASTAR and EE12-KEYSTONE, in addition to multiple R&D activities for space instruments, airborne demonstrators, and relevant technologies.

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Dr Emal Rumi | Principal Research and Development Engineer at RAL Space/Chilbolton Observatory

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Dr Emal Rumi | Principal Research and Development Engineer at RAL Space/Chilbolton Observatory

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I am a Principal Research and Development Engineer at RAL Space / Chilbolton Observatory, designing, developing, and operating weather, satellite tracking, and security radars.

Graduated with a BSc in Electronics Engineering, and with a PhD on Moving Target Indicator Radars  (MTI) (Budapest Technical University: BME).

With considerable research and development experience in Microwave Systems Engineering, Radio Propagation Modeling, Satellite Communication, Remote Sensing and Radar development. Specialising in new technology development previously worked for AT&T, Bell Labs, and Motorola.

Joined the space sector after completing an MSc in Geosciences and Remote Sensing from the University of Edinburgh in 2009. Lead the Multi Spectral Canopy Lidar mission Earth Explorer EE-09 proposal.

Currently leading the development of a new Earth Observation mission concept to measure surface pressure from space using Active Microwave Air-Pressure Sensor (AMAPS). Designed and built a ground-based demonstrator based on Barometric Differential Absorption Radar (BARODAR), funded by CEOI.  Currently building the Air-borne demonstrator for the mission, funded by ESA. I am the PI for BARODAR mission recently proposed for EE-12.

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Professor Carmine Clemente, Director of the Sensor Signal Processing and Security Laboratories at the University of Strathclyde and Co-Chair of the Advanced Signal Processing in Radar and Electronic Warfare of the Electromagnetic Systems Interest Group, the UK Radar Society

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Professor Carmine Clemente, Director of the Sensor Signal Processing and Security Laboratories at the University of Strathclyde and Co-Chair of the Advanced Signal Processing in Radar and Electronic Warfare of the Electromagnetic Systems Interest Group, the UK Radar Society

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I am a Professor in Radar Systems and Signal Processing at the University of Strathclyde. My research is focussed on RF sensor signal processing for defence and civilian applications. I am currently involved in projects collaborating with governmental institutions,  industries and  universities from the USA, China and Europe.
My research portfolio include Automatic Target Recognition, Multi-static, MIMO , Passive and Cognitive radars, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Electronic Surveillance, Earth Observation, machine learning, AI, and all the techniques that can be classified as emerging radar techniques. Furthermore I am interested in transferring  the solutions developed in the defence and security scenarios to other fields such as industrial condition monitoring and biomedical signal processing. My research portfolio include Automatic Target Recognition, Multi-static, MIMO , Passive and Cognitive radars, Electronic Surveillance, Earth Observation, machine learning, AI, and all the techniques that can be classified as emerging radar techniques. Furthermore I am interested in transferring  the solutions developed in the defence and security scenarios to other fields such as industrial condition monitoring and bio-medical signal processing.

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Geoff Burbidge - Head of Microwave Instruments UK, Future Programmes & Proposals Airbus Defence and Space, Space Systems

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Geoff Burbidge - Head of Microwave Instruments UK, Future Programmes & Proposals Airbus Defence and Space, Space Systems

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Geoff Burbidge is an Engineering Manager with Airbus Defence and Space, based in Portsmouth, with 30 years of experience in development of space-based microwave payloads for Earth Observation missions and Global Navigation systems. With a focus on Synthetic Aperture Radar systems, he has worked on a range of instruments through all phases of the development lifecycle, for institutional organisations in UK, Australia, Canada, and our primary customer, the European Space Agency. Since 2005, he has also held a department/functional management role responsible for development of spaceborne and airborne payloads, and ground-based radar systems, both at Astrium/Airbus and at Lockheed Martin. For the last six years he has been Team Lead, then Head of, Microwave Instruments UK Future Programmes & Proposals, within Airbus' Earth Observation Science and Exploration business unit, and he is now in a role supporting a SAR development for a defence customer.

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MStar Space Ltd is a UK registered company providing professional and technical consulting services to the space sector

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Alan Thompson, co-director of Eureco Technologies Ltd. 

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After 12 years at Plessey Radar Ltd, Alan’s SAR experience began in 1978 as an Antenna Systems Engineer for the Microwave Remote Sensing Experiment (MRSE) at Dornier Systems in Germany.  MRSE flew as an X-band SAR, scatterometer and radiometer instrument on the Shuttle in 1983.

In 1980, Alan joined ESA in France as the Radar Engineer for ERS-1 in Phases A and B1, and later became Project Manager of TerraSAR-L at Astrium in 1999.

From 2007 to 2009, Alan was the Mission Systems Engineer in the Phase-0 studies on the SAR missions BIOMASS and CoreH2O at ESA/ESTEC in The Netherlands.

Alan now works with his son, Martin, who is a co-director and also co-inventor of the eureco® EM-bridge™.  The invention, which is patented in 13 countries, eliminates coaxial cable and eases the deployment of structures, e.g. planar array antennas in CubeSats through to BigSats for SAR and SATCOM payloads.

Following a successful co-funded Innovate UK project, and two ESA contracts, the technology is validated to TRL6 for space applications.  The technology is used in a proof-of-concept 1.42GHz transportable/deployable radio telescope (TDRT) in which a planar array of 120 radiating elements form a 5sq.m aperture when deployed. The TDRT is aimed at outreach, university projects and STEM activities, and has been validated the Institute Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG).

A feasibility study of an L-band Mini-SAR, concluded that a planar array could be accommodated and deployed on the International Space Station (ISS).

www.eureco.com

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Research profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/9163

Relevant interests: Optical design of passive components for RF optics (metamaterial, flat lenses, Wollaston and Fresnel lenses, LVFs, antenna coupling, ...)

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Hi, I am David Aviram, a structural-mechanical-aeronautical engineer. I have developed a conceptual inflatable large radar dish for space applications and I am seeking collaboration and feed-back from interested parties.

davidaviram@geodome.co.uk

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How and when did you become involved in SAR/Radar and what is your niche?

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Session 2: Technology Pipelines - Learning from the Past

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Session 2: Technology Pipelines - Learning from the Past

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Thank you Rob

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Thank you Rob

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...to create a line and form groups of trios to share experiences and insights relating to pathway bottlenecks

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...the other half of the line!

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What are the barriers to innovation?

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...and how might we seek to overcome these?

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Each trio to share one insight that emerged from their storytelling relating to innovation/technology development

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How can CEOI better support technology communities to innovate?

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What do you wish someone had told you when you started?

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Capture at least one wish that would make a difference to a more successful TRL journey

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Link to the output from the THZ, MW, MM workshop

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Link to the output from the THZ, MW, MM workshop

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Traders and brokers do not best understand Rigid UK funding rules

High-risk component performance

Lack of credible UK suppliers

Securing the internal co-funding

Rigid UK Funding Rules

Significant cost of TRL progression

Decade-long intermittent access to funding

No other technology readiness model suitability for UK Dstl – high TRL model is go

Funding speed/agility downstream?

Simulation Modelling Test

TRL reset on working (TRL 9) hardware

Opportunity of UK government support is good leverage for proposals

Need for supply chain options from multiple countries for geo-return

Time frame on delivery of key capabilities.

Hardware component performance

No orbital demonstration can mean valley of death – we have high TRL but nowhere to go with it!

Availability of radar spectrum to be used for measurement (ITV regulations)

Availability of high power amplification

Not invented here! Lack of willingness to invest money

Identification of flight opportunities

HAPS access is problematical

Lack of local facilities, in UK

Need for a business development activity to assist groups sharing to work in CEOI or ESA programmes for academic communities (as well as for industry)

Mixing academic career with TRL development.

Gap in funding can mean we lose skilled staff.

Even with the help of Chat GTP some of these post it notes were unclear and challenging to read, so please add your additional observations to the comments if we have missed your comment off our list!!

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·        Underestimation of the cost of getting TRL – it will cost more but a bit of blind optimism can help!!

·        Using the enchantment of funders with space can help get funding/inspire interest (however this is less so when using the earth observation terminology!)

·        Persistence and Grit will probably prevail (but should it require this much effort??)

·        That the UK/Europe is not the place to develop technology quickly

·        Exploitation and Development Roadmap – keep it live and up to date

·        Science Case with good partnership (User – often academic) and Implementer (industry) and use this to construct a two way case.

·        The ESA process when applying to their funding. It has already been discussed with favoured partners BEFORE being advertised. It is not easy for new communities to access. We learnt the need to speak to ESA before the call is announced.

·        TRL – Think Thermal always!

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Wish Board: What could CEOI (others) Change to Help TRL Progress?

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Wish Board: What could CEOI (others) Change to Help TRL Progress?

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·        Trust industry to make the right decisions!!

·        A strategic roadmap to guide me through the TRL process (step by step manual with people and processes)

·        Continuity of funding

·        Cross-discipline incubation – Science, Tech and Engineering. Support us with speed date challenges where we are forced to work together

·        Bring community together to efficiently form future missions and the technology to achieve them

·        CASE PhD Scholarship Fund (via ESRC or NERC)

·        Awareness of Earth Observation as a possible solution to many problems faced with climate change and other challenges

·        Respond to need

·        Develop continuity of support

·        CEOI could provide continuity of end to end perspectives (ensure gaps are filled)

·        Need more staff in CEOI to support the increase in the EO community

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Questions for Professor Christine Gomminginger

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Questions for Professor Christine Gomminginger

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With the explosion of mega-constellations, miniaturisation of satellites and instruments, and the implementation of connex technology (e.g. on board processing with AI), what could be the impact on the design of SAR and radar instruments over the next decade?

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What are the challenges, barriers and risks with the development of radar and SAR instruments/technologies?

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With the explosion of mega-constellations, miniaturisation of satellites and instruments, and the implementation of connex technology (e.g. on board processing with AI), what could be the impact on the design of SAR and radar instruments over the next decade?

Miniaturised, cheaper instruments or increased capabilities (swath, resolution, observation frequency band, power), or both? What instruments and technologies are needed "today" and "tomorrow"?

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With the explosion of mega-constellations, miniaturisation of satellites and instruments, and the implementation of connex technology (e.g. on board processing with AI), what could be the impact on the design of SAR and radar instruments over the next decade?

Miniaturised, cheaper instruments or increased capabilities (swath, resolution, observation frequency band, power), or both? What instruments and technologies are needed "today" and "tomorrow"?

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Questions Open from our Online Voting Tool

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Questions Open from our Online Voting Tool

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An Opportunity to Discuss with others and New Insights from the Panel Conversation

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An Opportunity to Discuss with others and New Insights from the Panel Conversation

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What caught your attention from this panel discussion?

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What caught your attention from this panel discussion?

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What else is on the horizon that may be a gamechanger?

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What else is on the horizon that may be a gamechanger?

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What are reasons to be cheerful/concerned about the future?

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What are reasons to be cheerful/concerned about the future?

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Thank you for Attending the SAR and Radar Workshop

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Thank you for Attending the SAR and Radar Workshop

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Thank you for travelling far and wide for the workshop...

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Thank you for travelling far and wide for the workshop...