Is Rize (Turkey) really at risk of collapse?
Catapult Co-Authors: Esra Erten, Cristian Rossi & Terri Freemantle Rize, a city with about a hundred thousand inhabitants on the Black Sea coast in the north-east...
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The sustainability study of the recent construction projects in Istanbul through Sentinel-1 Persistent Scatter Interferometry
Catapult Co-Author: Esra Erten & Cristian Rossi Turkey, as a developing country, is designing and performing huge construction projects around Istanbul, now that it is the...
Testing the Interoperability of Sentinel 1 Analysis Ready Data Over the United Kingdom
Catapult Co-Authors: Daniel Wicks, Thomas Jones, Cristian Rossi To access the valuable information contained within Earth observation data, users are required to undertake a series of...
An Earth Observation Framework for the Lithium Exploration
Catapult Co-Authors: Cristian Rossi, Maral Bayaraa, Stephen Spittle, Anoop Pandey, Niki Henry This paper presents an overview of a large research project involving collaboration from the...
Tailings Dams Monitoring using Satellite-Enabled Technologies
Catapult Co-Authors: Maral Bayaraa, Stephen Spittle, Chris Williams, Vladimir Stoiljkovic Tailings dams risk reduction is one of the highest priorities within the mining industry and presents...
Geomorphometric analysis of the 2014-2015 Bárðarbunga volcanic unrest, Iceland, using multi-temporal TanDEM-X DEMs
Catapult Co-Author: Cristian Rossi Topographical information is of major interest when assessing material flows throughout active volcanic systems. In order to obtain accurate estimates of...
Lithium Exploration Using a Multi-Disciplinary Earth Observation Framework Over Cornwall, UK
Catapult Co-Authors: Cristian Rossi, Maral Bayaraa, Stephen Spittle, Anoop Pandey, Niki Henry The increasing global effort to overcome the addiction to fossil fuels is driving the...
Using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) stacking techniques for remote monitoring of bridge scour failure
Catapult Co-Author: Cristian Rossi Scour is the removal of ground material in water bodies due to environmental changes in water flow. It particularly occurs at...
In-season biomass estimation of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) using fully polarimetric SAR imagery
Catapult Co-Author: Dan Wicks Accurate estimation of crop biophysical and biochemical parameters during crop growing seasons is essential for improving site-specific management and yield estimation. The...
The worsening impacts of land reclamation assessed with Sentinel-1: The Rize (Turkey) test case
Catapult Co-Author: Cristian Rossi Massive amounts of land are being reclaimed to build airports, new cities, ports, and highways. Hundreds of kilometers are added each...
Reconfigurable Phased Array Antenna Consisting of High-Gain High-Tilt Circularly Polarized Four-Arm Curl Elements for Near Horizon Scanning Satellite Applications
Catapult Co-Author(s): Thanos Arampatzis & Alessandro Modigliana Abstract: A 2 × 2 phased array consisting of beam reconfigurable four-arm right-handed circularly polarized (RHCP) curl unit elements...
Catapult Network Awarded Investment
Today, we welcome the announcement from Government of a £780m investment in the Catapult network, securing the next five years of innovation and R&D in...