The TIGRIsat camera A nanosatellite optical payload for detecting dust and sand storms

Author

Paris, Claudio ; Parisse, Maurizio ; Nascetti, Augusto ; Cica, Roberto ; Salman, Nabeel Abdulhussein

Author_Institution

Centro Fermi, Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Rome, Italy

fYear

2015

fDate

10-13 June 2015

Firstpage

1605

Lastpage

1610

Abstract

TIGRIsat is the first Iraqi satellite. It has been launched on June 19^th 2014, becoming the first Iraqi satellite. The small spacecraft is a 3 Unit CubeSat nanosatellite, weighting under 4 kg and carrying a camera for monitoring dust and sand storms over Iraq. TIGRIsat has been built by Iraqi post-graduate students within a bilateral Italian-Iraqi collaboration. The payload of the satellite has been designed to target an area covering all the surface of Iraq, and producing images which will be transmitted to the ground stations and processed to identify sand and dust storms occurring in that area.

Keywords

artificial satellites; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric techniques; dust; remote sensing; storms; AD 2014 06 19; CubeSat nanosatellite; Iraq surface; Iraqi post-graduate students; Iraqi satellite; TIGRIsat camera; bilateral Italian-Iraqi collaboration; dust monitoring; ground stations; sand storm monitoring; satellite payload; Cameras; Payloads; Satellites; Soil; Space vehicles; Storms; Sun; TIGRIsat; nanosatellite; sand and dust storms; thermal analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7992-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEEIC.2015.7165411

Filename

7165411