Title :
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
Abstract :
TIGRIsat is the first Iraqi satellite. It has been launched on June 19th 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;
Conference_Titel :
Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7992-9
DOI :
10.1109/EEEIC.2015.7165411
