Could a short-wave infrared hyperspectral imager characterize oil spills?
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Project and Master Subjects 2025-2026
- Super-agile operation of small satellites
- Early warning fault detection for satellite operations based on telemetry
- Semi-controlled re-entry for a satellite using attitude control
- System identification of environmental effects for a satellite during re-entry
- Mu-analysis for agile satellite attitude control maneuvers
- Enabling high-accuracy HYPSO image georeferencing by high-accuracy satellite pose estimation through postprocessing of satelitte sensor data
- High-accuracy attitude determination of Earth observation satellites
- Starlink: Signals of Opportunity positioning, navigation and timing (PNT)
- GNSS-R: Simulator design of a GNSS-Reflectometry simulator
- GNSS-R: Payload and embedded SW design
- GNSS-R: GNSS jamming and spoofing source localization from space
- GNSS-R: Formation flying of small satellites
- GNSS-R: Novel ship-detection methods for GNSS-Reflectometry
- Automatic Satellite Telemetry Anomaly Detection and Trend Analysis
- Which works better, explainable AI or black-box AI?
- Integrating the HYPSO constellation with the Copernicus Suite
- Explainable AI on a GPU
- What can the HYPSO-3 Hyperperspectral Cameras Observe?
- Could a short-wave infrared hyperspectral imager characterize oil spills?
- Coordinated Planning between a satellite constellation and a Autonomous Surface Vehicle
- Calibration of Hyperspectral camera point-spread function
- Past Projects
Could a short-wave infrared hyperspectral imager characterize oil spills? (F25/S26)
Project Description
Oil spills can be disasterous for the environment. Therefore, it would be beneficial if they could be characterized immediately using remote sensing.
Fortunately, the Norwegian Space Agency and Norsk ElektroOptikk (NEO) are planning to lauch the HYPERNOR SWIR hyperspectral imaging camera in a few years. While current satellites can localize oil spills quite well, this new camera has the potential to give volume and type estimates of oil spills. It can potentially resolve the interference patterns and absorption lines that characterize oil on the surface of the ocean.
Even though the HYPERNOR has not yet been launched, we can access AVIRIS data recorded from aircraft from the Deep Horizon oil spill of 2010, and use them to determine what can be resolved.
There are several companies which could potentially collaborate with this thesis, but nothing is confirmed.
Supervisor(s)
This project would be advised by Joe Garrett