At Space Dinner 2020, Dordije Boskovic was awarded the NIFRO prize for best space related master thesis. This is an annual prize, rewarded for the 8th time this year. Dordije received this prize for his work on a near-real time FPGA implementation of target detection algorithms for hyperspectral remote sensing applications. The prize consists of a small model of the NORSat satellite, a diploma and 20000,- NOK.​

Onno Verberne (left) from NIFRO presents the prize to Dordije. Photo credits: Petter E. Skanke, Norwegian Space Agency.

The master thesis can be found here: https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/handle/11250/2624684. The work has also resulted in a presentation at an international conference, and in an article submitted for publication in Elsevier Microprocessors and Microsystems.

Congratulations!