Consolidation and assessment of a technique to provide fast and precise point positioning (Fast-PPP) 

    Rovira Garcia, Adrià (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)

    The research of this paper-based dissertation is focused on the Fast Precise Point Positioning (Fast-PPP) technique. The novelty relies on using an accurate ionosphere model, in combination with the standard precise satellite ...

    Contributions to GNSS-R earth remote sensing from nano-satellites 

    Carreno-Luengo, Hugo (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)

    Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry (GNSS-R) is a multi-static radar using navigation signals as signals of opportunity. It provides wide-swath and improved spatio-temporal sampling over current space-borne ...

    Contributions to high accuracy snapshot GNSS positioning 

    Liu, Xiao (Date of defense: 2022-11-10)

    (English) Snapshot positioning is the technique to determine the position of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver using only a very brief interval of the received satellite signal. In recent years, this ...

    Contributions to ionospheric modeling with GNSS in mapping function, tomography and polar electron 

    Lyu, Haixia (Date of defense: 2020-11-17)

    This dissertation focuses on determining the vertical electron content distribution in low and high vertical resolution from ground-based and LEO on board GNSS data and improving the knowledge of ionosphere climatology in ...

    Development of a solid state amplifier for the 3rd harmonic cavity for ALBA synchrotron light source 

    Hazami, Zahra (Date of defense: 2020-01-29)

    In Synchrotron Light Source facilities with high energy and low emittance electron beams different techniques for improving the quality of the synchrotron light for the users are applied. With this aim ALBA, the Spanish ...

    Dynamic stochastic modeling for inertial sensors 

    Wis Gil, Mariano (Date of defense: 2016-11-02)

    Es ampliamente conocido que los modelos de error para sensores inerciales tienen dos componentes: El primero es un componente determinista que normalmente es calibrado por el fabricante en el firmware de la IMU. El segundo ...

    A fast engineering approach to high efficiency power amplifier linearization for avionics applications 

    Wang, Teng (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)

    This PhD thesis provides a fast engineering approach to the design of digital predistortion (DPD) linearizers from several perspectives: i) enhancing the off-line training performance of open-loop DPD, ii) providing ...

    Sentinel-1 data exploitation for terrain deformation monitoring 

    Krishnakumar, Vrinda (Date of defense: 2022-09-29)

    Persistent Scatterer interferometry (PSI) is a group of advanced differential interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) techniques used to measure and monitor terrain deformation. Sentinel-1 has improved the data ...

    Theoretical and experimental investigation on the visible-light controlled functional properties in charged domain wall ferroelectrics 

    Ordoñez Pimentel, Jonathan (Date of defense: 2023-03-24)

    (English) Optical control of ferroelectric properties has been attracted a growing interest as an alternative to the conventional control by applied electric fields. However, the major drawback for achieving an effective ...

    World-wide analysis and modelling of the ionospheric and plasmaspheric electron contents by means of radio occultations 

    Shao, Yixie (Date of defense: 2019-02-25)

    The research of this dissertation is studying the ionosphere by GPS radio occultation (RO) techniques. It is mainly divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the methodology in electron density profile retrievals ...