A systematic approach to airborne sensor orientation and calibration: method and models 

    Blázquez González, Marta (Date of defense: 2012-07-03)

    Avui dia, s'estima que el mercat de la geom atica mou pels volts de 30 bilions d'euros. Al darrera del creixement d'aquest mercat hi trobem noves tecnologies,projectes i aplicacions, com per exemple, \Global Positioning ...

    An analysis of two-phase flows in conditions relevant to microgravity 

    Arias Calderon, Santiago (Date of defense: 2011-09-23)

    Promising technological applications of two-phase flows in space have captured the increasing interest of the space sector, provoking a strong demand for more fundamental knowledge. Great efforts have been made in recent ...

    Contributions to ionospheric determination with global positioning system: solar flare detection and prediction of global maps of total electron content 

    García Rigo, Alberto (Date of defense: 2012-12-17)

    Two research studies have been addressed in this thesis. Both of them are of actual scientific interest and are based on processing GNSS data. The first part of this thesis is devoted to GNSS detection and monitoring of ...

    Contributions to Libration Orbit Mission Design using Hyperbolic Invariant Manifolds 

    Canalias Vila, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2007-07-24)

    Aquesta tesi doctoral està emmarcada en el camp de l'astrodinàmica. Presenta solucions a problemes identificats en el disseny de missions que utilitzen òrbites entorn dels punts de libració, fent servir la teoria de sistemes ...

    Contributions to the Optimisation of aircraft noise abatement procedures 

    Prats, Xavier (Date of defense: 2010-01-29)

    Tot i que en les últimes dècades la reducció del soroll emès pels avions ha estat substancial, el seu impacte a la població ubicada a prop dels aeroports és un problema que encara persisteix. Contenir el soroll generat ...

    Cruise speed reduction for air traffic flow management 

    Delgado Muñoz, Luis (Date of defense: 2013-04-08)

    Avui dia un considerable nombre d’infraestructures del transport aeri tenen problemes de congestió. Aquesta situació es veu empitjorada amb l’increment de trànsit existent i amb la seva densitat deguda al sistema de hub i ...

    Deformation measurement and monitoring with Ground-Based SAR 

    Monserrat Hernández, Oriol (Date of defense: 2012-03-15)

    The Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar (GB-SAR) is a relatively new technique, which in the last ten years has gained interest as deformation measurement and monitoring tool. The GB-SAR technique is ...

    High-order discontinuous Galerkin methods for incompressible flows 

    Villardi de Montlaur, Adeline de (Date of defense: 2009-09-22)

    Aquesta tesi doctoral proposa formulacions de Galerkin discontinu (DG) d'alt ordre per fluxos viscosos incompressibles. <br/>Es desenvolupa un nou mètode de DG amb penalti interior (IPM-DG), que condueix a una forma feble ...

    Magnetic diagnostics algorithms for LISA Pathfinder: system identification and data analysis 

    Díaz Aguiló, Marc (Date of defense: 2011-10-27)

    LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a joint mission of ESA and NASA, which aims to be the first space-borne gravitational wave observatory. LISA will consist in a constellation of three spacecraft at the vertexes ...

    Microstructural characterization & viscoelastic properties of AlZnMg & AlCuMg alloys 

    Rojas Gregorio, José Ignacio (Date of defense: 2012-01-11)

    The comprehension of the viscoelastic behaviour of metals is of high interest as these materials are subjected to dynamic loads in most of their structural applications, and also because it enables a deeper understanding ...

    PoCoLoCo : Positioning through cooperating loquacious communications 

    Ramírez Alcántara, Jorge (Date of defense: 2015-02-24)

    Aerial Transportation system is based in a legacy infrastructure that supports its different functionality separately. There is a tendency to simplify the infrastructure, increasing its efficiency, technical and monetary. UAS ...

    Proximity maneuvering of libration point orbit formations using adapted finite element methods 

    García Taberner, Laura (Date of defense: 2010-02-04)

    This doctoral dissertation is structured in four chapters as follows. The first chapter contains a summary of formation flying projects that have been taken into consideration since few years ago. We specially focus on the ...