Ferrer González, Pere Josep (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
Over the last decades, Metamaterials (MTMs) have caught the attention of the scientific community. Metamaterials are basically artificially engineered materials which can provide unusual electromagnetic ...
Jové Casulleras, Roger (Date of defense: 2015-02-17)
The submitted Ph.D. thesis is a contribution to the development of pico-satellites and nano-satellites for Earth Observation and Technology Demonstrators. Development of satellites with a mass from 1 ...
Centolanza, Giuseppe (Date of defense: 2015-10-23)
The Earth is continuously monitored by sensors capable of providing diversified information about several phenomena. In particular Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is able to observe the Earth in all-day ...
Raschellà, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2015-05-27)
Cognitive Radio (CR) paradigm represents an innovative solution to mitigate the spectrum scarcity problem by enabling Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA), defined in order to conciliate the existing conflicts ...
Iglesias González, Rubén (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)
Every year, with the onset of spring rains and snow melting, landslides represent one of the major threats to human life and infrastructures in natural environments. In this context, different surveying ...
Anzuola Valencia, Esdras (Date of defense: 2015-06-15)
In the last years free-space optical communications systems for wireless links have been proposed, studied, and implemented mainly due to the higher bandwidth that this technology is able to provide. ...
González Haro, Cristina (Date of defense: 2015-05-22)
Ocean currents are a key component to understanding many oceanic and climatic phenomena and knowledge of them is crucial for both navigation and operational applications. Therefore, a key problem in ...
Lema Rosas, María Ángel (Date of defense: 2015-05-22)
Mobile broadband subscriptions and data traffic have increasingly grown in the past years with the deployment of the 3G and 4G technologies and the massive use of mobile devices. In this sense, LTE-A ...