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Multi-frequency RADAR imaging for the analysis of tropical forest structure in the Amazon (MF-RADAR)
Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
... impacts are posing a threat to its future.This Marie Curie fellowship will develop a systematic integration of geomorphometry methods with satellite remote sensing techniques from Synthetic Aperture Radar to study the floristic-structural associations in the tropical forest of the Amazon, map disturbances and degradation, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and preserve floristic diversity.Its resear ...
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Objectifs : Le projet vise a installer un radar qui permettra de suivre en temps réel les précipitations sur lespace transfrontalier. Le radar constitue un outil indispensable a la prévision météorologique a courte échéance et a la gestion des risques de crues. Il permet de localiser les précipitations (pluie, neige, grele), de mesurer leur intensité en temps réel et de prévoir leur déplacement a ...
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Rationally Designed Aquatic Receptors integrated in label-free biosensor platforms for remote surveillance of toxins and pollutants (RADAR)
Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
RADAR is a 7-member consortium that aims to develop a robust, sensitive, and versatile label-free, biosensor platform for spot measurements and on-line monitoring of toxins and pollutants in food production processes and in the aquatic environment.Specificity towards chemical pollutants and toxins is achieved by using recombinant receptors (namely the estrogen receptor and the aryl hydrocarbon rec ...
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Future Research, Advanced Development and Implementation Activities for Road Transport (FUTURE-RADAR)
Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,
The FUTURE-RADAR project will support the European Technology Platform ERTRAC (the European Road Transport Research Advisory Council) and the European Green Vehicle Initiative PPP to create and implement the needed research and innovation strategies for a sustainable and competitive European road transport system. Linking all relevant stakeholders FUTURE-RADAR will provide the consensus-based plan ...
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Risk Assessment on Danube Area Roads (RADAR)
Start date: Mar 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2015,
Road crashes are the Regions most serious transport problem. Crashes cost more than 2% of Regional GDP.The overall aim of RADAR is to save lifes cost-effectively throughout the Region and bring benefits for targeted road user groups.RADAR will be the largest trans-national assessment undertaken to identify key risk factors. It will identify practical, affordable actions towards the »common road sa ...
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Development of a high resolution, low cost, short range precipitation radar system (MARG)
Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
...s that cover the supply chain want to take an advantage of early market penetration and outrun the competition. During the project a pre-competitive prototype will be crafted by partners for single radar and network application. Partner SMEs strongly believe that it will turn to a marketable product by 2014 and within the first 5 years of exploitation it will gain a total profit of € 1.5 M for the ...
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Music is my Radar
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
..., the implementation of innovative trainings remains one of the best options. ICT based trainings are a suitable solution and also will participate to reduce the digital gap.
The Music Is My Radar project aims to develop a distance learning training in order to improve basic and transversal skills for functional illiterate persons, aged between 15 and 65 years old, unemployed or employees in a co ...
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The development of a graduated radar-absorbing multi-layer structure for wind turbine applications to enable their positioning in areas of optimal power generation (OSGRAM)
Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,
...of wind energy installed in the EU is predicted to increase from its current level of 56,000 MW to 300,000 MW by 2030, equating to the installation of over 80,000 wind turbines. Due to the very large radar cross section of the turbines and the motion of the rotating blades, these turbines have a detrimental effect on civilian radar navigations systems and there is growing concern about the potenti ...
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Integrated advanced distribuited system for hydro-meteorological monitoring and forecasting using low-cost high-performance X-band mini-radar and cellular network infracstructures (HYDRORAD)
Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,
...prus have formed a consortium, named HYDRORAD, to develop a unique state-of-the-art hydro-meteorological observational-modelling system, based on network of advanced low-cost mini X-band polarimetric radars. HYDRORAD will greatly enhance our ability to observe, measure, and estimate parameters of rainstorms and hailstorms with consequential improvements in the prediction of floods and the managem ...
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"Advancing small-scale hydro-meteorological predictions through mobile X-band dual-polarization radar systems: methods, algorithms and applications" (HYDREX)
Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2012,
...vations from the multiple sensors available from the field experiment, which will uniquely support investigations on rainfall and precipitation classification estimation from X-band dual-polarization radar observations. The research questions to be addressed are: What is the dependence of X-band dual polarization rainfall estimation on scale and radar range? What is the relative accuracy of X-band ...
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PHOtonic-based full DIgital Radar (PHODIR)
Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,
"PHODIR project aims to study, design and realize a full digital transceiver radar demonstrator based on photonic technology both for signal generation and for RF received signal processing. Hybrid technologies merging second generation optical systems and conventional radar architecture could be the answer to issues deriving from electronic devices poor performances such high SFDR (Spurious Free ...
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Commercialisation of 94GHz Phase Shifting Radar (PSR94) (PSR94)
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
This proposal presents a unique opportunity to commercialise ground-breaking radar technology, a 94GHz Phase Shifting Radar (PSR94). We will bring the PSR94 from the current TRL 6 (technology demonstrated in relevant environment) to TRL 8 (system complete and qualified), ready for TRL 9 (customer use in an operational environment).This project will overcome the industrial problems, in the AeroSpac ...
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A practical, portable and robust scanning system using infrastructure inspection radar (IIR) for the investigation of rail track substructure, ballast and tunnel infrastructure (TRACKSCAN)
Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,
This is a feasibility study to enable the development of a novel portable radar system that provides a simple non-invasive mechanism for inspecting railway infrastructure. At present different techniques are needed to inspect the ballast, track substructure and tunnels. TRACKSCAN would undertake these activities and more through non-invasive inspection. Within Europe ballast inspection requires di ...
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International automotive 79 GHz frequency harmonization initative and worldwide operating vehicular radar frequency standardization platform (79GHz)
Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,
...c intention and objective of this FP7 ICT-2011 proposal under the CA (Coordination Action) funding instrument is toestablish and speed up the world wide harmonized frequency allocation for automotive radar systems in the frequency range77 GHz to 81 GHz (79 GHz).European car manufacturer and their supplier are acting on a worldwide level. Segmentation of the overall market by countryspecific freque ...
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Operational Radar For Every drill string Under the Street (ORFEUS)
Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,
...sed by street works. Use of the technique demands an accurate knowledge of underground utility assets and other obstructions in the drill path.This proposal is to progress the prototype HDD bore-head radar technology developed under the project ORFEUS to a commercial stage.ORFEUS (“Optimised Radar to Find Every Utility in the Street”) was a 6th Framework collaborative research project. One of its ...
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MOre Safety for All by Radar Interference Mitigation (MOSARIM)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,
Since several years millimeter-wave radar systems are used for vehicular applications, predominantly in comfort functions and a few in safety functions. Different frequencies and modulation schemes, emission powers and radiation patterns are used and up to now almost no care or precaution is undertaken to reduce or avoid mutual interference. Within a few years the penetration rate of vehicular rad ...
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ADRIAtic integrated RADar-based and web-oriented information processing system NETwork to support hydro-meteorological monitoring and civil protection decision (ADRIARadNet)
Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,
...ng system. In this respect the ADRIARadNet objective is to set up an integrated web-based scalable-flexible-interoperable ICT infrastructure, based on a network of low-cost microwave scanning weather radars, satellite radiometers data receivers and available rainfall ground sensors, to be integrated with web-oriented geographic information systems, regionally-tuned numerical prediction models and ...
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An advanced weather radar network for the Baltic Sea Region: BALTRAD+ (BALTRAD+)
Start date: Jun 8, 2011, End date: Sep 7, 2013,
The Nordic tradition of weather radar networking is transnational by its very nature. The main stage project developed this further by creating the world's most advanced international weather radar network. The BALTRAD network is decentralized, preserving the partnership's transnational integrity. In practice this means that each partner exchanges data from its weather radars with other partners o ...
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EISCAT_3D: A European three-dimensional imaging radar for atmospheric and geospace research (Preparatory Phase) (EISCAT_3D_2)
Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,
EISCAT_3D is a next generation incoherent scatter radar system for high-latitude atmosphere and geospace studies that will be built in northern Fenno-Scandinavia. The facility will consist of multiple large phased-array antenna transmitters/receivers in three countries, comprising tens of thousands of individual antenna elements. The new radars will collect data from the upper stratosphere to the ...
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Wind and Turbulence Radar for Offshore wind energy (WITRO)
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2015,
The project studies the use of a radar based technology to increase revenues and decrease maintenance costs of offshore wind-farms by providing a technology that help wind parks predict and adapt to the wind. Modern wind turbines are adjustable. The angels of rotors and blades can be changed. This is done by a control system optimizing production on a wind park level, or an even greater level. The ...
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Sistema de Observação Interreg RADAR para proteção do meio ambiente (0695_TRADE2_5_P)
Start date: Apr 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
...ncia de I&D nas ciências do mar (estudo das mutuações entre o Atlântico e o Mediterrâneo, da aplicabilidade da tecnologia radar HF para deteção de tsunamis, etc.); 4. Distribuir informação do estado do mar em tempo real à sociedade de forma semelhante à da distribuição da previsão meteorológica, sendo esta de interessa para a navegação de recreio, pesca e segurança balnear.
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Scandinavian Ocean Radar Observing System (SOROS)
Start date: Mar 31, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
The main objective of the project - Nordic network for high frequency (HF) coastal radar - is to establish a Nordic network for HF coastal radar in the Kattegat/Skagerrak region.Information on currents in near real time is seldom available when needed by many day to day applications and services. Data are needed for safe and efficient ship routing in narrow areas of high traffic such as in the nor ...
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Radar Imaging: Challenges And New Approaches (RICANA)
Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,
"RADAR imaging sounders for electromagnetic detection, such as Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), or Through Wall Radar (TWR), constitute privileged solutions for the remote detection of objects, structures or sediments, and even persons under or behind any surface. Their utility has been demonstrated in geophysical applications, explosive mine detection, construction, agriculture, homeland security, ...
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Microsatellite radar network for fast update Arctic ice surveillance. (ICEYE)
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,
...imes of up to 16 hours with a 12-hour refresh time, creating a need directly confirmed by potential users for systems that offer a higher picture refresh rate. Bringing together expertise in military radars, microsatellites and data analysis, our team has developed an ice information service that offers a 2-hour image refresh rate for tracking ice features using a constellation of 6 microsatellite ...
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Electronic scanning MIMO Radar for railway level crossing obstruction detection alerting (LCODA)
Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2015,
The overall project objective is to develop an innovative low cost, low maintenance, high performance, high reliability electronic scanning radar sensor system (ES24) for level crossing obstacle detection, capable of detecting objects ranging from large vehicles to bicycles & people, including people lying down. Key features are, only a single sensor is needed to identify the wide range of object ...
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Everyday Life Radar Sensors For Transportation (ELIRAD)
Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2018,
Everyday Life Radar Sensors For TransportationIn the project ELIRAD we plan to further develop a cutting-edge radar sensor from the feasibility demonstration level to industrial readiness and maturity for market introduction. The developed sensors will support disruptive transportation applications and emerging markets. High-precision distance and velocity sensing is essential for a great variety ...
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Improved detection of underground pipes by Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) radar for The Radar Networks (MIMODETECT)
Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2016,
...to provide 44 direct jobs and €4.5 million in five years. Moreover, improved knowledge of geolocation of underground utilities will help prevent hundreds of injuries every year across the EU. The Radar Networks (TRN) is a non-intrusive, accurate (
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Flood zoning in Southeast Attica using gauge calibrated radar rainfall and advanced modeling techniques (FLADAR)
Start date: Sep 1, 2007, End date: Aug 31, 2011,
...ens, where effective flood management planning may not only mitigate flood impact but also prevent it. The study will use GIS and distributed modeling techniques supported by rain gauge calibrated radar rainfall from the polarimetric radar of the NOA and historical rainfall data from the METEONET gauge network operated by NTUA. During the last 5 years, the main researcher applied advanced modelin ...
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Sistema de Observación Interreg RADAR para protección del medio ambiente (0419_TRADE_5_E)
Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,
...ismo de la región tiene. ACCIONES: 1. Planificación de detalle, implantación y consolidación operacional de una infraestructura de observación oceánica transfronteriza basada en tecnología radar HF para monitorización de la circulación superficial del mar y el oleaje. 2. Validación de la calidad de la información facilitada por la nueva infraestructura e integración de la misma dentro de los siste ...
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RADAR-based ASH monitoring and foreCASTing by integrating of remote sensing techniques and volcanic plume models (RASHCAST)
Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2013,
... a volcanic eruption, ii) the tracking and simulations of the evolution of ash plume by numerical models, iii) the integration of information acquired by different remote sensors, mainly ground based radar and satellite radiometers.These tasks are facilitated by multi-instrument observations available from past volcanic eruptions already collected over the years. The scientific merit of this propo ...
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CALYPSO-HF Radar Monitoring System and Response against Marine Oil Spills in the Malta Channel (CALYPSO)
Start date: Apr 30, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,
The project brings together an 8-member partnership for the setting up of a permanent and fully operational HF radar observing system, capable of recording (in real-time with hourly updates) surface currents, winds and waves in the Malta Channel. The system consists of HF radar installations on the northern Malta and southern Sicilian shores at selected sites and combines stations to elaborate and ...
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Novel low-cost ground penetrating radar system for safe, simple and swift detection of all utilities piping and cabling located underground (e-Safe)
Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2016,
Across Europe and the world, the installation of underground utility services continues to grow. The ground beneath Europe’s cities streets, which already contains a myriad of pipelines and cables, is rapidly becoming over congested. For example, the city of Rome’s 3million inhabitants are serviced by 65,000km of buried pipes and cables. Due to this congestion, delivery of vital utilities through ...
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Mimo mid-range radar for security applications in mainstream CMOS technology (MiRaMos)
Start date: Aug 10, 2009, End date: Aug 9, 2010,
The event of 11-Sepember incident has changed the face of the world as it was familiar to us. This event indicated the embarking of a new episode in the history of mankind which should have been associated with the security concerns. Although a large assortments of security devices has been put in action to prevent the happening of the world shaking events, however, the static nature of the availa ...
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An advanced weather radar network for the Baltic Sea Region: BALTRAD (BALTRAD)
Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,
...sts warn of hazardous conditions e.g. snow storms, hail, freezing rain, or floods, they help save lives and property, and they can help optimize activities for several sectors of the economy. Weather radar systems are capable of monitoring rain, snow, hail, and wind over large geographical areas with high resolution in both time and space. Several such systems can be networked to cover countries, ...
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GALILEO-BASED PASSIVE RADAR SYSTEM FOR MARITIME SURVEILLANCE (spyGLASS)
Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2017,
This proposal brings forward a passive bistatic radar (PBR) based on Galileo transmissions for maritime surveillance. The exploitation of existing transmissions for PBR applications is becoming increasingly attractive due to their low costs, covert operation, and reduced environmental pollution. Galileo is particularly suited for the proposed task since it comprises a satellite constellation, ensu ...
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Enhancement of Crete’s potential for a dedicated calibration facility for satellite radar altimeters and for tectonic deformation monitoring using continuously operating geodetic arrays (SOFIA)
Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,
"The Laboratory of Geodesy and Geomatics in the Technical University of Crete, Greece, is located in the less advanced region of Crete, but it is a dynamic and developing scientific entity on a European and international scale. Its primary research activities are on the Global Navigation Satellite Systems, satellite geodesy and deformation monitoring, quality control algorithms and software for g ...
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Advanced Radar Tracking and Classification for Enhanced Road Safety (ARTRAC)
Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,
...es of vehicle that pose the biggest hazard to VRUs in urban settings, namely cars and light delivery goods vehicles.The environmental sensing is to be based on a single automotive 24 GHz narrowband radar sensor. This sensor offers the potential to overcome the hitherto price barrier that has prevented VRU protection systems from entering widespread use. To meet the challenging technical requiremen ...
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Space use by bees– radar tracking of spatial movement patterns of key pollinators (SpaceRadarPollinator)
Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,
Current radar tracking technology to monitor insect movements in space allows us to catch only glimpses of their spatial movements – it is severely constrained by the restricted range that can be covered, the fact that individuals can only be tracked one at a time, and the lack of a height dimension. Here we propose ground-breaking technology advances to make insect telemetry fit for the 21st cent ...
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Advanced dEsign and testing of a polArimetric X-banD antenna for avionic weather radar (AhEAD)
Start date: Jun 16, 2014, End date: Mar 15, 2016,
The project AhEAD - Advanced dEsign and testing of a polArimetric X-band antenna for avionic weather radar, aims at designing and testing a polarimetric avionic radar antenna operating at X band for weather characterization and classification.After the requirements have been defined, the project will identify the best solution of the antenna configuration in terms of technology and architecture by ...
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Spin Torque Oscillators for Wireless and Radar Applications (SPINAPPS)
Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,
...urization in the wireless marketplace. It promises to deliver wireless devices that combine all common radio standards while keep power consumption to a minimum. It makes possible life-saving vehicle radar systems at a fraction of the prize of today’s systems. A huge positive impact on the safety and security of the European citizen is expected. The core technology of our SpinApps proposal is the ...
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