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Tutorials Micro-Optic and Fiber Optic Sensors Terahertz Sensing Noise Harvesting Chemical and Gas Sensing Industrial Tomography Silicon Piezoresistive Stress Sensors Miniaturised Space Payloads Integrated Gas Sensors Sensors as Communication Channels Nanophotonic Sensors Biopolymer Detection Integrated Radar Sensors Ultrasonics |
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The need for portable, robust and precise sensors has increased in recent years resulting in the need for cutting-edge, advanced sensor technologies. This tutorial session provides a series of case studies related to the development of space payloads and the application of these instruments in outdoor terrestrial applications. Each case study discusses the development of the sensor itself, including technology challenges and requirements pushing sensor technologies to new limits. Tight requirements in space environment, on the other hand, result in interesting sensors for new applications here on Earth. The technology development described here is predominately based on radiation detection techniques and radiation sources, miniaturization, power availability, and thermal and mechanical resistance. There are few roadblocks to the application of space payload on Earth surface to be considered. The tutorial session closes with a discussion that goes beyond sensor development to application approaches for including sensor technology into operating systems and reliable data processing and data management. Some examples of terrestrial outdoor applications of space payloads in air pollution monitoring, chemical analysis of sediments in riverbeds, and material characterization in industrial processes will be presented and discussed. It is concluded that miniaturised space payloads represents the new frontier for sensor technology which are expected to be ease of operate, reliable, and precise. Biography Paulo de Souza is the Research Director of the CSIRO Tasmanian ICT Centre in Hobart, Australia. He graduated in physics and obtained his M.Sc. from UFES, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany in 2004. Paulo worked in Industrial Research Centres in South America and Europe before joining the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. He is a collaborator Scientist of the NASA's Mars Exploration Rover project. This mission landed and operates for more than half decade two large rovers on the surface of Mars. |
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