Resumen de Astursat: A software tool to encourage the interest of students in remote sensing and image processing
Leticia Alonso González, Ana Arboleya Arboleya, Fernando Las Heras Andrés
The purpose of this paper is to present and analyse the results, impact and scope achieved with Astursat, a software tooldeveloped as a Final Degree Project in Telecommunication Engineering Masters’ Studies. The aim of this tool is toencourage the interest of students in remote sensing and image processing. For this purpose, in-house meteorological andenvironmental raw data received at the Satellites Tracking Station installed at the University of Oviedo (Spain) isemployed. With this data, a system with real functionality has been developed to foster professional skills. For this reason,Astursat represents the last logical block in a complex system composed of a remote sensing stage, a reception sub-systemand the processing and visualisation of the corresponding information. Astursat has been designed in order to providesolutions for the shortages detected in similar commercial software packages. As an example, Astursat allows thepossibility of defining a geographical region of interest where the images and animations can be focused on. Additionally,Astursat allows the generation of personalised combinations of different datasets from several instruments. Differentprocessed images and video frames will be shown and discussed to illustrate the results achieved with the tool. An analysisof the impact of this project in Academia will be included.
