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Mr. Octavian Badescu

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Researcher - INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC

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Associate Professor - UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DE CONSTRUCTII BUCURESTI (Romania)

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Curriculum Vitae (13/02/2024)

Expertise & keywords

Improved local geoid model from GOCE mission for Romania Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - Proiect experimental - demonstrativ
PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2021-1789 2022 - 2023

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DE CONSTRUCTII BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DE CONSTRUCTII BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: http://geodezie.utcb.ro/proiect-goro

Abstract:

Project has the purpose of modeling a local (quasi)geoid using astro-geodetic measurements, GNSS observation and precise geodetic leveling measurements, to combine all measurements taken, in a complex comparative study with the (quasi)geoid surface extracted from global geoid model of GOCE mission. This approach gives the possibility to determine with high accuracy and precision the values of the anomalies of the altitudes of the (quasi)geoid in Romania. This activity is crucial and maybe the only available method for computing heights in areas with poor benchmarks where leveling could not be applied (like Danube Delta for example or mountains). It will be developed applications in different programming languages that permit the modeling of the (quasi)geoid on the testing area as well as an evaluation of the global geoid model of GOCE mission.

System for the analysis and assessment of risks in outer space (RoSSA) Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - Soluţii - 2021
PN-III-P2-2.1-SOL-2021-2-0192 2021 - 2023

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: AGENTIA SPATIALA ROMANA

Project partners: AGENTIA SPATIALA ROMANA (RO); INSTITUTUL DE STIINTE SPATIALE-FILIALA INFLPR (RO); INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC (RO); ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO); BITNET CENTRUL DE CERCETARI SENZORI & SISTEME S.R.L. (RO); GMV INNOVATING SOLUTIONS S.R.L. (RO); RARTEL S.A. (RO); TERRASIGNA SRL (RO); UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: http://rossa.rosa.ro

Abstract:

The project aims at developing research skills and capabilities in the field of knowledge of the space situation and risk assessment in outer space. Threats from space are multiple and complex, including extreme phenomena associated with space weather, obsolete satellites that may collide or re-enter the atmosphere uncontrollably, as well as threats from asteroids and meteorites. The project intends to develop an integrated system for analysing and assessing outer space risks; such a system would contribute to increasing Romania's capabilities in the field by providing real support in the management of outer space related risks. The RoSSA system is based on integrating existing infrastructure made of optical sensors and radar, with national astronomical data processing capabilities, in order to develop a national catalog of space objects, as well as to develop a national re-entry service (RE). The RoSSA system will interoperate astrometric data with other data sources resulting from studies on the avoidance of space collisions, maneuvers on a satellite to avoid a possible collision event, space weather, natural bodies with potential risk on the terrestrial environment (NEO). The developed RoSSA services will be embedded on a web platform that will guarantee its integration in specific international networks, including in the current EUSST project of which Romania is part of and the future European Partnership for SST. The RoSSA project will have a relevant visibility on national and international levels, contributing to increasing the performance of optical and radar sensors in the EUSST consortium and to building the national catalog of space objects. This project also contributes to national and European efforts for space traffic coordination and management.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE UPGRADE FOR THE GENERIC DATA REDUCTION FRAMEWORK FOR SPACE SURVEILLANCE Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - Proiect de transfer la operatorul economic
PN-III-P2-2.1-PTE-2019-0554 2020 - 2022

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: GMV INNOVATING SOLUTIONS S.R.L.

Project partners: GMV INNOVATING SOLUTIONS S.R.L. (RO); UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC (RO)

Project website: https://ai4gendared.ro:49339/

Abstract:

Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) requires the development of observational campaigns to early identify Earth orbiting objects, estimate their orbital elements and monitor the evolution of their trajectories.

With a growing number of satellites being launched every year, there is an increasing interest in SST at worldwide level and especially across the EU. In this context, Romania is one of the few EU member states involved in such activities.

SST systems must implement an Image Data Reduction Subsystem, able to timely process the continuous exposures taken in an automatic and continuous way by optical telescopes, analyse these data sets to identify objects of interest (target objects) and retrieve accurate measurements of the apparent position and brightness of the detected objects. In the last step, the tool generates tracklet information for the identified target objects.

This proposal’s main goal is to upgrade GMV’s existing proprietary solution for an SST data reduction framework (GENDARED) with artificial intelligence algorithms for image processing, considered mature enough to be adapted to optical telescope imagery.

The consortium is led by GMV and perfectly complemented by the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, with a vast experience in machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms for image processing, and by the Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, as owner of SST telescopes, data provider and one of the tool’s possible end-users.

By integrating artificial intelligence techniques into the current GENDARED framework, we expect to improve its performance, reduce user involvement and computational costs, as well as increase pipeline autonomy.

The upgraded solution will be tested and validated in representative scenarios based on real telescope data, with the ultimate goal of converting the prototype into a product that will be validated in an SST operational environment.

INSTITUTIONAL CAPABILITIES AND SERVICES FOR RESEARCH, SURVEILANCE AND FORECASTING OF RISKS FROM EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC SPACE Call name: P 1 - SP 1.2 - Proiecte complexe realizate in consorții CDI
PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0266 2018 - 2021

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: AGENTIA SPATIALA ROMANA

Project partners: AGENTIA SPATIALA ROMANA (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE IN INFORMATICA - ICI BUCURESTI (RO); INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC (RO); ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO); INSTITUTUL DE STIINTE SPATIALE-FILIALA INFLPR (RO); INSTITUTUL GEOLOGIC AL ROMANIEI (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA PAMANTULUI - INCDFP RA (RO); INSTITUTUL DE GEODINAMICA (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC (RO)

Project website: http://safespace.rosa.ro

Abstract:

The project aims to develop competences and research capabilities in the field of space situational awareness. Knowledge of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) refers to the ability to assess the risks associated with extra-atmospheric space, that can be subjected to the biological environment, material assets and critical infrastructure.

As a member of ESA, Romania has been participating in the "Space Situational Awareness" Program since 2012 and from 2013 onwards in the European Commission's work on the establishment of the Support Framework for Space Surveillance and Tracking.

In Romania there is experience and achievements in the field of SSA, however, research, monitoring and forecasting of the situation in the extra-atmospheric space must be sustained, developed and materialized internally through specific services and products. At present, information and predictions about possible hazards that may come from space are incomplete or restricted, being taken from sources of interest that predict impacts on very extensive geographic areas, and their customization in national territory is only made for certain extreme cases, and in the majority of situations, effects being already in progress.

The development of national research, monitoring and forecasting capacities in the area of spatial knowledge knowledge aims at qualitatively and quantitatively stimulating the space research potential in Romania and strengthening its connections with European initiatives and the international scientific community. The SAFESPACE project will have a relevant international visibility, contributing to ensuring the long-term availability of national space infrastructure interdependent with the European one, facilities and services essential to the safety and security of the economy, society and citizens in Romania and in Europe.

Space technologies used in the management of disasters and major crises, manifested at local, national and regional levels Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - SOLUTII - 3 - Tehnologii spaţiale în managementul dezastrelor şi crizelor majore
PN-III-P2-2.1-SOL-2016-03-0046 2017 - 2020

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE IN INFORMATICA - ICI BUCURESTI

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE IN INFORMATICA - ICI BUCURESTI (RO); UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); UTI GRUP S.A. (RO); Ministerul Apararii Nationale prin Agentia de Cercetare pentru Tehnica si Tehnologii Militare (ACTTM) (RO); TERRASIGNA SRL (RO); INSTITUTUL DE STIINTE SPATIALE-FILIALA INFLPR (RO); INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC (RO); Academia Tehnica Militara (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC (RO)

Project website: http://spero.ici.ro

Abstract:

Disaster management involves activities aiming to organize and manage resources and responsibilities to minimize human and material losses. The need for solid, real-time information to support authorities’ intervention, coordinate humanitarian activities and remove civilian security threats requires the use and analysis of satellite and multi-source data as well as fast mapping methods. The overall objective of the SPERO project - "Space technologies used in the management of disasters and major crises, manifested at local, national and regional levels" is to create a support platform for the management of emergency situations generated by natural disasters, industrial accidents, humanitarian crisis situations or extreme atmospheric and space phenomena. The project focuses on building a complex geo-spatial database, visualization, processing and analysis tools; inventory of risk areas and existing and necessary means for the management of major disasters and crises; integrated situational analysis at local, national and regional level; facilitating the access to these informational resources to structures with major crisis prevention and disaster response tasks; substantiating national and regional initiatives and policies and initiatives; Integration and capitalization of national expertise in support areas such as geo-spatial sciences, geodesy, cartography, photogrammetry, remote sensing, astrophysics, optical and video data processing, security and IT & C. Successful implementation of the project will have a significant impact on the profitability of the economic agents involved by increasing the annual turnover based on the services they offer in the proposed system. The achievement of the proposed system produces immediate positive economic effects by lowering the cost of crisis analysis and management, real-time and accurate estimation of the resources needed to solve crisis situations, as well as subsequent monitoring of the situations and problems generated. The results of the project will be disseminated and exploited through specific activities by the consortium partners.

Centre of Competence for Planetary Sciences Call name:
118/14.11.2016 PNIII STAR 2016 - 2019

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC

Project partners: INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC (); ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ ()

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC ()

Project website:

Abstract:

Improving of ground-based validation techniques of satellite radar interferometry products over tectonic belts. Study area: Carpathian and Subcarpathian Prahova Valley Call name:
2017 - 2019

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DE CONSTRUCTII BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DE CONSTRUCTII BUCURESTI (RO); UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DE CONSTRUCTII BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website:

Abstract:

Our proposal falls under the European Space Agency (ESA) priority Earth observation and science research area, Science Program, aiming to develop new applications of ground-based validation techniques of satellite radar interferometry displacement products using Sentinel-1 data. Study area is the landslide prone Carpathian and Subcarpathian ridge of the Prahova Valley. The area is characterized by a high economic importance because it is a major Trans-Carpathian thoroughfare between the Balkan countries and the Orient. During the last century railway, roads, bridges and channel regulation and bank protection works were built along the Prahova Valley, together with oil, in-channel gravel exploitation, and water plants. In this research, InSAR analyzes (space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry) will be calibrated and validated by a complex research team using GNSS techniques and GIS slope modeling based on geological and geomorphological methods, Lidar and radar obtained DEMs. The short term results will be highly reliable interferometric measurements. On a long term, the results imply the understanding of slope dynamic in the context of major human environmental change. The latter achievement will offer the support to successful risk mitigation actions in mountain areas at national, European and international level.

Remote-control CCD astro-geodetic zenith device for determination of the vertical deviation Call name:
2017 - 2019

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC

Project partners: INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC (RO); UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DE CONSTRUCTII BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC (RO)

Project website:

Abstract:

ASTROZEN represent a scientific proposal dedicated to investigate and develop a technical solution for data acquisition for geoid modelling, using modern standards and theories, precise instrumentation and the latest accurate available data (high level data) from one of the ESA satellite mission – GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer). In the present project will be developed a CCD remote-control instrument for vertical deviation determination, which finally will allow astro-geodetic vertical deviation determination (Helmert deviation) for geoid modelling.

Developing the capacity to monitor and coordinate space surveillance, to predict the risks associated with the fall of the natural and artificial bodies in the atmosphere and the cosmos. Call name:
11 PS 2017 - 2018

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: AGENTIA SPATIALA ROMANA

Project partners: AGENTIA SPATIALA ROMANA (RO); INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC (RO)

Project website: http://argoss.rosa.ro

Abstract:

Constituirea unui sistem naţional incipient, denumit ”Sistem SSTv1”, integrabil treptat in context internațional, cu prioritate in sistemul de supraveghere și urmărire spatiala european. SSTv1 va avea misiunea de a fi la curent cu starea infrastructurii spatiale critice pentru Romania, a cunoaşte si evalua posibilele riscuri asociate reintrarii in atmosfera si caderii corpurilor din spatiu, precum si de a contribui la informarea publica sau specifica structurilor cu rol de interventie, necesare pentru asigurarea unui mediu social – economic stabil, in consens cu nevoile de dezvoltare durabilă a Romaniei.

CCD Astro-geodetic platform for real-time vertical deviation measurements Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - Proiect experimental - demonstrativ
PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2016-0225 2017 - 2018

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DE CONSTRUCTII BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DE CONSTRUCTII BUCURESTI (RO); INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL ASTRONOMIC (RO)

Project website: http://observer.astro.ro/vera

Abstract:

The main scope of the VERA project is to start a consistent observational program (which is expected to continue after the funding ends) for rigorous testing of a new procedure for astro-geodetic (Helmert) vertical deviation determination and achieve relevant information about the precision and accuracy of the procedure; in other words to establish the quality of the developed procedure. It is important to note that we already developed the procedure (instrument and method) and the first results have been promising. By procedure we understand the binomial formed by the instrument (measuring platform) plus the related methodology to use the instrument for vertical deviation measurements. Our procedure is new, both at national and international level, and respect several requirements clearly defined at the beginning and already achieved. In this project we propose: a) To evaluate the real precision and the stability of the developed procedure; b) Statistical testing of the obtained results within VERA project; c) The evaluation of the astro-geodetic (Helmert) vertical deviation accuracy: comparisons and statistical testing between astro-geodetic values obtained within the VERA project with values extracted at least from GOCE and EGM2008 global geoid models, as well as from terrestrial measurements by other techniques (GNSS plus geodetic levelling).

Identifying linearity/non-linearity in landscape evolution by integrating satellite-based radar interferometry and ground-based monitoring data. Study area: Bucharest Call name:
279/2013-C2-STAR 2013 - 2015

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (); UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DE CONSTRUCTII BUCURESTI (); OPTOELECTRONICA - 2001 S.A. ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DE CONSTRUCTII BUCURESTI ()

Project website: http://www.geodinamic.ro/geospace/despre-proiect

Abstract:

This research project aims to identify landscape evolution trends in Bucharest based on high-resolution interferometric ground displacement products, using single and dual-polarimetric satellite data. The results based on multitemporal InSAR methodologies (initially applied to ERS, ENVISAT satellite data and later refined using TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X satellite data), validated by ground-based monitoring data and conventional geological and geomorphological methods will capture the space-time evolution of the city. The understanding of these phenomena have long term theoretical and practical results in the context of climate change, offering the support to successful risk mitigation actions in urban areas. The outcome of the project will include validated interferometric-based ground displacement products in urban areas and a more effective process of interpretation of complex dynamics based on a holistic approach achieved by a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers.

Astro-geodetic platform for high accuracy geoid determination Call name: P5 Inovare - C2 2013
ROSA-216-C2-2013 2013 - 2015

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: Universitatea Tehnica de Constructii Bucuresti

Project partners: Universitatea Tehnica de Constructii din Bucuresti (RO); Geogis Proiect SRL (RO); Institutul Astronomic al Academiei Romane (RO)

Affiliation: Universitatea Tehnica de Constructii din Bucuresti (RO)

Project website:

Abstract:

Physical studies of Solar System bodies Call name: Projects for Young Research Teams - TE-2011 call
PN-II-RU-TE-2011-3-0163 2011 - 2014

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: Institutul Astronomic al Academiei Române

Project partners: Institutul Astronomic al Academiei Române (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: http://observer.astro.ro/astro

Abstract:

The only remnants of the planetary system formation are the minor bodies of the Solar System: the asteroids and the comets, true living fossils dating back from the dawn of the Solar System. Deep inside their structure, frozen in time, shielded from most destructive processes those early days of our Solar System are still recorded. If we can trace back their history then we are able to reconstruct the original physical and chemical environment from which our own planet, the Earth was formed and also to identify among our closest neighbors the stars were planetary systems are still forming today. Understanding the formation and evolution of these objects, their distribution, composition and physical properties is now the fundamental goal of the planetary sciences due to the implications in broader fields like planetary formation or the origins of life on Earth and the Universe. Within this project we will perform in remote-mode near-infrared spectroscopic observations of three types of asteroids: low deltaV Near-Earth objects (targets of space missions), primitive asteroids and rare taxonomic classes (like E-types). Observations will be carried out from the Remote Observing Center - a new facility developed during the project.

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