@Article{JúlioFo:2020:RaPr,
               author = "J{\'u}lio Filho, Antonio Cassiano",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Cubesat development for lightning flashes detection: raiosat 
                         project",
              journal = "Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management",
                 year = "2020",
               volume = "12",
                pages = "80--93",
             keywords = "Nanosatellites, Lightning, Atmospheric, Phenomena, Digital 
                         cameras, Systems design.",
             abstract = "Annually, severe weather phenomena are responsible for tens of 
                         thousands of deaths and tens of billions of dollars of damage 
                         around the world. In Brazil, unlike other hydrometeorological 
                         events, severe atmospheric events are random and, therefore, do 
                         not have a sociospatial pattern. Because of that, there is a 
                         significant motivation to improve the prediction techniques for 
                         this kind of events, using high resolution numerical models. A 
                         large amount of high-quality observational data is required, 
                         including lightning data in a very short-range. In addition, the 
                         detection of lightning flashes produced by storms is important for 
                         a wide variety of applications and in some areas of scientific 
                         research, which include the understanding of the human action on 
                         the climate and how the climate change can affect the behavior of 
                         storms in long range. One method to monitor the lightning flashes 
                         is the implementation of sensors in satellites to obtain data. In 
                         this sense, the objective of the RaioSat project is to develop 
                         national technology for detecting lightning flashes from the 
                         space, in order to complement the existing data from the ground 
                         detection network, BrasilDAT. The main objective of this article 
                         is to present a methodology for the development of the RaioSat 
                         mission including some parts of the preliminary design and 
                         operational modes. Additionally, the article describes the 
                         expected results and the continuity of the project and a 
                         preliminary analysis of a constellation for future projects.",
                  doi = "10.5028/jatm.cab.1161",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.5028/jatm.cab.1161",
                 issn = "1984-9648",
           targetfile = "julio filho _cubesat.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "19 abr. 2024"
}