Our Challenge

Remote sensing offers a new way of observing the Earth’s climate system with continuous and high-resolution spatial coverage through satellite-based, aircraft-based, or drone-based sensor technologies. This can significantly improve our understanding of climate change and its potential impacts at global, regional, and local scales. The data collected with remote sensing technologies can also be used to validate our climate models, improve our knowledge of the physical and dynamical processes of the climate system, and help us to project future climate change and its impacts with minimized uncertainties. This Challenge aims to plan a mission for a small satellite that is actually capable of flight that is built in one of the TUHH's Bachelor's programme. In this Challenge, addressing Master students, we will focus on: which Big Question could be answered applying an UV-sensor to the satellite? What needs to be considered once the satellite is in space?