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Aerospace and Electronic

Editors

Contributing Editors
Awards-Erwin C. Gangl
Book Reviews Editor-Darin Dunham
Conferences-Mark Davis
Distinguished Lecturers &
Tutorials-Kathleen Kramer
Education-Kathleen Kramer
History-Hugh D. Griffiths
Student Research-Wenbo Dou,
Federico Lombardi
Technical Panels-Walter Downing
Tutorials Editor-W. Dale Blair
Website Updates-Judy Scharmann

Associate Editors and Areas of
Specialty
Scott Bawden-Energy Conversion
Systems
Erik Blasch, Roberto Sabatini-Avionics
Systems
Dietrich Franken-Communications,
Signal Processing, and Data Fusion
David Crouse-Target Tracking
Mauro De Sanctis-Signal Processing and
Communication in Aerospace Systems
Michael Braasch-Navigation, Positioning
Giancarmine Fasano-UAS
Daniel O'Hagan-Radar Systems
Open-Astronautic and Aeronautic
Systems
Haiying Liu-Control System Engineering
and Robotic Systems
Michael Cardinale-Electro-Optic and
Infrared Systems, Image Processing
Ruhai Wang-Systems Engineering
Peter Willett-Multi-Sensor Systems

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IEEE

Editor-in-Chief-Peter K. Willett
Associate Editor-in-Chief-David F.
Crouse
VP Publications-Maria S. Greco
AESS President-Joe Fabrizio
Executive Assistant, AESS
-Judy Scharmann

SYSTEMS
m a g a z i n e

August 2018

ISSN 0885-8985

Volume 33 Number 8

COLUMNS
In This Issue - Technically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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From the Editors of the Special Issue on Selected Methods and
Instrumentation of Metrology for AeroSpace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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FEATURE ARTICLES
Proposed Landing on Europa: Instruments, Radiation Shielding,
Planetary Protection, and Mission
Kim R. Fowler, Stephen A. Dyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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A Cryogenic 0.35 µm CMOS Technology BSIM3.3 Model for Space
Instrumentation: Application to a Bandgap Design
Laurent Varizat, Gerard Sou, Malik Mansour, Dominique Alison . . . . . . . . 24
Use of a New Online Calibration Platform With Applications to
Inertial Sensors
Philipp Clausen, Jan Skaloud, Roberto Molinari, Justin Lee, Stéphane
Guerrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Artificial Neural Networks for Impact Force Reconstruction on
Composite Plates and Relevant Uncertainty Propagation
Giulia Sarego, Mirco Zaccariotto, Ugo Galvanetto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
A Remote-Controlled Platform for UAS Testing
Bartosz Brzozowski, Pasquale Daponte, Luca De Vito, Francesco
Lamonaca, Francesco Picariello, Mauro Pompetti, Ioan Tudosa, Konrad
Wojtowicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
UAV System for Photovoltaic Plant Inspection
Pia Addabbo, Antonio Angrisano, Mario Luca Bernardi, Graziano
Gagliarde, Alberto Mennella, Marco Nisi, Silvia Liberata Ullo . . . . . . . . . . . 58

NEWS AND INFORMATION
AESS Professional Networking and Mentoring Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
AESS Video Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Call for Proposals: 202 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society Organization 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Meetings and Conferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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