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Karim Mellab
Researcher at European Space Research and Technology Centre
Publications - 12
Citations - 364
Karim Mellab is an academic researcher from European Space Research and Technology Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Asteroid & Payload. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 12 publications receiving 266 citations.
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European component of the AIDA mission to a binary asteroid: Characterization and interpretation of the impact of the DART mission
Patrick Michel,Michael Kueppers,Holger Sierks,Ian Carnelli,Andy F. Cheng,Karim Mellab,Mikael Granvik,Antti Kestilä,Tomas Kohout,Karri Muinonen,Antti Näsilä,Antti Penttilä,Tuomas Tikka,Paolo Tortora,Valérie Ciarletti,Alain Herique,Naomi Murdoch,Erik Asphaug,Andrew S. Rivkin,Olivier S. Barnouin,Adriano Campo Bagatin,Petr Pravec,Derek C. Richardson,Stephen R. Schwartz,Kleomenis Tsiganis,Stephan Ulamec,Özgür Karatekin +26 more
TL;DR: Hera will investigate the smallest asteroid visited so far, providing a unique opportunity to shed light on the role cohesion and Van der Waals forces may play in the formation and resulting internal structure of such small bodies.
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PROBA-V mission for global vegetation monitoring: standard products and image quality
Wouter Dierckx,Sindy Sterckx,Iskander Benhadj,Stefan Livens,Geert Duhoux,Tanja Van Achteren,Michael Francois,Karim Mellab,Gilbert Saint +8 more
TL;DR: PROBA-V as mentioned in this paper is a new global vegetation monitoring mission, to be launched in the second quarter of 2013, with an improved spatial resolution of 1/3 km. But the performance of the mission is limited by the spectral bands.
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The PROBA-V mission: image processing and calibration
Sindy Sterckx,Iskander Benhadj,Geert Duhoux,Stefan Livens,Wouter Dierckx,Erwin Goor,Stefan Adriaensen,Walter Heyns,Kris Van Hoof,Gert Strackx,Kris Nackaerts,Ils Reusen,Tanja Van Achteren,Jan Dries,Tom Van Roey,Karim Mellab,Riccardo Duca,Joe Zender +17 more
TL;DR: Some specific design characteristics, which impose some challenges for data processing and calibration of the PROBA-V platform and instrument design characteristics are focused on.
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The PROBA-V mission: the space segment
TL;DR: PROBA-V (Project for On-Board Autonomy - Vegetation) is an ESA (European Space Agency) mission developed within the framework of the Agency's General Support Technology Programme (GSTP) devoted to the observation of the Earth's vegetation, providing data continuity with the SPOT (Satellite pour l’Observation de la Terre) 4 and 5 VEGETATION payloads as a gap-filler to the ESA Sentinel-3 mission as mentioned in this paper.
Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM): The European Component of the AIDA Space Project
TL;DR: In this paper, the AIM team, Lagrange Laboratory, Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur (ODA), CNRS (CS 34229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France; michelp@oca.eu), 2 European Space Agency (ESA), European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) (P.O. Box, 78, E-28691 Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain),European Space Agency(ESA) Headquarters, (8