NOAA CESSRST Faculty Dr. Miguel Velez Reyes Receives grant for Space Research

Posted on November 23, 2018

Dr. Miguel Velez Reyes, NOAA CREST Faculty and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas, El Paso receives a $600,000 grant for research in remote sensing of space.  The project is supported by the Department of Defense under a grant from the Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions.

This is a three-year grant to develop data-driven approaches to identify and monitor unresolved objects in space using hyperspectral remote sensing. Dr. Velez-Reyes will be collaborating with James Frith, senior research scientist at the UTEP Center for the Advancement of Space Safety and Mission Assurance Research (CASSMAR) and ground-based measurements lead for Orbital Debris Research and Science Operations at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. 

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