@inproceedings{Chaves2025SystemEngineering,

title = {System Engineering Process to Design a Low-Cost Ground Station for Defense Applications},

author = {Antonio Hugo Saroldi Chaves and Jos\'{e} Carlos Silva and Christopher Shneider Cerqueira and Olympio Lucchini Coutinho and Renato Machado and M\'{a}rcio Martins da Silva Costa},

url = {https://www.sige.ita.br/edicoes-anteriores/2025/TRABALHOS/Artigos-com-ISSN/System Engineering Process to Design a Low-Cost Ground Station for Defense Applications.pdf},

issn = {1983-7402},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

booktitle = {Anais do Simp\'{o}sio de Aplica\c{c}\~{o}es Operacionais em \'{A}reas de Defesa (SIGE)},

pages = {241\textendash245},

address = {S\~{a}o Jos\'{e} dos Campos, Brasil},

organization = {Instituto Tecnol\'{o}gico de Aeron\'{a}utica},

abstract = {Space systems are composed of three Segments: Space, Launch, and Ground Segment. Although the first one is employed to achieve the mission objectives, a reliable ground station is a crucial resource for maintaining a mission in operational conditions. A Ground Segment can be implemented, considering higher or lower cost. It depends on the complexity of the desired system. This work aims to present a design process to implement a low-cost and low-complexity station, using Software-Defined Radio for receiving communications from space and monitoring signals from emitters on the ground. A simple use case employing Bifilar and Quadrifilar Helix Antennas for meteorological satellites is presented. Next, an example of an application in Electronic Warfare is presented, where the data fusion of data from space and ground emitters is suggested to provide geolocation information and identification through the d-interleaving process. The results show that a Ground Station can be developed with low complexity and low cost.},

keywords = {ground station, Satellite Signal Monitoring, Software-Defined Radio},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}