Tomás Soares da Costa

Tomás Costa

Academic position:	PhD Student
Joining date:	01-03-2021
Roles in IT:	PhD Student
Thematic Line:	Wireless Technologies
Group:	Antennas and Propagation – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
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Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72

02-02-2023

Project MARES - Satellite-based microwave remote sensing for marine litter mapping

IT team is co-testing, in a project supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), how to monitor the plastic waste that accumulates in the oceans with satellites.

Scientific Achievements

Thesis Information

Microwave detection of floating marine plastic using machine learning, Instituto Superior Técnico, PhD Student, Tomás Soares da Costa, Supervisor: C. A. Fernandes, Co-supervisor: S.A. Matos, mar-2021 - out-2025

Publications

2Papers in Conferences

T. Costa, J. M. Felício, M. Vala, N. Leonor, J.R. Costa, P. M. Marques, A. A. Moreira, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, S.A. Matos, C. A. Fernandes, N. Fonseca, P. Maagt, Detection of Low Permittivity Floating Plastic Sheets at Microwave Frequencies, European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Florence, Italy, Vol., pp. -, March, 2023,
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M. Vala, J. M. Felício, T. Costa, N. Leonor, J.R. Costa, P. M. Marques, A. A. Moreira, S.A. Matos, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, C. A. Fernandes, N. Fonseca, P. Maagt, On the Feasibility of Using Passive mm-Wave Imaging for Marine Litter Detection at the W-Band, European Conf. on Antennas & Propagation - EUCAP, Florence, Italy, Vol., pp. -, March, 2023,
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Projects

Currently running projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
MARES	Satellite-based microwave remote sensing for marine litter mapping	ESA-ESTEC	04-10-2021	31-03-2023

IT Member Profile

Tomás Costa

02-02-2023

Project MARES - Satellite-based microwave remote sensing for marine litter mapping

Scientific Achievements

Currently running projects1