The goal of this module is to familiarize students with the process of specifying and designing an observational
mission/campaign (e.g., a new satellite mission or a ground measurement campaign). This process includes the interpretation and
analysis of user needs and their translation to observational requirements, the high-level design of possible technical solutions,
and the evaluation of the expected observational performance with respect to user requirements.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
-Formulate user requirements that can be assessed based on parameter estimation
-Evaluate the principles and limitations of generic classes of observation techniques, observation platforms, and data processing
techniques
-Analyse third-party user requirements and translate these into system requirements of an observational system (mathematical
and physical)
-Design an observational mission to gather the requested observations
-Analyse results from an observation mission by estimating the parameters of interest, including quality assessment
-Reflect on the analysis results in relation to third-party stakeholders
-Contribute to effective group work and communicate orally and in written form on the project results at an academic level
