22 March 2011 0930 AFFECTS KO Intro SRI

AFFECTS

Advanced Forecast For Ensuring Communications Through Space

PoC: Aleksei Parnowski

ІКД

Beneficiary #3:

Space Research Institute of

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

and National Space Agency of Ukraine

ІКД

Formal information

•
Founded on June 6, 1996 on the basis of the
Control Systems Division of the V.M. Glushkov
Institute of Cybernetics of NASU

•
Subordinated to the Division of Informatics of the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and to
the State Space Agency of Ukraine (formerly
NSAU)

•
Consists of 5 departments, 3 laboratories and 2
regional centers in L’viv and Kharkiv

•
~250 employees (~80 in Kyiv, ~150 in L’viv)

Research areas

•
Theory of automatic control of complex dynamic
aerospace systems

•
Solar
-
terrestrial physics and space weather

•
Space information systems and technologies

•
Earth observation and remote sensing

•
Microgravity science, crystal growth in space

•
Development and production of advanced
instrumentation, incl. satellite hardware

•
Astrophysics and cosmology

Major projects

•
Variant
,
Potential
,
Ionosat

–

Ukrainian space
experiments on ionospheric waves

•
Interball
,
Coronas
,
Environment
,
Chibis
,
Resonance

–

Russian
-
Ukrainian space
experiments on SWx

•
AFFECTS
,
POPDAT

–

FP7 projects on SWx

•
Estimation of agricultural crops on the basis of
satellite and in
-
situ data
–

JRC project

•
Flood monitoring systems for Ukraine, China,
Australia and Namibia

•
UN
-
SPIDER regional office and warning center

Aleksei Parnowski

•
Point of Contact for
this project, LEAR

•
Head of Astrophysical
Laboratory

•
Ph.D., Assoc. Prof.

•
Research Topics:

–
Kinematics of galaxies

–
MHD in space

–
Statistics, data mining

Vsevolod Kuntsevich

•
Honorary Director, Main
Researcher, President of
the Ukrainian Association
for Automation & Control

•
D.Sci., Full Prof.,
Academician of NASU

•
Research Topics:

–
Control theory

–
System identification

–
Information science

Oleg Cheremnykh

•
Vice
-
director, Head of
Space Plasma Dept.

•
D.Sci., Full Prof.

•
Research Topics:

–
Plasma physics

–
Controlled fusion

–
MHD in space

Vitaliy Yatsenko

•
Head of Remote Sensing
& Advanced
Instrumentation Dept.,
President of the Fund of
Molecular Cybernetics &
Informatics

•
D.Sci., Assoc. Prof.

•
Research Topics:

–
Information science

–
Lasers & nanotech

–
Inverse problems

Nikolai Salnikov

•
Senior Researcher

•
Ph.D., Assoc. Prof.

•
Research Topics:

–
Information science

–
Control theory

–
Numerical modelling

Igor Kremenetsky

•
Senior Researcher

•
Ph.D.

•
Research Topics:

–
Solar
-
terrestrial
physics

–
Plasma physics

–
Numerical modelling

Oleg Semeniv

•
Junior Researcher

•
Graduate student
(defense scheduled
for May 12, 2011)

•
Research Topics:

–
Remote Sensing

–
Space Weather

–
Numerical modelling

Anna Polonskaya

•
Engineer 2
nd

Class

•
3
rd

year student

•
Research Topics:

–
Space Weather

–
Numerical modelling

Thank you for your kind attention!

We look forward towards

fruitful collaboration!