Here you can find our journal publications as well as the conference contributions.
Journals
- Yuri Álvarez López, María García Fernández, Guillermo Álvarez Narciandi, Fernando Las-Heras Andrés, “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Ground-Penetrating Radar Systems: A review,” in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 66-86, June 2022
- María García Fernández, Guillermo Álvarez Narciandi, Yuri Álvarez López, Fernando Las-Heras Andrés, “Improvements in GPR-SAR imaging focusing and detection capabilities of UAV-mounted GPR systems”, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISSN 0924-2716), Volume 189, pp. 128-142, July 2022
- H. F. Álvarez, M. E. de Cos and F. Las-Heras, “Reducing the radar cross section while maintaining the performance of a coplanar waveguide-fed antenna with an absorptive metasurface,” in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Volume 54, Number 7, id.075302, 9 pp. 2021. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/abc20f
- M. García Fernández, G. Álvarez Narciandi, A. Arboleya, C. Vázquez Antuña, F. L. -H. Andrés and Y. Álvarez López, “Development of an Airborne-Based GPR System for Landmine and IED Detection: Antenna Analysis and Intercomparison,” in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 127382-127396, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3112058.
- Y. Á. López, M. García-Fernández and F. Las-Heras, “A Portable Cost-Effective Amplitude and Phase Antenna Measurement System,” in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 7240-7251, Sept. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TIM.2020.2977743.
- H. Fernández-Álvarez, G. Álvarez-Narciandi, M. García-Fernández, J. Laviada, Y. Álvarez López, F. Las-Heras Andrés, “A Portable Electromagnetic System Based on mm-Wave Radars and GNSS-RTK Solutions for 3D Scanning of Large Material Piles”, Sensors, 21, 757, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21030757
- G. Álvarez-Narciandi et al., “Freehand System for Antenna Diagnosis Based on Amplitude-Only Data,” in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 69, no. 8, pp. 4988-4998, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TAP.2021.3060082.
- A. Arboleya, J. Laviada, Y. Álvarez-López and F. Las-Heras, “Real-Time Tracking System Based on RFID to Prevent Worker–Vehicle Accidents,” in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 1794-1798, Sept. 2021, doi: 10.1109/LAWP.2021.3097136.
- H. F. Álvarez, G. ÁLvarez-Narciandi, F. Las-Heras and J. Laviada, “System Based on Compact mmWave Radar and Natural Body Movement for Assisting Visually Impaired People,” in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 125042-125051, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3110582.
- G. Álvarez-Narciandi, J. Laviada and F. Las-Heras, “Towards Turning Smartphones Into mmWave Scanners,” in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 45147-45154, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3067458.
- Humberto Fernández Álvarez, María Elena de Cos Gómez and Fernando Las-Heras, “Paving the Way for Suitable Metasurfaces’ Measurements Under Oblique Incidence: Mono-/Bistatic and Near-/Far-Field Concerns,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 1737-1744, April 2020.
- María Elena de Cos Gómez, Humberto Fernández Álvarez, Blas Puerto Valcarce, Cebrián García González, John Olenick and Fernando Las-Heras, “Zirconia-Based Ultra-Thin Compact Flexible CPW-Fed Slot Antenna for IoT,” Sensors, 19, 3134, July 2019.
- María Elena de Cos Gómez, Humberto Fernández Álvarez, Alicia Flórez Berdasco and Fernando Las-Heras Andrés, “Paving the Way to Eco-Friendly IoT Antennas: Tencel-Based Ultra-Thin Compact Monopole and Its Applications to ZigBee. Sensors, 20, 3658, June 2020.
- G. Álvarez-Narciandi, M. López-Portugués, F. Las-Heras and J. Laviada, “Freehand, Agile, and High-Resolution Imaging With Compact mm-Wave Radar,” in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 95516-95526, 2019, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2929522.
- G. Álvarez-Narciandi, J. Laviada and F. Las-Heras, “Freehand mm-wave imaging with a compact MIMO radar,” in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, doi: 10.1109/TAP.2020.3013745.
- Maria Garcia-Fernandez, Yuri Alvarez Lopez, Fernando Las-Heras, “Autonomous Airborne 3D SAR Imaging System for Subsurface Sensing: UWB-GPR on Board a UAV for Landmine and IED Detection”, Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292), Special Issue on Advanced Techniques for Ground Penetrating Radar Imaging. Volume 11, Issue 20, 20 pages, October 2019. Índice impacto (2019): 4.509.
- María García Fernández, Yuri Álvarez López, Fernando Las-Heras Andrés, “Dual-Probe Near-Field Phaseless Antenna Measurement System on Board a UAV”, Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220), Special Issue on UAVs and Remote Sensing for Infrastructure, Environment, Defense, and Security Applications. Vol. 19, No. 21, 18 pages, October 2019. Índice impacto (2019): 3.275.
- María García-Fernández, Yuri Álvarez López, Alessandro De Mitri, David Castrillo Martínez, Guillermo Álvarez-Narciandi, Fernando Las-Heras Andrés, “Portable and Easily-Deloyable Air-Launched GPR Scanner”, Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292), Special Issue on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar Theory and Applications. Volume 12, Issue 11, June 2020. Índice impacto (2019): 4.509.
- B. Wu, G. Álvarez-Narciandi, and J. Laviada, “Multi-Layered Circular Dielectric Structures’ Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Based on Green’s Function Using Non-Uniform Measurements,” Remote Sensing, vol. 12, no. 7, p. 1190, Apr. 2020. doi: 10.3390/rs12071190
- B. Wu, G. Alvarez-Narciandi and J. Laviada, “Multi-Layered Circular Dielectric Structure SAR Imaging Using Time reversal-Compressed Sensing Algorithms Based on Non-uniform Measurement,” in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, doi: 10.1109/LAWP.2020.3006991.
- Marcos González Díaz, María García Fernández, Yuri Álvarez López, Fernando Las-Heras, “Improvement of GPR SAR-based techniques for accurate detection and imaging of buried objects”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (ISSN 0018-9456). Volume 69, Issue 6, pp. 3126-3138, June 2020. Índice impacto (2019): 3.658.
- G. Álvarez-Narciandi, J. Laviada, Y. Álvarez-López and F. Las-Heras, “Portable Freehand System for Real-Time Antenna Diagnosis and Characterization,” in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 68, no. 7, pp. 5636-5645, July 2020, doi: 10.1109/TAP.2020.2978936.
- Humberto Fernández Álvarez, María Elena de Cos Gómez and Fernando Las-Heras Andrés, “On the Broadening of Single-Layer Metasurface Bandwidth by Coupling Resonances”, Materials, 13, 2063, April 2020.
- Fernández-Álvarez, H., de Cos Gómez, M.E. & Las-Heras Andrés, F. The challenge of modeling grounded metasurfaces: a new approach to obtain their constitutive parameters. Appl. Phys. A 128, 1005 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-022-06094-8
Conferences
- M. E. de Cos Gómez, Humberto Fernández Álvarez, F. Las-Heras Andrés., “Single-layer metasurface and antenna arrangement for wearable millimetre-wave radar applications.”, 12th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Torremolinos.
- María Elena de Cos Gómez, Humberto Fernandez Alvarez and Fernando Las-Heras, “Millimeter Wave Antenna on Eco-Friendly Substrate for Radar Applications”, 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Madrid.
- Humberto Fernández Álvarez, María Elena de Cos Gómez and Fernando Las-Heras, “Paving the Way for Suitable Metasurfaces’ Measurements Under Oblique Incidence: Mono-/Bistatic and Near-/Far-Field Concerns”, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2021.
- Maria Garcia-Fernandez, Guillermo Alvarez-Narciandi, Yuri Alvarez-Lopez, Fernando Las Heras, “Comparison of subsampling strategies for UAV-mounted subsurface radar imaging systems”, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Simposium (AP-S) 2022.
- M. Garcia-Fernandez, G. Alvarez-Narciandi, Y. Alvarez-Lopez F. Las-Heras, “Validation of a UAV-mounted GPR system for landmine and IED detection under operational conditions”, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing (SPIE 2022).
- A. Flórez Berdasco, M. E. de Cos Gómez, F. Las-Heras Andrés, “Polypropylene-Based Array-HIS Antenna for mmWave Imaging Applications”, 12th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Torremolinos.
- A. Flórez Berdasco, M. E. de Cos Gómez, H. Fernández Álvarez, F. Las-Heras Andrés, “Array Antenna with HIS Metasurface for mmWave Imaging Applications”, 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Madrid, 2022.
- Guillermo Álvarez-Narciandi, Jaime Laviada Martínez, Fernando Las-Heras, “Freehand millimeter-wave imaging system based on a highly-integrated MIMO radar module”, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing (SPIE 2022).
- Fernando Las-Heras Andrés, Yuri Álvarez López, María García-Fernández, Guillermo Álvarez-Narciandi, Jaime Laviada Martínez, “Prof. Sarkar’s contribution to Antenna Diagnostics and NF-FF Transformation”, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Simposium (AP-S), 2022.
- Guillermo Álvarez-Narciandi, Jaime Laviada, Fernando Las-Heras, “Last advances in freehand sensing for mmWave imaging”, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Simposium (AP-S), 2022.
- Guillermo Alvarez-Narciandi, Jaime Laviada, Fernando Las-Heras, “Impact of the Number of Transmitting-Receiving Channels on the Quality of the Images Obtained by a Millimeter-Wave Freehand Imager”, 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Madrid, 2022.
- Ana Arboleya, Guillermo Álvarez-Narciandi, Jaime Laviada, Yuri Álvarez-López, Cyril Luxey, Frédéric Gianesello, Fernando Las-Heras, Aimeric Bisognin, Diane Titz, “Phaseless Probe-Fed Antenna Measurement by Means of Flexible Freehand System”, 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Madrid, 2022.
- Guillermo Álvarez-Narciandi, María García-Fernández, Jaime Laviada, Yuri Álvarez-López, Ana Arboleya-Arboleya, Fernando Las-Heras, “Avances en sistemas portátiles para medida de antenas: sistemas manuales y embarcados en UAVs”, Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de RAdio URSI), Vigo, España, 20-24 sept., 2021
- Fernando Las-Heras, “New antenna measurement setups for non-accessible and on-board antennas”, semi-plenary session, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 22-26 March 2021, Virtual conference.
- Ana Arboleya et al “Probed-fed Antenna diagnosis by means of freehand and phaseless system”, IEEE International Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications, 15-17 November 2021, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France.
- G. Álvarez-Narciandi, J. Laviada, Y. Álvarez-López and F. Las-Heras, “Rapidly Deployable Portable System for Real-Time Antenna Diagnostics and Characterization,” 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2019, pp. 1689-1690, doi: 10.1109/APUSNCURSINRSM.2019.8889334.
- G. Álvarez-Narciandi, J. Laviada, Y. Álvarez-López and F. Las-Heras, “Impact of Sparse Measurements in Freehand Setup for Antenna Characterization,” 41st Annual Meeting and Symposium of the AMTA, San Diego, CA, USA, 2019. ISSN 2380-1840.
- G. Álvarez-Narciandi, J. Laviada, Y. Álvarez-López, G. Ducournau, C. Luxey, F. Gianesello and F. Las-Heras, “Portable, Freehand System for Antenna Diagnosis Using Amplitude-Only Data,” 2020 14th EuCAP, Copenhangen, Denmark, 2020. doi: 10.23919/EuCAP48036.2020.
- G. Álvarez-Narciandi, J. Laviada and F. Las-Heras, “Evolution of the Image Quality over Time for a Freehand Monostatic mm-Wave Radar Imager,” 2020 14th EuCAP, Copenhangen, Denmark, 2020. doi: 10.23919/EuCAP48036.2020.
- F. Las-Heras, J. Laviada, Y. Álvarez-López, A. Arboleya, M. García-Fernández and G. Álvarez-Narciandi, “Antenna Measurements and Signal Processing Techniques,” 2020 14th EuCAP, Copenhangen, Denmark, 2020. doi: 10.23919/EuCAP48036.2020.
- M. Garcia-Fernandez, Y. Alvarez-Lopez and F. L. Heras, “3D-SAR Processing of UAV-mounted GPR Measurements: Dealing with Non-Uniform Sampling,” 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.23919/EuCAP48036.2020.9135650.
- M. E. de Cos Gómez, A. F. Berdasco, H. F. Álvarez and F. Las-Heras, “On the Way to Green IoT Antennas: Compact Ultra-Thin CPW-Fed Monopole on Tencel,” 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2020, pp. 1-5.
- Humberto Fernández Álvarez, María Elena de Cos Gómez, Jorge Jiménez García and Fernando Las-Heras, “Artificial Magnetic Conductor key angular stability parameters for improving antenna performance,” 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting (APS), Québec, Canada, 2020.
- M. E. de Cos Gómez, H. Fernández Álvarez, A. Flórez Berdasco, F. Las-Heras, “Ultra-Thin Compact Eco-friendly Textile Antenna for IoT: Zigbee Application Example” 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting (APS), Québec, Canada, 2020.