Publications

Here you can find our journal publications as well as the conference contributions.

Journals

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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).
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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).
  9. 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.
  10. Guillermo Álvarez-Narciandi, Jaime Laviada, Fernando Las-Heras, “Last advances in freehand sensing for mmWave imaging”, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Simposium (AP-S), 2022.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.