Projects (with responsability)

BSENSED Project

  • Name: Digital twin from multi-sensor data for enhanced border surveillance and situational awareness
  • Funded by the FRONTEX Research Grants Programme, Call for Proposals 2024/CFP/INNOVATE/01, Grant Agreement No. 2025/276.
  • Consortium: Instituto Superior Técnico (Principal Investigator - Alexandra Moutinho)
  • Budget: 60 k€
  • Duration: September 2025 - August 2026

SONDA Project

  • Name: Synchronous Oceanic and Atmospheric Data Acquisition
  • Funded by the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) through the program "Scientific Research and Technological Development Projects in All Scientific Fields - 2020", Project PTDC/EME-SIS/1960/2020
  • Consortium: IDMEC (Principal Investigator - Alexandra Moutinho), UMinho (coPI Marcos Martins), IVAR
  • Budget: 250 k€
  • Duration: March 2021 - December 2024

Eye in the Sky Project

  • Name: Using High-Altitude Balloons for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations
  • Funded by the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) through the program "Projects for Scientific Research and Technological Development within the Prevention and Combat of Forest Fires - 2018", Project PCIF/SSI/0103/2018
  • Consortium: IDMEC (Principal Investigator - Alexandra Moutinho), ADAI (coPI Miguel Almeida), IT
  • Budget: 300 k€
  • Duration: January 2020 - December 2023

HABAIR Project

  • Name: Innovative High Altitude Balloon for Atlantic Observation: Fostering the Development of a Collaborative Platform for Integrated Aerial and Oceanic Research
  • Funded by the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) through the MIT-Portugal Program, Project MITEXPL/IRA/0140/2017
  • Consortium: IDMEC (PI - José Raul Azinheira, coPI - Alexandra Moutinho), Univ. Açores, ISQ, TEKEVER
  • Budget: 88 k€
  • Duration: September 2018 - December 2019

INCEPTION Project