Research Council of Finland funds Sampsa Pursiainen's research
The funding will support the use of EuroHPC’s high-performance computing resources and the LUMI supercomputer in fields represented by Finnish Flagships. The aim is to support the development of a diverse future computing ecosystem and the expansion of computing expertise into new sectors at both national and international level.
The funded projects focus in particular on computational science and computational data analysis. The special funding by the Research Council of Finland is based on Finland’s strategic international partnerships with US and Japanese partners in areas such as digitalisation, artificial intelligence, sustainable development and the green economy. The aim of the partnerships is to develop international research excellence and new technologies, and to create jobs and competitiveness.
Exploratory Study for Radar Tomography of Dimorphos - the Asteroid Moon of 65803 Didymos
At Tampere University, the funding was granted to Professor Sampsa Pursiainen from the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication. The funding for the research project is 351 631 €.
ESA's forthcoming HERA mission to binary asteroid 65803 Didymos will include a radar tomography experiment which will be carried out by the Juventas Radar (JuRa) instrument of Juventas CubeSat. This project aims at validating full-wave inversion approaches for JuRa before HERA will rendezvous Didymos in 2027. Important part of the focus will be on utilization of high performance computing (HPC) resources. Namely, JuRa's relatively high diameter-to-wavelength ratio (DWR) necessitates that a leading supercomputer such as LUMI by EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is applied as the hardware platform.
“With world renowned experts of JuRa workgroup as collaborators, my research team will be able to run numerical simulations within the right DWR range, to manufacture high-precision analogue objects, and to measure experimental microwave data for those. These aspects will be brought together in an exploratory study in which will provide important information of the feasibility of the JuRa experiment,” says Pursiainen in his application.
