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Keynote: Antenna Research, Development and Measurement Facilities in Brazil: a Perspective from the Laboratory of Integration and Testing of the Brazilian Institute for Space Research

Monday morning, 13th April 2015

Geilson Loureiro

Brazilian Institute for Space Research, Brazil

Abstract

This talk aims at presenting the Brazilian efforts for antenna related research and product development in Brazil from the perspective of the Laboratory of Integration and Testing (LIT) of INPE (The Brazilian Institute for Space Research). LIT is the main one of the two laboratories accredited to test antenna in Brazil. The life of an entrepreneur who manufactures and sells antennas in Brazil is not easy, even more if the manufacturing depends on the development of the product in Brazilian lands. Beyond the high taxes and the competition with Chinese products, there is still the process of approval by the Anatel and the lack of laboratory infrastructure. Anatel is the National Agency of Telecommunications; it sets the standards for approval of telecommunications products to be sold in Brazil. Thus, any antenna used to transmit signals must be tested and analyzed in accordance with the standards before being placed on the market. Such tests must be performed on the third party labs, but today the country has only two qualified laboratories. One of these is LIT, which currently has a far-field system, but is working to acquire three new systems, two near-field systems and a huge compact-range system. This fact will allow the country to test large antennas, communications satellites and will increase the capability for development and approval of new antennas.

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Geilson Loureiro is the head of the Laboratory of Integration and Testing (LIT) of the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE) since February 2013. He is also Professor of Systems Engineering at graduate and undergraduate courses of INPE and ITA (Aeronautical Technological Institute), respectively, since 2003, being the founder of the Systems Engineering and Management program at INPE and of the Aerospace Engineering course at ITA. He is a member elected and re-elected of the Science and Technology Council of INPE since 2009. He was the first president of INCOSE BRASIL (the Brazilian Chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering) in March 2012 with a two year term. He had postdoctoral training in the University of Wurzburg (2011) and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004 and 2005). He is a PhD from Loughborough University, England, UK, in 1999. He got his Master degree from ITA in 1994. He is an Electronics Engineer by ITA, class 1987.

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