Manuel Salvoldi is a visiting researcher from the Remote Sensing Laboratory at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Manuel holds an MSc and a PhD in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. He has ten years of experience in the spacecraft industry, specialising in AOCS, flight dynamics, and command & control subsystems for Launch & Early Orbit Phase operational activities at CNES and Thales. Since 2014, he has also manager the Israeli Scientific Centre of the VENμS multispectral space mission.
Manuel’s research interests focus on developing, implementing, validating, and analysing advanced vision-based technology for current and future space systems. Specifically, he is interested in AI approaches for vision-based autonomous navigation, onboard image processing, and satellite image fusion. At the Φ-lab, he explores and validates AI methodologies for vessel detection using VENμS multispectral raw data.
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