Mission
HITechSat-1
A rapidly integrable 3U CubeSat platform for flying new RF instruments.
Learn more →The Kim Lab at UH Mānoa · Radio Remote Sensing
Sensing Earth and planets with signals already in orbit
Project
FRAMES
Monitoring the ionosphere and magnetic field with Faraday rotation and dual-frequency radio.
Learn more →About
The Kim Lab at UH Mānoa works on radio remote sensing of Earth and planets. Led by Dr. Seho Kim, Assistant Professor at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology and the Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory, the lab develops techniques that use radio signals already in orbit — signals of opportunity, GNSS-Reflectometry, radio occultation and bistatic radar — along with the compact RF instruments and CubeSats that fly them.
Research
All research →Small-satellite missions
The HITechSat program and rapidly integrable CubeSat platforms.
Ionosphere & magnetic field
Faraday rotation, TEC retrieval and dual-frequency methods.
Signals of Opportunity
Reflectometry with existing satellite transmissions for soil moisture, snow and sea ice.
Planetary radio science
Radio occultation and planetary radar, including probing Jupiter's magnetic field.
News
All news →- 2026 Seho Kim joins the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology as Assistant Professor.
Recent papers
All papers →See the full list on Google Scholar.
Join the lab
Build instruments. Fly CubeSats.
Graduate students, postdocs and undergraduates interested in remote sensing, RF systems and spacecraft are welcome to get in touch.