Provision of commercial imaging services.Other applications: Marine and coastal environments, agriculture, forestry, cartography, environment, geology and exploration, telecommunication, utilities and planning.Risk management applications: Floods, droughts, landslides, volcanic/seismic, forest fire, industrial hazards, water pollution.Defense and security applications: Surveillance, intelligence, mapping, damage assessment, vulnerability assessment, target detection/localization.
Sample applications of COSMO-SkyMed data are seen the following fields: The overall objective of this program is global Earth observation and the relevant data exploitation for the needs of the military community as well as for the civil (institutional, commercial) community. The COSMO-SkyMed program represents the largest Italian investment in space systems for Earth Observation.Įach of the four satellites is equipped with a SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) instrument and is capable of operating in all visibility conditions at high resolution and in real time. Telespazio is the main Ground Segment contractor responsible for the development of the control center for the constellation, and of the user's ground segments for acquiring, processing and distributing the data gathered by the satellites for civil and defence applications. Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) is the prime contractor of the end-to-end system and leads an industrial team of small and medium sized Italian companies including many from the Finmeccanica group. The contract was assigned to an Italian industrial team, that is in charge of the project development. The program is managed in cooperation of ASI and MoD. Spacecraft Launch Mission Status Sensor Complement Ground Segment ReferencesĬOSMO-SkyMed (Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation) is a 4-spacecraft constellation, conceived by ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), and funded by the Italian Ministry of Research (MUR) and the Italian Ministry of Defense (MoD), Rome, Italy. COSMO-SkyMed (Constellation of 4 SAR Satellites)
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