Earth Observation Science and Technology
The Italian portfolio
Washington D.C., 14 November 2013
Nazzareno Mandolesi
ASI Board Member and President of e-GEOS
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The Italian Space Agency role
ASI was established in 1988, under the
Ministry of Education, University and
Scientific Research, to promote,
coordinate, and conduct Italian space
activities
ASI role and mission is to manage the
public resources dedicated to space
activities to:
View of the new ASI
Headquarter in Rome
•enhance the quality of life,
•improve the nation’s security,
•strengthen services and essential
infrastructures for a modern society,
•improve the competitiveness of
industry systems and services
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Historical facts
In 1964 Italy launches its first satellite San Marco A:
the third country in the world to launch a satellite,
after USSR and USA.
Origin of joint European effort in space.
Two great physicists
Edoardo Amaldi and
Pierre Auger after setting
up CERN (’50s) turned out
their attention to space (‘60s)
starting the European Space
activities with ESRO, which
merged with ELDO in 1975
to set up ESA
In 1967 operate the launching base in Malindi (Kenia)
active until 1988
Programmatic Lines
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Earth Observation capability of ASI
Earth Observation capability of ASI
MICROWAVES
SAR MISSIONS
MULTIFREQUENCY
APPROACH
INFRARED
• COSMO-SkyMed
(ASI/IMOD)
• SAOCOM
(Cooperation
Argentina)
• RADARSAT
(Cooperation
Canada)
•D A I C
(Cooperation
Japan)
VISIBLE
OPTICAL MISSIONS
with
with
H I
with
ASI CENTRE FOR
SPACE GEODESY
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HYPERSPECTRAL
MISSION
• PRISMA
• SHALOM
What is COSMO-SkyMed?
• Italian mission – dual use (Italian Space Agency - ASI
and Italian MoD)
• A constellation of four fully operational Synthetic
Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites in X band
• All lighting, all weather operational capabilities
• Continuity beyond 2020 (second generation)
Satellites on the orbit plan
CSK2
CSK3
CSK4
CSK1
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Orbit height:
Orbit inclination:
Orbits per day:
Orbit Cycle:
# of orbit per cycle:
Orbit type:
LTAN:
619 Km.
97.86°
14.8125
16 gg
237
SSO (dawn-dusk)
6:00 am
Acquisition Modes
Flight Direction
Swath
Resolution – std. prod.
HUGEREGION
WIDEREGION
100 m
(30 m. SL)
30 m
(16 m. SL)
Swath 200 km
HIMAGE
PINGPONG
Spotlight
15 m
1m
5m
(3 m. SL)
100 km
40 km
30 km
10 x 10 km
Polarization HH or VV or Xpol
HH or VV or Xpol
HH or VV or Xpol
HH/VV or HH/HV..
HH or VV
Strip length ~2,000 km
~2,000 km
~2,000 km
~2,000 km
n.a.
SCANSAR
STRIPMAP
SPOTLIGHT
Unmatched Revisit
• At least 4 acquisitions / day (@ equator):
– 1 left looking and 1 right looking early morning (Ascending,6 AM local time)
– 1 left looking and 1 right looking late afternoon (Descending,6 PM local time)
• The higher the latitude, the more the passes
Earth Observation capability of ASI
DEVELOPMENT OF PILOT PROJECTS FOR
ENVIRONMENTAL RISK MONITORING
Nowcasting
Floods
Air
pollution
Landslides
Fires
Earthquakes
Oil Spill
Volcanoes
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e-GEOS
• For commercial earth observation services ASI created
e-GEOS, a public private partnership with the italian
industry (Telespazio)
• e-GEOS strategic objective:
– To be a worldwide player in the geo-spatial information business
with an integrated offering of products, applications, solutions
and services
– Leveraging on COSMO-SkyMed operational capabilities
– Multimission Hub for optical VHR data
– Partecipating in major European/National Space Programmes
for Earth Observation (COSMO-SkyMed, GMES, MGCP, PST)
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What is e-GEOS?
Earth Observation Division
Divisione (contracts , staff
and ground stations )
COSMO-SkyMed
(operational, world licencing)
e-GEOS: Business Area
Approccio
multimissione
Ground Stations
Optical Satellite
VHR
Areal images
VHR Radar
Orthos
DEM
Thematic map
Images
Others
Management
and Operations
Asquisition
and images process
Data and e i
Standard products
GeoDataBase:
applications and
custom services
Solution & Services
e-GEOS Geospatial Portfolio
MARITIME
Oil spill
detection
Ship
detection
LAND
Base data/
Cartography
Thematic
Prod Serv
GIS
Platforms
STABILITY
Emergency
Services
Ground
Deform.
DSM
The famous Tucson aircraft cemetery
is not dead at all!
May 5
May 5 to
May 22
May 22
May 5 to
June 20
June 20,
2010
May 5 and
June 20
May 22 to
June 20
June 22
COSMO change detection for port activity monitoring
Color key
20110629
20110630
20110703
20110629 - 20110630
20110629 - 20110703
20110630 - 20110703
All dates
Landslides – Railways
The control of terrain displacements
are a key contribution to the
prevention and monitoring of
damaging situations like landslides
and subsidence.
Interferometric technique provide a
valuable support in the prevention of
damages to infrastructure and people
by measuring terrain displacements
Landslides – Railways
BENEFITS
– Identification of unstable
areas for prevention planning
(retaining walls)
– High density of measured
points (over 1,000 per km2)
– Regular alerts
PRODUCT
– Temporal evolution, over two
years, of the terrain mean
displacement velocity
– Monthly monitoring
– Proprietary PSP technique
– Millimetric yearly
displacement computation
Conclusions
• ASI activities on EO are focused on:
– Space Missions (SAR and hyperspectral sensors)
– Data Exploitation Projects (Disaster Management, urban planning,
innovative services): institutional and commercial initiatives
– Strategical partnerships at national and international level: National
Institute of geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), National reaserch
council (CNR), universities and centers of excellence
– S&T Cooperation activities: bi-lateral and multi-lateral agreements (
focus on the upcoming EU Horizon 2020)
– Multilateral organization ( World Bank, Inter-American Development
Bank )
• The choice of the right partner makes shorter way to the
solution
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