COSMO-SkyMed Program: Utilization and Description of an Advanced Space EO Dual-Use Asset
- Paper number
IAC-07-B1.2.02
- Author
Mr. Alessandro Coletta, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Giuseppe Angino, Alcatel Alenia Space Italia, Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Fabrizio Battazza, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Francesco Caltagirone, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Fabrizio Impagniatiello, Alcatel Alenia Space Italia, Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Giovanni Valentini, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Arnaldo Capuzi, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Sandro Fagioli, Alcatel Alenia Space Italia, Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Roberto Leonardi, Italy
- Year
2007
- Abstract
COSMO-SkyMed (COnstellation of small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation) is the largest Italian investment in Space Systems for Earth Observation, commissioned and funded by Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Italian Ministry of Defense (MoD), and it is “natively” conceived as a Dual-Use (Civilian and Defence) end-to-end Earth Observation System aimed to establish a global service supplying provision of data, products and services compliant with well-established international standards and relevant to a wide range of applications, such as Risk Management, Scientific and Commercial Applications and Defence/Intelligence Applications. The system consists of a constellation of four Low Earth Orbit mid-sized satellites, each equipped with a multi-mode high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) operating at X-band and fitted with particularly flexible and innovative data acquisition and transmission equipment. The system is completed by dedicated full featured Ground infrastructures for managing the constellation and granting ad-hoc services for collection, archiving and distribution of acquired remote sensing data. COSMO-SkyMed Mission offers today an efficient response to actual needs of Earth Observation Market providing an asset characterized by full global coverage, all weather, day/night acquisition capability, higher resolution, higher accuracy (geo-location, radiometry, etc.), superior image quality, fast revisit/response time, interferometric/polarimetric capabilities and quicker-and-easier ordering and delivery of data, products and services. The COSMO-SkyMed is a highly innovative system which strongly pursues a Multi Mission approach thanks to its intrinsic Inter-operability with other EO missions and Expandability towards other possible partners with different sensors typologies to implement an integrated space-based system providing Earth Observation integrated services to large User Communities and Partner Countries (IEM capability). Examples are the actual cases which ASI is currently carrying on through international cooperation programs such as ORFEO with France and SIASGE with Argentina. These features designate COSMO-SkyMed as a system capable to provide “Institutional Awareness” in order to make proper decisions in preventing and managing world-wide crisis. In a Dual-Use environment, particular emphasis has to be put on Dual-Use Mission Planning functionality in order to optimize system utilization and fulfilling at the same time different user classes needs: an insight into the peculiar characteristics of the COSMO-SkyMed Dual-Use Mission Planning and the technical methodology approach to the sharing of System Resources in a Multi-User setting is provided. The launch of the first COSMO-SkyMed satellite is foreseen for the first semester of 2007. The remaining 3 satellites will be gradually deployed by the end of 2009.
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