Achievements and Perspectives of the COSMO-SkyMed Mission

  • Battazza F
  • Ciappa A
  • Coletta A
  • et al.
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In 2007 and 2008 ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana/Italian Space Agency)launched three out of four X-band SAR satellites of the COSMO-SkyMed(COnstellation of small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation)constellation, making available to the users a unique SAR constellationdedicated to the Earth Observation.The constellation will be completed with the launch of the fourthsatellite in 2010.COSMO-SkyMed is the largest Italian investment in Space Systems forEarth Observation, commissioned and funded by Italian Space Agency (ASI)and Italian Ministry of Defense (MoD). COSMO-SkyMed is a Dual-Use(Civilian and Defence) end-to-end Earth Observation System aimed toestablish a global service supplying provision of data, products andservices relevant to a wide range of applications, such as RiskManagement, Scientific and Commercial Applications andDefence/Intelligence Applications.The system consists of a constellation of four Low Earth Orbit mid-sizedsatellites, each equipped with a multi-mode high-resolution SyntheticAperture Radar (SAR) operating at X-band. The system is completed bydedicated full featured Ground infrastructures for managing theconstellation and granting ad-hoc services for collection, archiving anddistribution of acquired remote sensing data.The first and second COSMO-SkyMed satellites are in the operationalphase while the third one is completing its commissioning phase.The results coming from the utilisation of the two first satellites,after the first year of life, revealing an excellent performance of theX-band SAR and the importance of a fast response time in severalapplication as risk and emergency management (i.e., China's earthquake,Myanmar and Haiti flood), ice monitoring (reduction of the glaciers,Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegration), multi-temporal acquisition foragriculture monitoring, ship detection, interferometry, landslidesmonitoring, maritime surveillance and security, rapid mapping.A further step forward will be realized when COSMO-SkyMed 3 will beoperative, since the third satellite is positioned in the so-called``one-day interferometry configuration{''}, it will allow theconstellation to detect interferometric acquisitions with ade-correlation time equal to one day.The first COSMO-SkyMed Announcement of Opportunity for scientific dataexploitation will give the chance to achieve innovative and valuableresults using the COSMO-SkyMed data, products and services.

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Battazza, F., Ciappa, A., Coletta, A., Covello, F., Manoni, G., & Valentini, G. (2009). Achievements and Perspectives of the COSMO-SkyMed Mission. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium Proceedings, 41(3), 7–21. Retrieved from http://www.mendeley.com/research/achievements-perspectives-cosmoskymed-mission/

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