AIAD - Federazione Aziende Italiane per L'Aereospazio, la Difesa e la Sicurezza

e-GEOS, an ASI (20%) / Telespazio (80%) company, is a leading international player in the Earth Observation and Geo-Spatial Information business.

e-GEOS is the global distributor for the COSMO-SkyMed data, the largest and most advanced Radar Satellite constellation available today.

e-GEOS offers a unique portfolio of application services, specially thanks to the superior monitoring capabilities of COSMO-SkyMed constellation. It has acquired a leading position within European Copernicus Program.

Covering the whole value chain, from data acquisition to the generation of analytics reports, e-GEOS is working for big data analytics, based on the integration of different sources. This approach is one of the key assets of the new services and products offered by the company.

e-GEOS, provides Geo-information services such as monitoring for environmental protection, rush mapping in support to natural and man-made disaster, specialized platforms for defence and intelligence (braINT), Near Real time oil spill and vessel detection services for maritime surveillance platforms (SEonSE).

e-GEOS can offer interferometric measurements for, ground subsidence and landslides analysis, thematic mapping for city management, agronomy/ precision farming, cultural heritage, Inherent Defect Insurance (IDI) and forestry.

e-GEOS runs a 24h Centre for any kind of mapping needs: from the emergency mapping, in which European Copernicus Program (EMS) represents one of the main success cases to the IMINT reports for defence and intelligence in which Copernicus SEA is the latest example.

In support to its operational applications and activities, the Matera Space Centre represents a unique and advanced premise for acquisition, archiving and processing multi-mission satellite data, including COSMO-SkyMed, ESA Sentinels, Radarsat-2 and other missions.

Commercial Ground Station Network is amplifying the COSMO-SkyMed acquisition capabilities at Matera Space Centre. It has been realized and installed by e-GEOS around the world, to grant and provide Near Real Time access and services over specific areas.

The Matera Space Centre

The Matera Space Centre has been operational since 1994. It is located next to the Space Geodesy Centre of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), opened in 1983. Since 2009, the centre has been owned by e-GEOS.

The Space Centre is dedicated to Earth observation activities and also provides operational services for the Space Geodesy Centre.

The Matera Space Centre acquires, processes, stores and distributes remotely-sensed data from the main Earth observation satellites, and also produces images, products and services in near real time for maritime surveillance.

In particular, the Centre contributes to the design, integration and testing of the civil ground segment data of the Italian radar satellite constellation COSMO-SkyMed. It has provided operation and maintenance services since the launch of the first satellite in 2007.

Since 2012, the Matera Space Centre has been one of the four stations of the Core Ground Segment of the European Space Agency (ESA) to receive and process in real-time radar and optical data acquired by Copernicus (the European Earth observation programme) Sentinel satellites.

The Geoinformation Centre

To make the customers familiar with the use of SAR imagery and, at the same time, to provide an operational tool for running geo-spatial intelligence tasks, the Geo-Information centre offers:

• The immediate access to COSMO-SkyMed constellation data (User Terminal)
• The installation of a Geo-Information Centre for the exploitation of multimission satellite imagery (both optical and SAR)
• A knowledge transfer program, including training and on-site assistance to operations

The architecture of the Geo-Information Centre encompasses the full process of EO data management and dissemination of value added and geo-information products. A workflow manager simplifies the operations by supporting the sequence of value addition steps.

The Centre is modular in terms of application domains; both civilian and defence application can be managed with the necessary security levels.