“Landscapes of the Earth: a view from the sky. The Italian COSMO-SkyMed satellite constellation” – Photo exhibition, 16-26 April, 2018
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The Ambassador of Italy
H.E. Alessandro De Pedys
on the occasion of the 1st Italian Research Day
has the pleasure to invite you to the opening of the photo exhibition
“Landscapes of the Earth: a view from the sky. The Italian COSMO-SkyMed satellite constellation”
Monday, 16th April (16h00 – 17h00)
Warsaw University Library
Ul. Dobra 56/66, Warsaw
- WELCOME ADDRESS
- Alessandro De Pedys
Ambassador of Italy in Poland - Mateusz Gaczyński
Deputy Director of the Department of Innovations and Development
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland
- Alessandro De Pedys
- SPEAKERS
- Andrea Bellini
Head of Marketing and Sales Defence
Telespazio - Fabio Palamidessi
Program Manager Cosmo Operations and Expandability
Prisma and Juice
Thales Alenia Space - Marcin Górka
Colonel
Ministry of National Defence of Poland - Patrizia Sacco
COSMO-SkyMed Mission Engineer
Italian Space Agency
TBD
Polish Space Agency
- Andrea Bellini
- Q&A SESSION
A cocktail will follow at the end of the presentation.
The presentation will be held in English.
Free entrance
COSMO-SkyMed is a Space-Earth Observation Dual Use System developed in Italy by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) in cooperation with the Ministry of Defence. In its complete configuration, the system is able to acquire up to 1800 images per day of Earth’s surface. No other system offers this combination of imaging capabilities. The constellation consists of 4 medium-size satellites, each
one equipped with a microwave high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) operating in X-band, having ~600 km single side access ground area, orbiting in a sun-synchronous orbit at 620km height over the Earth surface. The Ground Segment is responsible for managing the constellation and granting ad-hoc services for collection, archiving and delivery of products to the users.
COSMO-SkyMed is devoted to provide products/services for:
a) environmental monitoring and surveillance applications for the management of exogenous, endogenous and anthropogenic risks;
b) provision of commercial products and services.
The driving Mission requirements for the constellation development include but are not limited to: capability to serve at the same time both civil and military users through an integrated approach (Dual Use System); large amount of daily acquired images; satellites worldwide accessibility; all weather and Day/Night acquisition capabilities; high image quality (e.g. spatial and radiometric
resolution); intrinsic capability to be a cooperating, interoperable, expandable to other EO missions, multimission-borne element providing EO integrated services to large User Communities on a worldwide scale.
The exhibition will be devoted to present a few results of the COSMO-SkyMed EO activity, which in some cases are as colourful and intriguing as contemporary artworks. At the opening event participants will have the opportunity to meet with representatives of the project’s main partners and stakeholders, and to elaborate with them on further opportunities for bilateral Polish-Italian cooperation in the field of EO and space research.
Published: 13 April 2018