ITALIAN DEFENCE GENERAL STAFF. The COSMO-SkyMed mission from the Italian Defence User Ground Segment perspective

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1 ITALIAN DEFENCE GENERAL STAFF II Department - Intelligence and Security Joint Centre for Satellite Remote Sensing The COSMO-SkyMed mission from the Italian Defence User Ground Segment perspective November 13 th, 2017 Col. Attilio VAGLIANI, Director UNCLASSIFIED

2 CENTRO INTERFORZE TELERILEVAMENTO SATELLITARE (CITS) Joint Centre for Satellite Remote Sensing UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED 2

3 COSMO-SkyMed Defence Mobile Acquisition and Processing Station (D-MAPS) UNCLASSIFIED 3

4 12 th January 1994 CITS Hélios established as an Italian national asset of the Air Force within the Hélios Program 8 th March 2006 CITS passed from the Air Force to the Joint Staff UNCLASSIFIED 4

5 Context and needs From a military standpoint: the international context moves fast and changes rapidly information must be precise and timely multiple sensors are welcome, to ensure redundancy, cross-correlation and crossvalidation (Sensor Fusion) Space is a strategic asset UNCLASSIFIED 5

6 Space as a strategic asset Defence Spatial Plan Areas of interest COMMAND & CONTROL POSITIONING, NAVIGATION & TIMING EARTH OBSERVATION Meteorology Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) SIGNAL INTELLIGENCE SPACE SUPPORT ACTIVITIES Human flight in Space Hypersonic sub-orbital flight Vectors Space Situational Awareness COSMO-SkyMed UNCLASSIFIED 6

7 Military Remote Sensing Remote sensing systems are part of the Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) domain, with the aim to: monitor potential areas of crisis perform strategic monitoring contribute to advanced strategic planning support the planning and conduction of military operations UNCLASSIFIED 7

8 Operational concept Intelligence cycle SERVICE REQUEST DISSEMINATION RANKING PROCESSING SATELLITE MISSION UNCLASSIFIED 8

9 CITS Institutional Duties at present management of the Italian part of the Hélios military system (optical) management of the military part of COSMO-SkyMed dual (civilian-military) system (SAR) application development for optical and SAR data training activities imagery exploitation technical advice for satellite remote sensing UNCLASSIFIED 9

10 CITS Institutional Duties in the future OPTSAT-3000 payload management (optical military national system), launched August 1st 2017, FOC 2018 management of the military part of the dual System COSMO-SkyMed Seconda Generazione (SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar), due for launch 2018 and 2019 UNCLASSIFIED 10

11 Current situation in Space COSMO-SkyMed and OPTSAT-3000 UNCLASSIFIED 11

12 Future Italian Military User Ground Segment Architecture CSO OPTSAT-3000 COSMO-SkyMed COSMO-SkyMed 2 Gen SFM SINAPSI UNCLASSIFIED 12

13 Sensor Fusion ELECTRO-OPTIC SAR UNCLASSIFIED 13

14 Optical vs. SAR: differences and benefits CSK has excellent Attitude Stabilization, offering better Geolocation performance UNCLASSIFIED 14

15 COSMO-SkyMed owned by ASI and IT MoD UNCLASSIFIED 15

16 COSMO-SkyMed constellation UNCLASSIFIED 16

17 CSK temporal performance Mean Data Take Opportunities (DTO) per day (constellation) Data Take Opportunities DTOs means Revisit Time UNCLASSIFIED 17

18 COSMO-SkyMed operational modes Response Time: Very Urgent Planning Asynch 18 h Crisis Planning 2/day 36 h Routine Planning 1/day 72 h UNCLASSIFIED 18

19 The COSMO-SkyMed mission for the IT MoD active sensor: constellation: all weather, day and night high revisit, low information age constellation: change detection, activity monitoring constellation and sensor stability: interferometry unique world-class asset: high value in cooperations UNCLASSIFIED 19

20 CSK applications in different scenarios: land damage assessment UNCLASSIFIED 20

21 CSK applications in different scenarios: land activity monitoring desert tracks UNCLASSIFIED 21

22 CSK applications in different scenarios: land activity monitoring desert tracks UNCLASSIFIED 22

23 CCD Coherent Change Detection Coherent Change Detection Gas extraction facility Sahara desert CSK acquistions: 23 & 30/12/2009 Examples of changes probably related to human activities UNCLASSIFIED 23

24 CSK applications in different scenarios: sea oil spill UNCLASSIFIED 24

25 CSK applications in different scenarios: sea activity monitoring ship detection UNCLASSIFIED 25

26 CSK applications in different scenarios: sea Additive primary colors 12 & 13 NOV 12 & 16 NOV ALL harbour monitoring 13 NOV.12 6 UNCLASSIFIED 26

27 Exploitation of optical open source + CSK 08/08/ /05/2008 activities under development 25/08/2009 Power Plant Construction 03/04/2011 UNCLASSIFIED 27

28 PS Permanent Scatterers UNCLASSIFIED 28

29 PS Permanent Scatterers UNCLASSIFIED 29

30 Radargrammetry 3D features extraction with COSMO-SkyMed h=275 m h=286 m h=275 m h=280 m h=275 m UNCLASSIFIED 30

31 Radargrammetric DEM COSMO-SkyMed DEM SRTM DEM UNCLASSIFIED 31

32 Interferometric DEM COSMO-SkyMed Posting: 10m Abs. Vert. Acc.: <10m DTED2 SRTM Posting: 30m Abs. Vert. Acc.<18m UNCLASSIFIED 32

33 IT MoD operational cooperation with ASI L Aquila earthquake April 06 th, 2009 Ground displacement in the red zone of about 20 cm Each fringe represents a ground displacement of 1.5 cm in look direction Geometry of the fault along which the Earth crust split UNCLASSIFIED 33

34 IT MoD operational cooperation with ASI Amatrice earthquake August 24 th, 2016 Same principle of the MapItaly cooperation: continuous acquisitions CSK acquisitions granted through the military programming chain UNCLASSIFIED 34

35 Current and future challenges SAR sensors are richer than optical ones: need for specific training use of SAR is target-related, i.e. angles & polarization = f(target) : mission planning and data exploitation need to be integrated use of SAR benefits from experience: On-the-Job Training (OJT) has proved to be a beneficial complement to theory classes UNCLASSIFIED 35

36 Future developments: CSG Continuity with CSK Continuous availability of data Same operational concept Same mission design One constellation CSK & CSG One Ground Segment CSK & CSG Duality & confidentiality Improvements wrt CSK Enhanced geometric resolution Enhanced geolocation accuracy 7-year lifetime Higher agility of the platform Lessons Learned from CSK Easier interoperability with other systems Human Machine Interface redesigned with users UNCLASSIFIED 36

37 Future developments: CSG UNCLASSIFIED 37

38 Future challenge: SAR polarimetry UNCLASSIFIED 38

39 SAR polarimetry UNCLASSIFIED 39

40 Future challenge: SAR polarimetry HH HV VV VV HH HV UNCLASSIFIED 40

41 Current and future challenges COSMO-SkyMed is a world-class System: excellent asset for cooperations and business opportunities new developments are possible with CSG, e.g. polarimetry: opportunity for investment to increase technical and operational value, especially in view of future integration with optical multispectral systems UNCLASSIFIED 41

42 Current and future challenges use of SAR is time-consuming and needs specific competence: need to automate time-consuming task and functions and perform training, both theoretical and On-the-Job data processing techniques are similar in the military and civilian domains: opportunity for «dual use» developments in SAR data processing UNCLASSIFIED 42

43 Future cooperations operational Stato Maggiore Difesa II Reparto Informazioni e Sicurezza Via Lepanto, Roma Stato Maggiore Difesa IV Reparto Via XX Settembre, 123/A Roma UNCLASSIFIED 43

44 Future cooperations R&D Segretariato Generale della Difesa e Direzione Nazionale degli Armamenti 4 Reparto Via di Centocelle, Roma Segretariato Generale della Difesa e Direzione Nazionale degli Armamenti 5 Reparto Via di Centocelle, Roma UNCLASSIFIED 44

45 a new dawn, every day UNCLASSIFIED 45