The COSMO-SkyMed support to earthquake events

P. Sacco; M. L. Battagliere; M. G. Daraio; A. Coletta

doi:10.1117/12.2067234

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21 October 2014 The COSMO-SkyMed support to earthquake events

P. Sacco, M. L. Battagliere, M. G. Daraio, A. Coletta

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Proceedings Volume 9243, SAR Image Analysis, Modeling, and Techniques XIV; 924317 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2067234
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The frequency and impact of natural disasters worldwide is constantly highlighting the need for quick and appropriate decisions from civil protection, always supported by the increasing availability of higher resolution, better accuracy, better revisit and response time data. With COSMO-SkyMed Italy has offered, and still offers today, an efficient response to actual needs of environment management during a high number of real emergency events, such as earthquakes. COSMO-SkyMed (Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin observation) is the largest investment of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) for Earth Observation (EO), completely commissioned and funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Defense. It is a Dual-Use (Civilian and Defense) system aimed at establishing a global service supplying provision of data and services relevant to a wide range of applications, such as Risk and Emergency Management. The COSMO-SkyMed constellation is providing a significant contribution to Emergency Management providing timely and accurate radar images used in a wide variety of applications such as earthquake damage assessment. In this paper the analysis related to the application of COSMO-SkyMed data supporting emergency response operations in case of earthquakes as well as the description of some real use cases occurred in the last years will be presented.

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P. Sacco, M. L. Battagliere, M. G. Daraio, and A. Coletta "The COSMO-SkyMed support to earthquake events", Proc. SPIE 9243, SAR Image Analysis, Modeling, and Techniques XIV, 924317 (21 October 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2067234

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