1. REMOTE SENSING GIS GPS HPC R&D Give us space, it’s our business . Dateci spazio, è il nostro mestiere

5. Give us space, it’s our business . Dateci spazio, è il nostro mestiere INNOVA & COSMO-SkyMed 1/6 REMOTE SENSING GIS GPS HPC R&D SAR ( Synthetic Aperture Radar ) technology is at the forefront of geospacial technology and provides the user with high-resolution images regardless of solar or weather conditions. Day or night, cloud or shine, the satellites can continue to monitor the Earth. 3 satellites are already capturing SAR data, which are being turned into high-resolution images for civilian and military use. Once the constellation is complete, it will acquire 1800 images a day. The COSMO-SkyMed Pro gramme is without a doubt the major Italian project in the space industry. It foresees a total constellation of 4 radar satellites for Earth Observation for dual (civilian and military) use. I NNOVA is and has been involved in various stages of the COSMO-SkyMed Programme. Our area of expertise regards the focusing of SAR data .

10. Give us space, it’s our business . Dateci spazio, è il nostro mestiere INNOVA & COSMO-SkyMed 6/6 REMOTE SENSING GIS GPS HPC R&D GSDView and SARWorkbench are being used to develop Change Detection, Moving Target Detection, Vehicle Velocity Estimation and Enhanced Spotlight Interferometric applications. Various techniques can be used to detect changes in a specific area under observation, some of which are quite complex. A very simple method consists in generating multi-temporal RGB (Red, Green and Blue) images in which changes in the scene result in coloured regions. For a human photo-interpreter it is by far easier to work on RGB images rather than on sets of gray-scale images. SAR interferometry (InSAR) is a very powerful technique that is at the base of a large number of applications: generation of digital elevation models, change detection, geophysical monitoring of natural hazards, for example earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides, and also in structural engineering, in particular monitoring of subsidence and structural stability. The availability of high resolution SAR data opens new perspectives for new InSAR technique applications and improvement of existing ones.

11. Give us space, it’s our business . Dateci spazio, è il nostro mestiere InterRisk REMOTE SENSING GIS GPS HPC R&D The overall objectives of InterRisk were to develop an open system architecture for interoperable, GMES monitoring and forecasting services for marine and coastal areas. This architecture has been implemented in a network of services for several European regional areas. The service is based on satellite data, in situ data and numerical models needed to monitor and forecast marine environmental crisis events. The network of interoperable services has been developed as a contribution to implementation of GMES. InterRisk is an FP6 programme named “ Interoperable GMES Service for Environmental Risk Management in Marine and Coastal Areas of Europe ”.

12. Give us space, it’s our business . Dateci spazio, è il nostro mestiere PR.I.M.I. REMOTE SENSING GIS GPS HPC R&D PRIMI , PRogetto pilota Inquinamento Marino da Idrocarburi , is a project financed by ASI that aims to realize an operative system for Oil Spill detection . The system will utilize satellite data to constantly survey coastal and marine areas. INNOVA ’s role is to develop a subsystem for the analysis of SAR data, in order to assimilate satellite data into forecasting models.

17. Give us space, it’s our business . Dateci spazio, è il nostro mestiere High Performance Computing REMOTE SENSING GIS GPS HPC R&D INNOVA is constantly in the look out for new technologies in the HPC sector, specifically any technology that is developed in response to the necessity of current web services to provide GRID computing and virtual organization sharing to give: “ direct access to computers, software, data, and other resources, as is required by a range of collaborative problem solving and resource-brokering strategies emerging in industry, science, and engineering.” ( The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations Foster I., Kesselman C., Tuecke S .)

18. Give us space, it’s our business . Dateci spazio, è il nostro mestiere Research & Development REMOTE SENSING GIS GPS HPC R&D INNOVA believes that research and development and personnel training are the winning factors of a company. To improve company know-how we have teamed up with various research organizations and institutes. Furthermore, INNOVA contributes with its own publications to major scientific events in the remote sensing sector such as IGARSS “ International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium ”. INNOVA is one of the companies promoting a University MASTER in " Technologies for Earth Observation " organized by the Politecnico di Bari, the Università degli Studi di Bari, the "Michelangelo Merlin" Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica and the Italian Space Agency (ASI).