COSMO-SkyMed: The Dual-Use Component of a Geospatial System for Environment and Security

Author

Lazzaro, Massimo Di ; Angino, Giuseppe ; Piemontese, Matteo ; Capuzi, Arnaldo ; Leonardi, Roberto

Author_Institution

Thales Alenia Space Italia, Rome

fYear

2008

fDate

1-8 March 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

A new consciousness of national security is spreading worldwide, due to the imperative necessity to guarantee the safety of citizens and the integrity of strategic infrastructures and services, counteracting against hidden, less predictable, and lethal threats stemming from regional conflicts, organized crime, and terrorism. Also, security involves not only Defence, but also several civilian institutional entities, such as police forces, magistrate, civilian protection, coast guards, etc. These new political scenarii of multi-national cooperation require state-of-art technologies and global systems of surveillance and protection.

Keywords

aerospace safety; national security; safety systems; surveillance; COSMO-SkyMed; civilian institutional entities; environment; geospatial system; lethal threats; multinational cooperation; national security; safety; strategic infrastructures; surveillance; Earth; Monitoring; National security; Protection; Safety; Satellites; Space technology; Surveillance; Synthetic aperture radar; Terrorism;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2008 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1487-1

Electronic_ISBN

1095-323X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2008.4526278

Filename

4526278