Territorial satellite technologies The NEREUS Network’s Italian partners’ experiences December 2011 1 Contents 1. FOREWORD .............................................................................................................. 5 1.1. Reasons behind and object of this document ........................................................... 5 1.2. Activities conducted for the monitoring procedure .................................................. 6 PART I – THE SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CHART ........................................................... 9 2. SUPPLY AND DEMAND RELATING TO SATELLITE SERVICES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NEREUS NETWORK’S ITALIAN PARTNERS .................................................................................. 10 2.1. Criteria adopted for the survey on the supply of and demand for satellite services 10 2.2. The chart of the Italian NEREUS partners’ satellite applications ............................. 12 PART III – ANALYSES AND PROPOSALS ...................................................................... 70 3. ELEMENTS EMERGING FROM THE SUPPLY AND DEMAND CHART ........................................ 71 3.1. Quantitative outline of the supply and demand chart ............................................ 71 3.2. Schemes identified as a demand needing to be met ............................................... 72 3.3. Projects in the “pre‐operational” stage and close to “end‐user needs” .................. 76 4. CONCLUSIONS .................................................................................................... 80 4.1. A few considerations emerging from the survey ..................................................... 80 4.2. For a brainstorming on the Italian situation ............................................................ 81 4.3. A working method for the future ............................................................................. 85 ANNEXES – FEEDBACK FROM PARTICIPANTS IN THE SURVEY .................................. 87 A. LOMBARDY REGION ................................................................................................. 88 1. Directorate General for Civil Protection, Local police and Security ......................... 88 1.1. Monitoring deformation phenomena (landslides, subsidence) .............................. 88 1.2. Civil protection goals for GMES applications ........................................................... 89 1.3. Identifying further needs ......................................................................................... 89 2. Directorate General for the Territory and Town Planning ....................................... 90 3. Directorate General for Infrastructure and Mobility ............................................... 91 4. Directorate General for the Environment, Energy and Networks, and the ARPA 92 5. Directorate General for Green Systems and Landscape .......................................... 93 5.1. Activities ................................................................................................................... 93 5.2. Needs identified ....................................................................................................... 93 6. Directorate General for Agriculture and the Regional Paying Authority ................. 94 7. ARPA Lombardy ........................................................................................................ 95 B. PIEDMONT REGION ................................................................................................ 100 C. MOLISE REGION .................................................................................................... 123 D. BASILICATA REGION ............................................................................................... 130 2 1. Department of the Council’s President and Department for Production activities, Enterprising policies and Technological innovation .............................................. 130 2. Basilicata Regional Authority, Department for Infrastructure and Public Works, Civil Protection Office ............................................................................................... 132 3. ARPAB ‐ Regional Agency for Safeguarding the Environment in Basilicata ............ 134 4. BASILICATA BASIN AUTHORITY (AdB) ..................................................................... 137 5. CNR‐IMAA .............................................................................................................. 138 6. TeRN Consortium “Technologies for Earth Observation and Natural Risks” ......... 142 The TeRN consortium’s remote sensing experiences via satellite and from the air for monitoring the environment ................................................................................................ 142 7. e‐GEOS S.p.A .......................................................................................................... 144 E. VENETO REGION .................................................................................................... 147 1. Information System and Cartography project unit ................................................ 147 2. DG for Safeguarding the Environment ‐ Satellite technologies for the territory ... 150 3. The ARPA Veneto .................................................................................................... 151 4. Logistics project unit .............................................................................................. 156 5. Land defence directorate ....................................................................................... 157 F. CNR IREA ........................................................................................................... 160 G. MILAN POLYTECHNIC ............................................................................................. 164 H. COMMITTEE FOR PROMOTING THE LOMBARD AEROSPACE DISTRICT ............................... 168 I. COMPAGNIA GENERALE PER LO SPAZIO (CGS) ............................................................ 170 J. SELEX GALILEO ...................................................................................................... 174 K. OTHER PROJECTS AND PLAYERS IDENTIFIED ................................................................. 176 3 4 1. Foreword 1.1. Reasons behind and object of this document This document was prepared to support the NEREUS Network’ Italian partners, coordinated by the Lombardy Regional Authority, in their survey of their experiences relating to the use of space technologies and the demand for them, with a view to preparing a position paper on the priorities and objectives, and the feasible strategic and operational actions for effectively developing Italy’s role within the NEREUS network and for practically sustaining the application of satellite technologies in Europe, and in Italy in particular. Consistently with the Strategic Document for Research and Innovation 2011‐2015, recently approved by the Council governing the Lombardy Regional Authority (DGR n. IX/2195 DL 4 August 2011), and in accordance with the position paper presented by the Lombardy Regional Authority at the time of the European regions’ consultation to formulate the new European framework programme for research and innovation, the purpose of the present document is to implement one of the first, strategic experiments in demand‐oriented public policy‐making. This approach aims to place the demand for innovation at the centre of public policies for scientific and technological research. This principle is based on the now established awareness that all the effort going into research activities and technological developments needs to become more effective in finding marketable solutions and products. All too often, highly‐advanced technologies (and patents) are developed that subsequently find no market applications because they do not satisfy a clear, explicit demand. While maintaining a strong focus on basic research, it has consequently become crucial to dedicate resources and conduct analyses designed to bring out the demand for innovation expressed by the market and the public administration (PA). The present document thus stems from the need to start organising and testing a working method, in cooperation with the Directorates General (DG) of the Lombardy Regional Authority and of the other parties involved, that highlights the demand for innovation coming from the principal areas of interest in order to orient scientific and technological research activities towards the generation of advanced products and prototypes that respond to the needs identified, involving the research and industrial systems in identifying the most appropriate possible solutions. In this sense, the aerospace sector is of considerable interest because has the capability to develop a broad range of technologies and services transversally applicable to several sectors that refer to the various Directorates General of the Lombardy Regional Authority (for Agriculture, for Security, and for the Environment, to name just a few examples). With this in mind, one of the main preliminary activities conducted by the Italian members of the NEREUS Network has involved monitoring the supply and demand in the sector of satellite applications. Specific goals of this monitoring procedure were: 1) to outline the NEREUS Network’s heritage of Italian origin, in terms of projects already underway; 2) to ascertain whether well‐established satellite data acquisition methods are in place; 5 3) to survey the working practices