ASI contributions to R&D Support strategy (Element 3) – Status update Laura Candela, Anna Rita Pisani, Simona Zoffoli SDCG-11 Session #3 SDCG-11 HCMC, Vietnam April9-10, 2017

ASI – COSMO-SkyMed GFOi R&D group satellite data requirements (El-3 v3)

ASI – COSMO-SkyMed Status of support #1 4 R&D groups have requested CSK data; Current status of COSMO-SkyMed support to GFOI R&D groups: Group #5: acquisitions are ongoing; Group #6: the license has been extended to Feb 2018, 22 new data have been requested; Group #10: waiting to be contacted by the PI in June 2017 to request data on Jul-Dec 2017; Group #11: waiting to be contacted by the PI for data request, last email March 31, 2017;

ASI – COSMO-SkyMed Status of support #2 List R&D groups your agency is able to support with data (new acquisitions and/or from archive) R&D Groups interested in COSMO-SkyMed data are invited to submit a proposal to ASI;

ASI – COSMO-SkyMed Data provision procedures #1 CSK data access procedures: Access to COSMO-SkyMed data is for research/institutional users; Submission of an R&D project to ASI for the exploitation of COSMO-SkyMed data; Principal Investigators of accepted proposals have to sign and return to ASI a “COSMO-SkyMed License to use” to obtain the data provision; ASI will provide to the approved projects a COSMO-SkyMed Request Form to order the products. The official COSMO-SkyMed archive is available at the website http://87.241.31.78/index.php by subscription. The “Open Call for Science” started on 25th February 2015, details for application available at the following link: http://www.asi.it/en/agency/bandi_en/calls/cosmoskymed_open_call_for_science Land Cover & Vegetation is among the primary application domains.

ASI – COSMO-SkyMed Data provision procedures #2 Constraints or limitations (e.g. scene/area limitations, data sharing, etc.) Depending on project requests, projects are submitted to approval; COSMO-SkyMed data can be shared only among users that have signed the same license associated with a project; Capacity for continued support during 2017 (and 2018?) ASI is currently supporting groups #5 and #6 until the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, respectively; Available to evaluate the support to the R&D groups in 2018;

ASI – COSMO-SkyMed Other information and points of relevance COSMO-SkyMed support on Forests