SATIM – Cooperation in IAP programme

Jacek Strzelczyk, Stanisława Porzycka-Strzelczyk

SATIM Monitoring Satelitarny Sp. z o.o.

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About SATIM

The SATIM company was established as a spin-off company at the University of Science and Technology in Cracow in 2012.

Our goal is two-fold:

1)To develop new methods of satellite EO data processing and analysis

2)To introduce the satellite EO potential to the market

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Areas of Interest

Research & Development

We are continously working on developing new data processing and analysingmethods dedicated for:

SAR radar interferometry

SAR radar polarimetry

Our work also focuses on

• Developing new applications for satellite and air-borne SAR data

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Areas of Interest

Applications

We apply the satellite remote sensing data (both radar and optical) for different environmental applications:

Natural hazards monitoring (e.g. movements of the Earth’s crust, landslides, sinkholes, floods)

Monitoring of Earth’s surface in mining applications (e.g. postmining deformations, impact of the coal mines on the environment)

Monitoring of the infrastructure (e.g. stability of buildings and constructions, roads deformations, urban monitoring)

Environmental studies (e.g. assessment of land cover changes or biomass)

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Our experience

As a scientists and enterpreneurs we have gathered experience in a number of scientific and commercial projects on a national and international levels.

Some of our previous and current projects include:

Pattern recognition-based decomposition for quad-polarimetric SAR data, financed by ESA under the PECS programme,

Earth Observation for Monitoring and Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Energy Use (EnerGEO), co-funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission,

Improving scene analysis from Multiple SAR images acquisitions, financed by EADS Astrium

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Our experience

We also took part in a few courses organized by ESA:

ESA Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing, 2011, Krakow

ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry, 2011, Frascati (Italy)

ESA Radar Remote Sensing Course, 2010, Warsaw

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SATIM in IAP

• We have experience in cooperating with ESA, but not within the IAP programme.

• As a specialists in one particular field (Earth Observation) we are open for cooperation with companies specialising in other space applications (e.g. satellite navigation, communications, etc.) to take part in ESA’s IAP programme.