1. 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

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

3. 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 March 31, 2017;

4. 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;

5. 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 by subscription.
The “Open Call for Science” started on 25th February 2015, details for application available at the following link:
Land Cover & Vegetation is among the primary application domains.

6. 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;

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