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ICT & Aerospace Technologies

GMSPAZIO S.r.l. –Tel.: +39 335 5702 339 – Tel. +39 06 4555 2502 - Fax.: +39 06 4555 2501 e-mail: [email protected] – website: www.gmspazio.com - P.IVA 08473031006 Sede Operativa: via Stefano Longanesi, 14 - 00146 Roma (Italia) - Sede Legale: via Giuseppe Veronese, 90 – 00146 Roma (Italia)

Company Profile

GMSPAZIO started in 2005 to answer the strong demand coming from ICT and Aerospace

Markets, for solutions dedicated to 4Ds (Space plus Time) synthetic scenarios management.

Company operations are dedicated to help customers in complex simulation scenarios

management, and Satellite Remote Sensing sectors, offering Products, Services, Training and

know-how to develop customized Geographic Information Systems and customers’ tailored

applications and services.

Looking at Products, GMSPAZIO is the:

o Unique Italian Distributor of AGI (Analythical Graphic Inc) solutions:

• STK (Satellite ToolKit)

• NavTK (Navigation Toolkit)

• ODTK (Orbit Determination ToolKit)

• 4DX, RT3 and DSim (Real Time Applications’ Development Kits)

o Unique Italian Distributor of Orbit Logic Inc. solutions:

• CPS (Collection Planning Systems)

• UAV Planner

o Distributor of Very High Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing Images

Looking at Services, GMSPAZIO offers:

o Support to Design, Develop, Test and Deploy customized ICT Applications for land, sea, air

and space resources management

o Satellite Remote Sensing images high quality level processing, including: Georeferencing,

Orthorectification and DTM/DEM extraction from VHR Remote Sensing Satellite Images.

o Value Added Services for Change Detection worldwide using VHR Remote Sensing Satellite

Images. (More than 50.000 km2 processed, delivered and published on the web in 2007-

2008)

o Training on ICT and Remote Sensing and Synthetic Simulation subjects

GMSPAZIO’s main customers are (in alphabetical order):

� Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italian Space Agency)

� Carlo Gavazzi Space S.p.a.

� European Satellite Navigation Industries (formerly Galileo Industries S.p.a.) � ImageSat International NV

� MARSec S.p.a.

� Ministero della Difesa (Italian Ministery of Defense)

� NAMSA (Nato Maintenance and Supply Agency)

� Provincia di Benevento

� Regione Liguria

� Rheinmetall Italia S.p.a.

� Space Engineering S.p.a.

� SpaceToEarth

� Telespazio S.p.a.

� Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.a.

GMSPAZIO S.r.l. holds, since 2006 August 4th, the EN ISO 9001:2000 Certification for:

“Trade, training and technical service of software for management of information related to the

territory. Provision of services of data elaboration of territory and remote sensing. Design and

provision of consultancy services in the information field.” (Sectors EA 29a, 33 e 35)

(Dasa-Rägister, SINCERT, # IQ-0806-07)



AGI Analytical Graphics Inc. – GMSPAZIO Distribution activity

GMSPAZIO is the Italian distributor for AGI, Analytical Graphics Inc.

(USA). AGI offers, since 1989, a wide set of products dedicated to solve

customer needs in the following main areas:

� Space Superiority

� Communications & Electronic Warfare

� Geospatial Intelligence

� Mission Design Operations

� Space Exploration

� Range Safety

� Aircraft & UAV Systems

� C4ISR

� Navigation

� Missile Defense

AGI Products are packaged in the following solutions’ sets:

• STK

Satellite ToolKit

• NavTK

Navigation ToolKit

• ODTK

Orbit Determination ToolKit

• STK Engine

The Developers’ Platform (formerly 4DX)

• RT3 & DSim

Real Time Tracking Tool & Distributed Simulation

• Viewer

The AGI Viewer

These software are leader of 4Ds synthetic scenarios management, with more than 40.000

installations worldwide for the major players in the Aerospace, Defense and Intelligence

markets. The allow customers to run in several areas like:

• Radar analysis • Monte Carlo studies

• Optimization methods

• Attitude modeling

• RF Communications

• Coverage analysis

• Proximity Operations

• Orbit determination

• Maneuver planning

• Collision avoidance

• Missile Modeling

• Airborne/UAV modeling

• Real Time Operations

• GPS Navigation

• Sea/under-sea

• Mission Scheduling

• Weather Effects

• GIS analysis

• HLA/DIS Support



Orbit Logic Inc. – GMSPAZIO Distribution activity

GMSPAZIO is the Italian distributor for Orbit Logic Inc.

(USA). Orbit Logic offers collection planning and scheduling

optimization solutions for imaging, remote sensing, aerospace

and geo-intelligence customers since 2000.

Foremost of these solutions are STK/Scheduler™ and the Collection Planning System (CPS).

Introduced by Orbit Logic in 2002,

STK/Scheduler™ is a flexible scheduling

system utilized in spacecraft and aerospace

operations worldwide as part of AGI's Satellite

Tool Kit suite of tools.

The software allows aerospace professionals

to model their systems and perform optimized

operational scheduling and analysis - right out

of the box.

CPS is a customizable and scalable

operational architecture for imaging and

remote sensing satellites.

It utilizes a high fidelity user-specific

spacecraft simulator and sophisticated

optimization algorithms to produce a

collection plan that maximizes the quality and

priority of the desired imagery and data.

Available in a stand-alone workstation or

server environment for automated planning,

CPS can be integrated with any type of

spacecraft ground system.

Orbit Logic newest product, UAV Planner, offers

the means to automate flight planning and re-

tasking of UAVs as well as other reconnaissance

aircraft, plus many more unique capabilities.

Based on Orbit Logic's years of experience in

spacecraft operations and planning systems

development, Orbit Logic offers systems and

software development and engineering services

for collection planning and scheduling applications as well as for command and control

and flight dynamics systems



GMSPAZIO Solutions for Real time monitoring and Control

GCPA – GMSPAZIO’s COSMO-SkyMed™ Performance Analyzer The ultimate solution from GMSPAZIO to discover

COSMO-SkyMed™ Constellation performances.

GCPA is a powerful easy to use tool, offering precise

determination of the COSMO-SkyMed™ constellation

coverage characteristics. It relies on the AGI™ analytical

and graphical engine to guarantee both high precision

and intuitive simulation results display to the user,

allowing him to configure available satellites, looking

modes, operative modes and minimum ground stations

access elevation to fully customize his/her analysis. Copyright ASI/Ministero della Difesa

GCPA comes with different modules to satisfy any need

regarding the constellation’s performances determination:

� Single point analysis tool, that makes possible the analysis of

the constellation’s access epoch to any point in the world,

together with the response time determination based on the

assets currently available

� Area analysis tool to determine the constellation’s wide area

coverage performances, giving information about total

access, revisit time and time to next passage

� Ground station access tool, that lists the constellation’s

access to the ground segment, giving information about

azimuth, elevation and range of each planned passage

� Database manager, to easily handle the target and area

target collection available for analysis

GCPA offers a powerful workbench to analyze COSMO-SkyMed™

performances, its main features are:

� Orbital determination made through AGI propagators

� Dual propagation mode: real time and X real time

� 2D and 3D windows interface

� Response time determination

� Customizable sensor swath

� AGI and Celestrak databases available

� Quick database update with NORAD Two-Line Element sets � Powerful textual report output section

Either you need a powerful planning acquisition tool or a

mean to easily show COSMO-SkyMed™ constellation

works, GCPA is the right answer.

GCPA is available in two versions: Basic and Full.



GSC2 – Real Time Monitoring and Control System

GSC2 is an integrated solution for real time monitoring and

control of cooperative and non cooperative objects inside an

Area of Interest (A.O.I).

This image shows an example of this solution applied to maritime traffic control inside a sea basin of customer

interest, where all the cooperative vessels’ information are

acquired through AIS messages and non cooperative vessels

are revealed by costal radar sites.

GSC2 has been designed, developed and deployed using the

client-server paradigm applied into a multilevel server

architecture, to grant a reliable and continue Common

Operational Picture (C.O.P) solution.

GSC2 is based on AGI™ Real Time Tracking Tool

RT3© technology, and utilises RF and SATCOM links

to collect incoming data and distribute aggregated

information.

This application design grants a high rate of

performances and a reliable system up-time, together

with a friendly user interface, easily customizable, to

maximize monitoring and control capabilities, and to

facilitate related decisions’ processes.

Courtesy of AGI – Analytical Graphics Inc USA

GSC2 multilevel architecture offers the capability to deploy a distributed

control system able to operate both in standalone and in cooperative

modes allowing customers to rely on a true 24/7 operational system to

maintain a continue control of his A.O.I.

GSC2 allows to manage central and peripheral users’ profiles, defining

authorization and access levels for each

of the involved actors respecting the

existing rules and procedures.

The system offers also analysis and

reporting features to investigate and

trace any monitored object history back

in the time.

GMSPAZIO offers GCS2 in two different versions operative on MS-Windows and Unix (SUN

Solaris™ and Linux Red-Hat™) platforms.



SAT2MAP – GMSPAZIO Solutions from Very High Resolution Satellite Images

GMSPAZIO offers Value Added Products and Services derived from Standard and very High

Resolution Remote Sensing Satellite Images acquired by the following Space mission:

� EROS A - ImageSat International (VHR Panchromatic)

� EROS B - ImageSat International (VHR Panchromatic)

� ERS 1 / 2 and ENVISAT – ESA European Space Agency (Radar)

� Ikonos and QuickBird (VHR Panchromatic and Multispectral)

� Landsat 5 - NOAA/NASA (MR Multispectral)

� SPOT 5 - SpotImage (VHR Panchromatic and Multispectral)

� Terra and Aqua Modis – NOAA/NASA (MR Multispectral)

The solutions currently available are:

� SAT2MAP-2D Cartography updates from Very High Resolution Satellite Images

� SAT2MAP-3D Cartography 3D updates from Very High Resolution Satellite Images

� SAT2MAP-CD Change Detection from Very High Resolution Satellite Images

All the solutions rely on a clever mix of available technologies and legacy processing systems

able to extract useful information from a wide catalogue of Very High Resolution Remote

Sensing Satellite Images. GMSPAZIO offers, indeed, its expertise to process data coming from

several different types of Satellite Remote Sensing Images, both optical and radar,

panchromatic and multispectral, standard and very high resolution ones.

Example of systematic, geometric and geographic processing on EROS A image

(Courtesy of ImageSat International NV)

Image processing spans from radiometric and geometric corrections, to georeferencing and

orthorectification steps, producing deliverable data, always accompanied with ISO19115

standard XML metadata files. Especially for EROS A and B, two Sun synchronous satellites

acquiring images in asynchronous mode, GMSPAZIO developed specific processing algorithms

able to obtain very accurate orthorectification results. Processed data are delivered to the end

users both in standard and customized GIS environment formats, thus being available for any

kind of integrated and immediate further process and evaluation.

SAT2MAP-2D is the Service offered by GMSPAZIO to update

existing cartographic maps to match territory evolutions using

VHR panchromatic remote sensing satellite images

The example on the right shows an EROS B image (Courtesy of

ImageSat International NV & MARSec Spa).

The images used to extract these cartography updates allow to

generate detailed maps till to 1:2.000 scale factor useful to

highlight environment modifications and man made

infrastructures.



SAT2MAP-3D is the Service offered by GMSPAZIO to update existing cartographic maps

generating 3D representation of the territory extruding existing man made infrastructures

draped over existing DEM, using VHR panchromatic and/or multispectral remote sensing

satellite images

GMSPAZIO developed its own algorithms to extract 3rd dimension from a single image, being

able to produce real environment models, adding to the new generated or already available

DEMs, the information pertaining to buildings and anthropic infrastructures.

Left image has been

processed by GMSPAZIO extruding from a single

image, in real scale and dimensions, man made

infrastructure in Naples downtown; it’s possible to

see The Royal Palace (red building at center), The

“Maschio Angioino” Castel (Cyan building on the right)

and the “San Francesco di

Paola” Church with its three domes (gold colored) and

its semi-circular pillars promenade (white one in

the left part of the image) surrounding the famous

“Piazza del Plebiscito”. Images copyright of ImageSat International NV

SAT2MAP-CD is the Service offered by GMSPAZIO to compare and estimate the variations

occurred in a specific customer’s AOI (Area of Interest), producing change detection maps

accessible also on-line, through dedicated web portals.

The expected results are produced running a set of operational processing steps supported by

legacy algorithms designed and built by GMSPAZIO to identify, extract and validate

information related to changes occurred in a specific customer AOI. The following pictures

summarize these steps. The information extracted and validated are delivered to “end users”

both in standard and GIS formats as shown hereafter:

First image of user’s AOI Second image of user’s AOI

Analytic report of territory modifications (Images copyright of ImageSat International)

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