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3.4 DEVELOPMENT OF THE

EARTH OBSERVATION

2 016 PROGRAMME

ANNU AL REPOR T Tand ready for launch, is being kept on dination with TerraSAR X operators with

he PAZ satellite, which is complete
whom they will be working on this pro-
the premises of AIRBUS Defence and Spa-
ject. The collaboration of the staff at INTA
kaged and transported to the launch site.
been, and continues to be, extremely va-
luable for achieving high efficiency in the-
• ce in Madrid, in preparation for being pac- (the owner of the PAZ Control Centre) has
During this year, Hisdesat has focused its se activities.
HISDE S AT primarily on operational readiness. This Our second area of activity has been that
efforts within the Earth Observation area
has been done in two different ways:
of developing applications based on the
Training the teams of engineers who
—
These applications range from change
will operate PAZ so that entry into ope- SAR products the PAZ mission will offer.
ration will be smooth and fully functio- detection systems to subsidence analysis,
42 nal right from the beginning; control points and automatic processors
in the maritime ambit.
— And developing tools to help fully ex-
ploit the capabilities that this radar te- isdesat has put into operation a proces-
chnology satellite will offer users and sor for ship detection from SAR images,
customers. plus another one with the capacity to fuse
this information with the AIS (Automatic
To this aim, Hisdesat operations staff have Identification System) data provided by
worked on the development of proce- the Canadian company exactEarth. These
dures and routines that will facilitate the processors have been developed in colla-
operation of this satellite as well as coor-
boration with the Department of Signal
Theory and Communications at the Hi-
A Geoportal that will be operational at gher Polytechnic School which forms part
of the University of Alcalá de Henares. The
the time of the entry into service of the system not only displays an image with all
the ships, but also, as part of the product,
PAZ satellite has been created
the identification data of each ship, based
on the information contained within the
AIS system. At Hisdesat we believe that
tools like these will be extremely useful for
users of SAR technology Earth Observa-
tion data, which is why this kind of develo-
pment is of great interest for the future of
the company.

Also in the area of maritime surveillance,
Hisdesat has developed - in collabora-
tion with INDRA - an Anomaly Detection