Telespazio Brasil, a subsidiary of Telespazio (Finmeccanica/Thales) has been awarded two contracts in Colombia worth approximately EUR 400 thousand, to provide COSMO-SkyMed satellite images to the South American country’s geographical institute. In the last few weeks, heavy rain has caused flooding in huge areas of the country, and led the government to declare a state of national emergency.
The Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC) has assigned Telespazio Brasil the task of monitoring by satellite the areas of the country most at risk of flooding, with the aid of the four radar satellites of the COSMO-SkyMed constellation, financed by the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defence.
Over the next ten days, Telespazio Brasil will provide satellite coverage of an area extending over approximately 65,000 sqkm. The images provided by Telespazio Brasil are acquired and processed by e-GEOS, the company established by the Italian Space Agency (20%) and Telespazio (80%) to sell COSMO-SkyMed data worldwide.
This is the first contract signed by Telespazio Brasil to provide COSMO-SkyMed images in Colombia, a fast-growing market in the Earth Observation sector.
