- SAOCOM
- Mission
- SAOCOM Objectives
SAOCOM Objectives
The main mission objectives are to satisfy user needs in Argentina in the following areas:
- agriculture, fishing and forestry
- weather and climate, hydrology and oceanography
- emergencies
- environment and natural resources of land and sea
- urban areas, cartography
- geology, mining and territorial planning
- health
- To operationally integrate the SIASGE System, which consists of the Argentine-Italian SAOCOM Constellation and the Italian COSMO-SkyMed Constellation in order to implement a double band (X+L) SAR joint mission between ASI and CONAE
The main drivers of the SAOCOM mission are to:
- Support agriculture, hydrology-including floods and other emergencies
- Generate operative soil moisture maps
- Exploit SAR interferometric capability