ROSA Network

SPACE APPLICATIONS

Space Communications

Cheia Intelsat Ground Station with two 32-m antennas, operational from 1977

Development of VSAT communications

Local dealers for systems as ORBCOMM, Globalstar, Iridium, ICO

Romanian Space Agency participation since 1998 in the telemedicine SHARED project initiated by the Italian Space Agency

development of the field is mainly driven by the commercials companies

Earth Observation

Applications for improving natural resources management, cartography, land use and the protection of the environment

International Programmes, as: CORINE Land Cover, MARS, PRIRODA, and MIRUVOS, ERS, ENVISAT
Imagery from optical and radar high-resolution satellites as Landsat, Spot, IRS, ERS, Radarsat
Satellite image processing algorithms
Studies on space imaging applied to forestry and hydrology
Receiving station for the NOAA-14 and NOAA-15 satellites installed at the site of the ROSA Research Centre
Receiving station for weather prediction and modeling at the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology
Crop Information System (CRUTA Remote Sensing Centre)
Centre for Remote Sensing Data (National Office for Cartography and Geodesy)

Space information and navigation systems

Studies on the precision and stability of satellite global positioning systems (Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy and Technical University of Civil Engineering)

Onboard GPS systems developed by the Institute of Research in Electronics Bucharest

Global Information Systems as a topic in the regular curricula

Second-generation satellite navigation and positioning systems (GNSS-2) university proposals for the European Commission Fifth Framework Research and Development Programme