STRUCTURE AND ACTIVITIES

ACS is Italian SME, whose core business is focused on turn-key ground solutions for EO multi-mission payload data acquisition and processing systems, applications, and services in the last 30 years. Today ACS is renowned by national and international Space Agencies, Industries, Universities and Research Institutes as a trusted supplier, reputable competitors and/or reliable partners.

Technology forms the basis of ACS core solutions thanks to continuous technological research, strategic understanding of the market, hands-on knowledge and innovation.

The ability to develop complex systems (performing, scalable, modular, permitting future upgrades and evolution) is accompanied by effective project management compliant with ISO procedures and ECSS standards.

MAIN PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

Multi-mission Payload Ground Station uses common infrastructure with the addition of mission-specific modules to handle Landsat 1-7, SPOT 1-4, ERS-1/2, JERS, XSAR, NOAA AVHRR, MOS-1, Terra-MODIS, RADARSAT, ENVISAT, GOCE, CRYOSAT, ADM-AEOLUS, CRYOSAT II…data. ACS Ground Stations can be deployed as large, medium or compact configurations according to specific performance needs.

Functionalities, facilities, and tools can be offered as whole or separately e.g. monitoring & control, ingestion, processing (optical and radar instruments), enhanced user interfaces, mission analysis, and planning, web access to catalog, custom-tailored (scalable) archive, test data generation, calibration/validation, and quality control.

ACS is providing operational and long term maintenance support services for its ground systems

EO Applications for monitoring of vegetation, volcano eruptions, desertification; forest mapping, detection of marine pollution, environmental risks and disaster prevention, cartography and DEM production, urban expansion control in coastal zones, applied Interferometry, Web-based user applications, EO Image Information Mining.