Creation of the Governmental Office for Space and Aerospace Policies

In the context of Italian Copernicus User Forum and in the so called “Valorizzazione” working table, many meeting has been held to foster the discussion between institutions, industry and research bodies, to define the user needs, EO requirements in terms of demand and offer of EO based services, data or platform, to maximize the development efficiency of operational services and their impact on the market by involving the different players in different sectors.

In this framework, the Institutional user needs have been collected into a periodically updated (living) document, expressing their needs strictly based on the current legislation and permitting to provide indication and envisaging the development direction of national space-based services, including upstream asset to which the input data may derive.

A user requirements matrix has been built to define the technical characteristics of the services to be implemented and the data and relative remote and in situ sensors necessary as input to the processing chains. The public and commercial identified requirements have been integrated in order to permit the best uptake processes within the national and European space policies.