The ITAREO Project: Sentinel and SIASGE Constellations for SDG Mapping

Monitoring the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs) calls for adequate methodologies to extract specific indicators of status for each realm (e.g., air, water, land) and socio-economic-environmental issue. Earth observation has been considered, since the beginning, one of the pillars of this task, but the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar is still limited. This work report about the results achieved by a joint research project between Italy and Argentina, whose goal was to design and implement data processing techniques able to exploit the data from the COSMO-SkyMed and SAOCOM constellations, in conjunction with those by the Sentinel constellation by the European Space Agency and provide country-wide indicators for some of the UN-SDGs.