SPACE-SI - Slovenian Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies

The Slovenian Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies SPACE-SI has been established by a consortium of academic institutions, high-tech SMEs and large industrial and insurance companies in order to benefit from the advantages of small satellite technologies and applications in Earth observation, meteorology and astrophysics. The RTD activities of SPACE-SI are focused on high resolution interactive remote sensing and formation flying missions. These goals are supported by the development of an advanced RTD infrastructure that includes ground control infrastructure and satellite integration facilities as well as a multidisciplinary laboratory for testing of satellite systems and components in simulated space environments. SPACE-SI is currently also working on several concurrent system designs for different on-orbit platforms. On the application side SPACE-SI is developing and implementing a complete and fully automatic processing chain from raw satellite data to web-delivered map-ready images and products. For efficient utilisation of geo-located data a crowd-sourced dissemination platform Geopedia.si has been developed in Slovenia and in the last years thousands of data sets with several million data entries have been collected. SPACE-SI has applied this system to several real-life solutions including an advanced visualisation of real-time high-resolution forecasts of weather and pollution dispersion, a rapid estimation of damages due to the floods that occurred in Slovenia in 2010, detection of invasive plants in 2011, illegal dump site cleaning in 2012 and several other governmental and privately run initiatives as well as educational and research projects. More about SPACE-SI activities is in the brochure: http://www.space.si/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/SPACE-SI-brochure-2018-9-MB.pdf