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Planetek Italia
Company Profile
Established in 1994, Planetek Italia employs professionals who are passionate and skilled in Geoinformatics, Space solutions, and Earth sciences. Planetek Italia's core business is based on information sciences and space technologies applied to land management and space exploration. As a Hexagon Geospatial Platinum Partner, their strong expertise in Hexagon Geospatial technologies enables them to support customers with customized solutions and training courses.
Many of Planetek Italia’s solutions are powered by their Rheticus® platform, an automatic cloud-based geo-information service designed to deliver actionable information from continuous monitoring of the Earth’s surface, infrastructures, work sites, urban dynamics, or marine coastal areas.
Leveraging the Hexagon M.App Enterprise® solution, combined with Rheticus services, Planetek Italia has developed several industry-focused Smart M.Apps, such as: Rheticus Network Alert, Rheticus Wildfires, Rheticus Aquaculture, Rheticus Bridge Alert, Rheticus Railways, and Rheticus Infrastructure Alert.
Areas Served
- Italy
- Malta
- San Marino
- Vatican City
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Within these industries, Planetek Italia develops solutions for the observation of the Earth with remote sensing data from satellites, aircraft, and drones. They maintain space system software to exploit Earth observation and Planetary Exploration missions such as European Remote-Sensing Satellite (ERS), Envisat, COSMO-SkyMed, Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Planck, and the upcoming Solar Orbiter launch.
Expertise
- Better understanding of the world. Planetek Italia simplifies the adoption of geospatial data in order to understand the world better, enabling people to act in an aware and timely manner to make smart decisions and help preserve the Earth.
- Innovative and sustainable solutions. The adoption of Strategic Design (Design Thinking) through Agile and Dev-ops methodologies lets Planetek Italia satisfy their users' needs in creative ways that maximize benefits.
- Dependability. Since 1994, Planetek Italia has provided solutions to exploit the value of geospatial data through all phases of data life cycle, from acquisition, storage, and management, to analysis and sharing.
- Broad areas of knowledge. Planetek Italia operates in many application areas ranging from environmental and land monitoring to open-government and smart cities, also including defense and security, as well as scientific missions and planetary exploration.
Automated Monitoring of Water Networks and Ground Surface Movements
Identifying where leaks in underground pipelines occur is a vital and expensive task. Satellite radar technology can give a good predictive indicator by measuring where the ground is subsiding around the pipelines. Although this technology is functional and the data is widely available, understanding and processing radar data requires specialized training and knowledge.
Planetek Italia built Rheticus Network Alert on the Hexagon Smart M.App platform, combining Smart M.App technology with the monitoring services available through Rheticus. These combined services let the end user automate complicated radar data processing, perform wide area monitoring, and deliver an automated information service to municipal bodies, helping them pinpoint where leaks are most likely to occur and prioritize their response teams.
See Rheticus® Network Alert in action:
This Smart M.App is available on the Hexagon Geospatial M.App Exchange: Rheticus Network Alert
A Geospatial Solution for Crime Reduction
SIMP Canosa is an integrated service for the monitoring and prevention of urban and environmental crimes. Developed by Planetek Italia and Intergraph Italia LLC, the solution allows for analysis and control of urbanization and the impact of other human activities in urban and extra-urban areas in the Municipality of Canosa di Puglia, Italy.
SIMP Canosa combines satellite imagery, sensors, cameras, and citizen reports with geospatial intelligence to give officials and the police a synopsis of crime phenomena in their areas so they can process information and identify priorities. All of this is done in a very short time, enabling quick actions and effective interventions. The solution is based on Hexagon Geospatial software, base maps, Earth observation data collected on a regular basis, and external information sources, such as the Information System for the Environmental Protection of the Italian Police.
Users can create and maintain digital geolocated dossiers related to environmental crimes. The entire system operates from a control panel that connects to municipal surveillance systems. Video streams from security cameras are captured and managed on a map, enabling storage and archiving of geotagged images noting the moment the crime was perpetrated.
More information on SIMP Canosa.
Multisource 3D Imagery Intelligence Improves Targeting Operations
Getting maximum detail from imagery and geoinformation data is crucial for imagery intelligence activities. To increase the amount of intelligence gleaned from such data, the Italian Armed Forces is working with Planetek Italia on the 3D IMINT project, which supports their targeting operational activities with extensive and innovative uses of remote sensing data and new generation elaboration algorithms.
The project’s solution, designed by Planetek Italia, uses Hexagon Geospatial’s ERDAS IMAGINE Professional, IMAGINE Expansion Pack, and SAR Interferometry add-on solutions. Within the 3D IMINT solution, workflows merge features extracted from SAR data to corresponding optical images to create a fused image that provides a more complete real-time view. The workflows then superimpose changes between SAR images acquired before and after an event onto optical images to assess changes caused by the events.
This optimized, real-time view proves a significant improvement in the accuracy of target recognition and classification.
More information on 3D IMINT.
Need More Information?
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Rheticus: Monitoring the Evolution of Our Earth
Massimo Zotti of Planetek Italia details how Rheticus Network Alert helps monitor the integrity of water and sewer networks.
A Simple Answer to a Complicated Subsidence Problem
Rheticus Displacement simplifies analysis of satellite radar data so city leaders can easily determine land subsidence, which can indicate water network leaks.