The deal will combine the high revisit frequency, resolution and wide coverage offered by the First and Second Generation COSMO-SkyMed satellites – a SAR program of the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defense for which e-GEOS is the exclusive licensee of data for commercial users – with Umbra’s agile SAR constellation and imagery. In doing so, Umbra and e-GEOS will deliver unprecedented global coverage, giving users faster, more precise, and more reliable situational awareness in any condition, day or night. Additionally, e-GEOS will apply its proprietary artificial intelligence solutions to Umbra’s SAR data to develop and introduce new analytics products to the market. This collaboration is fully aligned with Leonardo’s strategy to leverage artificial intelligence and advanced Geoinformation from Space data to enable secure, resilient and sustainable decision-making for institutions, industries and communities.

“This partnership stems from a shared vision and deep mutual trust: e-GEOS and Umbra share the best of their experience to develop solutions that not only unite two constellations, but also two cultures of innovation,” commented Milena Lerario, CEO of e-GEOS. “The collaboration between the two companies brings together the highest resolution commercial SAR constellations in the world, creating an unprecedented technological synergy: a real laboratory of innovation, which can generate new services, predictive models and monitoring capabilities at very high resolution and revisit frequency, with concrete benefits for the most complex missions and the most strategic needs at a global level. e-GEOS thus reinforces its commitment to driving forward the technological evolution of geoinformation solutions, in full coherence with Leonardo’s strategic vision for Space”.