Center for Satellite Communications and Remote Sensing

Istanbul Technical University - Center for Satellite Communications and Remote Sensing (ITU-CSCRS) is one of the forecoming institutions around the world with a highly capable ground receiving station unit.

It is the first center established in Turkey to conduct application oriented projects in remote sensing and satellite communications technologies and serve national/international civil/military companies in their research, development, and educational activities.

After successful design, assemble and test stages of the receiving station through the years 1996-2000, ITU-CSCRS was established for operational working under the name ITU-SAGRES (SAtellite Ground REceiving Station) in 2000 as a wide range communications and remote sensing integrated system. In the second half of the year 2003, it was restructured into ITU-CSCRS.

ITU-CSCRS has the capabilities of acquiring images from remote sensing satellites, processing data, and sending the products via satellite links to resident and foreign users. The station can receive images of the Earth's surface within a radius of 3000 km., which covers from Sweden to Sudan, and England to Kazakhistan. In the center the data acquired from SPOT-2, SPOT-4, RADARSAT-1, ERS-2, NOAA-11, NOAA-14, METEOSAT satellites is archived, formatted and processed with the state-of-the-art technology. These successful studies were certificated with Operational and Product Certificate by the Radarsat Inc., Canada in November 2002.