The Spanish company Indra has created an Earth observation center in the Sultanate of Oman in collaboration with the country’s Ministry of Defense. The company assures that the center “will provide the country with a critical capacity to enhance the competitiveness of its economy and improve the services that the administration provides to the citizen.”
The project is part of the government’s Sultanate of Oman Vision 2040 plan, which aims to “modernize its infrastructure, diversify the economy and generate quality employment.” The center will have Indra software “capable of generating products and services of high added value from satellite images, especially those collected by the Sentinel constellation of the European Copernicus program”.
Indra’s Director of Defense and Space Systems, Domingo Castro, explains that “Earth observation satellites are the most powerful tool that exists to access accurate and completely updated information of a city, region or the entire planet at high speed.”