On Friday 17 March, 29 visitors, including officers, non-commissioned officers and graduates, from various departments of the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Carabinieri, achieved, at the Aerocooperation school, the necessary skills for employment in the field of operational information acquisition, as well as basic knowledge in the field of Remote sensing regarding image analysis.
The course made it possible to acquire knowledge, skills and use of cartographic, analogue and digital products, and to obtain basic notions of activities, techniques of use and applications of Remote Sensing and geospatial, useful in supporting the collection of operational information, through the analysis of images from airborne and space sensors.
Furthermore, exclusively for Air Force personnel, the RS Intro course. constitutes, on an experimental basis, one of the modules envisaged in the training profile of the "Operational Information Officer (AIO)" personnel.
La Aerocooperation school, as a joint and unique training center of reference Training Institution of Defense accredited by NATO, provides excellent teaching, in continuous evolution and in step with technological innovations, to make it constantly adherent to the training needs of the national Armed Forces and of allied and friendly countries.
In the field of air cooperation, in recent years the School has expanded its educational offer with courses "Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC)", "Joint Personnel Recovery" and "Joint Targeting"; in the field of "Remote Sensing", it carries out training courses for the management, interpretation and operational analysis of remote sensing images, coming from electro-optical and RADAR, airborne and satellite sensors.
For the training and qualification of the JTACs, the commander of the School is the "National Certification Authority".
The courses of the Aerocooperation School are open not only to the military personnel of the Armed Forces, but also to personnel outside the Defense Administration and to the military personnel of NATO and of the countries participating in the international program of Partnership for Peace (PfP - Partnership for Peace), subject to authorization by the Defense General Staff.
