MetaSensing BV
MetaSensing is an innovative Dutch remote sensing company which was founded in 2008 by Italian scientist and engineer Adriano Meta with the aim of commercializing the new compact, high resolution radar mapping technology. Our goal required the development of MetaSensing BVcompact, high-resolution and low cost synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors and services. In just a few years, MetaSensing has acquired numerous successful airborne radar campaigns completed at the Ku, X, C, S, L and P frequency bands, and developed ground-based radar systems for different applications. Today we are one of the unique companies in the world which offer cost effective airborne and ground-based radar sensors and services both for commercial and scientific applications.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Monitoring and Testing - Meteorological Monitoring
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 2009
- Employees:
- 11-100
About Us
Combination of innovative technology and advanced processing techniques has made MetaSensing the fast growing, global company with projects in Europe, South East Asia, Middle East, Canada, United States, Africa and South America. We owe this success to our technical personnel which is composed of worldwide experts in airborne radar data collection, focusing and post-processing for a better service to the client.
Our proprietary technology is the result of several years of research carried out at the International Research Centre for Telecommunication and Radar (IRCTR) at the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands and of the support from the European Space Agency Business Incubation in Noordwijk.
MetaSensing BV is a completely independent company.
Our offices are located on the site of the European Space Businesspark in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, while our value-adding German branch is based at MTZ (Munchen Technologiezentrum), Germany, and is specialized in advanced airborne SAR post-processing.
Our Mission
MetaSensing mission is simply to make radar accessible as commercial tool for the larger community. Our goal is to provide innovative high quality radar solutions for mapping and surveillance world-wide, to increase the number of applications in which radar sensors can be used; to improve the security of people by monitoring critical environment; to allow everyday more customers improving their mapping and surveillance efficiency and profitability owing to the radar technology.
Radar has usually been used for military purposes and for air, maritime and road traffic control but has always been limited for commercial applications. Its commercial use, and of SAR in particular, in topographic mapping applications has expanded greatly in the past decade but the number of available commercial radar systems is still quite low today, compared to aerial cameras and LIDAR systems, for instance. This is attributable to the high cost of development and of operation of conventional SAR platform-sensor systems.
On the contrary, MetaSensing is applying its innovative technology to commercial and scientific use of the cost-effective airborne and ground- based radars through our direct sales or worldwide distribution network. We are not only making sensors, but we also provide our customers with completely integrated solutions: from development of sensors, through measurement campaigns, to final data processing. MetaSensing can offer comprehensive service in order to provide the clients with the complete information they need. To achieve that, we can count on our experts in radar and antenna design, data collection, focusing and post-processing techniques who incessantly work to deliver a better service to the client. All these factors have led to a variety of airborne and ground based sensors and services for mapping, monitoring and surveillance which can provide a wide range of information about land usage, vegetation classification, agricultural cropping, surveillance etc.