Flyby’s staff has specialised competencies in the fields of:

Modeling
- Optical and physical modelling of atmosphere, soil and sea (e.g Radiative Transfer Model for solar radiation)
- Modeling of the interactions between solar radiation and organic marine substances (e.g. fluorescence techniques).

Data processing
- Optical image elaboration (e.g. segmentation techniques, classification, fusion, pattern recognition, multi-spectral and hyper-spectral processing techniques, image enhancing, pan sharpening)
- Scientific space mission analysis (orbit analysis, ground coverage, space environment)
- Optical systems analysis by means of numerical simulation and physical-mathematical models inversion
- Analysis of interaction between optical radiation and organic or biological substances
- Data analysis based on neural networks, fuzzy systems, adaptive network-based fuzzy inference systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary multi-objective genetic algorithms
- Time series forecasting
- Multiple classifier combining
- Data fusion
- Data mining
- Expert systems
- Decision support systems

ICT & GIS
- Development of numerical simulators for spectroscopy, radiative transfer in the atmosphere and in the sea water
- Design and development of integrated ICT web services
- Development of webGIS solutions based on various technologies and satellite remote sensing
- Integration and provision of telecommunication services and mobile phone GIS services

Measurements
- Radiometric and spectro-radiometric measurements in the UV-VIS-NIR
- Calibration of optical sensors for radiometry and spectro-radiometry in the UV/VIS/NIR (e.g. NIST standard calibrations)
- Aerial remote sensing and photogrammetry
- Geo-referencing of in-situ measured data and fusion with satellite data
- Absolute accuracy evaluation in the calibration of optical sensors UV/VIS/NIR
- Inter-calibration of solar radiation measurements from satellite and from ground sensors

Hardware Development
- Design and development of optical remote sensing systems (e.g. DOAS, FTIR for atmospheric analysis)
- Development of remote data acquisition systems by wireless link
- Development of meteo and environmental parameters remote monitoring stations
- Design and development of ground stations for remote sensing data processing and management