High-capacity ground-, air-, and space-based ICT networks for communications, navigation, and sensing services in 2030

An integrated terrestrial-satellite system is proposed to provide the capabilities of communication, localization and sensing for the innovative multidisciplinary services of the future pervasive Internet Ecosystem. They include services to enhance the quality of our everyday life as well as applications in critical situations and environments. Such a scenario requires the synergistic use of communication, localization and sensing/monitoring techniques provided by a meshed hetero¬geneous architecture based on terrestrial and satellite segments to afford remarkable quality and performance to the future society based on the Internet of Things.