​The SANARIS project aims to provide a flexible communication system for telemetry and telecontrol applications requiring portability and fast deployment of the remote acquisition points. Some typical examples of this type of applications are natural risk monitoring networks, as volcano eruptions, earthquake, floods, and forest fires. These applications are characterized by an absence of infrastructure for communications in case close-to-target data acquisition is wanted, which is normally the case. Available communication channels are occupied for other activities (such as emergency management) and the places with alternative communication infrastructure are far from the points of interest. This lack of infrastructure points to the satellite communications is the most interesting solution due to the high coverage of existing geostationary communication satellites. On the other hand, the fast deployment requirements associated to this type of applications demand an optimization of the equipment used in the remote terminals both for data acquisition and for communications. This means that an efficient design is needed in all the elements used in the remote terminals (antenna, modem and related electronics).