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UK Ambassador Platform for Offshore Energy off to a breezy start
An event in Glasgow on 18 November 2015 saw the launch of the European Space Agency's new Ambassador Platform for Offshore Energy (AP-OE). It took place at the new Technology Innovation Centre, which is itself part of ITREZ, the zone within Glasgow that houses a number of renewable energy companies. Among these is the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (OREC), the UK's flagship technology, innovation and research centre for offshore renewable energy, which hosts the Ambassador Platform.
Attendees included representatives from industry, academia, and government active in the offshore energy and satellite application industries. They learned about the challenges facing offshore energy, the potential for new satellite applications to meet these challenges, information about the ESA Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) programme and how to participate in it.
The event was coordinated by Callum Norrie, ESA's new 
Offshore Energy Ambassador, who is based in Glasgow at OREC. Explaining the rationale behind the creation of the new AP, he says: “the UK offshore energy industry has been identified as an area that can provide future economic growth. From an offshore energy perspective the UK has an established oil and gas industry, an abundance of offshore wind energy to be harnessed and large potential within the wave and tidal domains. All of these sectors can benefit from space applications where suitable projects can drive down cost, provide better oversight or improve safety and environmental protection.”
“The November meeting enabled the message of the AP-OE to be widely disseminated and we are already seeing interest in submitting bids,” says Callum Norrie. “We will be meeting and talking with potential participants in the programme, and plan to hold dedicated workshops to build consortia where space assets meet the challenges of the changing offshore energy world.”
For more information about the new AP, please contact Callum Norrie.
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The Second ARTES Applications Final Presentation Day
The second ARTES Applications Final Presentation Day, held on 19 November at ESTEC, provided a useful opportunity to find out more about the following recently completed ARTES Applications demonstration projects.
- The T4MOD project aimed at developing and validating a user-friendly Telemedicine system, through an interoperable IP overlay satellite network associated to an intelligent end-to-end communication service, capable to support different medical specialities.
- The Quality of Experience for Telemedicine project encompassed two activities, QuoTe and TeleMediQual, that sought to develop tools capable of providing an automatic MOS and other quality parameters that approximate results of the subjective audio-visual quality assessment of telemedicine systems, based on criteria and metrics that can be automatically and objectively measured and evaluated by a computer programme instead of a person.
- The Xciti'ID project was dedicated to designing, developing, and validating a pre-operational integrated service platform aiming at significantly improving the management of the transport supply chain of temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical goods (as well as other goods, such as food) by providing globally and 7days/week near-real-time track and trace services with associated temperature data logs.
- The VGTropics project aimed to establishing a service platform to support early detection of livestock diseases, identification of livestock population and related disease outbreak risk, and planning of livestock surveys. Services are tailored to African developing countries’ needs and are designed to support international, national and regional animal health monitoring activities.
- The objective of the EASY project is to develop a demonstrator of “one-stop-shop” services for the high-value leisure yachting market mainly for the Mediterranean Sea, integrating various space assets.
- The Vicometra project resulted in the introduction of HD media streaming services from mobile terminals over the past year.
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