Reducing the risk of bird strikes using satellite images and Ascend’s Normalised Difference Water index software (NDWI)
BROWSE PROJECTS
Based on user needs and industry skills, the evolution of customized solutions and the establishment of innovative services is accomplished through project activities. Focusing on various thematic areas, relevant information on the project activities is provided below.
HARVIC Essential
Status date: 05 December 2023
The potato industry has been continuously increasing through the introduction of improved varieties, extensive mechanization and improved cultivation techniques and farm management. In order for the sector to maintain a sustainable growth and act in the dynamic market, the sector is actively looking to become more data driven, making decisions based on technological information and relying less on human expertise.
Project Eclipse
Status date: 05 December 2023
Following a successful feasibility study for a multipurpose shared electric fleet solution for NHS Hospitals, Project Eclipse develops and pilots a new and highly innovative transport technology for Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The project reduces transport related challenges for employees and patients by providing a sustainable, optimised, fully electric fleet solution that improves access, reduces cost and helps the NHS meet ambitious Net Zero targets.
KARL Scheduler
Status date: 05 December 2023
KARL Scheduler provides farmers with satellite-based irrigation recommendations, ensuring they have a clear view of the irrigation needs of their entire farm. Calibrated with soil sensor data, KARL Scheduler ensures the highest quality satellite-based soil moisture estimates, creating a virtual soil moisture sensor for every 20m of a field, ensuring water resources can be used optimally.
UVFDR
Status date: 05 December 2023
The universal virtual flight data recorder (UVFDR) is a vendor-agnostic, non-exclusive data repository, providing flight data including Global Aeronautic Distress and Safety System (GADSS) functions from day-to-day aviation operations to users in near real time.
Methane Watch
Status date: 05 December 2023
Methane Watch is the world’s first monitoring system to measure the methane footprint of the energy sector. It combines Earth Observation data from the Copernicus constellation with advanced analytics to monitor emissions from oil, gas and coal with unprecedented accuracy, and provides unique insights to decarbonise the energy industry on a global scale.
Samplifly
Status date: 05 December 2023
SAMPLIFLY is a fast, integrated, and sustainable drone-based express transportation service design to carry different types of samples for industrial companies. SAMPLIFLY is able to operate in highly industrialised areas such as large harbours.
The Digital Worksite
Status date: 04 December 2023
The Digital Worksite project develops a satellite-enabled solution to improve safety and efficiency for railway maintenance teams by tracking people, vehicles and equipment in real-time during worksites.
Origin Orbit™
Status date: 04 December 2023
Origin Orbit™ is an advanced cloud based B2B software platform, revolutionizing gas and water pipeline management through satellite remote sensing, machine learning, and our integrity management expertise. The platform aims to offer faster, more cost-efficient, and environmentally conscious solutions in line with relevant regulatory and legislative requirements, vastly surpassing traditional survey and assessment methods.
GreenerCotton
Status date: 02 December 2023
GreenerCotton services support the implementation, certification, and transparency of sustainable cotton standards with satellite enabled technology. GreenerCotton is targeting two main use cases: 1. Supporting standardisation companies in implementation and certification 2. Supporting extension services (field advisory) to implement standards and improve production.
C.O.R.E.
Status date: 02 December 2023
The CORE “Carbon Organic Resilient Ethereal” project aims to create an index (SCENARIO Index - Soil Carbon ProtEctioN And RestoratIOn) to map and classify soils according to their capacity to store ethereal and resilient carbon to facilitate carbon farming initiatives and investments.
VunaNexus
Status date: 27 November 2023
VunaNexus uses a patented technology to transform human and livestock urine into two valuable products: a fertiliser free of all dangerous pollutants and water that can be reused, this while drastically reducing ammonia emissions and water pollution.
Visu8
Status date: 28 November 2023
Satellite enabled smart autonomous micro-particulate analysis for real-time and remote water quality monitoring.
SiriusInsight®
Status date: 27 November 2023
90% of world trade goes by sea making it of great importance economically, strategically and environmentally but the maritime domain is vast and remote making persistent surveillance challenging. SiriusInsight® uses cutting edge artificial intelligence to analyse maritime data from multiple remote and autonomous sources in order to create actionable information for users about otherwise unobserved marine activity.
STARS
Status date: 27 November 2023
The STARS project aims to deliver a product consisting of the automation of real-time workout parameter registration during swimming workouts. Currently, there is no system available in open water swimming that allows for the real-time registration of both biomechanical and physiological parameters in a wearable and comfortable way.
SES5G
Status date: 27 November 2023
SES5G prevents, detects and manages wildfires and illegal actions in forestall areas.
The solution relies on satellite observation, autonomous drones, advanced firefighting sensors, security gates with plate readers, mobile control rooms that, with Artificial intelligent algorithms that feed with geolocalized data stakeholders control rooms (Civil protections, Environment department, Public protection, … ).
RT5.0
Status date: 27 November 2023
Rural Tourism 5.0 (RT5.0) is a next generation travel planning ‘eco-algorithm’, designed to improve the visitor experience, impact on the environment, and the economic output of rural tourist destinations.
Ecosystems – CPV
Status date: 27 November 2023
Ecosystems – CPV provides data and modelling capabilities for utilizing coastal ecosystems as vital green infrastructure for protecting critical assets, business activities and people along coastal zones. The solution provides quantitative data and flexible modelling approaches to the insurance and infrastructure sectors, facilitating the effective and sustainable use of coastal ecosystems for disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation.
ARcade
Status date: 27 November 2023
INFORMATION AND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE RIGHT TIME, IN THE RIGHT PLACE.