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.
AURORA
Status date: 30 July 2026
A feasibility study led by Yuri GmbH into the commercial viability of bioengineering in microgravity. Working with ATMOS Space Cargo and industrial partners across pharmaceuticals, healthcare and food, the study assesses where space-based production of tissue models, organoids and biomaterials outperforms terrestrial methods, and defines a recurring, fully European end-to-end laboratory-and-return service.
SFC-Online
Status date: 29 July 2026
eoapp BENTHIQ is an easy-to-use web application empowering stakeholders to map and monitor benthic habitats. The web application is developed within the SFC-Online project and can digest satellite data as well as on-site data such as video transects. BENTHIQ saves time and costs in environmental and coastal institutions, national research centers, planners of offshore infrastructure, and NGOs.
GAINS - Galileo-based Autonomous INfrastructure Surveillance
Status date: 29 July 2026
GAINS develops an autonomous drone service for monitoring critical infrastructure, using Galileo High Accuracy Service for precise positioning. Combining high-accuracy satellite-based navigation, tethered power and safety, and visual and thermal payloads, the project supports persistent aerial surveillance of infrastructure sites such as railways, airports, utilities, telecom assets, and emergency response areas.
PerPlant Catch Crop Grading
Status date: 29 July 2026
A satellite-based grading service that helps the Danish authority SGAV prioritise which parcels merit a manual catch-crop inspection — fusing Copernicus Sentinel-1/2 imagery with PerPlant’s tractor-mounted sensor network.
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CEROC
Status date: 28 July 2026
B2B Bike Navigation
Status date: 04 October 2024
This project developed an end-to-end navigation service which can be fully integrated into business customers’ own 2-wheeled vehicle products/services, including best-in-class routing optimisation (tailored to user needs) and navigation for 2-wheeler use-cases.
This makes it easier, safer and more convenient for people and goods to travel by light, 2 wheeled transport rather than by cars, vans and trucks.
MWFS
Status date: 24 July 2026
MilkyWay is developing a satellite-based sustainability reporting service for the dairy sector. Using Earth Observation data, the service aims to detect field management activities across farm parcels and translate these into verified, audit-ready reporting templates. This reduces administrative burden for farmers while giving dairy companies the independently verified data they need to meet their sustainability reporting obligations.
Forest HD
Status date: 24 July 2026
ForestHD, a geospatial tool developed by NGIS in partnership with the European Space Agency. It helps timber operators comply with the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by using satellite data and AI to distinguish legal harvesting from illegal deforestation and degradation, reducing false positives and improving supply chain traceability.
RELECT
Status date: 23 July 2026
Rheticus® Electric Towers (RELECT) is a demonstration project aimed at developing an Earth Observation service using very-high-resolution SAR imagery and AI to rapidly detect damage to power lines after extreme events. It enables Transmission System Operators to assess affected infrastructure within 24 hours, improving response times, reducing costs, and enhancing the resilience and sustainability of energy networks.
TruPaG
Status date: 22 July 2026
TruPaG improves truck parking by combining historical and real-time truck movement data to predict availability across a wide network of locations. The project builds on Aparkado’s existing solution and expands coverage beyond highways to deliver more reliable parking insights.
HALO Dashboard
Status date: 17 July 2026
Wildfire risk inspections and their effect on insurance premiums are currently carried out on ZIP-code level. The HALO dashboard allows a hypergranular inspection with dynamic risk factor analysis ensuring portfolios remain profitable and best practices are enforced.
MagWatch3D
Status date: 17 July 2026
Geomagnetic storms can disrupt electric power grids and other critical infrastructure. MagWatch3D delivers high-resolution – better than 10 km spatial resolution and 1 second cadence – near real-time physics-based space weather intelligence on geomagnetic disturbance, geoelectric fields and geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) for power grid operation, insurance, and other activities affected by Earth’s magnetic field such as magnetic surveys and navigation.
CoCoNARC
Status date: 17 July 2026
Pheno-AI
Status date: 17 July 2026
Pheno-AI turns free satellite Earth Observation and climate data into clear, field-level phenology and yield forecasts — emergence, flowering and harvest windows plus a yield range — helping growers and their advisors decide when to plant, fertilise and harvest. The service is validated with growers in Kenya and calibration sites in Portugal and Germany.
AOE
Status date: 14 July 2026
The "Agronomy on the Edge" project delivers a retrofittable, edge-AI precision farming system that integrates real-time tractor sensor data with satellite inputs. Designed specifically for small to medium-sized arable operations, the system optimizes variable-rate spraying and input management, enabling significant chemical reductions and enhanced crop yields even in areas with limited connectivity.
AMSynchro
Status date: 10 July 2026
AMSynchro is a space-enabled assurance platform for hazardous metal powders used in additive manufacturing. It links monitoring, custody, genealogy, warning logic and audit-ready evidence to help operators understand whether materials remained safe, compliant and fit for use throughout storage, handling and movement.
QualityTime
Status date: 10 July 2026
Farmers need reliable, timely insight into crop development to plan harvest, labour and sales with confidence. QualityTime helps them make these decisions by providing trusted monitoring of crop maturity using satellite and drone observations over time. By ensuring consistent data quality, the service supports growers and advisors with dependable information exactly when it matters most.
SIA4AGRI
Status date: 24 June 2025
SIA4Agri modernizes the use of irrigation to minimize farmers’ environmental impact and increase the plasticity of adaptation of this agro-industry to environmental climate changes, higher temperature and water shortage.
STELLAGRI
Status date: 07 July 2026
STELLAGRI delivers independent, AI-powered crop intelligence from satellite data.
Corporates gain seamless ERP integration and reliable supply insights — without farmer input.
Small farms access precise analytics for any field size.
From vegetation indexes to crop recognition and alerts, STELLAGRI turns raw imagery into actionable decisions across the entire agricultural value chain.
SWAS
Status date: 07 July 2026
The Space Weather Alert System feasibility study investigates the industrial desirability of space weather services in the domain of electricity networks, aviation and GNSS dependent systems in Austria.
CottonWISE
Status date: 26 January 2026
CottonWISE applies Earth Observation to quantify water use and water productivity in cotton cultivation. The project addresses the lack of objective, scalable water metrics in sustainability certification by providing independent monitoring to support irrigation management, benchmarking and verification across the cotton value chain.
PowerEdge
Status date: 07 July 2026
The project is developing a new standard for physical snowpack measurements for the hydropower industry by use of L-band radar measurements in combination with InSAR processing techniques. The added values are higher resolution of snow estimations in time and space as well as less need for physical presence (equipment & humans) in the mountains to do snow estimations.
All-Weather COVER
Status date: 06 July 2026
All-Weather COVER demonstrates an Earth-observation service for parcel-level catch-crop monitoring. By combining satellite data, the service delivers frequent, auditable coverage indicators and early-warning signals that help reduce inconclusive cases, target inspections, and document compliance decisions.
CarbonTrace
Status date: 06 July 2026
CarbonTrace makes voluntary carbon markets accessible to small and medium-scale tropical agroforestry producers by replacing costly manual field surveys with satellite-derived carbon monitoring. Using ESA Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data, the service produces investor-grade carbon accounts at a fraction of the cost of current methods, unlocking carbon revenue for farmers previously excluded by measurement costs.