Reducing the risk of bird strikes using satellite images and Ascend’s Normalised Difference Water index software (NDWI)
PROJECT SHOWCASES
16 August 2017
British start-up Rezatec has developed a landscape monitoring service based on Earth Observation data
06 June 2017
A new forestry monitoring service, which is currently being used by three regional forestry departments in Poland, combines space and terrestrial data with a web-based interface.
09 May 2017
With the support of ESA, Belgian SME Ovinto has developed a service that offers satellite-based monitoring of rail cars and intermodal tank containers.
20 March 2017
A new satellite-enabled information management system for commercial fishermen, developed the support of ESA, is currently being used by some seventy Irish fishing vessels.
03 March 2017
A new rail line in Australia uses GNSS positioning for signalling, introducing the concept of virtual balises for ERTMS Level 2 solutions. It has obtained SIL4 certification, the stringent safety integrity level which is required by train control systems.
14 February 2017
Managing seasonal navigational hazards, such as winter ice, on Romania's section of the Danube river is the goal of an ongoing ARTES IAP Demonstration Project.
06 December 2016
With the support of ESA's ARTES Applications programme, 21Net has built a system that seemlessly integrates satcoms to improve the user experience of WiFi on high-speed trains.
11 November 2016
The GeoSHM structural health monitoring system, developed with the support of ESA, is now being further deployed in Scotland and China.
03 November 2016
The Basilicata Region in southern Italy has announced the allocation of a nearly one million euros to support an ongoing ARTES Applications project, ONE Class! Open network for Education.
28 July 2016
An integrated rescue management tool being developed with the support of ESA is improving the speed and accuracy of search and rescue missions in the mountains of the Czech Republic.
30 June 2016
With the support of ESA, HydroLogic (NL) is developing an application called the HydroNET Flood and Rain Report generator to map rainfall and flooding quickly and easily. It has been successfully deployed in flood-prone Australia, and other countries are taking interest in the system.
23 June 2016
The ARTES Applications 3InSat project recently completed a trial run of its integrated rail signalling system on the island of Sardinia. The successful outcome confirmed the viability of GNSS technology for the rail industry.
01 April 2016
An enterprising Dutch startup is developing a viable business using Sentinel-1 SAR imagery to monitor oil and gas pipelines from space.
25 January 2016
Thanks to a new portal video encoder device developed with the support of ESA, high definition video can now be cost-effectively streamed from mobile satellite terminals. This breakthrough facilitates the transmission of broadcast-quality video content from regions with limited terrestrial infrastructure.
15 November 2015
With the support of ESA through the ARTES IAP programme, Vista GmbH has developed a successful business supplying precision agriculture services to farmers. At this year's Agritechnica trade fair in Hannover, the Munich-based company was awarded a gold medal for innovation in recognition of its achievements.
15 September 2015
A recent ARTES IAP demonstration project shows how satellites give the deployment of RPAS a huge boost. The project leader, an enterprising British SME, is capitalising on this experience to develop a viable business in remote surveying services.
10 August 2015
Project Showcase: How ARTES-supported Sway4edu2 uses satcoms to help close the digital divide in education.
29 April 2015
A satellite communications-based system developed with the support of ESA is making it easier for a Belgian medical team to test new antiviral drugs for the treatment Ebola patients in West Africa.
24 March 2015
Long-term monitoring using historical Earth Observation data and short-term GNSS positioning is a potent combination for studying the health and well-being of complex structures such as bridges.
24 February 2015
Demonstration and pilot implementation of a satellite-based operations control system for managing teams in alpine rescue missions.
26 January 2015
How satellite services give landowners an easier and cheaper way of calculating the potential economic value of conserving or restoring environmentally important peatlands.
07 November 2014
In an activity supported by ESA, a software package called VECMAP was developed that uses Satellite Navigation and Earth Observation data to populate an online database, allowing researchers to map high-risk areas.
15 September 2014
Satellites are linking mobile breast cancer screening units directly to hospitals so that radiologists can start their diagnoses earlier.
10 September 2014
With the support of ESA, Irish company Treemetrics has developed an innovative system that uses space and ground assets to map forests and monitor tree-harvesting machinery.
26 August 2014
Thanks to European telecoms satellites, affordable broadband Internet access via satellite is becoming reality.
23 May 2014
Two recent ARTES-funded feasibility studies looked into ways of understanding and mitigating the risks associated with unstable terrain.
06 May 2014
The incorporation of satellite communication services in railway signalling systems is now one step closer.
11 March 2014
A robust portable device for monitoring vital signs and providing communications for medics developed with the support of ESA offers a lifeline even in the remotest areas on Earth via satcoms.
14 February 2014
ASSIST allows project managers to analyse the positive and negative impacts of their Telemedicine services way before they go live.
12 February 2014
European Defence Agency (EDA) and European Space Agency (ESA), have agreed to pursue their cooperation in the domain of Remotely Piloted Aircrafts.
12 February 2014
The Dutch company Robin Radar has recently taken the FlySafe technology down a new and unexpected path.
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.
oneTcall
Status date: 20 March 2023
No GSM coverage? You are on a plane or ship and you need to receive an important call or to make an important call? No problem: with oneTcall you can continue to use your mobile phone and your telephone number without changing your user experience and without any limitation.
Thanks to Satellite you can have IP coverage everywhere in the World and also in Mobility. With OneTCall + IP via Satellite you can have also your Mobile Phone working and keep using your telephone number.
Easy for the customer. No additional infrastructure required for the Operator.
OneTCall is perfect to provide seamless voice coverage also on board of Airplanes and Ships.
OneTcall is a patented service.
DOCS-2
Status date: 15 March 2023
Using civil aircraft to create constellations for providing high spatial & temporal Earth observation data and telecommunication services; a most ecological constellation re-using the most reliable platform.
DOCS-2
Status date: 15 March 2023
Using civil aircraft to create constellations for providing high spatial & temporal Earth observation data and telecommunication services; a most ecological constellation re-using the most reliable platform.
DOCS-2
Status date: 15 March 2023
Using civil aircraft to create constellations for providing high spatial & temporal Earth observation data and telecommunication services; a most ecological constellation re-using the most reliable platform.
DOCS-2
Status date: 15 March 2023
Using civil aircraft to create constellations for providing high spatial & temporal Earth observation data and telecommunication services; a most ecological constellation re-using the most reliable platform.
DOCS-2
Status date: 15 March 2023
Using civil aircraft to create constellations for providing high spatial & temporal Earth observation data and telecommunication services; a most ecological constellation re-using the most reliable platform.
DOCS-2
Status date: 15 March 2023
Using civil aircraft to create constellations for providing high spatial & temporal Earth observation data and telecommunication services; a most ecological constellation re-using the most reliable platform.
CertiPro
Status date: 28 February 2023
In this truly European project, an innovative railway track worker protection system will be evaluated for its reliability and its ability to enhance the safety of railway track workers. The goal is to demonstrate the safety capabilities of the track worker protection system in a real environment, integrated into the challenging infrastructure of a railway operator in Italy.
CertiPro
Status date: 28 February 2023
In this truly European project, an innovative railway track worker protection system will be evaluated for its reliability and its ability to enhance the safety of railway track workers. The goal is to demonstrate the safety capabilities of the track worker protection system in a real environment, integrated into the challenging infrastructure of a railway operator in Italy.
CertiPro
Status date: 28 February 2023
In this truly European project, an innovative railway track worker protection system will be evaluated for its reliability and its ability to enhance the safety of railway track workers. The goal is to demonstrate the safety capabilities of the track worker protection system in a real environment, integrated into the challenging infrastructure of a railway operator in Italy.
CertiPro
Status date: 28 February 2023
In this truly European project, an innovative railway track worker protection system will be evaluated for its reliability and its ability to enhance the safety of railway track workers. The goal is to demonstrate the safety capabilities of the track worker protection system in a real environment, integrated into the challenging infrastructure of a railway operator in Italy.
CertiPro
Status date: 28 February 2023
In this truly European project, an innovative railway track worker protection system will be evaluated for its reliability and its ability to enhance the safety of railway track workers. The goal is to demonstrate the safety capabilities of the track worker protection system in a real environment, integrated into the challenging infrastructure of a railway operator in Italy.
TruewaveGPR
Status date: 15 March 2023
The fusion of positioning, inertial and subsurface data sets at a singular point.
A consortium of Europe’s leading ground penetrating radar and electronic developers have teamed up with the UKs most high-profile horizontal drilling operations to create the world’s leading terrain compensating subsurface inspection system capable of creating 3D data sets for analysing buried assets below challenging terrain.
TruewaveGPR
Status date: 15 March 2023
The fusion of positioning, inertial and subsurface data sets at a singular point.
A consortium of Europe’s leading ground penetrating radar and electronic developers have teamed up with the UKs most high-profile horizontal drilling operations to create the world’s leading terrain compensating subsurface inspection system capable of creating 3D data sets for analysing buried assets below challenging terrain.
GIADA
Status date: 15 March 2023
GIADA exploits gravity field observations, mainly derived from GOCE mission, with others in situ data to build a 3D model of the Earth crust at regional scale. The service results help oil & gas and mining companies in the preliminary exploration activities to identify regions with high potential in terms of natural resources exploitation.
Other industries which can take benefit from the service results are mining companies, or more in general companies requiring a good knowledge of the geological setting at regional scale for resource exploitation purposes.
TrackSat
Status date: 15 March 2023
Development of a standalone drone tracking service capable of transmitting its position over 4G network during normal flight, addressing drone flight regulations. In case of a crash, the drone will use satellite IoT connectivity to send its latest known position.
MWS-A
Status date: 14 March 2023
MWS-A is a new weather nowcasting service for airports with high spatial and temporal resolution. The service combines real-time positions and predicted trajectory data of aircraft, and high resolution nowcasts of the motion and evolution of observed severe weather phenomena. Using these data the MWS-A service engine derives predictions of upcoming encounters of the weather phenomena and aircraft within up to 40 minutes time window in the future.
MWS-A
Status date: 14 March 2023
MWS-A is a new weather nowcasting service for airports with high spatial and temporal resolution. The service combines real-time positions and predicted trajectory data of aircraft, and high resolution nowcasts of the motion and evolution of observed severe weather phenomena. Using these data the MWS-A service engine derives predictions of upcoming encounters of the weather phenomena and aircraft within up to 40 minutes time window in the future.
SequOIA-CAM
Status date: 14 March 2023
SequOIA-CAM offers an end-to-end biological carbon accounting, vegetation monitoring and carbon stocks sequestration rate simulation service for sustainable cities, regions, forest owners, and forest-related companies. SequOIA-CAM leverages the unique capabilities of Satellite-based Earth Observation (EO) that provides the necessary high spatial and temporal resolution and cost-effective monitoring capacity to ensure that nature-based solutions are implemented correctly and to ensure accurate quantification of carbon stocks in forests.
SWESAT
Status date: 04 November 2022
Remote measurements of snow storage with acceptable accuracy is a long awaited solution by the hydropower industry due to its potential in providing high number of data points and high spatial coverage. We demonstrate a novel approach to derive snow storage (SWE) by use of L-band radar measurements in combination with the interferometry technique.
SA4D
Status date: 13 March 2023
What are the actions that can be put in place in the short and long-term to stimulate opportunities for the space sector in supporting the green transition and decarbonisation of the economy and of the energy & utilities and building sectors specifically?
DroSecMa
Status date: 13 March 2023
“The fence no longer defines the perimeter.” Exponential increase in capability and reduction in cost has made drones a truly disruptive technology. Their capabilities may be leveraged for significantly improved surveillance and data collection but that also
represent a significant and evolving threat. DroSecMa leverages the capabilities of drones while providing real-time threat mitigation.
OWASIS-NL CCN
Status date: 13 March 2023
OWASIS Water Auditing demonstration project made suitable for implementation in South Africa, Colombia and the Netherlands based on data availability and user needs.
OWASIS-NL CCN
Status date: 13 March 2023
OWASIS Water Auditing demonstration project made suitable for implementation in South Africa, Colombia and the Netherlands based on data availability and user needs.
PSVE
Status date: 13 March 2023
PSVE (Port Stockpile Volume Estimation) is a product DBX is developing within the ESA BASS programme; the PSVE module aims to collect and harmonise global, highly fragmented, dry-bulk commodities data in near real-time, by applying state of the art machine learning classification algorithms and establishing a strong correlation between market trends and the localization of dry bulk stockpiles.
APPIDE
Status date: 13 March 2023
APPIDE is an AI-powered tool designed to increase the efficiency of thermographic inspections of photovoltaic plants. Using radiometric, RGB, and GPS data acquired from drones, APPIDE generates detailed reports in a matter of hours, identifying exactly where and what the performance problems are on solar sites. Our AI-based solution drastically reduces the inspection times by human inspection and increases the reliability of reports. Overall, APPIDE allows you to make more inspections with fewer human resources, maximising the return on investment of your drones and your business.
EOLO
Status date: 13 March 2023
EOLO aims to provide the corn growers with an agritech cloud-based platform which allows to save water and energy by predicting the optimal water needs, monitoring the crop health through the use of vegetational indexes and controlling the irrigation system remotely. These features are implemented by leveraging both EO and on-ground sensors data and by fusing them with machine learning algorithms.
EOLO
Status date: 13 March 2023
EOLO aims to provide the corn growers with an agritech cloud-based platform which allows to save water and energy by predicting the optimal water needs, monitoring the crop health through the use of vegetational indexes and controlling the irrigation system remotely. These features are implemented by leveraging both EO and on-ground sensors data and by fusing them with machine learning algorithms.
EOLO
Status date: 13 March 2023
EOLO aims to provide the corn growers with an agritech cloud-based platform which allows to save water and energy by predicting the optimal water needs, monitoring the crop health through the use of vegetational indexes and controlling the irrigation system remotely. These features are implemented by leveraging both EO and on-ground sensors data and by fusing them with machine learning algorithms.
Economic Intelligence Factory
Status date: 13 March 2023
The objective of this demonstration project was the analysis of satellite data to create standardized indicators of economic activity, from the study of key sectors of the economy.
SoilSignal
Status date: 13 March 2023
SoilSignal provides an accurate, scalable and reliable decision support tool for farmers, for soil health management including irrigation management and fertiliser management. Using Earth Observation data and Machine Learning/AI, SoilSignal, powered by Deep Planet’s AI platform, predicts soil health properties at 90% accuracy.
MoSCI-ECOSPACE
Status date: 06 March 2023
MoSCI-ECOSPACE is a service tool to assess the condition of ecosystems – like beaches, dunes or controlled flood plains – and man-made structures – like seawalls or dikes – in coastal territories and inform decision-making in case of ill-condition, damage or destruction, based on products derived from earth- and airborne- observing systems.
SyriUS
Status date: 03 March 2023
SyriUS develops innovative data services for bathymetric mapping and seafloor characterization. Currently, these data are often outdated or unavailable for very shallow waters. SyriUS combines proven earth observation (EO) technology [EOMAP] with uncrewed maritime systems (UMS) [Maritime Robotics]. The created data products provide time- and cost-effective large area coverage with calibration and validation of EO data by UMS data.
SyriUS Feasibility Study
Status date: 04 April 2020
SyriUS is developing innovative data services for bathymetric mapping, benthic mapping, seafloor characterization, habitat mapping, and environmental monitoring. Current end users experience a lack of such data availability. For example, bathymetric maps are often outdated and not available for very shallow waters. SyriUS proposes three innovative data services that combine proven earth observation (EO) technology from EOMAP GmbH & Co. KG with unmanned maritime systems (UMS) solutions from Maritime Robotics AS. Data products created via the SyriUS services provide larger area coverage than can be obtained using only UMS, and with greater accuracy than can be obtained using only EO solutions.
S4UG
Status date: 28 February 2023
SA4D
Status date: 28 February 2023
Decarbonization is the process of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), to mitigate the impact of climate change. Space based data, support with digital terrestrial technologies, can play a critical role in this process by providing information about the distribution and intensity of emissions, as well as the effects of climate change.
PROFEO
Status date: 18 February 2023
The consortium provides a web-based platform that allows users to get actionable property level flood hazard insights at “the push of a button” combining existing flood data and archived as well as current satellite images. The service is accessible to non-experts, providing flood hazard maps and alerts tailored to the needs of the clients in the real estate domain and can be scaled to wide geographical areas.
UnitGate Satellite Broker
Status date: 18 February 2023
Satellite Broker - Easy Access to Any Satellite Service.
InYouSeq
Status date: 15 February 2023
Fauna Smart Technologies is developing a whole new process in farming to deliver a cornerstone tool called “Increase Your Sequestration”: InYouSeq. It is based on satellite data measurements in order to help farmers monitor and improve CO2 sequestration capacity in horticulture i.e. orchards and vineyards.
MaSSha
Status date: 15 February 2023
Development of VDES satellite network roaming, VDES-based maritime IoT services, and maritime DSC distress alert detection for effective search and rescue.
NHSpace
Status date: 15 February 2023
Astrosat are combining EO and ground-based data to create newly-derived satellite data products, as well as enhancing and adapting innovative datasets from earlier projects such as Isolation+ (Social Isolation Index) and ThermCERT (Fuel Poverty), to generate new insights and inform health-inequality root-cause analysis.
BOREAL ISR +
Status date: 15 February 2023
With this project BOREAL aims to demonstrate that using a SATCOM link for real time images transmission can enhance the range of surveillance operations of the drone BOREAL ISR beyond the current 60km due to classical radio link constraints. Thanks to the endurance of the BOREAL drone system, a range of up to 300km is envisaged.
MEO-CS
Status date: 15 February 2023
MOE-CS is a service dedicated to monitoring carbon stocks and fluxes related to land use and cover changes, based on both local annual estimates and land cover dynamics. The service also offers a focus on favourable agricultural practices, additional carbon potential and related co-benefits.
CC4SC
Status date: 14 February 2023
Optimizing mill revenue by improving harvest logistics and fertilizer management.