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.
EO MA Track
Status date: 20 February 2026
EO-MA Track is a web-based monitoring service that delivers independent, satellite-derived evidence to strengthen ESG verification. It transforms Earth Observation data into structured, assurance-ready indicators (i.e., maps, KPIs, and trends) that support risk-based assessment of asset-level sustainability claims. Designed for verification bodies, it adds a transparent, traceable spatial layer to ESG disclosures.
SUMMIT
Status date: 20 February 2026
The Consortium offer services that integrate GNSS, satellite, and snow/weather data to monitor avalanches, snow parameters and ground movement risks. Solutions include:
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SAD: Automatic avalanche detection from satellite imagery
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SNOW: Monitoring and mapping of key snow parameters (SWE, snow depth, wet snow conditions) through multi-sensor integration (GNSS technology, satellite data, automatic weather stations, weather forecast data)
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SNOW&MOVE: Compact and cost-effective systems combining snow monitoring with ground displacement detection through GNSS technology and satellite remote sensing
Tunnll
Status date: 18 February 2026
Tunnll provides an innovative, efficient, and user-friendly local transit solution for small towns. Tunnll is a next-generation public bus service that achieves higher efficiency with advanced technologies.
AutoTrust
Status date: 13 February 2026
A cloud-based solution for the transport and logistics industry that provides 5G/4G and Satellite Communication integrated connectivity enabling continuous vehicle telemetry monitoring with data assurance and analytics.
SEM
Status date: 13 February 2026
SEM develops BathyScope, a satellite-AI SaaS service for bathymetry and sedimentation monitoring, specifically designed for rivers and inland reservoirs. The platform combines remote sensing with physics-informed models to deliver mapped depth, sediment accumulation, uncertainty layers, and time-series analytics, supporting hydropower operators, water authorities, and NGOs with faster, lower-cost evidence for maintenance planning and reporting.
Scope 3
Status date: 12 February 2026
Measuring and controlling GHG scope 3 emissions is crucial for the chemical industry goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Reliable monitoring mechanisms built from precise, trusted data, allow to calculate their precise product carbon footprints, and conduct truthful life cycle assessments. Scope 3 services fully cover the evolving needs from the industry with a user-friendly monitoring and simulation platform specialized on multi-modal transport emissions.
Dark Vision
Status date: 11 February 2026
Using innovative space-based nighttime imagery, Dark Vision will provide an understanding of how artificial light at night (ALAN) impacts our planet ranging from the effects on human health, ecology, the environment, biodiversity and the global economy.
Lunar-TARS
Status date: 11 February 2026
Lunar-TARS is a modular, autonomous robotic arm built for extreme environments. Its versatile design supports a wide range of missions, from lunar infrastructure assembly to regolith collection, driving the growth of a sustainable lunar economy.
GreenClaims
Status date: 10 February 2026
GreenClaims is an ESG verification platform integrating Earth Observation data with AI-driven analytics to independently verify corporate environmental claims in land-intensive sectors including mining, oil & gas, agriculture, and renewable energy. By combining satellite imagery analysis with natural language processing of corporate disclosures, the service provides scalable, evidence-based verification to support regulatory compliance and combat greenwashing.
RTIS
Status date: 10 February 2026
DataCosmos is Open Cosmos’ proprietary platform for storing and analysing satellite imagery.
RTIS is a near-real-time information system. By leveraging DataCosmos to detect and monitor oil spills and water turbidity in the middle east with rapid delivery time, RTIS will enable the rapid response to critical situations.
SATV2X
Status date: 04 February 2026
Today there are many roads, especially in rural areas, where cellular network coverage is inadequate to sustain reliable Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). The SATV2X pilot aims to address this issue by integrating satellite and 5G terrestrial networks. This integration provides ubiquitous V2X (vehicle-to-everything) radio coverage, enhancing road safety use cases through a C-ITS Platform.
SnowPower
Status date: 03 February 2026
Water resources in snow, defined by the snow water equivalent (SWE), are of key importance to supply renewable energy production through hydropower. Information of the spatial distribution and temporal evolution in SWE are essential to forecast and manage reservoir water levels and electricity production. SnowPower provides this information based on recent advances in snow remote sensing techniques.
WILDFIRE ALARM
Status date: 02 February 2026
Wildfire Alarm delivers real-time alerts from ground-based optical detectors in both remote and populated areas. By combining multiple communications technologies, it achieves affordable, low-power operation with strong signal penetration through dense forests and highly reliable, instant transmission. This approach provides an accessible, cost-effective early warning system to protect lives, property, and infrastructure from wildfires.
Project Eclipse
Status date: 29 January 2026
Following a successful feasibility study for a multipurpose shared electric fleet solution for NHS Hospitals, Project Eclipse covered the development and pilot of a new and highly innovative transport technology for Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The project was set out to reduce 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.
RESIST 2
Status date: 28 January 2026
RESIST provides worldwide coverage for detecting GNSS Spoofers and Jammers anywhere over the Earth’s surface. The system relies on the CMCU, Central Machine learning Computation Unit and ground and space recorded data. RESIST 2 is the demonstration project, including pilots demonstrations in the maritime port of Marin in Spain and the DLR airfield of Cochstedt in Germany.
DTM Tool
Status date: 26 January 2026
The DTM Tool service is a solution developed to address the challenges of the drone market. The service allows, through modern aviation surveillance technologies and geospatial data processing, to support safer and more efficient drone operations.
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.
SITH
Status date: 26 January 2026
CORAC “SITH” service is a cloud-based software solution, designed to authenticate and trace Earth Observation (EO) data. It ensures data integrity and trustworthiness across the EO value chain, using keyless digital signing & verification, traceable data provenance, and trustworthiness evaluations. SITH aims to protect EO data from tampering, helping providers comply with complex EU cybersecurity and AI regulations while safeguarding critical decision-making processes.
DECOM
Status date: 26 January 2026
KSAT DECOM aims to help operators and regulators to monitor offshore decommissioning activities by combining oil spill detection, vessel monitoring, multi-mission SAR and EO data, weather condition and greenhouse emissions to reduce costs, increase efficiency of operations, develop safer methods for execution and reduce environmental impacts during decommissioning activities.
EO x Grid
Status date: 26 January 2026
Service description: We're building an EO- and AI-driven forecasting service for optimizing operations of electricity distribution grids and informed decision-making related to local flexibility markets.