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PROJECT SHOWCASES

Reducing the risk of bird strikes using satellite images and Ascend’s Normalised Difference Water index software (NDWI)

British start-up Rezatec has developed a landscape monitoring service based on Earth Observation data

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.

With the support of ESA, Belgian SME Ovinto has developed a service that offers satellite-based monitoring of rail cars and intermodal tank containers.

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.

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.

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.

The GeoSHM structural health monitoring system, developed with the support of ESA, is now being further deployed in Scotland and China.

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.

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.

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.

An enterprising Dutch startup is developing a viable business using Sentinel-1 SAR imagery to monitor oil and gas pipelines from space.

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.  

 

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.

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.

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.

Demonstration and pilot implementation of a satellite-based operations control system for managing teams in alpine rescue missions.

How satellite services give landowners an easier and cheaper way of calculating the potential economic value of conserving or restoring environmentally important peatlands.

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. 

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.

Thanks to European telecoms satellites, affordable broadband Internet access via satellite is becoming reality. 

Two recent ARTES-funded feasibility studies looked into ways of understanding and mitigating the risks associated with unstable terrain.

The incorporation of satellite communication services in railway signalling systems is now one step closer.

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.

ASSIST allows project managers to analyse the positive and negative impacts of their Telemedicine services way before they go live.

European Defence Agency (EDA) and European Space Agency (ESA), have agreed to pursue their cooperation in the domain of Remotely Piloted Aircrafts.

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.

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Insiders

Status date: 04 June 2024

Get Ready to Elevate Your Sports Experience with Infinity: The Ultimate GPS Accuracy Solution! Our innovative RTK based device doesn't just capture data, it enriches the entire sports experience by share real-time insights seamlessly across TV broadcasts, second-screen apps, live tracking platforms, ensuring that fans are immersed in the excitement from start to finish.

B2B Bike Navigation

Status date: 04 October 2024

This project develops 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 will make it easier, safer and more convenient for people and goods to travel by light, 2 wheeled transport rather than by cars, vans and trucks.
 

NbS Monitoring

Status date: 30 September 2024

The NbS Monitoring service delivers a streamlined Earth Observation-based approach to provide accurate, timely, and comprehensive assessments of medium to large-scale NbS peatland projects, increasing the confidence and transparency of project outcomes, and saving costs and time for customers.

WHIS

Status date: 25 September 2024

The Water Health Indicator Service (WHIS) provides a continuous data stream of environmental health indicators for inland water bodies. This service is an API with monitoring and reporting capabilities that allows you to track a set of specialised and highly descriptive Water Health Indicators.

SVI

Status date: 25 September 2024

SuperVision Infrastructure - Critical infrastructure monitoring system that utilizes satellite data and Earth Observation (EO) methods to develop an automated software solution for detecting and assessing damages and risks in close proximity to critical infrastructure. Exploring a fusion of optical and radar data with varying resolutions, the system serves as a rapid-response tool specifically designed for occupied and inaccessible territories.

EPOS

Status date: 25 September 2024

Europe requires clean, independent energy sources now more than ever. EPOS is a software-as-a-service solution that provides energy planning in buildings and cities. It combines state-of-the-art energy modelling with Earth Observation data, enabling engineers and decision makers to ideate, analyse the current situation and create diverse supply concepts. EPOS centralises essential data and includes AI algorithms for more efficient energy transformation.

BasinMeter

Status date: 25 September 2024

eLEAF and partner 52impact are overcoming the challenge of obtaining accurate and relevant water-risk related data with ‘BasinMeter’. The project combines scalable Earth observation technology with local datasets to expose the vulnerability of local watersheds and the impact on local related agricultural production and the community WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene). The project will enhance both strategic decision making and direct local intervention to mitigate water-stress.

MiLoW-RRS-DP-2

Status date: 25 September 2024

Following customer requests for expanding the initial service offering of the Micro Local Weather Route Recommendation Service’s high-resolution weather forecasts, new services for snow depth information, weather warnings, a short-term precipitation radar map, and high resolution climatologies were developed to provide better assistance and reduce weather-related risks for planning and undertaking safe outdoor activities.

Dreadnought

Status date: 18 September 2024

Dreadnought is proposing a drone-based service to deliver just in time medication, reduce carbon emissions and wastage and improve patient care in the UK National Health Service (NHS). The features developed and tested in this project will enable integration with drone operators and health systems.

SAIA KS

Status date: 25 September 2024

To support agricultural insurers in claim management and risk management, satellite data is used to support the assessment of current damage caused by weather events and to estimate the risk of future damage to a field.

SatMRV

Status date: 24 September 2024

SatMRV uses satellite images and soil data to deliver precise, cost-effective Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) mapping, allowing carbon credit generation and promoting regenerative agriculture. SatMRV's SOC measurement complies with the Carbon Certification Protocols and is an effective instrument for combating climate change.

SatMRV

Status date: 24 April 2023

Soil is critical in combating climate change. It can capture carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the soil while growing food. Carbon farming requires continuous measurement of Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) and rewarding farmers for positive change. Now, how to measure SOC on a regular basis at cost and scale? Because “if we can't Measure it, we can't Manage it”.

Methane Watch

Status date: 18 September 2024

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, NASA, NOAA and commercial satellites 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.

PowerEdge

Status date: 18 September 2024

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.

Greener Cotton

Status date: 11 September 2024

Greener|Cotton aims to substantially improve sustainable cotton production by the application of satellite based digital agriculture technology. Integrated with cotton local traceability solutions, Greener|Cotton will help to reduce inputs and thus costs, allow to better manage production risks, reduce workers and environmental contamination, increase cotton quality, yields and revenues, lead to trusted production data and improving smallholder livelihood.

GreenerCotton

Status date: 11 September 2024

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.

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.

RASFarm

Status date: 05 September 2024

RASFarm is a collaborative robot system exploiting the integration of mechanical technologies, artificial intelligence and satellite navigation to autonomously carry out different agricultural operations (plants and fruits monitoring, spraying and picking). 

EM-Grow

Status date: 05 September 2024

Experience the future of organic farming with a pioneering herbicide-free weed control solution. Utilizing advanced GNSS and RTK technology, an autonomous robotic fleet precisely targets and removes weeds, optimizing yield and ensuring livestock safety. Paltech’s Robots as a Service (RaaS) model delivers efficient, sustainable, and resource-effective farming, revolutionizing weed management for organic farmers in Germany.

Wind Sat

Status date: 04 September 2024

The Wind Sat project is developing an AI-powered forecasting platform for wind energy production using satellite imagery and other data sources. It provides high-frequency forecasts to help renewable energy companies optimize asset management, energy trading, and grid balancing. 

Eyes on Plastic

Status date: 04 September 2024

Eyes on Plastic provides a service solution, which combines multiple sensor components into a joint mapping and monitoring solution for plastic in the aquatic environment. By flying high and diving deep, plastic litter can be monitored at all angles and scales. On top, the service invites everybody to actively keep the eyes open on plastic spanning local info to a global reach.

SWIM

Status date: 04 September 2024

SWIM is a dynamic digital twin solution for water management, seamlessly integrates real-time in-situ data, satellite imagery, and advanced analytics. It monitors water quality and detects harmful algae blooms, providing customized insights, timely alerts and detailed reports. Designed for both municipal and private sector water management, SWIM empowers users to make informed decisions and enhance water resource management.