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.
MOWGLI
Status date: 31 May 2023
From planning to monitoring: the exploitation of satellite technologies in urban and rural microgrid life cycle.
AQUAFARM 2.0
Status date: 31 May 2023
Aquafarm brings together satellite data and Soil-Plant-Air models to provide operational services to Farmers service providers as well as national institutions related with crop development and forecast.
Autocali
Status date: 30 May 2023
Autocali aims to automate the recalibration of irrigation models without user interference or additional hardware. By analyzing satellite images for soil moisture signals, the system detects deviations from existing irrigation models and readjusts them accordingly.
OPAT
Status date: 30 May 2023
The aim of the project is to detect and Track the Plastic litter at sea.
GALILEARN
Status date: 30 May 2023
GALILEARN Project foresees the acquisition, development and consolidation of skills and knowledge, both technical and scientific, with particular reference to Space and Earth Observation, using tools and methods that combine education and entertainment.
VLS
Status date: 30 May 2023
VerifEye enables producers, processors and retailers deliver the proof required by consumers in relation to provenance and other claims.
Ad Astra
Status date: 30 May 2023
Ad Astra is a project by Astrosat is to assess the technical and commercial feasibility of space services being provided to user organisations without a pay-wall, funded by advertising revenue, specifically global brand Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) budgets.
C.O.R.E.
Status date: 30 May 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.
PREMIA
Status date: 29 May 2023
PREMIA project aims to fill the gap currently existing between satellite Earth Observation and the agro insurance market by providing an innovative and integrated end-to-end platform.
SarSentry demonstration project in Para
Status date: 29 May 2023
The SarSentry project in Para demonstrates the complementary value of the SarSentry deforestation and forest degradation system to the existing forest monitoring system of the Secretariat for Environment and Sustainability of the State Pará in Brazil (SEMAS). Demonstrations have been provided for 3 pilot themes/trials: Nature conservation, Forest plantations and selective logging, and Agricultural areas.
The project has been conducted by SarVision and Wageningen University and Research.
CostCutting4Sugarcane
Status date: 14 February 2023
Optimizing mill revenue by improving harvest logistics and fertilizer management.
EO4CarbonFarming
Status date: 17 May 2023
The project aims to develop a service for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of agricultural measures to bind CO2 in the soil as a part of “Carbon Farming”. The tool will be able to monitor catch crops, report on farming practices for higher carbon sequestration and verify organic carbon build-up in the soil.
EO4CarbonFarming
Status date: 20 December 2021
EO4CarbonFarming offers calibrated maps of the organic carbon content in the soil by analysing Sentinel-2 time series. The service is provided through a digital platform and supports carbon farming certification, reducing the CO2 footprint of agriculture, promoting soil fertility and improving the resilience of farming systems to climate change.
FLARE
Status date: 16 May 2023
FLARE is an easy-to-use software analytics platform that provides earth observation data and analyses derived from it in a geospatial context. It offers governmental data and data intelligence that are directly accessible, making it possible to conduct feasibility studies, plan renewable energy opportunities faster, and assess suitability by looking beyond the solar and wind resources. FLARE is valuable for those looking to find and share renewable energy land opportunities with energy developers.
FLARE
Status date: 10 June 2016
FLARE is an integrated software package and data service which supports the global forestry insurance industry in asset estimation, risk management and loss adjustment. This feasibility study analysed the operational, technical and economic viability of a FLARE system/ service providing Earth Observation and Global Navigation Satellite System data and mapping products, within a simple software interface.
ENTEL
Status date: 16 May 2023
ENTEL combines EO satellite imagery and geospatial data to improve the effectiveness and resilience of large energy infrastructure operators, supporting their activities during the whole network life-cycle: planning - construction - operation.
ENTEL
Status date: 26 January 2021
The ENTEL project enables the development of an innovative service to improve the effectiveness of large infrastructure (electricity and gas pipeline) operators' activities within network life-cycle.
Proteus
Status date: 16 May 2023
Proteus builds on the success of the SEDDCR project and introduces a significantly increased operating area by leveraging novel space technology such as Iridium NEXT. Integrating with the NHS Highlands, Skyports is delivering to six medical facilities where drone deliveries facilitated by space technology has the potential to significantly enhance patient care.
StreamSonde
Status date: 22 December 2022
The world’s lightest weather sonde, the StreamSonde, is launched from balloon, airplane, drone or UAV and carried around by natural winds. It records winds at higher accuracy and in greater detail than ever before by using GNSS technology and IMU sensors. It also records a large number of weather parameters with multiple sensors. In this project, its benefits for storm and routine weather measurements was demonstrated, along with user benefits of obtaining better weather forecasts.
DROMAS
Status date: 12 June 2019
DROMAS services aim at periodical full country monitoring of agricultural vegetation to serve decision makers on national level
DROMAS
Status date: 05 August 2015
DROMAS services aim at periodical full country monitoring of agricultural vegetation to serve decision makers on national level and to provide historical and current year crop analysis to support farm management at agricultural parcel level.
Anywhere Care
Status date: 12 May 2023
The Anywhere Care Mobile Alarm Service using GNSS assets will enable vulnerable people to be continuously monitored wherever they may be, creating both automatic and user generated alerts for action by Social Care and family carers. This will facilitate a step change in the deployment of social care teams and improve outcomes for recipients.
GAINS
Status date: 12 May 2023
GAINS is an “alternative data” platform for the Financial Services industry providing near-real time activity and leading-indicator production indices for a range of industrial supply chains such as iron ore and steel, and in future other metals, minerals and materials.
GAINS provides historic and near-real-time insights on the activity and production levels at hundreds of industrial sites worldwide on a daily or weekly basis, at a scale not previously possible, by harnessing AI-enabled remote sensing data fusion.
Economic Intelligence Factory
Status date: 12 May 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.
TRACTIONS
Status date: 06 May 2023
TRACTIONS addresses the need for water transparency information by the dredging market and primary production information by the aquaculture sector. TRACTIONS services include continuous local calibration and validation with proprietary optical sensors from the WISPstation network, and very high resolution imagery that is available multiple times and day. This project will study the feasibility of the TRACTIONS service.
BIGMIG-DEMO CCN
Status date: 08 May 2023
The project aims to establish a service leveraging Earth Observation data and Machine Learning techniques to support the news industry with measurable, testable, and independent satellite-derived information.
Monitoring and verification of carbon credits from forestry CO2 sequestration projects
Status date: 28 April 2023
The project involved developing a pilot system for using satellite imagery from the EU Copernicus programme to monitor forests in the Halo Verde Project (Timor-Leste) to assess the carbon sequestration potential through biomass growth. The output of the system was used to document, assess and verify whether monitored forest plots grew as described in the carbon credit project model specification.
simBa
Status date: 26 April 2023
Say goodbye to traditional physiotherapy and hello to a revolutionary new way of recovery with KINFINITY's simBa! This digital physiotherapy assistant takes the hassle out of rehabilitation and makes every step of the journey enjoyable. With simBa, you'll have a virtual physiotherapist by your side wherever you go, making it easy to stay on top of your exercises and get back to your best self. So why wait? Put on simBa, work through your exercises, and feel the difference today!
GISSMoR
Status date: 28 April 2023
We want to utilize mobile robots for performing two distinct services simultaneously: 1) Creating or refining the precision of GNSS-based GIS maps of sidewalks using our mobile robots for data collection via adequate sensors/cameras. 2) Collect data on the quality of the sidewalks using accelerometers already in the robot, coupled with an AI camera for visual confirmation.
CACHE Net Zero
Status date: 24 April 2023
CACHE Net Zero is focused on the development and commercial deployment of a subscription-based service, aimed at Maritime Port Authorities, Port Operators and Shipping Operators. The service informs and contributes to port and shipping operation environmental sustainability and energy efficiency, leveraging access to satellite data sources, while also responding to the linked concerns about air pollution and progression towards net zero emissions in maritime ports and harbours. CACHE Net Zero data intelligence inform Port de-carbonisation and pathway towards Net Zero.
DeGAS
Status date: 24 April 2023
DELPHI IMM is developing a service to estimate GHG removal from afforestation projects using remote sensing. The service is aimed to provide insights on carbon storage in vegetation for all entities along the carbon offsetting value chain and present the results in an appealing user-interface including maps, time-series, and reports.
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”.
FARMEX
Status date: 24 April 2023
“Farmstar Export” is the adapted version of the original Farmstar service, developed and operated in France by Airbus since 2005. As the leading Precision Agriculture service based on EO in France, Farmstar helps farmers in optimizing the nitrogen inputs in their fields, not only to comply with regulations but also to steamline their operating costs.