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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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Inteliports PORTAL

Status date: 17 January 2025

Inteliports develops autonomous, heavy lift drones and drone ports for the future of aerial logistics. The PORTAL project is seeking to trial demonstration of multimodal, collaborative logistics involving unmanned, aerial drones and micromobility with advanced robotics, automated infrastructure and SATCOMS enabled technologies. The project is a collaboration between Inteliports and Vodafone. 

ANESI

Status date: 17 January 2025

The ANESI kickstart introduces a trustworthy service for aerial inspections to manage, optimize, and maintain solar parks. By using autonomous navigation based on computer vision and precisely detecting anomalies through thermal images, operational inspection and processing time is considerably reduced. The increase in efficiency of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) flights and data handling have a great impact on the energy generated, reducing costs and boosting customer profits, while reducing CO2 emissions.

GreenerCotton

Status date: 17 January 2025

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.

PLATIN

Status date: 17 January 2025

The aim of PLATIN is to develop a satcom-enabled platform to support flight operations in real-time (aircraft manufacturers’ flight tests, science flights, UAV surveillance flights). This service is a major evolution of the already existing PLANET service. Innovations in PLATIN are focusing on the integration of a new generation of Satcom (Iridium Certus) allowing new applicative services such as video/high-resolution images transmission or bulk telemetry thanks to higher throughputs.

AC-DC

Status date: 16 January 2025

The AC-DC project focuses on applying various types and techniques of GNSS combinations, including the new Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS), in operational scenarios to improve the performance and reliability of a dynamic high-accuracy positioning service and reduce separation distancing in and around air/vertiports and logistical nodes that could be considered congested areas.

Satellite Data Freight Calculator (SDFC)

Status date: 16 January 2025

The Satellite Data Freight Calculator (SDFC) project aims to significantly innovate the dry bulk shipping industry by developing an advanced freight pricing tool combining market prices with carbon emissions. This service integrates AIS Satellite data with deep learning algorithms to predict ocean freight prices accurately and in near real-time.

WSDSI

Status date: 16 January 2025

Wastewater market intelligence company Klarifi has conducted a Kick-start activity to do Wastewater Structure Detection from Satellite Imagery (WSDSI). By accurately mapping the structures at 100,000+ wastewater facilities, we will provide highly valuable data to our clients and gain a unique competitive edge in the wastewater market intelligence space.

SMART

Status date: 16 January 2025

Feasibility study of innovative communication services based on Earth Observation (EO) data in the Green domain, which can facilitate the generation of scientific media content to be communicated in the climate change domain. It aims at increasing public awareness of climate change and citizens active participation in local authorities' green transition plans/policies.

Firemapper

Status date: 26 December 2024

Firemapper delivers real-time, high-resolution and cost-efficient wildfire mapping and analytics, leveraging space assets for enhanced crisis response and mitigation of CO2 emissions and environmental fallout.

VertiRapid

Status date: 26 December 2024

VertiRapid is a cutting-edge service designed to facilitate safe and efficient flight operations around vertiports (vertical landing/starting areas) for drones and Vertical Take Off and Landing aircraft. Leveraging available geodata and verified with Earth Observation (EO) techniques, VertiRapid swiftly determines operational parameters crucial for safe flight, aligning with ISO/DIS 5491 standards and European Aviation Safety Agency guidelines.

AMR-Sweeper

Status date: 26 December 2024

Our cities have more paved land than lawns, and although the lawns have spurred an exponentially growing market for robotic lawnmowers, no similar robotics solution exists for autonomous maintenance of paved areas. O-Robotics has a mission to develop the AMR-Sweeper, a multipurpose Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) to sustainably address the maintenance needs of paved areas in our cities.

Space4LevelCrossing

Status date: 26 December 2024

Space4LevelCrossing is a feasibility study of technical and commercial viability of innovative solutions based on use of satellite data in combination with the train on-board environment perception system for improving safety of Level Crossings.

Linking Drones Last Mile Delivery

Status date: 26 December 2024

Having already created a groundbreaking drone delivery solution that combines proprietary drone technology with a user-friendly mobile application, Linking Drones are now looking to expand their service offering by allowing offline satellite imagery maps, providing live telemetry from the drone, and enabling the use of third-party drones via our easy-to-use mobile app.

Space Technology Aided 3D Underwater Scanning

Status date: 26 December 2024

The project evaluates how 3D models of underwater assets produced for inspection and maintenance purposes can be enhanced by using satellite-based position technologies to improve the accuracy of the models themselves as well as position them in the global coordinate system. It also evaluates scan data transfer to the cloud, from remote locations, using satellite communication technology.

Rumore

Status date: 23 December 2024

Gain Unmatched Insights into Radar System Types and Locations: RUMORE provides intelligence on ground radio transmitters, including their key parameters, by analysing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images operating in the same band as the transmitters. The Pulse Descriptor Words (carrier frequency, bandwidth, duration, modulation type, Pulse Repetition Frequency, Polarization, TOA, DOA), are used to identify and expand transmitter type databases.

MASAI

Status date: 23 December 2024

MASAI is a web platform designed to support national and international organisations that intervene in emergency situations (humanitarian crises due to war and natural disasters). This web platform uses automated Artificial Intelligence algorithms applied to VHR and SAR images to identify damage to buildings and infrastructures, estimating the extent of economic damage and affected population; Ukraine is the use case.

RASFarm

Status date: 23 December 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).

Autonomous Offshore USV

Status date: 23 December 2024

The SenseBOAT Offshore USV System offer a versatile method for autonomous monitoring of water quality and biodiversity at open sea. Equipped with optical, visual and acoustic sensors the solution offers offshore industries a precision method for year long monitoring of marine nature at wind farms, floating solar farms and aquaculture production at open sea. 

BeSpatial.AI Demonstration

Status date: 21 December 2024

How do you target advertising to maximize customer reach and minimize costs? Where do target customers stay, live and work? What locations should be the focus of digital and physical advertisement campaigns?

BeSpatial.AI helps businesses in financial services and other industries to boost their ads performance with customer trained machine learning model (HolistiCRM).

Training is done based on internal datasets, EO (ESA) and GIS data (GeoX). In our first use-case machine learning model accuracy reached 91%.

Machine Learning supported targeting ROI 1127% thanks to lower CPC and higher conversion rates targeting the right (potential customer dense) locations.

SOCMo 4 RegAg

Status date: 23 December 2024

The SOCMO project aims to develop and validate a service to provide soil health information using Earth Observation data to monitor Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) of lands and crops. The final objective is to develop an easy-to-use and competitive framework for land restoration initiatives to keep track of the changes in SOC.

HSR

Status date: 23 December 2024

HeatScape Resolve project is developed jointly by Paulinyi&Partners cPlc. and Envirosense Hungary Ltd. to provide a solution for mapping and mitigating the urban heat island effect using satellite earth observation imagery, aiming to improve the effectiveness of existing predictive simulations. It makes use of Earth Observation data as input parameters for microclimate simulations for large scale urban real estate developments.

ForEOSt

Status date: 23 December 2024

ForEOSt empowers sustainable forest management with a diverse range of services designed to meet all your forest monitoring needs. SPACEBEL leverages advanced models using spaceborne and airborne data combined with in-situ information. Also, SPACEBEL provides AI-powered services for a selection of prioritized regions where models pre-developed and pre-trained in-house offer faster and cost-effective solutions than ever before.

Our services utilize dynamic Earth observation data, aerial imagery, and/or drone imagery to provide frequent updates on forest vitality, reliable tree counts, density measurements, and species identification. These insights enhance forest management practices in urban, agricultural, and rural settings, addressing the challenges posed by climate change and biodiversity loss. ForEOSt supports national and regional authorities, industries, and private landowners alike.

Let SPACEBEL help you monitor your forests and trees with the utmost efficiency

HARVIC Essential

Status date: 23 December 2024

The potato industry has been continuously increasing through the introduction of improved varieties, extensive mechanization and improved cultivation techniques and farm management. In order for the sector to maintain a sustainable growth and act in the dynamic market, the sector is actively looking to become more data driven, making decisions based on technological information and relying less on human expertise.

TeleAssist

Status date: 23 December 2024

TeleAssist is an Augmented Reality (AR) platform that consists of AR glasses and an encrypted communication Web platform integrating satellite-based communication capabilities. The communication platform provides handsfree bi-directional audio-video communication between healthcare professionals which improves the delivery of care in remote areas.