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.
UVFDR
Status date: 21 August 2024
The universal virtual flight data recorder (UVFDR) is a vendor-agnostic, non-exclusive data repository, providing flight data including Global Aeronautic Distress and Safety System (GADSS) functions from day-to-day aviation operations to users in near real time.
N-FLOW
Status date: 20 November 2024
N-Flow develops a satellite-based model that monitors nitrate run-off based on physical geologic characteristics and crop practices. Farmers and corporations can focus agricultural practice change to improve nitrogen use efficiency on the N run-off hotspots identified by the model to reduce nitrate pollution in water and improve business sustainability.
Orbio Earth Platform
Status date: 19 November 2024
The OE Platform uses satellites to track methane emissions from the oil & gas industry. This enables management of methane and associated energy transition risks using global, asset-level, highly frequent emissions data embedded into a deep regulatory, supply chain, portfolio exposure and operations analytics.
GRailMon
Status date: 19 November 2024
The GRailMon project aims to fine-tune and demonstrate an innovative GNSS-based solution for monitoring the 3D position of sections of railway tracks with millimeter precision.
RTIS
Status date: 19 November 2024
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 in the Persian gulf and Read Sea areas, RTIS will enable easy setup and programming of monitoring regions, ensuring timely data delivery for efficient analysis.
AVISAR
Status date: 19 November 2024
AVISAR is a demonstration project which aims to provide solutions to support clean and safe operations within the energy sector through carefully selected services, for both onshore and offshore operations. AVISAR is a product suite based on multi-mission, multi-sensor Earth Observation assets to address the challenges faced to reduce costs, increase efficiency and develop safer and cleaner methods of operation.
OGOR Yield
Status date: 19 November 2024
Yield forecast report for 3 major crops (maize, winter wheat, rapeseed, winter barley, sunflower) starting from 2 months before harvest. The forecast will be made at the field & farm level and automatically be available every two weeks. At the county level, OGOR will publish every 2 weeks yield forecasts, helping farmers
have a broad overview of the season to make the right decision when storing, transporting, or
selling the crops.
Astrobone
Status date: 14 November 2024
Objective of the project is to study and validate b.Bone scaffold in osteoporotic environment to improve human bone surgery. b.Bone is a synthetic bone substitute, CE marked and indicated for clinical applications in orthopaedic and traumatology surgeries. The scaffold is seeded in vitro with human bone cells in simulated microgravity and then in space (after the current activity), to simulate an osteoporotic accelerated model, and their response is analysed.
ISABHEL
Status date: 11 November 2024
ISABHEL is a continuous monitoring service that leverages 5G technologies and provides qualitative and quantitative information for the management of specific assets, identifies areas for predictive maintenance, supports asset financial resilience and disaster prevention. The proposal is based on the synergistic integration of different technologies enabling advanced monitoring of the structural health of bridges. The service is specifically aimed at monitoring the structural health of bridges located on the Po River, which are recognized as assets of interest for the City of Turin.
TSMF_10CM DP: WaldCursor
Status date: 11 November 2024
TSMF_10CM DP is Tama Group’s core project to develop, test and test market the WaldCursor product. The project covers development, test and field test of a cloud & app based remote sensing analytics information platform for forestry and environmental applications.
GAINS CCN1
Status date: 11 November 2024
GAINS provides historic and near-real-time insights on the production and activity levels at hundreds of sites involved in the global iron and steel supply chain. It offers an “alternative data” source for the Financial Services industry by providing near-real-time leading indicators such as stockpiles of raw materials and levels of activity and production, based primarily on satellite observations.
FASTWIND
Status date: 11 November 2024
FASTWIND is a cloud-based technology and financial tool for the offshore wind sector. Software developer Exceedence, Simply Blue Group, a leading blue economy developer, and NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, are partnering on this project to use satellite data from ESA’s satellite network to conduct wind resource measurement and energy yield analysis.
SUPER
Status date: 11 November 2024
SUPER focuses on using Earth Observation (SatEO) and Satellite Navigation (SatNav) for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) infrastructure planning and integration into public transport, and in planning and monitoring aspects of UAM operations. Relying on SatEO (archived and near real-time) data provides diverse geospatial, environmental, weather and mapping information, and allows combining it with SatNav data from air traffic (once available).
Eyes on Plastic
Status date: 31 October 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.
safeBACK
Status date: 31 October 2024
With safeBACK, our integrated Safety Alert and Flood Forecasting Engine, we empower local authorities and civil protection agencies to act proactively in case of flooding. By combining real-time water levels, precipitation forecasts, and Earth observation data, safeBACK provides accurate alerts and probabilistic flood forecasts for brooks and creeks. This enables authorized users to anticipate and understand flooding situations, enhancing response readiness and protecting communities before disaster strikes.
ProvGRASS_DP
Status date: 29 October 2024
ProvGrass generates multi-temporal maps of the grass platform or area of interest including sward quantity and quality to enable customers in the dairy and beef industry to provide products that positively influence sustainably productive farming through end-user (e.g., farmers or advisers) grass management This results in higher quality milk production at better margins, while adhering to increasingly stringent requirements to demonstrate improved sustainability.
EO4CarbonFarming
Status date: 29 October 2024
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.
DITCH
Status date: 28 October 2024
The newly developed DITCH - Digital Twin Catchment service consists of an online accessible digital representation of basins providing static and dynamic variables like topography, land use and cover, hydrological and ecological conditions (water level, discharge, sediment concentrations, algal blooms) of water bodies, and soil characteristics provided through earth observation (EO) including potential dynamics next to past and present situations.
This physical twin is then also combined with socio-economic information to provide relevant decision support tools for resilient basin management of water-related stakeholders.
FB Eye
Status date: 23 October 2024
FB Eye – acronym of Fire-Bombing Eye – is a commercial initiative to improve the firefighting operations using innovative space-based and ground-based technologies.
FB Eye is an innovative platform-as-a-service commercial provision of integrated satellite/airborne Comms/Nav support to the precision water bombing of large wildfires.
FB Eye provides water bomber pilots with a near real time information map with precise geographical location of most radiating fire hotspots, being the most effective release target to extinguish rapidly the fire.