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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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EO4CSR

Status date: 12 March 2024

The EO4CSR project aimed to assess the potential of Earth observation (EO) derived information to enable companies and financial institutions to facilitate due diligence and reporting requirements deriving from the European CSR Directive (Corporate Social Responsibility - CSRD) and European Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).

THERMALEEGO

Status date: 07 March 2024

Revolutionize energy asset inspection with ThermAleego: AI-powered software using thermal imaging and space assets for precise anomaly detection, optimal maintenance, and cost savings.

HIRES-CURRENT-PERF

Status date: 06 March 2024

This feasibility study quantifies the performance of short-term optimal routing mode using a new generation of surface currents data obtained by AI fusion of high-resolution satellite observations.

SNA

Status date: 04 August 2023

The Smart Nurse Assistant project introduces an innovative solution to automate repetitive tasks in
healthcare. It will provide an unmanned medical equipment delivery robot service to effectively lower the
pressure on the nurses and other healthcare personnel by taking over some of the time-consuming tasks of
delivering items and equipment between hospital departments, nursing homes and similar healthcare
institutions.

EO Diagnostics

Status date: 04 March 2024

In this transformative project AI-driven diagnostics, and Earth Observation (EO) data are bridged to
revolutionize patient care and early disease prediction. AI, fueled by satellite data, enables early disease
prediction by analyzing environmental factors such as UV exposure and dust concentrations. This approach
extends beyond traditional healthcare, addressing global health and environmental challenges.

AROBS AlertBox

Status date: 04 March 2024

AROBS AlertBox aims to offer access to E-alert messages and 112 emergency service, in environments that lack reliable GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication). This product is an emergency alert box that connects, via the Iridium global satellite constellation system, , to the national emergency response systems in critical situations when communication channels are compromised.

ORCAS

Status date: 01 March 2024

Trade in Space creates NFTs on a blockchain, using SatEO analysis. But these aren’t works of art – they're tied to physical commodity crops still growing in the field and this new approach enables us to move into a new age of transactional insight®. In this project Trade in Space will show the value this new approach has in streamlining global coffee and cacao supply-chains.

HeManEO

Status date: 01 March 2024

The activity aims to transform Earth Observation (EO) data into a reliable product for various business clients, including large corporations and the financial sector. It addresses compliance with auditing, legal standards, and emerging ESG regulations, offering End-to-end validation ensuring data security, compliance, immutability, and nonrepudiation.

Energy SCOUT

Status date: 22 February 2024

Energy SCOUTTM is a modular set of services which transform daily and weekly feeds of raw satellite sensor and spatial data into a series of value-added information products, targeting different activities along the oil & gas supply chain.

CDPP

Status date: 20 February 2024

Patient wandering off is a major concern in long term care facilities. The CDPP project responds to that concern by adding geo-fencing and Search & Rescue (SAR) capability using Galileo GNSS. This prevents dementia patients from getting lost and wandering off facilities.

BST HIKES

Status date: 14 February 2024

BST.COACH, a Czech digital youth sports platform has developed a reward-based outdoor exercise application using GNSS-stamped locations.

Samplifly

Status date: 14 February 2024

SAMPLIFLY is a fast, integrated, and sustainable drone-based express transportation service design to carry different types of samples for industrial companies. SAMPLIFLY is able to operate in highly industrialised areas such as large harbours.

5G Drone Safety Module

Status date: 14 February 2024

Currently drones are not electronically visible, and it is not possible to determine accountability of a drone without searching and hoping you can find the operator. The proposed activity for the ESA Kick-Start project is to solve the issue of electronically identifying and tracking of drones.

AFNOL

Status date: 14 February 2024

The project aims to improve the data analytics software used by insurance companies to confirm an accident has happened, who is at fault and the probability of injury.

SPACE4LIFE

Status date: 08 February 2024

This study is meant primarily for increasing road user safety when crossing a level crossing and thus, the decrease of fatal accidents at rail-road crossings representing the second cause of railways fatalities in EU. In this project the achievement of higher safety standards for level crossing accident prevention is thought through the design of a low-cost system based on space assets and cutting-edge informatic technologies. The proposed system could be strengthened in terms of data accuracy through the integration of ground technologies (i.e., optical cameras and interactive signs) where needed.

PeaSat

Status date: 05 February 2024

The PeaSat project will develop a yield prediction package which uses satellite imagery to forecast vining pea harvest volumes around two weeks before harvest.

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.

ABG

Status date: 30 January 2024

A data product harnessing wildfire impact data for carbon credit verification, estimation, and above-ground biomass change analysis in the growing carbon market.

SENO

Status date: 28 January 2024

The SENO demonstration project aims to rapidly and efficiently deploy a high throughput and low latency satellite communications service to serve as a reliable and independent communication channel for the needs of humanitarian organizations in Dori (Burkina Faso). In this way, humanitarian actors would be able to offer IP-based services to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and to the local community, while also improving the working conditions of their staff. Based on the success of the pilot and the market demand, the service could be scaled-up to other locations in and outside Burkina Faso.

3E Solar Data Services

Status date: 28 January 2024

3E Project Development solution provides accurate and bankable satellite-based solar irradiation data for solar power modelling: 3E Solar Irradiation Data. It is your go-to application to assess the long-term yield of future solar assets, improve the return on investment and evaluate operational plant performance.

PeaceEye

Status date: 27 January 2024

Monitoring and understanding of armed conflicts, Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus.
 

GSM (Golden Soils Monitoring)

Status date: 16 January 2024

Seqana is a Berlin-based startup developing a digital Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) service for soil organic carbon offset and inset projects, using Machine Learning (ML)  and Earth Observation technologies. This Kick-Start project aimed to enable Seqana to acquire new ground truth datasets and to calibrate its ML models in Cambodia, Germany, and Kenya/Tanzania in collaboration with its local partners, respectively SmartAgro, CO2-Land, and Justdiggit. The relative improvement in accuracy metrics that Seqana achieved for each of the three calibrated regional models were an average increase in the final point-level test R^2 of 160% and an average reduction in point-level test Root Mean Square Error of at least 20%.

O-BOY

Status date: 10 January 2024

O-BOY is the first wrist-wearable that contains a satellite transmitter - therefore operates outside the range of mobile phones - and will offer a total package of services that can be lifesaving for athletes and adventurers in remote areas.

AirTracks

Status date: 08 January 2024

AirTracks is a flexible and cost-efficient Air Navigation Information Service for enhanced aircraft safety during approach and departure at small and medium aerodromes which do not have any aeronautical surveillance system (e.g. Radars). Airtracks combines various aircraft surveillance information (ADS-B, Mode-S, etc) in the vicinity of an airfield. The information can be visualized on a web-based display, showing the relevant/customized ancillary information layers in a user-friendly way e.g. flight plan, aeronautical charts, meteorological information as well as safety related notifications to aircraft pilots (NOTAMS).