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.
MALIBU
Status date: 24 March 2025
AI-enabled services for private companies responsible for roads surveillance and monitoring, for Municipalities responsible for safety and comfort aspects towards the roads’ users but, at the same time, also needing to safeguard the municipality cash balance.
MALIBU leverages on the most up to date technologies (from satellites to AI) to provide users with agile, flexible, effective and economically advantageous solutions for road defects detection, both through an own web platform, or to be integrated in already available user’s systems (e.g., GIS).
The MALIBU on-board unit, thought and designed for the monitoring of asphalt’ s defects, can be installed on cars, vans or, for the mapping of a large part of the urban road fabric, on local buses fleet; that means an adaptive and functional solution that can provide an overall view and always updated status information of roads travelled daily by equipped vehicles.
All the information can be easily accessed on a web platform that allows users to search and filter the data, download it and visualize it as plots, in a tabular format and/or in GIS (directly on the map). Additionally, the platform provides periodic reports, in CSV or PDF format, concerning the data produced by the main services.
In addition to the defects’ detection service, also a set of other sub-services is provided.
IN: BIKE Discovery
Status date: 24 March 2025
A collaborative effort to gather data for insights, knowledge, and evaluation based on moving bicycles u nlocking the potential of bicycle data to revolutionise infrastructure and management decisions for active and micro-mobility.
RT5.0
Status date: 18 March 2025
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.
SPACES
Status date: 14 March 2025
SPACES enhances accessible parking through sensor-enabled monitoring, satellite imagery analysis, and a Bluetooth-integrated parking permit system. By combining real-time data with geospatial insights, the project improves enforcement, reduces misuse, and ensures equitable access for people with disabilities. Developed with ESA, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, and Expleo, SPACES prioritizes smart, inclusive urban mobility.
SJAR
Status date: 11 March 2025
UAV swarm-based humanitarian mine-detection and -recognition in GNSS-denied and communication-contested environments, as one module of the Dropla de-mining solution, which includes ground drones for terrain preparation and confirmation.
AmmonEO
Status date: 07 March 2025
The purpose of the project is to validate the feasibility of using new Earth Observation (EO) products to monitor atmospheric ammonia concentrations from agriculture. This information can help farmers and government agencies understand emissions at the individual farm level. This is the potential catalyst for improved low-emission farm management practices.
MinFarm Tech Smart Water over SatCom
Status date: 06 March 2025
The project objective is to develop MinFarm Tech’s optimized IoT over SatCom bridge for Smart Water Management deployments anywhere in the world regardless of access to the power grid and terrestrial networks.
SIDPPAI
Status date: 05 March 2025
A group of Agriculture analytics services using geospatial data and AI, provided through APIs to players of the Ag industry.
DHI Global Seas
Status date: 05 March 2025
Global Seas (focussing on the shipping industry) allows you to reduce fuel consumption and to improve your vessel performance.
Global Seas Offshore Wind Energy CCN (focussing on the offshore wind industry) allows you to reduce downtime during installation and O&M of offshore wind farms as well as optimizing allocation of expensive operational assets.
Scalable Earth Blox
Status date: 26 February 2025
Scalable Earth Blox has transformed the Earth Blox platform into a fully-fledged SaaS enabling non-coders to create, on the cloud and on-demand, customised geospatial solutions and insights with ease. This has enabled us to support a global market, targeting organisations of all sizes, as well as opening up EO to a wider non-technical audience.
FIELDOPS
Status date: 24 February 2025
AI co-pilot for the digitalization of complex food production operations of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies
Drone parcel distribution in a closed area
Status date: 24 February 2025
The project prepares a feasibility study for Technology for Drone parcel distribution in a closed area on designed Drone Helipads. The helipads and Navigation System for drones are satellite-based on GNSS and Earth observation data to ensure safe, precise landings in urban environments. Designed for commercial drone operations, it enhances logistics efficiency while minimizing risks. The system is tested in real-world conditions through Brno Exhibition Centre.
Remote Ecological Surveys with EO
Status date: 24 February 2025
To restore and protect biodiversity, we need reliable, scalable data. Traditional ecological surveys are labour-intensive, slow, and constrained by geography.
Gentian transforms biodiversity monitoring by harnessing satellite imagery and AI to deliver fast, accurate ecological surveys at scale.
The company’s fully remote approach eliminates logistical barriers, ensuring precision-driven insights that empower informed decision-making.
TRIPS
Status date: 13 February 2025
TRIPS Transport Management Tool will be deployed through a Web-application to offer to municipal police forces, city infrastructure management, info mobility providers and insurance companies an effective instrument for the prevention of road accidents and road safety management.
IONA Hubs Network
Status date: 12 February 2025
IONA tackles costly rural deliveries with autonomous, satellite-guided drones that lower costs 5–20×. ESA-supported Cosmogony TMS integrates with existing van TMS to handle drone-vs-van parcel allocation, and removes regulatory hurdles by providing SORA-compliant BVLOS routing and satellite-enabled landing zone identification for last-mile and reverse logistics.
ARIES
Status date: 03 February 2025
The aim of ARIES project is to provide to the end users, i.e. Italian Civil protection (IPC) - Servizio Emergenze Protezione Civile Abruzzo, Italian Fire brigades (VVF), Carabinieri – Corpo Forestale (CUFA), Parco Naturale Regionale Sirente Velino, Municipality of Celano, an efficient set of services to improve the prevention and detection, monitoring and response to landslides and wildfire emergencies. This will be achieved through the combined use of new technologies (terrestrial and satellite both) to enhance the quality and interoperability of the tools for forecasting and monitoring wildfires and hydrogeological risks.
Wildfire emergencies
The proposed services will support forest fire emergency management through the integration of different data sources (i.e. Sentinel-2, PRISMA and IoT sensors data, drones) to provide target End Users actionable information (alert and precise localization of hazard, risk indexes, fire front propagation, etc. ) on a dedicated dashboard.
Landslide emergencies
The proposed services will support landslides emergency management through the integration of different data sources (i.e. COSMO-SkyMed, IoT sensors data, drones) to provide target End Users actionable information (alert and precise localization of hazard, risk indexes, etc).
SeaScope
Status date: 31 January 2025
Viridien’s SeaScope service increases knowledge on the presence, characteristics and behaviour of oil pollution in marine and coastal environments by combining deep interpretative understanding with the unique spatial, spectral and textural information contained within historical and frequently acquired contemporary satellite images.
CoCuRA
Status date: 29 January 2025
CoCuRA uses machine learning and satellite data to remotely detect cotton fields in India and distinguish whether their cultivation standard is "organic" or "non-organic".
MyEasyBiomass
Status date: 29 January 2025
Unlock the potential of satellite remote sensing and advanced modeling for accurate and cost-effective biomass measurements in your RegenAg and Carbon programme. Gain precise insights into crop and cover crop biomass, as well as CO2 fluxes with our innovative solution.
SaturnX
Status date: 15 January 2025
SaturnX is a drone-based wind turbine inspection service collecting high-resolution RGB images from an offshore wind farm-resident Launch/Recovery/Recharge Platform (LARRP), thereby replacing traditional inspections involving technicians manually climbing turbines using ropes or semi-manual inspections via drones operated from a pilot on the vessel deck. SaturnX inspection flights are conducted BVLOS, enabled by satcom technology and operated from an onshore Control Centre.