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.
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.
Rheticus® Forest Carbon Offset
Status date: 23 October 2024
Rheticus® Forest Carbon Offset is a service providing a reliability assessment for emissions offsetting investments for companies' sustainability strategies. The study aims to verify the feasibility of a service capable of automatically providing concise reports containing key information from the analysis of EO-derived data, integrated within the Rheticus® platform developed by Planetek Italia, evaluating forest carbon offsets of REDD+ projects.
Pemberton Biodiversity monitoring tool
Status date: 23 October 2024
The Pemberton Biodiversity Portal leverages a time series of UAV, aerial, and satellite data, alongside derived data which is ground-truthed and then compiled into a federated biodiversity metrics dataset to provide data consumers with accredited automated remote measurement and tracking of biodiversity.
HSR
Status date: 18 October 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.
Space2CLIMB
Status date: 18 October 2024
Space2CLIMB is looking to create a biodiversity service to support the financial service sector by combining GlobalTrust’s expertise in Earth Observation (EO) data analytics with Ecogain’s knowledge of biodiversity.
MUPO
Status date: 18 October 2024
MUPO enables the digitalization of agriculture with smart livestock and stable management by supporting robotics to:
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Minimize physical labour for farmers and mitigate workforce shortages.
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Provide appropriate housing for animals and support their welfare.
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Contribute to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in livestock farming.
MTrader
Status date: 16 August 2023
Awake.AI’s marine Marketplace with the power of AI for trading port services and products.
PLESS DEMO
Status date: 10 October 2024
Agrotechs
Status date: 10 October 2024
The Kick-Start activity aimed at developing driveability, site-specific application maps for herbicides, disease risk, harvest sequence and irrigation advise maps. These innovative Satellite Earth Observation (SatEO)-based products support precision farming technology. By leveraging advanced technology, these tools enhance agricultural efficiency, promote sustainability, and reduce input costs, enabling optimal farm management.
SCAF
Status date: 10 October 2024
Mitigrate, an InsureTech startup, pioneers flood risk management with its SaaS platform. Utilizing advanced technologies and earth observation data, it offers nature-based solutions reducing flood risks. Targeting insurance companies, Mitigrate's tool fills a crucial gap, providing pre- and post-flood disaster guidance. Beyond risk reduction, it aligns with global sustainability goals, positively impacting insurance performance metrics. An investment in Mitigrate is an investment in resilience, sustainability, and the future of flood risk management.
B2B Bike Navigation
Status date: 04 October 2024
This project develops an end-to-end navigation service which can be fully integrated into business customers’ own 2-wheeled vehicle products/services, including best-in-class routing optimisation (tailored to user needs) and navigation for 2-wheeler use-cases.
This will make it easier, safer and more convenient for people and goods to travel by light, 2 wheeled transport rather than by cars, vans and trucks.
NbS Monitoring
Status date: 30 September 2024
The NbS Monitoring service delivers a streamlined Earth Observation-based approach to provide accurate, timely, and comprehensive assessments of medium to large-scale NbS peatland projects, increasing the confidence and transparency of project outcomes, and saving costs and time for customers.
WHIS
Status date: 25 September 2024
The Water Health Indicator Service (WHIS) provides a continuous data stream of environmental health indicators for inland water bodies. This service is an API with monitoring and reporting capabilities that allows you to track a set of specialised and highly descriptive Water Health Indicators.
EPOS
Status date: 25 September 2024
Europe requires clean, independent energy sources now more than ever. EPOS is a software-as-a-service solution that provides energy planning in buildings and cities. It combines state-of-the-art energy modelling with Earth Observation data, enabling engineers and decision makers to ideate, analyse the current situation and create diverse supply concepts. EPOS centralises essential data and includes AI algorithms for more efficient energy transformation.
BasinMeter
Status date: 25 September 2024
eLEAF and partner 52impact are overcoming the challenge of obtaining accurate and relevant water-risk related data with ‘BasinMeter’. The project combines scalable Earth observation technology with local datasets to expose the vulnerability of local watersheds and the impact on local related agricultural production and the community WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene). The project will enhance both strategic decision making and direct local intervention to mitigate water-stress.
MiLoW-RRS-DP-2
Status date: 25 September 2024
Following customer requests for expanding the initial service offering of the Micro Local Weather Route Recommendation Service’s high-resolution weather forecasts, new services for snow depth information, weather warnings, a short-term precipitation radar map, and high resolution climatologies were developed to provide better assistance and reduce weather-related risks for planning and undertaking safe outdoor activities.
Dreadnought
Status date: 18 September 2024
Dreadnought is proposing a drone-based service to deliver just in time medication, reduce carbon emissions and wastage and improve patient care in the UK National Health Service (NHS). The features developed and tested in this project will enable integration with drone operators and health systems.
SAIA KS
Status date: 25 September 2024
To support agricultural insurers in claim management and risk management, satellite data is used to support the assessment of current damage caused by weather events and to estimate the risk of future damage to a field.
SatMRV
Status date: 24 September 2024
SatMRV uses satellite images and soil data to deliver precise, cost-effective Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) mapping, allowing carbon credit generation and promoting regenerative agriculture. SatMRV's SOC measurement complies with the Carbon Certification Protocols and is an effective instrument for combating climate change.
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”.
Methane Watch
Status date: 18 September 2024
Methane Watch is the world’s first monitoring system to measure the methane footprint of the energy sector. It combines Earth Observation data from the Copernicus constellation, NASA, NOAA and commercial satellites with advanced analytics to monitor emissions from oil, gas and coal with unprecedented accuracy, and provides unique insights to decarbonise the energy industry on a global scale.
PowerEdge
Status date: 18 September 2024
The project is developing a new standard for physical snowpack measurements for the hydropower industry by use of L-band radar measurements in combination with InSAR processing techniques. The added values are higher resolution of snow estimations in time and space as well as less need for physical presence (equipment & humans) in the mountains to do snow estimations.