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.
EpiWise
Status date: 24 March 2025
The EpiWise Platform is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for epidemic risk mapping. It provides spatially-explicit and time-sensitive risk assessments of environment-sensitive emerging epidemic threats to industry and public health decision makers. This is achieved by deploying cloud-native, highly scalable, secure analytics combining AI-powered geospatial big-data intelligence with the latest epidemiological models.
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.
OSCAR
Status date: 26 December 2023
Space-data surveillance service for effective vessel management, enabling greater efficiencies in the planning of construction and the maintenance of offshore wind farms.
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MyoCaid
Status date: 24 March 2025
MyoCaid is a novel treatment for advanced heart failure which assists the failing heart, encouraging its recovery, rather than bypassing it. This unique mechanism of action has the potential to alleviate the symptoms and prolong the life of people with this disease.
UVFDR
Status date: 18 March 2025
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.
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.
CTAPP
Status date: 11 March 2025
The CTAPP will be specifically tailored to urban environments, addressing the unique challenges that cities face in the context of climate change. Using the CICs methodology, EO and non-EO data, it will systematically analyze and model the cascading effects of climate-related events in urban environments and provide critical insights into the vulnerability of urban areas to climate-related disasters.
PYRNEXAT
Status date: 10 March 2025
The project harnesses IoT and Artificial Intelligence technologies which incorporate earth observation, satellite communications, and GNSS capabilities. The smart sanitation management platform collects and analyses contextually complementary data relating to toilet-user behaviour and health, sanitation management processes and broader external environmental factors
SITH
Status date: 07 March 2025
CORAC “SITH” service is a cloud-based software solution, designed to authenticate and trace Earth Observation (EO) data. It ensures data integrity and trustworthiness across the EO value chain, using keyless digital signing & verification, traceable data provenance, and trustworthiness evaluations. SITH aims to protect EO data from tampering, helping providers comply with complex EU cybersecurity and AI regulations while safeguarding critical decision-making processes.
Tunnll
Status date: 07 March 2025
Tunnll provides an innovative, efficient, and user-friendly local transit solution for small towns. Tunnll is a next-generation public bus service that achieves higher efficiency with advanced technologies.
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.
Project Eclipse
Status date: 27 February 2025
Following a successful feasibility study for a multipurpose shared electric fleet solution for NHS Hospitals, Project Eclipse covered the development and pilot of a new and highly innovative transport technology for Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The project was set out to reduce transport related challenges for employees and patients by providing a sustainable, optimised, fully electric fleet solution that improves access, reduces cost and helps the NHS meet ambitious Net Zero targets.
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.