Reducing the risk of bird strikes using satellite images and Ascend’s Normalised Difference Water index software (NDWI)
PROJECT SHOWCASES
16 August 2017
British start-up Rezatec has developed a landscape monitoring service based on Earth Observation data
06 June 2017
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.
09 May 2017
With the support of ESA, Belgian SME Ovinto has developed a service that offers satellite-based monitoring of rail cars and intermodal tank containers.
20 March 2017
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.
03 March 2017
A new rail line in Australia uses GNSS positioning for signalling, introducing the concept of virtual balises for ERTMS Level 2 solutions. It has obtained SIL4 certification, the stringent safety integrity level which is required by train control systems.
14 February 2017
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.
06 December 2016
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.
11 November 2016
The GeoSHM structural health monitoring system, developed with the support of ESA, is now being further deployed in Scotland and China.
03 November 2016
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.
28 July 2016
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.
30 June 2016
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.
23 June 2016
The ARTES Applications 3InSat project recently completed a trial run of its integrated rail signalling system on the island of Sardinia. The successful outcome confirmed the viability of GNSS technology for the rail industry.
01 April 2016
An enterprising Dutch startup is developing a viable business using Sentinel-1 SAR imagery to monitor oil and gas pipelines from space.
25 January 2016
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.
15 November 2015
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.
15 September 2015
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.
10 August 2015
Project Showcase: How ARTES-supported Sway4edu2 uses satcoms to help close the digital divide in education.
29 April 2015
A satellite communications-based system developed with the support of ESA is making it easier for a Belgian medical team to test new antiviral drugs for the treatment Ebola patients in West Africa.
24 March 2015
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.
24 February 2015
Demonstration and pilot implementation of a satellite-based operations control system for managing teams in alpine rescue missions.
26 January 2015
How satellite services give landowners an easier and cheaper way of calculating the potential economic value of conserving or restoring environmentally important peatlands.
07 November 2014
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.
15 September 2014
Satellites are linking mobile breast cancer screening units directly to hospitals so that radiologists can start their diagnoses earlier.
10 September 2014
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.
26 August 2014
Thanks to European telecoms satellites, affordable broadband Internet access via satellite is becoming reality.
23 May 2014
Two recent ARTES-funded feasibility studies looked into ways of understanding and mitigating the risks associated with unstable terrain.
06 May 2014
The incorporation of satellite communication services in railway signalling systems is now one step closer.
11 March 2014
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.
14 February 2014
ASSIST allows project managers to analyse the positive and negative impacts of their Telemedicine services way before they go live.
12 February 2014
European Defence Agency (EDA) and European Space Agency (ESA), have agreed to pursue their cooperation in the domain of Remotely Piloted Aircrafts.
12 February 2014
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.
CRESS
Status date: 28 January 2020
Bennamann’s end-to-end fugitive biomethane capture, processing, storage and distribution service gives customers the ability to generate revenue from waste, while facilitating local supply of a zero-carbon energy.
Poworganic
Status date: 28 January 2020
Poworganic is developing a circular micro-credit model powered by satellite imagery, tackling the energy, sanitation and health crisis in developing countries and further.
OneWave
Status date: 28 January 2020
OneWave, is a complement to the Tsunami Early Warning Systems (TEWS), a system able to detect and monitor the front wave of a Tsunami created from a major geological event, earthquake, landslide or explosive volcano by using accurate satellite radar measurements and precise position of the spacecraft of Copernicus Program.
IntVAR
Status date: 28 January 2020
The proposed mobile application will be a platform supporting users interested in active spending time by the water. The integration of GNSS and VR/AR technologies combined with satellite imageries will offer new opportunities to improve travel safety and to help avoid dangerous navigation obstacles. The application will also enable communication between active users and participation in virtual regattas.
Galileorama
Status date: 27 January 2020
Galileorama is a VR platform to experience touristic and retail venues both at home and on-site. It allows the venue operators to easily create and provide visitors with VR 360° panorama media by building upon a common smartphone app (+ virtual reality glasses like cardboard) and a web-based backend.
IWBSF
Status date: 27 January 2020
The aim of this feasibility study is the development of an end-to-end service that aims at providing access to value-added information for forestry users. The idea of the IWBSF is to promote the efficient and widespread use of EO and GNSS elements through published services including analyses outputs from forestry case studies, information concerning distribution, inventory uploading, resource management and archival functions.
TIKKA Service
Status date: 27 January 2020
The TIKKA's service is dedicated to support forest users during their operational task inherent to the development of timber logging plans. The service benefits from the integration of LIDAR, SAR and GNSS technologies. The project output (the maps, analysis and reports) will be published and available for all the authorized person via the web geoportal.
S4CI – Support for Critical Infrastructure
Status date: 13 January 2020
A monitoring service that provides Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) asset owners and operators with resilience against problems associated with structural health through the use of Earth Observation data and in-situ devices.
S4CI – Support for Critical Infrastructure
Status date: 13 January 2020
A monitoring service that provides Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) asset owners and operators with resilience against problems associated with structural health through the use of Earth Observation data and in-situ devices.
Services enabled by HAPS
Status date: 22 January 2020
HAPS platforms are evolving in the stratosphere to conduct earth observation. They provide large-scale images as a support to decision-making processes in domains like meteorology, security, safety, natural resource inventories, climate change or prevention and monitoring of natural disasters. They provide high versatility, near real-time information and high revisit frequency on their targets
HAPS4ESA
Status date: 17 January 2020
A roadmap for combining High Altitude Pseudo-Satellites (HAPS) and satellites for ‘persistent surveillance’ monitoring scenarios.
River Nexus
Status date: 16 January 2020
River Nexus is a life changer for millions of people in the river basins in developing countries. River Nexus offers climate-services based on space-technology applications and the productive use of clean renewable energy to improve the local economy. Through a single infrastructure, we cover local essential needs for sustainable development, while targeting also national and international hydro meteorological value chains.
FSARG
Status date: 14 January 2020
FSARG is a mobile application which is dedicated mainly to recreational anglers. It enables the use of integrated depth data of fishing grounds with up-to-date information on species and quantities of fish present in a given water reservoir. Information on the most appropriate fishing times on a given day and location are also available.
ALEEGO
Status date: 13 January 2020
ALEEGO online platform is for demanding companies caring for data safety and integrity wishing to inspect their assets using UAV technology, in a simple way.
GPS Triggered AR System
Status date: 10 January 2020
Imagine you’re walking along Hadrian’s Wall. Your phone vibrates. You pause, hold up your phone and scan the landscape around you. The ghostly figure of a Roman soldier appears on your screen and begins to tell his story...
We have developed a new GPS Triggered AR Module that makes it easier and more cost-effective for organisations to engage audiences.
FertiSat
Status date: 09 January 2020
The aim of FertiSat project is to provide farmers with site-specific application maps for nitrogen fertilization of cereal crops. Since absorption of nitrogen by plants is influenced by weather and moisture conditions, those variables are taken into account when determining precise doses of the fertilizer. The service is based mainly on multispectral, high resolution satellite imagery.
KORE
Status date: 07 January 2020
KORE improves UK and international agronomists’ and farmers’ crop management by exploiting new precision agriculture techniques to target inputs and increase crop yields.
KORE utilises remote sensing and satellite navigation techniques to survey fields easily and cost-effectively.
KORE provides simple interpretations of complex information on crop growth and crop health.
KORE replaces a successful, proven on-line agronomy service, EssentialsMap.
IFTRAINING
Status date: 07 January 2020
Virtual reality training is revolutionizing the way we train employees by allowing them to learn by doing. They are more engaged, better prepared and develop new skills faster with data-driven insights. In this project we explore how to use satellite communication to enable virtual training anywhere and space weather to adapt the virtual training according with outdoor conditions.
Sun4Health
Status date: 07 January 2020
The Sun4Health demonstration project develops a ready-to-market solution by providing a comprehensive, integrated revolutionary system for the best exploitation of solar radiation benefits avoiding the healthrelated risks, according to any environmental scenario and targeted for any kind of end-user, especially for children.
EUROPORT
Status date: 07 January 2020
Ports are fundamental and main part of inter-modal global transport in the world. The growth in freight transport stresses the existing infrastructure to its limits. There are already considerable signs of congestion in the European transport system, e.g. on the roads and in harbors. Congestion will have a negative impact on the costs and time of transportation, which affects the prices and the quality of products.
EUROPORT aims to optimize the synchronization between the several transportation modes reducing the downtime in the logistic chain.
EUROPORT
Status date: 07 January 2020
Ports are fundamental and main part of inter-modal global transport in the world. The growth in freight transport stresses the existing infrastructure to its limits. There are already considerable signs of congestion in the European transport system, e.g. on the roads and in harbors. Congestion will have a negative impact on the costs and time of transportation, which affects the prices and the quality of products.
EUROPORT aims to optimize the synchronization between the several transportation modes reducing the downtime in the logistic chain.
EUROPORT
Status date: 07 January 2020
Ports are fundamental and main part of inter-modal global transport in the world. The growth in freight transport stresses the existing infrastructure to its limits. There are already considerable signs of congestion in the European transport system, e.g. on the roads and in harbors. Congestion will have a negative impact on the costs and time of transportation, which affects the prices and the quality of products.
EUROPORT aims to optimize the synchronization between the several transportation modes reducing the downtime in the logistic chain.
SHOW
Status date: 19 December 2019
SHOW as a mobile service is aimed at making seniors feeling constantly needed by society, as they are enabled to offer help to family members, friends, or in general people who need support. It addresses the challenges of elderly people regarding increasing mobility, maintaining activity, improving safety, reducing stress, growing assurance of behaviour and reducing social exclusion.
DG-TRAC Demo Project
Status date: 10 December 2019
The DG-Trac project addresses the tracking and tracing of dangerous goods in the medical sector integrating and using navigational and communication space services together with GSM/UMTS and Internet. DG-Trac introduces a centralised mechanism for the management and distribution of information concerning each dangerous goods transport.
In case of an accident, emergency service will be informed about the involved dangerous goods.
DG-TRAC Demo Project
Status date: 10 December 2019
The DG-Trac project addresses the tracking and tracing of dangerous goods in the medical sector integrating and using navigational and communication space services together with GSM/UMTS and Internet. DG-Trac introduces a centralised mechanism for the management and distribution of information concerning each dangerous goods transport.
In case of an accident, emergency service will be informed about the involved dangerous goods.
AIMEE
Status date: 16 December 2019
In 2010, the United Nations explicitly designated that "safe, clean, accessible and affordable drinking water” is not only a necessity, but also a fundamental human right. However, we live in an imperfect world, in which man-made activities and natural disasters create conditions that limit our access to water and expose us to dangerous water events. Organisations around the world have recognised this challenge and shown their commitment to creating, as the World Bank terms it, “a water-secure world for all.”
IMGeospatial is honoured to be part of this movement and has partnered with three clients to address the biggest water-related threats to our livelihood: flooding, water scarcity and water quality. We provide business intelligence that enables them to proactively manage their water systems, build resilience in their communities and ultimately minimise risk and impact. We do so by automating the data pipeline, reducing the time and cost of turning earth-observed data into actionable insights.
EFFORS
Status date: 13 December 2019
A real-time flood forecasting system has been developed and is operated at the computational centre of the Austrian national weather service ZAMG.
EFFORS brings together experts in the field of meteorology, hydrology, hydrodynamics and satellite communication. Within a coherent modelling chain, the EFFORS system couples the individual numerical models and provides relevant data about flood evolution on short time scales.
EFFORS
Status date: 13 December 2019
A real-time flood forecasting system has been developed and is operated at the computational centre of the Austrian national weather service ZAMG.
EFFORS brings together experts in the field of meteorology, hydrology, hydrodynamics and satellite communication. Within a coherent modelling chain, the EFFORS system couples the individual numerical models and provides relevant data about flood evolution on short time scales.
EFFORS
Status date: 13 December 2019
A real-time flood forecasting system has been developed and is operated at the computational centre of the Austrian national weather service ZAMG.
EFFORS brings together experts in the field of meteorology, hydrology, hydrodynamics and satellite communication. Within a coherent modelling chain, the EFFORS system couples the individual numerical models and provides relevant data about flood evolution on short time scales.
EFFORS
Status date: 13 December 2019
A real-time flood forecasting system has been developed and is operated at the computational centre of the Austrian national weather service ZAMG.
EFFORS brings together experts in the field of meteorology, hydrology, hydrodynamics and satellite communication. Within a coherent modelling chain, the EFFORS system couples the individual numerical models and provides relevant data about flood evolution on short time scales.
EFFORS
Status date: 13 December 2019
A real-time flood forecasting system has been developed and is operated at the computational centre of the Austrian national weather service ZAMG.
EFFORS brings together experts in the field of meteorology, hydrology, hydrodynamics and satellite communication. Within a coherent modelling chain, the EFFORS system couples the individual numerical models and provides relevant data about flood evolution on short time scales.
ThermCERT
Status date: 12 December 2019
Fuel poverty is an increasingly large social problem in the Great Britain, as well as in the rest of Europe. Ageing, inefficient building stock and rising fuel prices are pushing more and more households into fuel poverty.
ThermCERT reduces the complexity, cost and time spent identifying households who may qualify for Energy Company Obligation (ECO) support, allowing energy suppliers to deliver their obligation more efficiently.
ThermCERT Feasibility Study
Status date: 11 December 2019
The European Commission established a long-term objective of decreasing the CO2-emission levels for the building sector by 27% by 2030.
Every third building in Europe is in need of deep renovation (older that sixty years). People in these houses are overpaying for the heating many times. That is both economically and environmentally harmful. Buildings account for 40% of the EU's energy consumption, 36% of its CO2 emissions. Current annual building renovation rate in Europe is below 2%.
The actual thermal performance of building stock is the critical element for situation awareness, impacting progress on energy efficiency measure uptake.
Utilising Earth observation, satellite navigation and ground level data, ThermCERT represents a crucial aid in helping to understand the true thermal performance of the city built environment, highlighting the energy efficiency problematic areas and issues.
ThermCERT Feasibility Study
Status date: 11 December 2019
The European Commission established a long-term objective of decreasing the CO2-emission levels for the building sector by 27% by 2030.
Every third building in Europe is in need of deep renovation (older that sixty years). People in these houses are overpaying for the heating many times. That is both economically and environmentally harmful. Buildings account for 40% of the EU's energy consumption, 36% of its CO2 emissions. Current annual building renovation rate in Europe is below 2%.
The actual thermal performance of building stock is the critical element for situation awareness, impacting progress on energy efficiency measure uptake.
Utilising Earth observation, satellite navigation and ground level data, ThermCERT represents a crucial aid in helping to understand the true thermal performance of the city built environment, highlighting the energy efficiency problematic areas and issues.
ThermCERT Feasibility Study
Status date: 11 December 2019
The European Commission established a long-term objective of decreasing the CO2-emission levels for the building sector by 27% by 2030.
Every third building in Europe is in need of deep renovation (older that sixty years). People in these houses are overpaying for the heating many times. That is both economically and environmentally harmful. Buildings account for 40% of the EU's energy consumption, 36% of its CO2 emissions. Current annual building renovation rate in Europe is below 2%.
The actual thermal performance of building stock is the critical element for situation awareness, impacting progress on energy efficiency measure uptake.
Utilising Earth observation, satellite navigation and ground level data, ThermCERT represents a crucial aid in helping to understand the true thermal performance of the city built environment, highlighting the energy efficiency problematic areas and issues.
GridWatch
Status date: 09 September 2019
GridWatch offers owners of high voltage power infrastructures a continuous monitoring and alarming system to support the inspection, maintenance and management procedures of power lines, and a management system providing the measurements of the parameters necessary to dynamically operate the power lines, i.e. ambient temperature, wind speed and direction, solar irradiance and conductor temperature.
GridWatch
Status date: 09 September 2019
GridWatch offers owners of high voltage power infrastructures a continuous monitoring and alarming system to support the inspection, maintenance and management procedures of power lines, and a management system providing the measurements of the parameters necessary to dynamically operate the power lines, i.e. ambient temperature, wind speed and direction, solar irradiance and conductor temperature.
PLIMM
Status date: 24 June 2019
‘Helping to find the important needles within the InSAR time series haystack’
The PLIMM services developed within the project provide users with unique information on the performance of their assets. Using a set of proprietary workflows and algorithms on processed InSAR data the system is able to identify critical insights within the millions of individual measurement points. Developed in close collaboration with the user community, the system provides earth observation outputs in a format that is most appropriate for the target sectors.
PLIMM
Status date: 24 June 2019
‘Helping to find the important needles within the InSAR time series haystack’
The PLIMM services developed within the project provide users with unique information on the performance of their assets. Using a set of proprietary workflows and algorithms on processed InSAR data the system is able to identify critical insights within the millions of individual measurement points. Developed in close collaboration with the user community, the system provides earth observation outputs in a format that is most appropriate for the target sectors.
PLIMM
Status date: 24 June 2019
‘Helping to find the important needles within the InSAR time series haystack’
The PLIMM services developed within the project provide users with unique information on the performance of their assets. Using a set of proprietary workflows and algorithms on processed InSAR data the system is able to identify critical insights within the millions of individual measurement points. Developed in close collaboration with the user community, the system provides earth observation outputs in a format that is most appropriate for the target sectors.
MULDIARCOS
Status date: 27 November 2019
The MULDIARCOS project has implemented and demonstrated a cohesive end-to-end delivery chain of satellite imagery and met-ocean data. The implemented service has been demonstrated during maritime operations in the Arctic. Arctic maritime operations often have a need of fast and regular earth observation and weather information. In the project, focus has been on streamlined and effective ordering, delivery procedures due to limited and expensive communication channels to the vessels during the operations.
MULDIARCOS
Status date: 27 November 2019
The MULDIARCOS project has implemented and demonstrated a cohesive end-to-end delivery chain of satellite imagery and met-ocean data. The implemented service has been demonstrated during maritime operations in the Arctic. Arctic maritime operations often have a need of fast and regular earth observation and weather information. In the project, focus has been on streamlined and effective ordering, delivery procedures due to limited and expensive communication channels to the vessels during the operations.
MULDIARCOS
Status date: 27 November 2019
The MULDIARCOS project has implemented and demonstrated a cohesive end-to-end delivery chain of satellite imagery and met-ocean data. The implemented service has been demonstrated during maritime operations in the Arctic. Arctic maritime operations often have a need of fast and regular earth observation and weather information. In the project, focus has been on streamlined and effective ordering, delivery procedures due to limited and expensive communication channels to the vessels during the operations.
SpaceChain
Status date: 27 November 2019
The multisignature wallet makes digital currency transactions more secure by requiring two approvals for each transaction, one from the user and one from the satellite. The security of transactions are guaranteed via satellite hardware isolation, a multiple approval model, and secure satellite communication making the transaction resistant to hacking.
Cerberus
Status date: 26 November 2019
BlackShore’s crowdsourcing platform Cerberus reinforces developing country economies utilizing satellite imagery amplifying sustainable food production while preserving the environment. This is achieved through the power of satellites, socially conscious gaming and the power of the crowd.
IoT4Verticality
Status date: 18 November 2019
IoT4verticality is a decision support solution to improve the current inspection procedures and enable condition-based maintenance of critical infrastructures; it monitors the verticality of structures, which is particularly important in tall structures such as flanged poles and guyed poles/towers.
NG-RMP
Status date: 14 November 2019
The Next Generation Recognised Maritime Picture (NG-RMP) provides a real time marine solution for the monitoring of vessels, complemented with advanced decision support. The system provides for risk determination from the viewpoint of either navies and the security of countries EEZ or insurance organisation to determine risk exposure of their marine vessel portfolio in real time worldwide.
NG-RMP
Status date: 14 November 2019
The Next Generation Recognised Maritime Picture (NG-RMP) provides a real time marine solution for the monitoring of vessels, complemented with advanced decision support. The system provides for risk determination from the viewpoint of either navies and the security of countries EEZ or insurance organisation to determine risk exposure of their marine vessel portfolio in real time worldwide.
NG-RMP
Status date: 14 November 2019
The Next Generation Recognised Maritime Picture (NG-RMP) provides a real time marine solution for the monitoring of vessels, complemented with advanced decision support. The system provides for risk determination from the viewpoint of either navies and the security of countries EEZ or insurance organisation to determine risk exposure of their marine vessel portfolio in real time worldwide.
NG-RMP
Status date: 14 November 2019
The Next Generation Recognised Maritime Picture (NG-RMP) provides a real time marine solution for the monitoring of vessels, complemented with advanced decision support. The system provides for risk determination from the viewpoint of either navies and the security of countries EEZ or insurance organisation to determine risk exposure of their marine vessel portfolio in real time worldwide.