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.
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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Insiders
Status date: 16 January 2026
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SEFPAM
Status date: 15 January 2026
The project will enhance its Mitigrate’s Prevent platform by integrating river flood modelling, alert system, and preventive solutions scenarios. Using satellite imagery, geospatial data, and weather forecasts, the system delivers property-specific recommendations and loss reduction estimates. Piloted with insurers like Gjensidige, the project demonstrates scalable, actionable flood risk prevention across Europe’s insurance markets.
HeManEO
Status date: 13 January 2026
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.
Darwin CAVs Implementations
Status date: 12 January 2026
Darwin, the UK’s leader in Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) with 4+ years at Harwell Campus, is revolutionizing port logistics! Launching in Liverpool Port, we’re redefining efficiency and sustainability, with plans to expand to EU, starting with port of Valencia. Join us as we drive the future of autonomous port operations across the UK, EU, and beyond!

EO-ACT
Status date: 12 January 2026
Leveraging satellite imagery and AI analytics to detect and prevent child labour in global supply chains. The platform provides companies with real-time monitoring, risk assessment, and verification tools to ensure ethical sourcing compliance, protect vulnerable children, and strengthen corporate social responsibility commitments through transparent, data-driven insights.
TRACTIONS
Status date: 08 January 2026
TRACTIONS addresses the need for turbidity information by the dredging market and primary production information by the aquaculture sector. TRACTIONS services include continuous local calibration and validation with proprietary optical sensors from the WISPstation network, and very high resolution imagery that is available multiple times and day. This project will pilot the TRACTIONS service on four use cases.
VIRTUE
Status date: 08 January 2026
A system integrating AI, UAVs, and satellite assets to enhance real-time human detection to fundamentally improve Search and Rescue (SAR) missions in the benefit of SAR responders.
SkyMed
Status date: 08 January 2026
SkyMed is a drone-based autonomous delivery service for medical logistics. It provides the infrastructure required for dependable, hospital-integrated operations. Combining satellite navigation, satellite communications, and Earth Observation data with automated ground systems, SkyMed enables precise, resilient, and compliant medical deliveries. The service strengthens NHS logistics and improves access to timely healthcare in both urban and remote UK communities through a scalable, space-enabled medical transport network.
EarthImages for Enterprise
Status date: 08 January 2026
Enterprise users of commercial EO data are struggling to adapt to proliferation of data providers over the last decade. Many struggle with the knowledge, time and commercial and operational tools to enable them to exploit this increasingly powerful resource. The EarthImages for Enterprise project designed a solution to this problem, focused initially on the energy sector, but applicable across multiple markets.
SpaceAware Resilience (SWiiFT)
Status date: 08 January 2026
Feasibility study to investigate commercial uses of Space Weather Data in various industries, understanding the impacts of Space Weather on critical nation infrastructure and how leveraging and utilising space weather data can address these problems and gaps.
SUMMIT
Status date: 08 January 2026
The Consortium offer services that integrate GNSS, satellite, and snow/weather data to monitor avalanches, snow parameters and ground movement risks. Solutions include:
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SAD: automatic avalanche detection from satellite imagery
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SNOW: cost-effective stations for measuring snowpack via GNSS and SAR
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SNOW&MOVE: compact systems combining snow and ground movement monitoring.
N-FLOW
Status date: 20 November 2024
N-Flow develops a satellite-based model that monitors nitrate run-off based on physical geologic characteristics and crop practices. Farmers and corporations can focus agricultural practice change to improve nitrogen use efficiency on the N run-off hotspots identified by the model to reduce nitrate pollution in water and improve business sustainability.
EV-WaterFill
Status date: 19 December 2025
WaterFill is an Earth Observation-enabled, AI-driven platform that helps public authorities and utilities to monitor, forecast, and manage water resources with precision. By integrating Copernicus/IRIDE satellite data with IoT sensors and machine learning, it delivers real-time digital twins of river basins, empowering smarter decisions, early warnings, and sustainable water resilience.
MyoCaid
Status date: 19 December 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.
DRIPIN-D
Status date: 17 December 2025
Ground movements threaten buried pipes; new satellite radar analysis helps utilities predict and prevent failures.
TREESCAN
Status date: 16 December 2025
Goodforest is a precision forestry SaaS platform combining satellite remote sensing and AI to help forest owners and managers protect and sustainably manage their forests. The solution provides continuous health monitoring, early detection of dieback, multi-risk assessment and decision support for proactive forest management.
EO4CarbonFarming
Status date: 16 December 2025
The project aims to develop a service for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of agricultural measures to bind CO2 in the soil as a part of “Carbon Farming”. The tool will be able to monitor catch crops, report on farming practices for higher carbon sequestration and verify organic carbon build-up in the soil.
BGI-Monitor
Status date: 16 December 2025
BGI-Monitor is a platform that transforms fragmented data and manual inspections into a clear view of urban green infrastructure. By combining Copernicus and Sentinel satellite observations with in-situ monitoring, it delivers dashboards, alerts, and scenario simulations that help asset managers, and green solution providers reduce costs, prevent damage, and demonstrate the impact of climate adaptation investments.