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.
SpaceEPC
Status date: 09 April 2025
SatVu is collaborating with the Urban Big Data Centre (Part of the University of Glasgow) to enhance the analysis of building energy efficiency.
The study will drive the development of the Heat Loss Index (HLI), a pioneering metric designed to identify buildings with high thermal energy wastage, enabling policymakers and urban planners to focus retrofitting efforts where they will have the greatest impact.
TIGRIS
Status date: 09 April 2025
Spaceline Labs (SPL) will deliver Earth Observation (EO) data to customers through SPLs software platform. The platform will provide access to EO data from satellites and a fleet of proprietary balloon-borne Satellites based in the stratosphere - developed and operated by SPL. The first iteration of this stratospheric technology is described as TIGRIS in this KickStart study.
Eyes on Plastic
Status date: 09 April 2025
Eyes on Plastic provides a service solution, which combines multiple sensor components into a joint mapping and monitoring solution for plastic in the aquatic environment. By flying high and diving deep, plastic litter can be monitored at all angles and scales. On top, the service invites everybody to actively keep the eyes open on plastic spanning local info to a global reach.
SETSITS
Status date: 09 April 2025
SETSITS develops Lanternn by ValerannTM (LbV) for Networks - Valerann’s Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) engineered to resolve critical inefficiencies in road network management using real-time data fusion and analytics. Offering a transformative solution for operators, LbV for Networks enables hyper-accurate data management to enhance safety, efficiency, and sustainability while leveraging proprietary technology to overcome the limitations of outdated processes.
RAPTOR™
Status date: 25 March 2025
The global events market is valued at ~$900bn in revenue / year. These events purchase insurance to cover the potential for a cancellation and subsequent loss of income and incurred expenses.
However, the insurance market providing this cover faces a problem. Natural disasters and extreme weather events are the leading cause of event cancellations.
BirdsEyeView’s RAPTOR™ technology provides underwriters with the analytics they required to correctly assess their exposure to these extreme weather events when providing cover, events which are increasing in frequency and severity due to climate change.
Car-lileo
Status date: 03 April 2025
Car-lileo optimises the processes and digitises the customer communication of car dealerships, detailers, service providers and the mobility sector through novel services based on real-time localisation of cars, keys and assets. Car-lileo is a modern, open, GDPR-compliant, trustful European PaaS/SaaS platform based on GNSS/Galileo, innovative indoor localisation, its own service store and modern cloud architecture.
SGPS
Status date: 31 March 2025
SWÖM is developing a self-inflating rashguard for kids which aims at addressing the numerous fatal and non-fatal drowning accidents that occur each year. ”SWÖM with GPS” project is exploring opportunities to integrate a satellite-based alarm and tracking system to allow for higher safety and enhanced peace of mind for users but also for quicker emergency action in case of drowning.
GHOST-4V
Status date: 31 March 2025
GHOST-4V brings satcom broadband connectivity to humanitarian vehicles, enabling new security and navigation applications.
XFACTorizer
Status date: 28 March 2025
The “Be a verifiable photojournalist!” project is about a possible application of GALILEO/OSNMA service. The authentic location and date/time data of OSNMA – embedded in EXIF tag of photos or videos – can be important help in fighting against fake news and disinformation.
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It will not appear on the project web page itself but is used in project lists e.g.
https://business.esa.int/projects and search results.
EO4CarbonFarming
Status date: 28 March 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.
TruewaveGPR
Status date: 27 November 2024
The fusion of positioning, inertial and subsurface data sets at a singular point.
A consortium of Europe’s leading ground penetrating radar and electronic developers have teamed up with the UKs most high-profile horizontal drilling operations to create the world’s leading terrain compensating subsurface inspection system capable of creating 3D data sets for analysing buried assets below challenging terrain.
LUCI
Status date: 22 September 2022
Project LUCI aims to assess land use around railway infrastructure and detect changes that could be hazardous to the safe running of the railway. The project aims to give trackside managers crucial information to enhance the decision making process and ultimately make the railways a safer place to work and travel.
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.