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.
The SeaUrchin
Status date: 19 October 2020
The SeaUrchin is an affordable state-of-the-art wearable surf tracker, being developed by Kittiwake Labs Ltd in Cornwall, UK. The SeaUrchin tracker takes advantage of GNSS for tracking surfer sessions and applies novel data analysis for session characterisation and to monitor progress.
MONITORED AI
Status date: 10 September 2020
Climate change poses a number of challenges for farmers worldwide. OPT/NET B.V developed an AI-driven platform that generates timely and valuable insights about farmland conditions to individual farmers & large agri producers in predominantly cloud covered high latitude coastal areas facing challenging weather patterns. The solution is expected to lead to up-to-10% increase of respective yields and more than 10% reduction of the associated costs and wastage.
MSaaS
Status date: 14 October 2020
Developments on Unmanned Maritime Systems (UMS) are flourishing. In MSaaS, economically and technically sustainable UMS based services are identified, defined and assessed creating business opportunities for manufacturers and suppliers of ship technology.
RASOR
Status date: 14 October 2020
A streaming service for live and replay space imagery - bringing together amazing videos and visualisations from across space into one easily accessible platform.
ConnieAI
Status date: 08 October 2020
ConnieAI is an AI based platform to guide tourists in touristic venues like zoos. Through a common smartphone app and a web-based backend, the solution allows to easily create digital guides and provide visitors with multimedia content and orientation services.
SHA
Status date: 21 September 2020
The sustainability and tech company Sobolt proposes Natura.ai: A smart tool intended to assist nature mapping and management planning. Sentinels for Habitat is the further development and subsequent assessment of these functionalities. By combining artificial intelligence (AI) with earth observation data from Sentinel-2, we improve Natura.ai’s existing algorithm; ultimately helping bring better nature monitoring practices.
ADVISER
Status date: 24 August 2020
ADVISER (AugmenteD VIrtual reality SErvice for Renewable energy) aims to empower Decision Support satellite and UAVs based i-EM SAT services combined with mixed reality capabilities to provide support for the Planning & Construction and the Operation & Maintenance of renewable energy power plants: VR-AR technologies, coupled with the utilization of space assets, could empower O&M activities, in terms of cost savings, effectiveness of the interventions and safety.
SENECA
Status date: 24 August 2020
SENECA (Space Enabling blockchaiN for Emobility appliCAtions) aims to provide blockchain-enabled services to manage the energy flow between e-vehicles and the grid using space-assets. The goal of the services derived from this kick-start, is to allow in the future users to perform energy-transactions in a secure and agile blockchain environment, where smart contracts will enable the utilization of e-vehicles battery in relationship with renewable energy availability, facilitate e-vehicles fleet management needs, and finally support the electrical grid necessities.
Landmrk Context Expansion
Status date: 14 July 2020
The Landmrk Context Expansion project sees Landmrk’s location based experiences platform supercharged with hyper-local weather data, space data and earth observation data. The resulting platform enables the creation of a variety of compelling experiences for mobile phone users based on their context.
Buildspot
Status date: 13 July 2020
Thanks to Copernicus data, The Buildspot service
- Optimize the construction sites surveillance
- Be aware of all existing construction sites
- Quantify the urbanization status of specific area
- Watch for the geographic development of the construction market
B-LiFE - TEN
Status date: 24 August 2020
The B-LiFE Telecommunication Emergency Node is a new field communication and control system, integrating space assets and new tools for crisis and logistics management.
IBISA
Status date: 24 June 2020
IBISA enables agriculture index-based insurance for agricultural entrepreneurs, everywhere and in an easy manner, by leveraging Earth Observation data and blockchain technology
Satlab
Status date: 07 July 2020
Floating-Lab: AI-powered field deployable bio-sensor technology for remote bio-imaging of water samples at microscopic scale for the automatic real-time detection of pathogens.
Kinetikos4DBS
Status date: 07 July 2020
Kinetikos is transforming the standard of care for movement disorders by eradicating the subjective observational analysis and the discontinuity in delivered healthcare, allowing healthcare providers to reach more patients, more often and support their decision-making on objective measurements to improve patients' outcomes.
ProDiRec
Status date: 22 May 2020
Within the retail landscape, the distribution of products in stores is in constant change. Producers and distributors take great efforts to stay informed about the current distribution of their products. The ProDiRec AI service provides the possibility to recognize product distribution in retail stores by analysing crowdsourced retail shelf photos and detecting products on these photos automatically.
MERSAI
Status date: 26 May 2020
Satellite Earth observation data and artificial intelligence tools are used to monitor effluence and untreated sewage flow into rivers, lakes and reservoirs. As water becomes increasingly scarce, it has become important to manage this resource. The problem of accessing safe drinking water is a major concern, there is a need to reuse treated wastewater and prevent pollution of water sources.
DIGITAL MINE
Status date: 19 May 2020
Hypervine creates a digital twin of the quarry enabling companies to understand the physical site and their operations better. The digital twin is created through the use of a number of technologies including Space assets as well as distributed ledger technologies that bring high levels of transparency, trust and security to the digital twin.
ERMS
Status date: 30 April 2020
KVS Technologies automates drones, enabling them to deliver emergency response services for power grid operators in case of power outages or problems on the grid. To further strengthen this offering, KVS Technologies explored the use of satellite communication and Earth observation, to allow it to operate even in emergency situations where the cellular network is down.
NetVR
Status date: 30 April 2020
NetVR is an easy to use and intuitive virtual reality application that can visualise underground assets of one or more utilities. It receives data from a cloud database and shows the data in 3D extended reality, with high accuracy, on a mobile device. Positioning is based on standard GPS in a standard device (e.g. tablet) and corrected using a calibration algorithm and reference points.