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PROJECT SHOWCASES

Reducing the risk of bird strikes using satellite images and Ascend’s Normalised Difference Water index software (NDWI)

British start-up Rezatec has developed a landscape monitoring service based on Earth Observation data

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.

With the support of ESA, Belgian SME Ovinto has developed a service that offers satellite-based monitoring of rail cars and intermodal tank containers.

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.

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.

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.

The GeoSHM structural health monitoring system, developed with the support of ESA, is now being further deployed in Scotland and China.

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.

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.

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.

An enterprising Dutch startup is developing a viable business using Sentinel-1 SAR imagery to monitor oil and gas pipelines from space.

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.  

 

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.

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.

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.

Demonstration and pilot implementation of a satellite-based operations control system for managing teams in alpine rescue missions.

How satellite services give landowners an easier and cheaper way of calculating the potential economic value of conserving or restoring environmentally important peatlands.

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. 

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.

Thanks to European telecoms satellites, affordable broadband Internet access via satellite is becoming reality. 

Two recent ARTES-funded feasibility studies looked into ways of understanding and mitigating the risks associated with unstable terrain.

The incorporation of satellite communication services in railway signalling systems is now one step closer.

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.

ASSIST allows project managers to analyse the positive and negative impacts of their Telemedicine services way before they go live.

European Defence Agency (EDA) and European Space Agency (ESA), have agreed to pursue their cooperation in the domain of Remotely Piloted Aircrafts.

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.

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GridEyeS

Status date: 10 July 2023

GridEyeS supports electricity transmission and distribution by providing situational awareness regarding vegetation near power lines faster, cheaper, and with less CO2 footprint through Space-level Artificial Intelligence. It leads to safer and more reliable operation of the electric grid.

GridEyeS

Status date: 19 October 2020

GridEyeS AI service contextualizes satellite, weather, drone and other operational data at scale, enabling fast and frequent monitoring of power lines at a fraction of the cost.

SC

Status date: 28 June 2023

SmartCane helps sugarcane estates and farmers in Mozambique boost productivity and crop yields through remote sensing derived crop and management advice sent via SMS messages and phone-friendly pdf maps. These messages address actionable advice and support in decision-making and resource management, promoting sustainable practices and problem-solving within cooperatives. Estates and farmers can now make informed decisions based on real-time data for maximum impact.

EARTH SCAN

Status date: 27 June 2023

EARTHSCAN is a Real-Time Healthcare System (RTHS) for detecting and diagnosing polyps during colonoscopy using cloud computing accessed via satellites.

PSVE

Status date: 22 June 2023

PSVE (Port Stockpile Volume Estimation) is a product DBX is developing within the ESA BASS programme; the PSVE module aims to collect and harmonise global, highly fragmented, dry-bulk commodities data in near real-time, by applying state of the art machine learning classification algorithms and establishing a strong correlation between market trends and the localization of dry bulk stockpiles.

UpGreen

Status date: 19 June 2023

UpGreen helps cities to realize more effective urban green policies. It is based on actionable insights on the actual and future state of urban green as well as on the greenery vision model proposition, enabling strategic decision-making, and identification of the most effective urban green projects and policies.

PLATIN

Status date: 30 April 2023

The aim of PLATIN is to develop a satcom-enabled platform to support flight operations in real-time (aircraft manufacturers’ flight tests, science flights, UAV surveillance flights). This service is a major evolution of the already existing PLANET service. Innovations in PLATIN are focusing on the integration of a new generation of Satcom (Iridium Certus) allowing new applicative services such as video/high-resolution images transmission or bulk telemetry thanks to higher throughputs.

MALIBU

Status date: 05 June 2023

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 consulted on a web platform intended both as content management, for the management of statistical data and reports, and for data visualization for consulting the information directly on the map

In addition to the defects’ detection service, also a set of other sub-services is provided.

MUSE/ ISP

Status date: 05 June 2023

Autonomous driving requires precise and reliable position information. ANavS develops in the project MUSE an Integrated Sensor Platform (ISP) which includes 3 GNSS receivers, an IMU, two cameras, a Lidar and a powerful sensor fusion for precise positioning.

SmartMetRoadMap

Status date: 05 June 2023

SmartMetRoadMap is focused on updating a platform dedicated to the provision of tailored services for the operational management of meteorological risks on roads.

The updated platform is based on an AI-driven fusion of high-resolution NWP output and heterogeneous measurements captured in real-time, possibly also via 5G, and is specifically designed to make the most of satellite weather monitoring data.

CoCuRA

Status date: 05 June 2023

CoCuRA uses machine learning to automatically detect cotton fields on satellite imagery and remotely classify these fields based on their environmental impact.

CoCuRA

Status date: 27 July 2022

CoCuRA uses machine learning to automatically detect cotton fields on satellite imagery and remotely classify these fields based on their environmental impact.

MOWGLI

Status date: 31 May 2023

From planning to monitoring: the exploitation of satellite technologies in urban and rural microgrid life cycle.

AQUAFARM 2.0

Status date: 31 May 2023

Aquafarm brings together satellite data and Soil-Plant-Air models to provide operational services to Farmers service providers as well as national institutions related with crop development and forecast. 

Autocali

Status date: 30 May 2023

Autocali aims to automate the recalibration of irrigation models without user interference or additional hardware. By analyzing satellite images for soil moisture signals, the system detects deviations from existing irrigation models and readjusts them accordingly.

OPAT

Status date: 30 May 2023

The aim of the project is to detect and Track the Plastic litter at sea.

GALILEARN

Status date: 30 May 2023

GALILEARN Project foresees the acquisition, development and consolidation of skills and knowledge, both technical and scientific, with particular reference to Space and Earth Observation, using tools and methods that combine education and entertainment.

VLS

Status date: 30 May 2023

VerifEye enables producers, processors and retailers deliver the proof required by consumers in relation to provenance and other claims.

Ad Astra

Status date: 30 May 2023

Ad Astra is a project by Astrosat is to assess the technical and commercial feasibility of space services being provided to user organisations without a pay-wall, funded by advertising revenue, specifically global brand Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) budgets.