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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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SWESAT

Status date: 04 November 2022

Remote measurements of snow storage with acceptable accuracy is a long awaited solution by the hydropower industry due to its potential in providing high number of data points and high spatial coverage. We demonstrate a novel approach to derive snow storage (SWE) by use of L-band radar measurements in combination with the interferometry technique. 

DroSecMa

Status date: 13 March 2023

The fence no longer defines the perimeter.” Exponential increase in capability and reduction in cost has made drones a truly disruptive technology. Their capabilities may be leveraged for significantly improved surveillance and data collection but that also
represent a significant and evolving threat. DroSecMa leverages the capabilities of drones while providing real-time threat mitigation.

OWASIS-NL CCN

Status date: 13 March 2023

OWASIS Water Auditing demonstration project made suitable for implementation in South Africa, Colombia and the Netherlands based on data availability and user needs.

EOLO

Status date: 13 March 2023

EOLO aims to provide the corn growers with an agritech cloud-based platform which allows to save water and energy by predicting the optimal water needs, monitoring the crop health through the use of vegetational indexes and controlling the irrigation system remotely. These features are implemented by leveraging both EO and on-ground sensors data and by fusing them with machine learning algorithms.

SoilSignal

Status date: 13 March 2023

SoilSignal provides an accurate, scalable and reliable decision support tool for farmers, for soil health management including irrigation management and fertiliser management. Using Earth Observation data and Machine Learning/AI, SoilSignal, powered by Deep Planet’s AI platform, predicts soil health properties at 90% accuracy.

AUDROS

Status date: 06 March 2023

Autonomous drone services help to defend different CBRNe threats.

MoSCI-ECOSPACE

Status date: 06 March 2023

MoSCI-ECOSPACE is a service tool to assess the condition of ecosystems – like beaches, dunes or controlled flood plains – and man-made structures – like seawalls or dikes – in coastal territories and inform decision-making in case of ill-condition, damage or destruction, based on products derived from earth- and airborne- observing systems.

SyriUS

Status date: 03 March 2023

SyriUS develops innovative data services for bathymetric mapping and seafloor characterization. Currently, these data are often outdated or unavailable for very shallow waters. SyriUS combines proven earth observation (EO) technology [EOMAP] with uncrewed maritime systems (UMS) [Maritime Robotics]. The created data products provide time- and cost-effective large area coverage with calibration and validation of EO data by UMS data.

SyriUS Feasibility Study

Status date: 04 April 2020

SyriUS is developing innovative data services for bathymetric mapping, benthic mapping, seafloor characterization, habitat mapping, and environmental monitoring. Current end users experience a lack of such data availability. For example, bathymetric maps are often outdated and not available for very shallow waters. SyriUS proposes three innovative data services that combine proven earth observation (EO) technology from EOMAP GmbH & Co.  KG with unmanned maritime systems (UMS) solutions from Maritime Robotics AS. Data products created via the SyriUS services provide larger area coverage than can be obtained using only UMS, and with greater accuracy than can be obtained using only EO solutions.

S4UG

Status date: 28 February 2023

UnitGate Satellite Broker

Status date: 18 February 2023

Satellite Broker - Easy Access to Any Satellite Service.

InYouSeq

Status date: 15 February 2023

Fauna Smart Technologies is developing a whole new process in farming to deliver a cornerstone tool called “Increase Your Sequestration”: InYouSeq. It is based on satellite data measurements in order to help farmers monitor and improve CO2 sequestration capacity in horticulture i.e. orchards and vineyards.

MaSSha

Status date: 15 February 2023

Development of VDES satellite network roaming, VDES-based maritime IoT services, and maritime DSC distress alert detection for effective search and rescue.

NHSpace

Status date: 15 February 2023

Astrosat are combining EO and ground-based data to create newly-derived satellite data products, as well as enhancing and adapting innovative datasets from earlier projects such as Isolation+ (Social Isolation Index) and ThermCERT (Fuel Poverty), to generate new insights and inform health-inequality root-cause analysis.

BOREAL ISR +

Status date: 15 February 2023

With this project BOREAL aims to demonstrate that using a SATCOM link for real time images transmission can enhance the range of surveillance operations of the drone BOREAL ISR beyond the current 60km due to classical radio link constraints. Thanks to the endurance of the BOREAL drone system, a range of up to 300km is envisaged.

MEO-CS

Status date: 15 February 2023

MOE-CS is a service dedicated to monitoring carbon stocks and fluxes related to land use and cover changes, based on both local annual estimates and land cover dynamics. The service also offers a focus on favourable agricultural practices, additional carbon potential and related co-benefits.

PinPoint: The Future of Tracking

Status date: 14 February 2023

The World’s First Intelligent Tracking- & IoT-solution – Through 2-way direct satellite communication. No more manual tracking and logistics - our systems handles automated tracking & logistics, via direct 2-way satellite communication - anywhere on the planet!

Space Augmented UAM

Status date: 14 February 2023

Space Augmented UAM aims to determine the feasibility of a “Space Augmented” service enabling cities and regions to conduct U-Space integration assessment utilizing economic, technical and environmental simulations for predictive assessment considering the individuality of each city to generate a self-sustainable Urban Air Mobility ecosystem.