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.
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.
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.
REER
Status date: 15 December 2025
During and after disaster events, ensuring that aid reaches those most in need is of paramount importance. When disasters lead to damaged and blocked road infrastructure, the delivery of aid becomes more difficult. This project aims at integrating automatically detected flood extents with routing services so that logistic planning can be undertaken utilising the current state of the road infrastructure.
Microtractor
Status date: 24 February 2025
Using space to help small farmers down on earth.
Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS) offers a step change in the performance of non-ground assisted localization and that enables us to build new autonomous vehicles. The Microtractor is a small fully autonomous adaptable electric vehicle designed for small farmers and rural delivery. It operates without human intervention, reduces cost and increases efficiency.
With modular attachments for diverse applications, it revolutionizes sustainable agriculture and last-mile logistics in rural areas.
GTMS
Status date: 12 December 2025
The Global Tailings Monitoring Service provides tailings storage facilities with comprehensive and consistent monitoring using a combination of remote sensing technologies and environmental datasets. Built for worldwide scalability, GTMS is designed to be suitable for all sites within a global portfolio.
TransDIm
Status date: 14 April 2025
Adaptix are Transforming Diagnostic Imaging by bringing low-cost, low-dose mobile 3D imaging to patients. Today, common conditions such as fractures, cancer and lung disease are initially assessed by 2D X-ray which gives a fundamentally limited view of our 3D bodies. The products being developed in this project will deliver fast, accurate 3D imaging to these patients.
VunaNexus
Status date: 27 November 2023
Urine contains all the nutrients needed to fertilise plants. However it is considered a waste and most of these nutrients are currently discharged in nature. VunaNexus develops technologies that enable the recycling of all nutrients contained in urine to transform them into natural fertilisers. One of the first pilot systems is installed at the ESA HQ in Paris.
Climate Smart Forestry
Status date: 11 December 2025
Climate Smart Forestry enhances the ForestHQ forest management platform through seamless integration of IoT sensors, satellite imagery, and accessible climate data. The new system delivers real-time insights on forest growth, soil moisture, weather trends, climate models, and fire risk, facilitating proactive risk assessment and informed, climate-resilient management decisions.
MWI HWZSea
Status date: 10 December 2025
Today, there is no personalised warning system for hazardous weather conditions at sea or near the coast. Yet, many players need such a system for reasons of safety, operational planning and cost savings. HWZSea project will participate in building MWI’s Alert service, designed to meet maritime players specific needs.
PYRNEXAT
Status date: 10 December 2025
The project developed a smart sanitation management platform by leveraging IoT and data analysis. It integrates earth observation, telemetry, and GNSS-referenced pathogen data with collected metrics on toilet user behaviour, providing dashboards to improve sanitation system monitoring and management
InsurEO
Status date: 09 December 2025
The InsurEO project applies innovative Earth Observation (EO) services to provide detailed insights into buildings and their surroundings—ranging from flood and landslide risks to environmental health, climate change, and sustainability. Through an intuitive web platform, organisations will be able to visualize and monitor these insights, whether for a single building or an entire property portfolio. Sectors such as insurance, banking, real estate, and energy service companies (ESCOs) will use these insights to make more informed decisions.
PASTA
Status date: 10 April 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that 7.6% of patients in high-income countries acquire a healthcare-associated infection (HCAI).
Recent studies show that more than 650,000 patients a year in England acquire HCAIs, which cost the NHS over £1 billion annually. It is reported that airborne transport is responsible for up to 10% of all HCAIs. As ESA/NHS Future Hospital Initiative Programme, the project PASTA aims to improve indoor air quality and to minimise the risk of airborne pathogen infection in future hospital environments using low-temperature plasma technology that is oriented from in-situ resource unitisation in long-duration space missions and space propulsion (Pulsed plasma thruster).
This new technology can prevent HCAIs in the future NHS hospital environment by providing better infection control for airborne pathogens. In addition, the PASTA technology ambitions to reduce the carbon footprint of future NHS hospitals by improving the energy efficiency of an HVAC system and plastic waste generated from current filter-based HVAC system and plastic waste generated from current filter-based HVAC system.