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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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SAQM

Status date: 03 February 2022

Man-made air pollution leads to 5.5-8.5 million deaths each year and causes countless chronic respiratory conditions. Traffic is the most important source of this pollution. Using satellite data, Satellite Air Quality Models (SAQM) are the most detailed air pollution maps for cities around the globe. Our portal allows users instant access to the air pollution data, benefiting everyone.

SAQM FS

Status date: 27 November 2019

The project aims to test the feasibility of providing accurate and high resolution global air quality modelling services using vehicles extracted from very high-resolution earth observation imagery.  Providing detailed air quality modelling for a large number of cities will improve decision making, enable efficient and cost effective urban growth and reduce the air pollution impact on human health.

DeMoFloRa

Status date: 31 January 2022

KickStart activity exploring end-to-end earth observation monitoring solutions for the insurance and the mining industry. 

WIS

Status date: 28 January 2022

WIS is creating an easy to deploy solution combining sophisticated global models, downscaled to regional areas, and fed by local IoT weather stations and earth observation satellite data, using machine learning techniques.
This innovative solution intends to offer high resolution and accurate predictive indicators tailored to the customers in the countries currently underserved on climate services.

EPICO19

Status date: 28 January 2022

EPICO19 is a web-app designed to support public health technicians and decision-makers managing epidemic control. The tool is a GIS-based (Geographic Information System) DSS (Decision Support System), driven by an epidemiological machine learning engine that provides forecasts of the outbreak spread. EPICO19 exploits Artificial Intelligence applied to Very-High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery and SatEO to evaluate population’s vulnerability due to pollutants exposure.

VIDA

Status date: 20 January 2022

VIDA is an earth observation and AI-powered custom software that enables data-driven investment, business and policy decisions in rural villages in Africa and Asia. → www.villagedata.io

MOWGLI Feasibility Study

Status date: 09 August 2019

MOWGLI is a solution that provides a set of services for optimal microgrid planning, designing and operational and maintenance (O&M) applications in urban and rural areas of developing countries, with particular focus on India user case. The activities have been implemented in cooperation with the India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) and funded by European Space Agency (ESA) within ARTES IAP programme.

S.T.E.L.L.E.

Status date: 17 January 2022

S.T.E.L.L.E. will give rise to SCUOLAB – SDA (Satellite Data Augmented), an educational platform with interactive and experiential contents produced from satellite Earth Observation data and based on issues of global importance such as climate change, melting glaciers, rising sea temperatures in order to give the teachers support with innovative resources to conduct both in-person and remote education experiences.

OPTIMAL CITIES

Status date: 17 January 2022

Companion enabling the development of Healthy, Wealthy and Wise cities.

‘feed from the field’

Status date: 17 January 2022

At the moment, the ‘feed from the field’ is an emerging technology that takes live content from entertainment and sports sources and publishes it worldwide to mobile phones. The technology ensures the availability of the content to the user with minimum delay from the time the content is available to it being on the user’s smart device. This process is manual and requires operator intervention.

DOSHP

Status date: 17 January 2022

We optimise harvest planning for farmers. We use Earth observation to map the terrain, altitude, NDVI and soil data, and satellite navigation (GNSS) to validate and to direct the machinery. We combine this with weather data, machine learning and dynamic resource allocation to produce a digital twin of the environment the farmers operate in, that allows them to make data-driven operational decisions on a day-to-day.

A.I.Perion

Status date: 13 January 2022

AIperion is a SaaS that supports the crop insurance claim management process through the use of A.I., Earth Observation and Meteorological data.

Sat4Safety

Status date: 07 January 2022

This study has as its main objective to identify the real-life pragmatic needs of the public safety stakeholders within the Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) entities – on the specific topics of using (secure) satellite communication and satellite observation, to better address their own services offered to the public.

These PPDR stakeholders are identified and included as co-participants in the study – in order to make sure they represent a relevant set of end-users and that their indicated needs and requirements can be used to design and implement future satellite service that will benefit all/most of the (EU/world) PPDR entities.

iVOICE - WOMBATT

Status date: 03 January 2022

IVOICE is a ground breaking technology that can change the way dangerous levels of fatigue are prevented in the mining industry. iVOICE is a non-invasive method to help operators prevent accidents in safety-critical working environments. iVOICE is a key part of fatigue management systems being applied within the mining industry by Wombatt Fatigue Management.

SIM

Status date: 17 December 2021

The objective of SIM is to use satellite imagery in order to provide an innovation to infrastructure monitoring of railways, electricity and pipelines. The product provides a solution which empowers the operators to save operational expenses by observing dangers from vegetation, height changes and third-party interactions along the network.

PoF

Status date: 16 December 2021

A consortium consisting of Arthur D. Little, CLS and Marlink are performing a study on how space-based technologies can be leveraged in the modernization of ports. The study includes a full range of Space-based technologies including satellite communications GNSS, SAT-AIS and Earth Observation and how these technologies could be applied in combination with terrestrial assets.

EuroSim CBRN

Status date: 14 December 2021

The EuroSIM CBRN Project aims to develop the UrbanAware Incident Modelling Platform to provide lifesaving CBRNe/HazMat situational awareness and decision support.

AGRORADAR

Status date: 14 December 2021

The AgroRadar solution help farmers to be “Farm to Fork” compliant boosting agronomic processes optimizations.

UrbanAI for Green Buildings

Status date: 14 December 2021

UrbanAI for green buildings is a data fusion tool to model close to real time green buildings or city states in terms of environment, emissions, energy consumption, traffic, all in one place. UrbanAI can be tailored to any area of interest on the Earth. Software goes beyond data fusion and has embedded analytics functionalities such as time series & reporting possibilities, environmental/energy impact calculator.

AIDA-SHM

Status date: 14 December 2021

AIDA-SHM (Artificial Intelligence Data Analyser – Structural Health Monitoring) is an IoT artificial intelligence software solution for monitoring and predicting the health of reinforced concrete structures.