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.
STAY
Status date: 10 November 2020
STAY: is a mobile interactive experience that rewards young people for acting positively during COVID-19 or a similar public health crisis.
The platform incorporates live data feeds, Augmented Reality and geo-location into unique learning experiences that give young people the opportunity to earn pieces of digital merchandise in return for their efforts.
PV Forecast Service
Status date: 09 November 2020
The global deployment of solar PV electricity generation is hampered by the unpredictability of the power generated. Better PV forecasts would allow electricity system operators to schedule alternative electricity generation earlier, hence reducing system costs and carbon intensity. Addressing climate change as effectively as possible is at the core of Open Climate Fix’s mission.
Careview
Status date: 05 November 2020
Careview is a web-app that uses GNSS positioning to improve the accuracy of outreach and door-knocking to identify socially isolated residents in a city, helping councils save money. This satellite technology is vital to improve the statistical chances of finding socially isolated residents. Careview was the only non-clinical solution to win an NHS Innovation Award in 2017. As a result of the ESA co-funded Demonstration Project, Careview has now been deployed in Leeds and Bury in Greater Manchester.
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.
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.
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.
SatSource
Status date: 08 October 2020
SatSource uses space technology to strengthen impact investment screening, monitoring and evaluation, and corporate and financial reporting on the traceability and sustainability performance of agricultural commodity supply chains.
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.
ONE CLASS! Open Network for Education
Status date: 05 October 2020
The ONE CLASS! project proposes an efficient satcom based solution integrated with eLearning services, aiming at supporting two main activities:
- Basilicata Multi-classes: ONE CLASS! supports rural schools located in the Basilicata Region (IT), which need to face the problem of the so-called “multi-classes” with the additional constraint represented by the geographical isolation.
- Social Integration Services for Foreign Unaccompanied Minors (FUM): ONE CLASS! supports social operator entities and reception centres of immigrants and all other NGOs active in the field, which need to offer to foreign unaccompanied minors (FUM) educational and social inclusion services, being often located in very remote areas.
mAPP’ing
Status date: 22 September 2020
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.
FAMOS
Status date: 10 September 2020
The principal objective of the FAMOS project is to develop a comprehensive forest status monitoring system tailored to the requirements of commercial clients from the commodity sector, especially within the context of cocoa, palm oil, and rubber. Combining earth observation, IT technology and GNSS, the service supports target users by improving the efficiency of existing business processes.
P4D
Status date: 04 September 2020
Diabetes Management is a 24/7 job without any day off. Patients have to make countless decisions every day on nutrition, activity, and medication. Mistakes are heavily punished and can result in events of hypoglycemia and secondary diseases. Our app helps patients to make the right decisions for their diabetes management and to increase their time in healthy blood sugar target range.
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.
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.
SPARK ME
Status date: 23 July 2018
SPARK ME develops an acceleration programme to attract, support and validate new application and service ideas using Satcom in association with additional space technologies. The ultimate goal is stimulating the creation and growth of new markets of space/satellite-based services, addressing the real users’ need and triggering cross-fertilization processes by "contaminating" other areas of activity with the use of space technologies.
Map2Fish
Status date: 21 August 2020
Map2Fish is a service that consists of a WMS service and a web mobile application that provides to the corresponding customers and end-users near real time and forecast of pelagic fish concentration probabilities and parameters like sea surface temperature, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll-a concentration, water transparency, currents and waves.