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.
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.
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.
SpaceInBus
Status date: 04 December 2025
SpaceInBus is a smart mobility platform integrating event ticketing and transport services, optimising routes using demand forecasting. It connects event organisers, transport operators and passengers to provide convenient, sustainable, and cost-efficient travel solutions for festivals, concerts and group trips.
E-Spacement
Status date: 01 November 2025
E-Spacement enables the location optimization of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure using spatial data, including space assets, and artificial intelligence (AI).
SOCMo 4 RegAg
Status date: 04 December 2025
The SOCMO project aims to develop and validate a service to provide soil health information using Earth Observation data to monitor Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) of lands and crops. The final objective is to develop an easy-to-use and competitive framework for land restoration initiatives to keep track of the changes in SOC.
TOMCAT
Status date: 01 December 2025
TOMCAT is a turnkey solution for General Aviation pilots, delivering authenticated tracking, i-Conspicuity, and digital flight reporting across all flight phases, ensuring compliance with U-space regulations and enhancing safety.
Frequency
Status date: 01 December 2025
The Frequency Aviation Communication Collaboration platform, designed to streamline communication and improve operational efficiency, demonstrates together with Aer Lingus (a major European airline) that it connects frontline workers, operation control centers, and leadership, facilitating real-time information sharing and decision-making. The platform reduces delays, improves on-time performance, and decreases costs for airlines by automating communication and reducing information silos.
E-Mobility SpaceLink
Status date: 25 November 2025
The project entails designing a solar-powered canopy for charging electric vehicles in remote areas lacking access to the power grid. Satellite imagery is used to identify optimal installation sites, while satellite connectivity enables the deployment in emerging electric mobility markets.
PLATIN
Status date: 17 January 2025
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.
CCN1 SPARKme
Status date: 25 November 2025
The project proposes a new service designed to establish and operate the Space Data Information Centre (SDIC) in Nairobi (KE) to foster the utilization of space data, expertise and knowledge to catalyse commercial services in multiple sectors and generate revenues strengthening the SPARKme service offering.
DragonFly
Status date: 20 December 2024
Today, speed and effectiveness have become essential characteristics of the logistics sector and the transportation of goods more and more requires a continuous monitoring of various parameters (e.g. position, temperature, shocks) during the different steps of the goods journey (i.e. collection, transport, storage, delivery). Indeed, the loss and/or the deterioration of shipped goods have enormous financial impacts for companies, in particular for items with a very high value (e.g. pharmaceuticals products, rare items). DragonFly is a comprehensive solution able to provide an effective continuous real-time monitoring solution which has been designed to monitor globally the end-to-end journey of the most critical goods (such as pharmaceutical products) in a cost-effective way.
SatVRSyncsense
Status date: 24 November 2025
Elderly residents in care may spend up to 98% of their time in bed. Motivating safe, regular exercise during their stay can be life-saving. We use satellite data to reimagine familiar places as abstract virtual worlds. In VR, residents explore these environments by pedaling or rowing on exercise equipment—turning movement into navigation and transforming passive time into engaging, therapeutic activity.
MESPACdemo
Status date: 24 November 2025
MESPAC is a Data and Analytics as a Service (DAaaS) cloud platform that uses patented machine learning models to combine SatEO and offshore in-situ data. It delivers accurate, continuous, fast, and scalable metocean intelligence for offshore operators. The service line solves data inefficiency, inconsistency, and insufficiency for offshore developers across the entire lifecycle of their projects. This approach aims to contribute to accelerating offshore wind and blue economy project development, reducing survey time while supporting bankability and operational planning.
Prisma
Status date: 24 November 2025
PONTOS democratizes satellite intelligence for artisanal fishers through edge AI technology. Our maritime co-pilot combines Copernicus Marine data with onboard computing to deliver real-time fishing zone recommendations, voice-assisted compliance, and marketplace pricing power - reducing fuel costs by 30% while ensuring sustainability.
INVENTA
Status date: 23 June 2025
The INVENTA Demo Project implements innovative services able to increase the fruition, accessibility and sustainability of historical/cultural sites through the integration of Virtual & Augmented Reality with Satellite Navigation and Earth Observation. The service is based on an innovative mobile App leveraging SatCom technologies and the 5G network.