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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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Blue Discovery

Status date: 22 May 2020

BLUE DISCOVERY is an innovative and powerful technology platform designed to provide an efficient and low-cost Access Control and Visitor Information System to Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), allowing them to offer a comprehensive set of added-value services to their visitors.

ProDiRec

Status date: 22 May 2020

Within the retail landscape, the distribution of products in stores is in constant change. Producers and distributors take great efforts to stay informed about the current distribution of their products. The ProDiRec AI service provides the possibility to recognize product distribution in retail stores by analysing crowdsourced retail shelf photos and detecting products on these photos automatically.

DIGITAL MINE

Status date: 19 May 2020

Hypervine creates a digital twin of the quarry enabling companies to understand the physical site and their operations better. The digital twin is created through the use of a number of technologies including Space assets as well as distributed ledger technologies that bring high levels of transparency, trust and security to the digital twin.

OTAM

Status date: 15 May 2019

The OTAM (Oil Trading Analytics Monitor) is a comprehensive solution for the oil trading analytics market, created by seamlessly combining data from the maritime (AIS+) and remote sensing (optical and SAR) sectors with oil analytics data. This new combination of datasets provides actionable insights on the status of the oil market.

JACKSON (AMAZON CCN#1)

Status date: 11 May 2020

This project is based on several ESA-backed projects, which resulted in the successful development of a set of telemedicine systems for civilian, military and commercial aviation applications. Since they were launched onto the market, the Tempus IC and Tempus Pro patient monitoring systems have been commercially successful in a range of pre-hospital care applications in Europe and North America.

This new project targets the development a range of products to allow wider implementation of telemedicine and patient data sharing through easy to install technology. This will enable access to larger market segments through cardiac electro-therapy solutions and data sharing capabilities.

STAP-ULD

Status date: 04 May 2020

STAP ULD-Watcher provides a new and patented solution for monitoring and tracking airfreight container (ULD) in all airports of the world. Supported by IATA regulations the ULD-Watcher will help to avoid delays, lost baggage or goods and will reduce insurance cost dramatically and increase general profit for the customers of STAP.

ERMS

Status date: 30 April 2020

KVS Technologies automates drones, enabling them to deliver emergency response services for power grid operators in case of power outages or problems on the grid. To further strengthen this offering, KVS Technologies explored the use of satellite communication and Earth observation, to allow it to operate even in emergency situations where the cellular network is down. 

NetVR

Status date: 30 April 2020

NetVR is an easy to use and intuitive virtual reality application that can visualise underground assets of one or more utilities. It receives data from a cloud database and shows the data in 3D extended reality, with high accuracy, on a mobile device. Positioning is based on standard GPS in a standard device (e.g. tablet) and corrected using a calibration algorithm and reference points.

ATMM

Status date: 30 April 2020

The driving force of SBI is to invent and develop innovative solutions. As a new service, the Automated Transportation Mining Monitoring is designed to provide transparency on global coal flows. It monitors volumetric changes of coal stock piles at harbor sites, activities of vessels and harbor infrastructure. The services will be available via different channels according to the customers’ needs.

EOMST

Status date: 22 April 2020

The 21Net system enables Internet services on board high-speed trains. The system uses several communication technologies to access the internet: cellular, Wi-Fi and satellite. A Mobile Access Router manages the links switching from one to the other depending on their availabilities. The goal of the project is to improve Users’ experience of the current system by optimizing the bandwidth usage. In a final phase, 21Net will improve the overall system performance with the development of a new generation of its Mobile Access Router: MAR4

 

Hawking

Status date: 17 April 2020

Hawking is a machine learning based solution for commercial growers analysing satellite imagery for better management of their crops.

DeFROST

Status date: 16 April 2020

Based on satellite data, DeFROST delivers the ultimate snow monitoring solution for Outdoors Tourism digital businesses and Touristic Destinations. With DeFROST, such actors can help their users stay safe while planning and enjoying their next outdoor activity – while staying ahead of competition and helping them grow in off-peak seasons.

aircheckr

Status date: 15 April 2020

aircheckr provides detailed outside air quality information and tools needed to effectively reduce your exposure to air pollution. It empowers people to actively or passively make better decisions and take actions in order to breathe better air. People are no longer defenceless. Improving the air at home/office or car, or reducing your exposure during biking or exercising is now possible. Together with its partners, aircheckr is working hard to integrate air quality information into a wide range of services, applications or devices.

Shrub Mapping

Status date: 07 April 2020

The Shrub Mapping service is intended to detect shrub management needs in young boreal forest areas. Based on Terramonitor’s Earth observation and multi-source data, the cloud service maps large forest areas, analyses and monitors the shrub situation in conifer forests and generates insights about the need for forest management duties anywhere in the world.  

Diagnostic ECG garment

Status date: 07 April 2020

KYMIRA is developing smart wearable garments that interact with the human body to change, improve and one day save the wearers’ lives. This project built on a previously developed cardiac monitoring prototype garment, investigating its ability to identify developing cardiovascular conditions and detect the onset of acute cardiac events through machine learning software.

ASMSpotter

Status date: 06 April 2020

With ASMSpotter, local authorities get regular, automatic updates of artisanal mining activity in their area of interest. The service is powered by Machine Learning so that large areas can be monitored at no extra effort.

SmartCARE

Status date: 04 September 2018

SmartCARE is an ICT platform of advanced e-health services where physicians and patients meet and manage daily activities, within a therapeutic process, in a collaborative way enabling an optimization of healthcare rehabilitation at home. SmartCARE IHC (Integrated Home Care) services will assure a constant verification of the therapeutic process without requiring the on-site presence of medical staff.