Reducing the risk of bird strikes using satellite images and Ascend’s Normalised Difference Water index software (NDWI)
PROJECT SHOWCASES
16 August 2017
British start-up Rezatec has developed a landscape monitoring service based on Earth Observation data
06 June 2017
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.
09 May 2017
With the support of ESA, Belgian SME Ovinto has developed a service that offers satellite-based monitoring of rail cars and intermodal tank containers.
20 March 2017
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.
03 March 2017
A new rail line in Australia uses GNSS positioning for signalling, introducing the concept of virtual balises for ERTMS Level 2 solutions. It has obtained SIL4 certification, the stringent safety integrity level which is required by train control systems.
14 February 2017
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.
06 December 2016
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.
11 November 2016
The GeoSHM structural health monitoring system, developed with the support of ESA, is now being further deployed in Scotland and China.
03 November 2016
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.
28 July 2016
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.
30 June 2016
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.
23 June 2016
The ARTES Applications 3InSat project recently completed a trial run of its integrated rail signalling system on the island of Sardinia. The successful outcome confirmed the viability of GNSS technology for the rail industry.
01 April 2016
An enterprising Dutch startup is developing a viable business using Sentinel-1 SAR imagery to monitor oil and gas pipelines from space.
25 January 2016
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.
15 November 2015
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.
15 September 2015
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.
10 August 2015
Project Showcase: How ARTES-supported Sway4edu2 uses satcoms to help close the digital divide in education.
29 April 2015
A satellite communications-based system developed with the support of ESA is making it easier for a Belgian medical team to test new antiviral drugs for the treatment Ebola patients in West Africa.
24 March 2015
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.
24 February 2015
Demonstration and pilot implementation of a satellite-based operations control system for managing teams in alpine rescue missions.
26 January 2015
How satellite services give landowners an easier and cheaper way of calculating the potential economic value of conserving or restoring environmentally important peatlands.
07 November 2014
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.
15 September 2014
Satellites are linking mobile breast cancer screening units directly to hospitals so that radiologists can start their diagnoses earlier.
10 September 2014
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.
26 August 2014
Thanks to European telecoms satellites, affordable broadband Internet access via satellite is becoming reality.
23 May 2014
Two recent ARTES-funded feasibility studies looked into ways of understanding and mitigating the risks associated with unstable terrain.
06 May 2014
The incorporation of satellite communication services in railway signalling systems is now one step closer.
11 March 2014
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.
14 February 2014
ASSIST allows project managers to analyse the positive and negative impacts of their Telemedicine services way before they go live.
12 February 2014
European Defence Agency (EDA) and European Space Agency (ESA), have agreed to pursue their cooperation in the domain of Remotely Piloted Aircrafts.
12 February 2014
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.
POMERIUM
Status date: 27 October 2022
The POMERIUM project aims to realise a complex monitoring system for Cultural Heritage (CH) management in order to support managers in the daily and extraordinary activities and expert decisions. The system will be based on the added value given by the integration of different technologies: satellites, Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), in-situ Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring, image recognition, advanced modelling, and 5G.
Tama WaldCursor
Status date: 25 October 2022
TSMF_10CM DP is Tama Group’s core project to develop, test and test market the WaldCursor product. The project covers design, development, and test of a cloud & app based remote sensing analytics information platform for forestry operations and forestry owners.
ZOE
Status date: 24 October 2022
The ZOE project focuses on the development of a self-powered water grid management system that enables continuous remote monitoring and leakage detection of water pipelines through decisions based on both terrestrial and satellite data. We aim to identify water leaks both in urban areas and the countryside.
UNDERSEE
Status date: 21 October 2022
In the same way we check the weather forecast and take preventive measures, so we will do for the water.
UNDERSEE
Status date: 26 July 2019
UNDERSEE is committed to develop a scalable solution to bring knowledge about rivers, lakes and oceans to water dependent stakeholders by providing simple access to water quality data.
SnowPower
Status date: 21 October 2022
The amount of water stored in snow is a crucial information for hydropower managers, yet hard to retrieve with current methods. SnowPower was able to generate large-scale snow information for mountainous regions at unprecedented accuracy and resolution from active radar satellites, combined with established data and a snow model to complement traditional methods.
AdRefAS
Status date: 21 October 2022
Build-up of a geo-referenced agricultural database by using satellite-based monitoring and cloud information technologies for collecting reliable and timely statistical data on agricultural parcel level in Latin America, complemented by a web-based platform providing continuously up-to-date georeferenced agricultural data for users and stakeholders.
NUA
Status date: 20 October 2022
The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events has drawn the attention of the insurance industry on climate change risks. For insurance to act as a climate change adaptation tool to increase the resilience of our society, new data and services are necessary. NUA is a highly innovative SaaS for the climate risk management and forecast at local scale.
Cert-EO
Status date: 21 October 2022
The aim of Cert-EO („Certified with Earth Observation”) is to apply Earth Observation solutions to support certification procedures of organic farming. The feasibility study project focuses on a service that can complement the personal on-the-spot checks with serving gap-filling data about a selected area, parcel or crop by automated analysis and evaluation of remote sensing (satellite) images.
Project Lunar
Status date: 21 October 2022
Phase 1 of Project LUNAR has determined the feasibility of a multi purpose shared electric fleet solution for NHS Hospitals. We wanted to reduce transport related challenges for employees and patients by providing a sustainable, optimised solution that improves access and reduces cost.
EMT
Status date: 20 October 2022
The aim of the Estate Market Trends (EMT) project is to provide a financial service that introduces a digital transformation of access to real estate market data. The main objective of the proposed solution is to create investment reports based on a selected location (coordinates). The system assumes the use and mutual integration of different sources of real estate data.
Digital Engineer
Status date: 20 October 2022
The Digital Engineer is an AI-powered Digital Assistant allowing engineering learners, students and professionals, to acquire industry knowhow and expertise alongside a group of peers, through hands-on projects, anywhere in the world, to solve big problems on planet Earth, and providing the tools for engineering instructors to focus on teaching. The platform is the foundation of the future of engineering education thanks to powerful digitalization and automation of workflows.
DreamCoder TM 2.0
Status date: 26 July 2022
DreamCoder 2.0 is your first ticket to Space. It is a commercially driven application to digitally access the International Space Station. The service is powered by Nanoracks Europe in partnership with Rina Consulting.
PickyRobot
Status date: 13 October 2022
We want to manufacture a harvesting tractor for strawberries. No one should do physically hard field work anymore. The Time has come to make a change. European companies should also be on the verge of this new technologies. We make use of high accuracy SatNav GNSS-technologies (GALILEO) to secure the robot operations.
MESPAC
Status date: 13 October 2022
MESPAC is a service suite that delivers to the offshore wind industry highly accurate, continuous and certified wind, wave and other metocean information for offshore wind farm sites. Based on Earth Observation Satellites, the quality of the data provided is suitable for bankability and advanced design activities for new marine energy projects.
MEANDAIR
Status date: 11 October 2022
Meandair provides pilots with relevant weather data. Before flight, a plan can be registered in the application and the necessary weather information will be downloaded. By pushing the flight button, just before take-off, the Meandair weather information travels along with pilots. Updates of the latest weather can be also downloaded during flight using the SATCOM communication devices. The weather data are also available to 3rd party application developers, behind easy to use programming interface.
Methane Watch
Status date: 03 October 2022
Methane Watch is the world’s first monitoring system to measure the methane footprint of the energy sector. It combines Earth Observation data from the Copernicus constellation with advanced analytics to monitor emissions from oil, gas and coal with unprecedented accuracy, and provides unique insights to decarbonise the energy industry on a global scale.
DECISIONX
Status date: 27 September 2022
SATAVIA is an AI software and data company simplifying decision-making in aircraft flight operations and maintenance to make aviation smarter and greener.
DECISIONX is a cloud-based analytics platform combining global flight data with atmospheric data to perform environmental exposure assessments for aircraft and buildings. This enables better decision-making in condition monitoring, predictive maintenance and aircraft performance.
SAT-IS(F)Action
Status date: 22 September 2022
Existing space technologies (SatNAV, SatCOM, SatEO) can be blended with the most innovative data intelligence and certification technologies (Edge AI, IoT and DLT) to offer next generation Remote Container Monitoring services (Container-as-a-Service, CaaS), hence increasing overall food supply chain safety and reliability, in the pursuit of the highest possible final customer “satisfaction”.
LUCI
Status date: 22 September 2022
Project LUCI aims to assess land use around railway infrastructure and detect changes that could be hazardous to the safe running of the railway. The project aims to give trackside managers crucial information to enhance the decision making process and ultimately make the railways a safer place to work and travel.
Sports Event Live Photography
Status date: 22 September 2022
Success for Live Event Photography!
With support from ESA, UK software company AWOL has successfully piloted and launched their ground-breaking Live Photography service. Participants and supporters at marathon, swim and triathlon events received high quality photos within seconds of them being taken, establishing Live as the de-facto standard for Event Photography worldwide
STEMBOT
Status date: 21 September 2022
In addition to a shortage of manual labour, tree nurseries, orchards and vineyards are facing challenges regarding their use of chemicals, which shall decrease to comply with EU regulations and decrease environmental impact. In this context, Exobotic Techologies aims to offer an agricultural robot and a web application using satellite images to help these actors to better monitor and treat their plants.
TT-GSAT
Status date: 20 September 2022
TT-GSat offers a test and trial environment for emergency personnel and industry where it is possible to touch, try out and play with real building blocks to creatively find and implement new solutions. These building blocks can be individually combined with each other to try out and test the interaction of different equipment in different deployment scenarios.
TT-GSAT
Status date: 21 July 2016
TT-GSAT facilitates rescue and emergency services as well as industry and service providers to leverage innovations along evaluated needs and requirements, which results in minimized risk for solution development and eases complex deployments in a mission critical environment.
Comprehensive services with scoping services for innovation driven procurement, test and operation support for SatCom and terrestrial communication, navigation, EO based solutions and training/simulation services are offered.
H2Orb
Status date: 20 September 2022
H2Orb tested the feasibility of developing a monitoring and alerting tool that harnesses satellite data to complement ground sensors in supporting the aquaculture sector. It used real-time data insights and early alerts to enable intervention measures for environmental and water quality to be applied to safeguard aquaculture stock whilst allowing farmers to monitor the results of their interventions.
DRONEAI
Status date: 19 September 2022
The DRONEAI project aims at providing an integrated approach to provide a close to real time assessment solutions for disaster relief and humanitarian interventions. It consists of a complete and state-of-the-art solution relying on Artificial Intelligence including a set of tools to enable its application in a time of tension and with high level of flexibility. DRONEAI is combined as an edge processing solution in HITEC’s Nomadic Satellite Communication (NoSaCo) terminal, it creates a unique solution to support the on-site analytics.
Organic Plausibility Checker
Status date: 19 September 2022
Organic markets are growing all over the world. The frequency of organic food fraud is increasing as well. To counter this fraud, satellite-based new technology can play an important role. Our satellite-based organic Plausibility Checker will act as a third eye for ensuring the extra surveillance in the organic sector combined with a supply chain mass balance system that combines certification and product transaction data.
COMO
Status date: 02 September 2022
COMO is a service based on wearable technologies and a software platform solution enabling to measure vital sign parameters of patients to be monitored remotely by physicians. It aims to lighten the burden of the healthcare infrastructure and support caretakers and patients during pandemic situations such as COVID-19.
SAGRESSMART
Status date: 01 September 2022
Powered by artificial intelligence and earth observation, SAGRESSMART provides solutions to improve efficiencies and success in seafloor mineral exploration and investment. As a way to increase knowledge, reduce risk and uncertainty, and assess mineral potential, SAGRESSMART is design to simplify and reduce the time spent compiling, managing and interpreting data and concentrate efforts on the evaluation and raking of high-value targets.
SEED
Status date: 24 August 2020
An advanced AI enabled satellite-based data powered software solution for renewable energy production forecasting including solar and wind energy
SPACEWHALE II
Status date: 11 December 2020
SPACEWHALE is an innovative, semi-automated approach based on deep-learning techniques to detect large whales (~ 10 – 30 m) from VHR satellite images. It forms the bridge between space asset providers and stakeholders in need of population assessments of large whales and enables surveying areas out of reach for traditional methods such as ship and aerial surveys.
Remote Planet
Status date: 17 August 2022
Spinnaker’s Remote Planet provides protection of staff and cargo for the high-value transportation industry by harnessing the power of dual-directional communications through an “always-on” SaaS model.
Utilising Low Earth Orbit technology in tandem with global telecommunications the Remote Planet product gives businesses the power to directly affect the outcome of an unexpected event during transportation with its Active Control capability.
YouShip
Status date: 16 August 2022
YouShip is an on demand delivery platform that connects any business with local couriers or autonomous delivery robots to provide the best delivery experience at the best price. The platform in real-time matches the couriers according to the packages type, delivery windows, and locations. Its AI-powered algorithms find and notify the right courier to the right location at the right schedule time.
DRAMA (AMMO CCN#2)
Status date: 11 August 2022
DRAMA enables airports to address the drone challenge in a systematic, fact-based manner. All decisions concerning the management of drones and procurement of detection solutions are driven by risk assessment and ongoing risk monitoring. DRAMA provides airports with an easily adaptable solution that enables mitigation strategies and drone sensor selection.
First RESPonse
Status date: 11 August 2022
First RESPonse aims to help health professionals (ambulance dispatchers, first responders, hospitals) to deal with pandemic outbreak via acceleration of the entire pre-medical resource chain by up-to 20%, increase the first responders’ safety and improvement of situation awareness for public.
Track & Trust
Status date: 11 August 2022
Track & Trust is a cost-effective tracking solution utilizing satellite communication, IoT mesh networks, sensor data and blockchain technology. The system offers a scalable tracking and communication platform which solves a broad range of supply chain challenges, such as the intricate recording and tracking of goods for remote last-mile delivery. Track & Trust is predestined for logistics and related services for the humanitarian sector.