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.
SEDDCR
Status date: 18 February 2021
In the SEDDCR project, space-enabled delivery drones were used to assist the National Health Service (NHS) in rural Scotland in the fight against COVID-19. The delivery drones carried critical COVID-19 pathology tests and related medicine between hospitals and medical practices, ensuring that the NHS had access to a fast, frequent and reliable medical logistics system.
DARTT
Status date: 15 February 2021
DARTT (DemAnd-Responsive rural Transport for Tourism) is a demand-responsive transport solution to improve the viability of public transport in rural areas, focussing on a tourism target audience. It combines a new experience for discovering tourism destinations, with booking bus tickets in rural areas.
SPACE EDU PARK
Status date: 10 February 2021
Digital and gamified learning environment to provide support to Science Teachers and Students in Italian lower secondary schools also through the use of multimedia content enhanced by space assets and AR/VR experiences.
ZPR
Status date: 08 February 2021
The aim of the project is to give MPAs (Marine Protected Areas), National Research Institutes, NGO and as well as marine operators access to advanced technologies as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and space technologies, that could help, favourite and accelerate marine conservation.
Specifically, the project will allow the data mining of coastal marine habitats through embedded AI on satNav localized underwater explorer-class drones and surface vessels whose autonomous survey are optimized by cloud AI and Earth Observations (EO), creating web dashboards for MPAs to access all the marine habitats data, trends and alerts, and share them all within their community.
ACABAS
Status date: 04 February 2021
Using civil aircraft as a platform to collect AIS data, complementing existing terrestrial and satellite solutions, enhancing AIS data availability.
Floating Weed Manager
Status date: 24 November 2020
Floating Weed Manager is a surveillance and monitoring service for freshwaters where aquatic weeds cause social and economic disruption to communities living and working around impacted lakes and reservoirs. It combines radar and optical satellite EO data to provide weekly data and maps of weed coverage to support weed management programmes.
Virtual Watchkeeper
Status date: 18 November 2020
Shipping Companies invest in safely transporting goods and/or passengers. Maintaining a quality portfolio of vessels, along with leading marine safety standards and capability, have taken on a greater importance than ever. Besides mere compliance, they want to verify the safe practices on board and assess the competencies of crew members. Our comprehensive solution increases the situational awareness on board and verifies safe practices at any moment and/or review actions when needed.
Isolation Plus
Status date: 13 April 2021
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a new normal termed “Isolation Plus”. This project identifies the hidden vulnerable in communities and empowers local organisations to help those individuals who may have remained uncovered during the crisis. The solution offers new and unexpected insights into where the most vulnerable in local communities reside.
GEO
Status date: 11 July 2021
The MIS Global Events Observer (GEO) applies accurate, real time intelligence of space-based and ground sensor data to teams working across the insurance cycle. GEO offers unique opportunities for businesses to make informed decisions when selecting, pricing, monitoring, mitigating and assessing risks, and seeks to drive technology into traditional workflows to enhance policyholder service and deliver cost savings and time efficiencies.
SAFES
Status date: 13 April 2021
The SAFES feasibility study has the objective to identify and define applications that use highly innovative Satellite Communication technologies to support essential services in the Energy & Utilities and Media & Entertainment sectors
SunSafe
Status date: 07 April 2021
SunSafe aims to help people with sensitive skin better protect themselves using a sunlight tracker wearable.
AlertSat
Status date: 13 April 2021
AlertSat is an earth observation change detection satellite constellation developed by the PandionAI corporation. The concept with on-orbit and autonomous image change detection, together with the instant delivery of information, gives end-users a tool to act efficiently in critical situations. AlertSat is designed with today’s challenges of rapid global changes in all areas, environment as well as business, in mind.
Making green buildings greener
Status date: 29 January 2021
Air quality impacts our health and our quality of life. Most of us spend 90% of their time indoors - but do we know if the air quality in our homes is good?
In this project, Airmine outlines smart home solutions to improve air quality in homes. We develop hyper-local outdoor air quality nowcasts and forecasts using data from our outdoor air quality sensors. By integrating local air quality data with smart home systems, the user can take predictive measures that can improve indoor home health.
PrepaCoast
Status date: 14 January 2021
An online tool is developed to visualize coastal erosion and accretion in Togo, Senegal and the Maldives. The tool is powered by Google Earth Engine platform and will provide information relevant to coastal zone management, institutions involved in financial planning of infrastructure projects, the tourism industry and entities involved in early warning and resilience.
REACT 2
Status date: 25 September 2020
React 2 relies on satellite and emergency communications to deliver national and regional health bodies, to hospitals and first responders on the ground, a truly innovative pandemic response system.
ICT4Forest
Status date: 24 August 2020
ICT4Forest is an integrated dynamic forest monitoring and management service allowing a frequent, reliable and harmonized update of diversified forest and Earth observation data on a dedicated IT platform developed by Wuudis Solutions Oy (Finland). SPACEBEL (Belgium) will perform satellite image interpretation monitoring activities to be integrated into the Wuudis platform using Artificial Intelligence (AI), free Sentinel and other satellite data, as well as available open data. The innovative system facilitates the day-to-day business for silvicultural operations and forest resource monitoring, helping forest sector stakeholders to increase their income while reducing operational costs.
LymeApp
Status date: 24 March 2020
Lyme Borreliosis (LB) is a rapidly growing health problem in the Highlands of Scotland. Prevention is difficult because of the paucity of information about “hot spots”. LymeApp integrates georeferenced disease data into spatial models using Earth Observation data alongside data from GP surgeries, and the Scottish National Lyme Borreliosis Testing Lab to produce an interactive risk map.