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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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FreeBreath

Status date: 24 March 2021

FreeBreath is a technical and economic feasibility study of a service improving the real-time understanding of air quality status and forecast in areas not covered by terrestrial sensors thanks to satellite EO, GNSS data and predictive analysis.

HoloCap pilotage application

Status date: 19 March 2021

A remote pilotage telepresence project, utilizing 3D game engine, volumetric video and Augmented Reality to bring maritime pilots virtually onboard a ship`s bridge from a remote location.

HRIDE

Status date: 19 March 2021

HRIDE has demonstrated the use of ionospheric products collected by Spire’s LEO satellites. These satellites measure the total electron content by monitoring signals from GNSS. Spire has developed an ionospheric data assimilation model and a space weather API that permits users to extract data. The project has demonstrated the use of the ionospheric model to provide corrections for positioning algorithms.

SAIUDMA

Status date: 11 March 2021

A new ground-to-space air quality (AQ) analytics platform for city and traffic planning departments with the purpose of positioning data insights at the heart of managing resilient urban environments. Our analytics products form the decision making basis for investing in initiatives that help reduce harmful pollution and push for the design of new infrastructure sensitive to local residential communities and vulnerable population cohorts whilst allowing for sustainable economic development.

ESA FGC

Status date: 10 March 2021

We applied space imagery to automate the identification of football fields with artificial turf material to an extent and frequency not possible with land-based tools. Pooling information enables the generation of information about football fields. Other information may be added for a tailored value proposition to field owners, field manufacturers and for field maintenance.

Liveland CCN

Status date: 25 February 2021

The scope of the Liveland CCN has been to further develop and refine the GMV NSL STICK service previously developed under the Liveland Demonstration project in order to improve its commercial viability.

This included the overhaul of the STICK architecture to function in stand-alone, the improvement of the service accessibility to the clients and the enhancement of the STICK firmware functionalities making the service further appealing.

CubeHAPS

Status date: 25 February 2021

A constellation of mini HAPS that provides a low-latency and low-cost telecommunication service over areas not covered by terrestrial infrastructures.

DeFROST for Hydropower

Status date: 01 March 2021

Based on satellite data, DeFROST delivers the ultimate snow monitoring solution for Energy (hydropower) industry. With DeFROST, such actors can improve current water inflow seasonal forecast by ingesting snow data, as well as, diagnosing early snow melt events for hydropower energy generation optimization

HeraSpace IUU

Status date: 17 February 2021

HeraSpace IUU helps the identification of illegal unreported and unregulated fishing supporting EU legislation and environmental protection.

Aquax

Status date: 03 February 2021

AQUAX is an integrated system of robots, satellites and artificial intelligence, intended for monitoring and identifying anomalous discharges within lakes, rivers and reservoirs.

360blue

Status date: 02 February 2021

360blue is an information and software suite to determine water related risks, support optimization of water management, and asses water replenishment activities.

Collie AI

Status date: 02 February 2021

Route optimization software is abundantly present in logistics. However, none of the available solutions has a global scope of application, they are limited to a single transport mode: ship, train, truck, or airplane. Though extremely useful, there is an essential missing piece of information: the concatenation between transport modes.

Seco

Status date: 08 February 2021

SECO is a novel system that integrates three EO services and five EO technologies with the sole purpose to prevent and detect water leaks. The services are delivered directly to customers systems via an API and/or a web platform. SECO integrates satellite optical and radar datasets delivering a short to long-term intelligent alert system for water leaks prevention and detection.

VisionV

Status date: 09 February 2021

VisionV integrates a combination of data provided by the end-user (spatial and non-spatial) and data derived from space-borne assets (VHR optical, elevation, structural health) to create new AR/VR visualisation capabilities in the context of:

  • Situational awareness for Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) asset management
  • Search & Rescue

OPTIPORT

Status date: 28 January 2021

A significant contributor to the global GHG emission is the “hurry-and-wait” behaviour in tramp shipping. OPTIPORT is a Just-in-Time Arrival service that calculates optimal port arrival times for vessels currently underway by leveraging data from Sat-AIS and geospatial analytics.

This problem is tackled by combining the capabilities of StormGeo (weather forecasting, fleet performance and vessel routing) and Oceanbolt (port congestion, commodity trade flows and AIS data processing).

EDGE

Status date: 27 January 2021

The Nexlys’ advancED farminG intElligence(EDGE) aims to take the interaction between the farmers and their plantation fields to a new level. It will deliver an Artificial Intelligence(AI) based Decision Support System(DSS), enabled by the usage of space assets, which will allow farmers to maximise the benefit of existing operational assets and know how.

Quantified Farm

Status date: 26 January 2021

Quantified Farm uses the latest advancements in satellite image processing, modern ground sensors, 5G sensor networks, and artificial intelligence to deliver quantified farm information on a direct instance. This approach allows to make better and directly operational information products that help farmers in three targeted key applications: precise irrigation, fertilisation, and crop protection.

POREWIT

Status date: 26 January 2021

POREWIT is satellite-based services aiming to support the monitoring of forestry activities and supply chains, the detection of non-compliant behaviours and the implementation of law enforcement operations (investigation & evidence) in relation to forestry law.

SoURCE

Status date: 02 February 2021

SoURCE - the concept of the service is to fulfill growing demand in the real estate market for having information concerning utility infrastructures which are provided in real time, updated and with high accuracy, via a user-friendly mobile application. The service combines different technologies (EGNSS, Earth Observation, Augmented Reality, Computer Vision) to enable simplification of gathering and proper interpretation of dispersed information about utilities in real time at current user location.

GEWS

Status date: 26 January 2021

Greenhouse owners are in a very competitive market, in which unexpected costs due to damage and decay of the greenhouse assets can cause severe problems. This demonstration project aims at demonstrating how a notification service using space data can help greenhouse owners to prevent or mitigate non-insurable risks threatening their business, and thereby save costs.