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.
IBISA
Status date: 24 June 2020
IBISA enables agriculture index-based insurance for agricultural entrepreneurs, everywhere and in an easy manner, by leveraging Earth Observation data and blockchain technology
Landmrk Context Expansion
Status date: 14 July 2020
The Landmrk Context Expansion project sees Landmrk’s location based experiences platform supercharged with hyper-local weather data, space data and earth observation data. The resulting platform enables the creation of a variety of compelling experiences for mobile phone users based on their context.
Buildspot
Status date: 13 July 2020
Thanks to Copernicus data, The Buildspot service
- Optimize the construction sites surveillance
- Be aware of all existing construction sites
- Quantify the urbanization status of specific area
- Watch for the geographic development of the construction market
Satlab
Status date: 07 July 2020
Floating-Lab: AI-powered field deployable bio-sensor technology for remote bio-imaging of water samples at microscopic scale for the automatic real-time detection of pathogens.
Kinetikos4DBS
Status date: 07 July 2020
Kinetikos is transforming the standard of care for movement disorders by eradicating the subjective observational analysis and the discontinuity in delivered healthcare, allowing healthcare providers to reach more patients, more often and support their decision-making on objective measurements to improve patients' outcomes.
ConnieAI
Status date: 15 December 2017
ConnieAI is an AI based platform to guide tourists in cities and touristic venues. Through a common smartphone app and a web-based backend, the solution allows to easily create digital guides and provide visitors with touristic content and services.
AquaEye
Status date: 26 June 2020
The AquaEYE system verifies the physical location of certified aquaculture facilities and water quality data.
Ibisa-ks
Status date: 31 August 2018
Crop protection for smallholder farmers with low fees and fast payments
PaaS
Status date: 15 June 2020
The SatADSL value proposition is to offer to Teleports a unique Platform As A Service (PaaS) service that they can use for improving service offering to their own customers while at the same time monetizing their unused satellite capacity with a new customer, SatADSL, and its network of ISPs and Teleport’s partners.
Soft-Alpha
Status date: 08 June 2020
Soft commodities, such as soy and sugar, and their related financial derivatives, are widely traded on exchanges worldwide. At present, production data is only made available at fixed points through the year (usually after the growing season). The Soft Alpha project, co-funded by the European Space Agency under its Business Applications programme, provides predictive analysis on soft commodity crop performance based on EO derived data, in a sector that is currently dependent on historical data.
Saturnalia
Status date: 28 June 2018
Saturnalia leverages on Earth Observation Data to predict wine quality before bottling. Copernicus data and tailored in-situ sensors keep vineyards constantly monitored from both space and ground. Saturnalia unlocks best practices of vine management and supplies early information on next season’s fine wine. Tech-savvy wine investors and distributors rely on Saturnalia to access the most promising sales before their competitors.
MERSAI
Status date: 26 May 2020
Satellite Earth observation data and artificial intelligence tools are used to monitor effluence and untreated sewage flow into rivers, lakes and reservoirs. As water becomes increasingly scarce, it has become important to manage this resource. The problem of accessing safe drinking water is a major concern, there is a need to reuse treated wastewater and prevent pollution of water sources.
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.