A catalogue of satellite applications from around the world that address sustainable development and humanitarian challenges. This catalogue demonstrates the various use cases for which space technology can be applied and gives examples of applications that have been developed and deployed.
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They seek to rapidly classify flood severity by incorporating flood model outputs and remote-sensing-derived products from multiple platforms to help with flood risk mitigation, increase the resilience of impacted communities, and disseminate alerts.
The goal is to develop a mobile tsunami warning system based on JPL’s mobile Global Real-time Earthquake and Tsunami Alert (GreatAlert) prototype system and to release it as an open-source platform.
Saving lives before disasters. Lynk’s first-to-market, patented technology is building the universal connectivity that can deliver first-ever emergency alerts, advance warnings, and evacuation orders to the thousands who might otherwise perish in disasters every year. Saving lives after disasters. For those who survive a disaster, the resulting destruction of infrastructure leaves even more victims disconnected, vulnerable, and unable to access emergency help while dealing with recovery. Lynk’s technology can provide survivors and first responders with unprecedented, universal connectivity.
ESA EO4SD-Climate Resilience project is providing a series of exposure and socioeconomic indicators for climate risk assessments in Bangladesh from EO.
Yahsat’s resources will be deployed to support the Authority’s remote education programmes and facilitate help for young people, families and schools in countries affected by disasters and crises.
New satellite images obtained by Amnesty International give a chilling new perspective on Hungary’s frenzied efforts to repel refugees and asylum-seekers.
Lack of comprehensive, accurate, up-to-date data on locations of slums and their characteristics has been a barrier to proper planning and addressing the needs of the urban poor in Metro Manila. To address this challenge, a unique geospatial approach was applied to process very high resolution satellite images and identify and delineate the slums at scale and in a short time frame.
The ultimate goal is remote, scalable, automated drone fleets which could airlift tonnes of goods between depots and allow farmers to monitor and optimize their crops more easily.
Geospatial imagery via satellites, combined with machine learning makes an ideal solution. It provides a non-invasive means of identifying illegal deforestation in small areas and alerting authorities to it, so they can carefully direct their limited resources.
Reuters worked with Earthrise Media, a non-profit group that analyzes satellite imagery, to plot the construction and expansion of 39 of these camps, which were initially identified using publicly available documents such as construction tenders.
Images visible on satellite mapping services detail the charred remains of buildings in several Cameroonian villages.
For the past year, DigitalGlobe Analytics has been monitoring activity at political prison facilities in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, more commonly known as North Korea) as part of a joint undertaking with the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea to shed light on human suffering in North Korea.
North Korea’s vast infrastructure of repression is further exposed in new satellite images showing the on-going development of two of the country’s largest political prison camps.
To establish the location of the detention facilities, HRW asked victims, witnesses, and defectors to indicate the building where they were held, visited, or served using satellite imagery.
BlackSky’s high-revisit satellite imagery enabled researchers at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) to monitor the pattern of life at the Natanz nuclear facility and gain a better understanding of activity and events at the site.
Human Rights Watch has assessed a total of 131 villages via satellite imagery for evidence of building destruction.
HRW investigated the NATO airstriked in Libya.
The project helps policy makers, forestry protection and reforestation agencies, agricultural and budget officials, commodity buyers and growers and other local actors to make better decisions. It provides them with the IMAGE toolkit for up-to-date information on land use, economic statistics and deforestation. By showing the value of natural capital and vastly improving forest monitoring, the programme could substantially contribute to improved economic and environmental outcomes. Remote Sensing Applications Consultants use newly available optical and radar data from the Copernicus Sentinel satellite missions to detail surface cover at 10 metre precision.
Commercial satellite imagery of North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site from April 12 shows continued activity around the North Portal, new activity in the Main Administrative Area, and a few personnel around the site’s Command Center.
A pilot study was carried out by the World Food Programme (WFP) Mali in the Mopti region in 2019 where earth observation data was used to detect cropland abandonment in hard-to-reach areas to assess the physical impacts of conflict on croplands and therefore detect populations in likely need of food assistance.
This project uses open-source datasets to show the agricultural areas in distress and investigate to what extent the conflict has been responsible for the deterioration.
STAMP aims to improve resilience among climate affected pastoralists, through access to and use of geo-satellite derived data. This will result in an information service tailor-made to pastoralists’ information and decision making needs, giving them more predictability for their movements.
The overall objective of the EvIDENz project is to develop and demonstrate methods and products on drought risk assessment that respond to national needs for the example of South Africa and Ukraine, and defined indicators of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR).
Index-based flood insurance (IBFI) is one such solution that is both cost-effective and can better target post-disaster relief to compensate agricultural losses. This project aims to integrate hi-tech modelling and satellite imagery with other data to predetermine flood thresholds, which could trigger speedy compensation payouts.
The Flood and Drought Management Tools project provides a methodology with online tools to facilitate the inclusion of information on floods and droughts, and future scenarios.
Tellman and her colleagues collected satellite imagery of 913 large flood events around the world, from 2000 and 2018. They then compared the population of the flooded areas between 2000 to 2015.
Rezatec’s Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution for managing water quality provides a scalable, decision support tool for estimating diffuse pollution loads based on contemporary earth observation data and hydrological modelling.
Introducing the Ulyssys Water Quality Viewer, a custom script to dynamically visualize the chlorophyll and sediment conditions of water bodies on Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 images.
Inria proposed a full pipeline for producing compact and semantic-aware city models from satellite images.
The xView2 Challenge focuses on automating the process of assessing building damage after a natural disaster, an analytical bottleneck in the post-disaster workflow.
ICEYE'S constellation of agile New Space satellites is designed to rapidly revisit any area on the globe, enabling repeating ground track image acquisition from the same location – daily or even multiple times per day. The ability to identify and monitor changes in the range of millimeters enables entirely new applications, including predicting, preventing and responding to events like natural disasters, national security issues and floods.
AMIGOclimate is a unique software as a service (SaaS) that exploits the best available science data to help companies adapt their strategies to the Earth's changing climate.
EarthCache is the easiest way to capture high-resolution satellite images to monitor natural resources. Identify illegal deforestation activity, detect wildfires in remote areas, and measure water quality with geospatial mapping technology.
KoBoToolbox is a suite of tools for field data collection for use in challenging environments. Our software is free and open source. Most of our users are people working in humanitarian crises, as well as aid professionals and researchers working in developing countries.
Thaicom provided satellite communications and instigated a support network among various business partners. It sent experts to install communications equipment for victims and officials to use in the affected areas.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Viasat deployed satellite connectivity to help support recovery efforts across the island.
DigitalGlobe today activated its crowdsourcing platform in an effort to locate the Boeing 777 jetliner that mysteriously disappeared on Saturday while in flight from Malaysia to Beijing.
A public mapping platform that detects mining activity in dense rainforest habitat using satellite radar and drone imagery.
A new data set combining sample data and remote sensing could give scientists the power to make accurate water quality predictions at a global scale.
On October 2010, an accident occurred at the aluminum oxide plant in western Hungary and NASA satellites were able to detect the event extent.
A system has been established at the German Remote Sensing Data Center of DLR that allows the near-real time mapping and monitoring of flood situations.
Earth Stress monitor, is a platform that will use data captured through satellite imagery and cloud computing to improve the mapping of environmental and climate stresses globally and reveal where harmful climate change overlaps with other environmental stressors, such as war, temperature, noise and crowds.
The National Centre for geo-spatial information has agreed to be the champion for the RO within the Haiti government, ensuring both delivery of the RO infrastructure in Haiti and serving as a catalyst for capacity building and EO use for disaster recovery within Haiti.
The main objective of the Recovery Project (2008-2011) was to produce a universally-applicable suite of indicators and techniques that allow donors and executing agencies to Monitor and Evaluate (M&E) post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.
This is the Weights & Biases community benchmark for deep learning models for drought detection from satellite. With better models, index insurance companies can monitor drought conditions—and send resources to families in the area—more effectively.
BGS has a long history of assisting relief efforts by providing satellite maps, data and interpretation to those affected by disasters, helping to identify hazardous areas to avoid.
NIDEM provides a first-of-its kind source of intertidal elevation data for Australia’s entire coastline.
The State Government of Rio de Janeiro has recently taken steps to improve city’s spatial planning in view of better management of urban environment and disaster risk. One of the objectives is to develop robust disaster risk management tools to address and respond to the hydrological and geological hazards in the Rio metropolitan region.
ARGANS Ltd, a world leader in coastal change monitoring, is developing a global service for monitoring coastal erosion, environmental risk assessment, and research on the potential impact of climate change on the coast, including sea level rise and effect of increasingly dynamic weather systems.
Mapping of Greater Banjul and Assessing Subsidence; Greater Banjul Flood and Sea Level Rise Risk Assessment; Coastal Risk Assessment; Data Management and visualization.
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-1 satellite, part of the Copernicus programme, is being used to monitor cases of land subsidence and contribute to risk assessment and urban development efforts.
The methodology is tested in Ravenna and Ferrara cities on the north-western Adriatic coast within the eastern alluvial plain of Po river (Italy), extensively affected by subsidence with strong spatial and temporal variations.
Pre- and post-event satellite imagery enables first responders to make the most impact by quickly mapping passable routes to deliver critical services in the most efficient manner.
The eoworld project in West Africa provided important assessment of the vulnerability of West African coastal areas to climate change and erosion.
This project concerns the Saint-Louis coastline, which is particularly vulnerable to coastal erosion and flooding.
Since signing the Crisis Connectivity Charter, satellite operators have been active on all continents supporting WFP, governments and NGOs, enabling VoIP, Wi-Fi and internet access via satellite to support supply logistics, urgent medical care and coordination of relief efforts.
Intelsat Disaster Relief Program Provides Emergency Communications Support to Qualified Humanitarian Organizations within 24 Hours.
Speedcast works closely with humanitarian organizations to create on-the-go connectivity solutions that are easy to deploy, use and fit into your budget.
The standard ETC solution consists of a satellite system and satellite capacity from Emergency.lu, a public – private partnership of the Government of Luxembourg and private companies in Luxembourg. Ericsson Response then provides the access network for that connectivity.
Télécoms Sans Frontières systematically deploys to humanitarian crises, caused by natural disasters or conflicts, with a fleet of several satellite terminals and satellite phones to provide its expertise and support to humanitarian coordination or other organisations to facilitate the exchange of information and improve the effectiveness of the response.
Telesat works collaboratively with first responders and public safety officers to deliver real-time secure connectivity for data and voice services that are mission critical in every crisis scenario.
The Crisis Connectivity Charter signed in 2015 between the EMEA Satellite Operators Association (ESOA), Global VSAT Forum (GVF), UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA) and ETC. The Crisis Connectivity Charter, signed by Arabsat, Eutelsat, Global Eagle, Hispasat, Inmarsat, Intelsat, SES, Thuraya and Yahsat, seeks to help the humanitarian response community by improving its access to vital satellite-based communications when local networks are affected, destroyed or overloaded after a disaster.
ITU, Inmarsat and Vizada SAS have reached an agreement to improve emergency communications for disaster preparedness and to coordinate relief activities in the aftermath of a disaster.
IEC Telecom, with mobile-satellite service provider Thuraya, has introduced the company’s Rapid Deployment Kit (RDK) that is designed to provide Humanitarian Response Teams with reliable connectivity during COVID-19 and support emergency and disaster relief efforts even in the most remote areas.
Products developed by the cluster include the historic evolution of hyacinth and lake surface temperature, along with the evolution of lake shoreline erosion.
Monitoring and highlighting ground movements around tailing dams, tailing beaches and the surrounding slopes to identify movement that could cause dam failure. The system will provide an early system and produce status reports detailing the risk of failure support by analysis of optical images to identify other risk factors. Developed in collaboration with Terra Motion Limited and University of Nottingham, MotionMonitor-TSF enables Tailing Storage Facility (TSF) managers and ESG compliance officers to regularly monitor key TSF locations and provide warning of potential failure. Early identification of potential failure can enable damage limitation strategies to be implemented or where appropriate, action to prevent failure to be initiated, minimising financial and environmental impact as a direct consequence.
Most estimates of global mean sea-level rise this century fall below 2_m. This quantity is comparable to the positive vertical bias of the principle digital elevation model (DEM) used to assess global and national population exposures to extreme coastal water levels, NASA’s SRTM. CoastalDEM is a new DEM utilizing neural networks to reduce SRTM error. Here we show – employing CoastalDEM—that 190_M people (150–250_M, 90% CI) currently occupy global land below projected high tide lines for 2100 under low carbon emissions, up from 110_M today, for a median increase of 80_M. These figures triple SRTM-based values. Under high emissions, CoastalDEM indicates up to 630_M people live on land below projected annual flood levels for 2100, and up to 340_M for mid-century, versus roughly 250_M at present. We estimate one billion people now occupy land less than 10_m above current high tide lines, including 230_M below 1_m.
The solution provides granular information on the likelihood of flood or drought and supports the assessment of the socio-economic impacts of these events, thus assisting policy makers targeting resilient economic development. It also supports decision making and the development of improved insurance products that pay out to people in greatest need at the required time, using indices that more accurately reflect the incidence of flood and drought than current measures.
They seek to rapidly classify flood severity by incorporating flood model outputs and remote-sensing-derived products from multiple platforms to help with flood risk mitigation, increase the resilience of impacted communities, and disseminate alerts.
The Geohazards Exploitation Platform or GEP aims to support the exploitation of satellite EO for geohazards.
It supports and integrates efforts that leverage Earth observations to improve the ability to assess flood risk on global scale and translate risk information to impacts at regional, national and sub-national levels by supporting risk-informed decision-making.
This project has developed a new module within the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) to provide global to sub-national science-quality information on fire seasonality, fire size, and annual rankings of fire activity, in easily accessible formats.
This project augments the existing Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) with the addition of a near-global, multi-platform, harmonized geostationary fire data set that has undergone comprehensive data validation and quality assessment.
This project implements novel techniques that rely on measurements from onshore Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) sites of the deformation produced by the earthquake.
Africa RiskView is designed to interpret different types of weather data, including rainfall estimates, and information about crops, such as soil and cropping calendars. These data are then converted into meaningful indicators for agricultural production and pasture and applied to the vulnerable populations that depend on rainfall for crops and rangeland for their livelihoods.
Between April 2007 and January 2011, 72 authorised users in 24 coastal states have used EO data provided by the CleanSeaNet initiative of European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) for sea pollution operations. CleanSeaNet is a European satellite-based oil spill and vessel detection service which offers assistance to participating States for the following activities: - Identifying and tracing oil pollution on the sea surface; - Monitoring accidental pollution during emergencies; - Contributing to the identification of polluters.
The use of disaster management satellite intelligence can benefit governments, local authorities, emergency services and environmental agencies. Earth-i’s high spatial and temporal resolution satellite imagery applications, from forest fire detection to satellite flood monitoring, offer an effective response when disaster strikes. Earth-i provides very high resolution satellite data and processing services to organisations and agencies managing disaster response in natural and urban environments; identifying, preparing and planning for potential threats and emergencies; and responding rapidly to events as they occur.
Population Density Maps help nonprofit and multilateral agencies plan vaccination campaigns, respond to natural disasters, and evaluate rural electrification plans. These maps help researchers assess the ways in which climate change and urbanization impact where people live.
This service delivers coastline, and, where relevant intertidal maps. The coastline method works by identifying land-water boundaries in time series of SAR data and high-resolution optical images. Tidal corrections are applied in order to establish locations for high and low water shorelines, and the location of mean sea level. Tidal corrections are based on available tidal models, supplemented with available tide gauge data and sea level measurements from coastal altimetry. Multiple coastline maps produced on e.g. an annual (or more frequent) basis can be used to identify locations of shoreline change due to coastal erosion or sediment deposition. The maps can, therefore, be used to monitor regions that are known to suffer rapid shoreline change, for example to establish annual erosion/deposition rates, and also to identify new locations where shoreline changes occur.
The Bangladesh Space Research and Remote Sensing Organization (SPARRSO) has established an extended flood area mapping system, by incorporating a perennial flood data layer with layers extracted from remotely sensed imagery, in order to improve flood information for post-flood relief and rehabilitation activities.
Provision of damage assessment at different stages over the time and progress monitoring statistics of the reconstruction works.
With the world's first automated, global subsidence and deformation monitoring system, we help mining and metals companies mitigate ground stability risks.
Accelerate disaster response with daily, high resolution imagery. Mitigate risk, get situational awareness, and improve recovery with before, during, and after disaster imagery, anywhere on Earth.
Understand your exposure, accelerate claims triage and allocate reserves and resources using situational intelligence derived from real-time observations immediately after catastrophe (CAT) strikes. On call and ready to deploy 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, (RE)ACT provides the insurance industry with a full view of a catastrophe event’s impact down to individual property level. With access to 450 orbiting satellites, a truly international drone network and aerial survey partners on every continent, RE(ACT) delivers rapid post-event exposure analysis to reinsurers, insurers and brokers for over 70 global CAT events.
The satellite images provided by SERVIR mapped the mud flow and assisted officials in understanding the full extent of the damage and how it could be avoided in the event of future disasters.
Post- disaster building damage assessment using satellite and aerial imagery interpretation, field verification and modeling techniques.
The maps and images acquired from the Space Charter and Sentinel Asia were used in conjunction with other data sources. The main benefit was the speed at which the damage estimation was produced.
The project developed a novel technique to implement the multi-temporal InSAR coherence analysis.
The assessment team utilized remote-sensing-based damage validation, particularly in the housing sector, and to a limited extent in the agriculture and transport sectors.
Very High Resolution satellite imagery and field data generate information on hazard, exposure (mostly the building stock) and vulnerability. The information is structured within a Geographical Information System that provides the platform for integration, standardization and modeling.
Deep Learning solution to automatically detect flooded roads during natural disasters.
Potentially damaged structures and buildings in Luganville Municipality, Sanma Province, Vanuatu as detected by satellite image acquired after landfall of the Tropical Cyclone Harold-20 on 6 April 2020.
VIET-RRO is developing a demonstrator of a recovery observatory in response to periods of intense cyclonic activity impacting food security in Vietnam.
Satellite radar and InSAR techniques have been used to accurately identify land movement trends in Jakarta in Indonesia with an unprecedented level of detail and accuracy. In Jakarta, pumping water from deep wells is causing the land to sink by approximately 10 cm a year.
Development and Implementation of Remote Sensing Techniques for Oil Spill Monitoring and Storm Damage Assessment in an Operational Context.
The project contributed to creating an up-to-date picture of the transport infrastructure in central PNG where several ADB projects are under implementation, by providing a land use map and an inventory of artificial surfaces and features.
High above Tunis, three orbiting ESA satellites sent down data pinpointing parts of the Tunisian capital where land was sinking, undermining the city’s ability to withstand storms, earthquakes and extreme weather.
Rapid satellite imagery analysis during natural and environmental disasters to improve situational awareness and support relief efforts. Output products include maps, GIS- ready data, statistics and reports. They are shared with governments, UN agencies and other actors. Wide range of products – assess and map the impact of many types of disaster including floods, fires, chemical waste, oil spills, earthquakes, storms, landslides and volcano eruptions.
EO data can be used to assess and monitor the hydrologic and socio-economic implications of changes in extreme precipitation and inform decision makers about changes that may need to be made to sanitation infrastructure in order to cope.
The free Global Flood Database offers a comprehensive view of flood exposure around the world. This database combines 15 years of data on 913 floods with human settlement maps across 169 countries to help scientists, governments, and financial institutions better prepare and protect against the risks of flooding.
Increased efficiency of disaster responses are anticipated due to rapid detection, localization, mapping, and flood magnitude assessment.
The initial focus is on the Alpine-Himalayan tectonic belt, but we are working on processing the complete archive for tectonic and volcanic areas globally. Satellite-based Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) measurements have the potential to make a unique contribution to volcano monitoring. We can use the change in phase between radar images acquired on different days to measure small displacements of the Earth’s surface, which can sometimes provide critical information about a volcano’s level of activity and the movement of magma in the Earth’s crust.
EO data can help map and model the best locations for rehabilitating and constructing nature-based solutions, as well as monitoring and evaluating the impact of them on catchment hydrology and river baseflow.
A worldwide flood forecasting capability for advanced warning of flood events, based on dynamic modelling of live data feeds such as rainfall radar, forecast models and hydromet telemetry.
Coupled Interactive Forecasting of Weather, Fire Behavior, and Smoke Impact for Improved Wildland Fire Decision-Making.
In this study, a spatially explicit drought hazard, vulnerability, and risk modeling framework was investigated for agricultural land, grassland and shrubland areas.
Vietnamese and American researchers joined efforts to develop a satellite-based system approach to monitor and manage transboundary flooding.
TropiSCO aims to map deforested areas in near-real time and to publish the information so that local actors can intervene, alert public opinion, and account for lost surfaces.
MHCRI was developed to stimulate the process of urban risk assessments and raise awareness concerning the importance of developing adequate disaster risk management plans.
The goal is to develop a mobile tsunami warning system based on JPLÕs mobile Global Real-time Earthquake and Tsunami Alert (GreatAlert) prototype system and to release it as an open-source platform.
The ARC Flood Extent Depiction Model (AFED) is a daily depiction of temporarily flooded areas everywhere in Africa. At the end of 2016, AER completed the pan-African Flood Extent Depiction (AFED) product for ARC using historical daily data starting in 1992. The product includes automated near real-time AFED processing streams to produce Africa-wide daily updates of AFED.
Has been activated for several seasonal hurricanes and typhoons in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, such as hurricane Harvey in the US (2017), hurricane Michael (2018), and hurricane Florence (2018). In total 54 post-event maps were delivered to the Federal Emergency Management Agency which helped coordinate the assessment of flooding and infrastructure damage. The US department of State noted that “U.S. emergency managers have found great value in the near real-time, geospatial analytical products prepared by the Copernicus operation centres in Europe. As the 2018 hurricane season ends this month, U.S. emergency management agencies are grateful for Europe’s full, free, and open data policy”.
The Charter is a worldwide collaboration, through which satellite data are made available for the benefit of disaster management. By combining Earth observation assets from different space agencies, the Charter allows resources and expertise to be coordinated for rapid response to major disaster situations; thereby helping civil protection authorities and the international humanitarian community. This unique initiative is able to mobilise agencies around the world and benefit from their know-how and their satellites through a single access point that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and at no cost to the user.
The Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative (PCRAFI) has developed catastrophe risk models specific to the Pacific Islands using the EO-based hazard and exposure databases. OpenDRI repository for the Pacific Region providing premier risk-related geospatial data sets for enabling Better Information for Smarter Investments, ranging from satellite, aerial imagery to project-related asset, risk and hazard data for 15 Pacific Island Countries.
Through satellite images, this report reveals how companies along wood product supply chains leading through China are failing to screen out illegal timber, the risks this creates for U.S. companies, and the devastating impacts the trade is having on people in PNG.
HOT works with communities and disaster management agencies to map and understand risk by developing comprehensive data sets on buildings, roads, and key lifeline infrastructure data.
Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) are releasing a new satellite imagery dataset to advance key frontiers in computer vision and develop new solutions for national security and disaster response.
The flood hazard map shows the occurrences of flood events during the past 10 years. The map aims to give an idea about the flood presence in terms of both frequency and extent in the city, and illustrates which part is, in general, flooded more often than other areas.
A SatComms solution that provides a secure, reliable, always-on communications infrastructure. For governments and public safety services to maintain command & control, situational awareness and continuity of operations in chaotic emergency situations.
A portable SatComms system that can be for the first responders, up to a medium sized deployable headquarters, communities, relief camps and field hospitals. It does not rely on terrestrial mobile network infrastructure which is often lacking in rural areas or might be damaged during a disaster.
Inmarsat provides in-situ powerful but easily deployable equipment, including Inmarsat’s new Global Xpress (GX) satellite equipment during disaster response scenarios. Global Xpress (GX) terminals allow communications at speeds not previously possible for emergency response teams and mobile BGANs allow responders to provide in situ impact assessments. Rapid deployment at the disaster area provides the national coordinating authority with the infrastructure to run national and local disaster response communications, at scale.
Environmental monitoring of remediation management activities researched at the hyperspectral program at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing includes the evaluation of the use of imaging spectrometer data (hyperspectral imagery) for characterising environmentally contaminated sites and providing techniques to monitor their remediation.
EASOS’s Flood Watch provides warning of flooding up to 7 days in advance to allow preventative action to be taken prior to a disaster event. It enables the Disaster Management committee to coordinate all agencies, and take preventative measures acting on consistent, reliable information. It also achieves over 90% accuracy for flood alerts with a 12-hour lead time.
Currently, the tool focuses on drought, but there is ongoing work to include other risks, including river flooding and tropical cyclones.
Persistent and comprehensive identification of floods world-wide.
Gain fast and accurate information for property assessment with SAR data, make better pricing, and optimize risk selection to improve your portfolio.
The resulting tool will provide a historical flood map and flood risk index to enable more informed decisions on the exposure of people to floods for preparedness planning and effective advocacy for agricultural, urban, and city planning.
SERVIR-Mekong is currently developing Hydrological Remote Sensing Analysis of Floods (HYDRAFloods), a web-based tool that leverages the most recently available remotely sensed data acquired by multiple satellite platforms to generate daily flood water maps.
The water frequency map of the Ayeyarwady basin can support the AIRBMP project in many ways e.g. by highlighting areas affected by floods and as an indicator of changes in river morphology which can impact navigation and infrastructure developments.
A demonstration of the operational rapid flood mapping capacity of the Sentinel-1 radar sensor at approx. 20 m resolution was demonstrated by analysis of time series from July-September 2015, when Myanmar was subject of severe floods which for some areas of the country were the worst in the last decade.
The EO4SD project is delivering products and services in support of two development projects in the central dry zone i.e. the Agricultural Development Support Project (ADSP) funded by World Bank and the Irrigated Agriculture Inclusive Development Project (IAIDP) funded by Asian Development Bank. The overall aim in both projects is to improve stakeholders' capacity to develop and manage irrigation and to increase irrigated areas. The projects provides an opportunity for EO to help improve decision support and strategic planning, as well as impact monitoring (water utilization, increase in irrigated cropping area). Moreover, EO can support the monitoring of environmental performance and management.
The mapping of the mountain regions is important to ensure a landscape approach to investment planning in mountain regions that take into account the various hazards and risks specific to mountain geology.
GPS can provide very precise measurements of how individual points on the ground move, but such points are often sparsely distributed. This project uses differences in the radar returns acquired by the satellite at two different times to measure the displacement of one point over the intervening time interval. Displacements of a few millimeters or less can be measured in this way.
DAm Monitoring from SATellites (DAMSAT) is an UKSA International Partnership Programme (IPP) supported project led by HR Wallingford with UK and Peruvian partners. DAMSAT provides a one-stop portal to access information on the performance of the monitored dams by combining the use of: Satellite derived data (SAR and optical); in-situ data from SUMMIT SHM (GNSS) equipment; weather forecast data; and modelling studies of dam releases and loss of life in communities downstream
The Inundation Monitoring Service provides satellite-based, highly automated, open water surface identification tools that detect both seasonal fluctuations of water bodies and long-term changes. The service maps provide the extent of flooded areas over time, which can help build a picture of the flood response of an area.
EO data can be integrated into Water Resources Information Systems to enable them to produce near real-time information on flood risk, and can take account for a whole catchment area.
It is an innovative webGIS platform that uses crowdsourced data for geohazard mapping of disaster-prone areas in the Philippines.
The project aims to reduce the vulnerability of exposed people and assets to climate risk and to improve government's capacity to respond effectively to disasters.
Using the high-level overland flow and catchment data and the IDP shelter locations, the team was able to overlay the two in order to identify areas where high IDP shelter densities lay in close proximity to major overland flow paths.
Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA) of Thailand uses space technology applications and geoinformatics to monitor and assess areas, throughout the country, that are currently experiencing and are at risk of drought in order to provide input for efficient and continuous daily planning and management.
The EO support project helped to better quantify climate risks, especially from floods and droughts, and in particular on the road network in Timor-Leste.
The contribution of EO data was primarily focusing on terrain deformation mapping to provide precise indications on the location of subsidence and uplift zones in support to surveys concerning land stability and seismic issues.
Drought and Flood Mitigation Service (DFMS) provides robust meteorological, hydrological, and other Earth observation (EO) information as observations, forecasts, and data archives. Products for monitoring, near and long-term planning, and historical analysis are provided through an online portal to users in the government, commercial agriculture, and development sectors.
Through remote-sensing, REACH conducted a flood susceptibility analysis to classify areas within CAR that are more likely to flood, in an effort to inform enhanced preparedness.
EO products may help underpin a more evidence-based approach to proactively manage wildfire risk to Changde by considering where wildfire management interventions could be most effective.
Flood maps can support a more sustainable approach to managing flood risk by considering where natural flood management could be most effective and enable better planning decisions to avoid unnecessary development in flood risk areas.
Sea-level rise models and maps provide the fundamental data and tools at-risk communities need to make planning decisions.
Funded by the European Commission (DG Grow) and EIT RawMaterials, the RawMatCop CopX project (Geospatial mining transparency through Copernicus and MapX) is analysing changes on land and water bodies, focusing specifically on mining ponds created on riverbeds.
The main objective of the eoworld project was focused on the estimation of a potential land subsidence in the coastal lowland of Guyana, in particular the state of the old dyke system along the East Coast Demerara and the stability of the seawall located in the capital city - Georgetown. The terrain deformation study was complemented with up-to-date digital urban reference mapping and analysis of the assets exposed to floods based on the selected historical flood events.
This project will provide indicators and services using satellite data to estimate rainfall and flood zones.
The ESA EO4SD-Urban project supported Kolkata Municipal Council (KMC) and ADB to integrate EO data into the city’s Flood Forecasting and Early Warning System (FFEWS). The FFEWS is designed to provide forecasts and real-time updates from sensor nodes installed in specific hotspots. Data is communicated to the KMC’s control room and the real-time status of inundation is displayed on a flood monitoring dashboard.
Open Critical Infrastructure Exposure for Disaster Forecasting, Mitigation, and Response.
Throughout the lifecycle of the cyclone, meteorologists used imagery from ISRO's SCATSAT-1 satellite to track the location, direction, and intensity of winds close to the ocean surface.
Enhancements to the Global Wildfire Fire Information System: Fire Danger Rating and Applications in Indonesia.
The objective of the EO support project was to develop EO-based information products that could be used to prepare flood risk management plans as well as flood forecasting and early-warning systems in support of integrated flood risk management.
EO can contribute to this project with precise terrain motion monitoring using Very High Resolution Radar sensors through the “Persistent Scatterer Interferometry” (PSI) technique.
J-ALERT is Japan’s emergency broadcast system launched in 2004, used to quickly and automatically disseminate information from the government to the public via satellite and an array of equipment set up nationwide, in cases of natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunami or floods, or attacks on Japan such as missile launches.
It is a real-time disaster response solution, which sends emergency messages through the L1-SAIF signal from QZSS satellites to government, relevant authorities as well as the general public through smartphone equipped with GNSS chips during times of emergencies.
The Regional Stream Flow Monitoring and Forecasting Service is designed to provide real-time stream flow forecasts for several watersheds in East Africa and bias-corrected satellite precipitation products to enable the timely prediction and monitoring of extreme events.
To support the World Bank and its stakeholders, The EO4SD climate cluster has provided several products including modelling sea level rise and its impacts on coastal population (coastal and inland flooding) and coastal shoreline erosion based on historical evidence.
This projects aims at building an automated service to reliably detect, monitor and assess flood events globally.
Coastal Risk Information Service (C-RISe) delivers access to satellite-derived data on sea level, wind speed and wave heights; enabling stakeholders to use this information to improve socio-economic resilience to coastal hazards such as inundation, floods, storm damage, wetland loss, habitat change, coastal erosion and saltwater intrusion.
Saving lives before disasters. LynkÕs first-to-market, patented technology is building the universal connectivity that can deliver first-ever emergency alerts, advance warnings, and evacuation orders to the thousands who might otherwise perish in disasters every year. Saving lives after disasters. For those who survive a disaster, the resulting destruction of infrastructure leaves even more victims disconnected, vulnerable, and unable to access emergency help while dealing with recovery. LynkÕs technology can provide survivors and first responders with unprecedented, universal connectivity.
In 2018, the Hawaii Supersite was impacted by a crisis at Kilauea volcano, where a lava flow destroyed over 700 homes. Starting in late May, the Kilauea caldera began to rapidly subside. In two months, parts of the ground had dropped by 400 meters, a level rarely observed in a volcano eruption. High resolution InSAR monitoring with COSMO-SkyMed and TerraSAR X images granted through the GSNL Supersite provided unprecedented views of the collapse and have been critical for understanding how the subsidence was evolving over time. This data, along with high temporal resolution global positioning system (GPS) and seismic data, were analysed by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and the scientific community, generating information which guided the disaster response.
Day-Night monitoring of volcanic sulfur dioxide and ash for aviation avoidance at northern polar latitudes.
Rapid Flood Mapping Service (RFMS) provides a quick response in mapping flooded areas in the immediate lead up – and during – a severe weather event e.g. torrential rainfall. Targeted at national disaster resilience agencies and the first responder community. RFMS utilises high-resolution radar data that is unaffected by clouds and is capable of delivery of actual observed flood extent data every 12 hours. Provides maps of the true distribution of visible flood water, enabling quick and efficient response, recovery and relief.
EO data can provide continuous datasets that can be used to detect the onset of drought as well as its duration and magnitude. This can be used to both monitor the drought over time and issue early warnings.
It is the world's first continent-scale map of surface water and provides images and data showing where water has been seen in Australia from 1987 to the present.
The Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) is a GEO Community Activity that provides flood warnings across country borders with forecasts beyond 15 days. During the August 2017 Bangladesh floods, the system provided an opportunity to evaluate the forecasting improvements.
ESA EO4SD-Climate Resilience project is providing a series of exposure and socioeconomic indicators for climate risk assessments in Bangladesh from EO.
The service will include an operational 15-day flood forecast based on the downscaled Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) forecasting system using the RAPID routing model at designated locations.
Improvement of flood forecasting using satellite-based rainfall data and study to apply a Digital Terrain Model to local flood model.
The EO supports project linked to the ADB activity by providing datasets that support assessment of nature of disaster risk profiling: probability of occurrence, and the potential loss of, or impact on, life and physical capital. The delivered information included land use and land cover, a DEM, flood history as well as disaster risk data and maps for floods and cyclones (e.g. flood damage calculations based on land use, flood depths and duration).
Vivid Economics and a consortium of partners have received funding from the UK Space Agency to design a parametric insurance product for emergency flood relief costs in Bangladesh. The project aims to make post-disaster response faster, cheaper, and more efficient. To achieve these goals, they develop a meso-level parametric insurance product which rapidly disburses funding for disaster relief and recovery to the government based on real time updates of satellite imagery on flood events. They also develop a budget allocation platform to provide guidance on where and for what purpose relief and recovery funding should be allocated.
Satellite-derived information support developing national flood and landslides hazard mapping in the five target countries.
The service provides stakeholders in the Amazon Basin region with improved flood forecasting ability, including more accurate information about timing, magnitude and impact, to increase their understanding of risks and support greater resiliency to flood disasters.
Enabling Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction and Response Throughout the Disaster Lifecycle with Multi-Scale Toolbox.
BanD-SOS aims to establish a pre-operational service for flood forecasting and associated societal risk.
The service use new-generation satellite-derived precipitation products to increase flood forecast accuracy.
This service will work with DHRW to incorporate the Virtual Rain and Stream Gauge Information System (VRSGIS) data stream into their hydrological models.
The Regional Drought Mechanism addresses the scarcity of resources and capacity to analyse data in many drought-prone developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.
Products developed to support the improved flood warnings. The satellite data is acquired and rapidly delivered to the processing centre where it is analysed and interpreted to generate 3 products; the location of the ice front, an ice classification map and an ice change map. These products are delivered to the Water Resources Management Division which has set up an ice monitoring service. This service delivers flood warnings as well as making information available to other users in the area.
The Earth Observation Data Management System (EODMS) is a geospatial platform provided by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) open to the general public to discover and download authoritative Canadian Earth Observation (EO) raster data.
Hailstorm Risk Assessment Using Spaceborne Remote Sensing Observations and Reanalysis Data. ARL Advancement Current ARL 7, advancement to ARL 8 in early 2021. Goal ARL 9.
National-scale robust exposure data providing consistent and validated information on building type and construction for disaster risk management. National-scale hazard and multi-hazard data covering earthquakes, floods, landslides and volcanic events.
Digital Earth Australia Hotspots is a national bushfire monitoring tool which provides information about hotspots.
Integrating Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data for Improved Resilience and Response to Weather-Related Disasters. ARL Advancement Current ARL 5, advanced one ARL in 2020.
The Enabling Sustainable Landscape-Scale Agricultural Management Through Fire and Air Quality Monitoring service guides authorities to regulate agriculture burning and manage forest fire using the Mekong Air Quality Explorer Tool, which combines air quality estimations from NASA's GEOS-5 global model with local ground-sensor data, and machine-learning analytics.
The overall aim of CommonSensing is to improve national resilience towards climate change, including disaster risk reduction, and contribute to sustainable development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), through the use of satellite Earth observation (EO). This is done by assessing climate predictions, coupled with hazard mapping and food security analysis to provide countries capacity to better access climate funds and thus become more resilient to climate change.
UNITAR-UNOSAT on behalf of UN OCHA activated the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters on 05 October 2016 to support planning and coordination of emergency response operations with satellite analysis covering areas affected by Hurricane Matthew.
In Uttarakhand, the team applied local weather data enhancement using alternative data sources, including satellite-based rainfall products (specifically, GPM and CHIRPS), together with other weather variables from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ERAInterim climate models to produce final flood hazard and risk maps.
High-resolution satellite images provided to the Islamic Republic of Iran by the ChinaGEOSS Disaster Data Response Mechanism in support of disaster response in flooded regions.
Improved severe-weather resilience for herding communities using satellite Earth observation (EO). Benefits for the herding community will be achieved by using improved environmental information through three main channels: (1) the insurance sector, (2) government agencies coordinating livestock and land use, (3) directly to the herders through text messaging.
SUPARCO developed the DisasterWatch Web Portal for near real time dissemination of space-based information to NDMA/PDMAs in the event of natural disasters.
The proposed Technical Assistance will produce three outputs: (i) cloud-based platform operationalized; (ii) integration of EO technology solutions into projects supported; and (iii) knowledge in adopting EO-based solutions improved.
This application was frequently updated and showed the different severity levels of fire. It also tracked the user’s location and sent out alerts to smartphones if a fire was approaching.
A 2019 study aimed to develop a methodology for rapid flood inundation and potential flood damaged area mapping using Sentinel and Landsat data.
This product contains spatially explicit information on land subsidence areas and affected infrastructure.
eOsphere satellite ground receiving stations have been installed in countries worldwide (including Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Greece, Mongolia and Cuba) to allow government agencies to detect and monitor forest and wild fires using medium resolution thermal infrared and visible satellite data in near real time. As well as detecting and monitoring fires, the product also detects burn scar area, smoke, aerosol and air quality, volcanic eruptions and ash.
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images, captured by the Sentinel-1 satellite, was used to accurately map the extent of flooding around Beira — Mozambique’s fourth largest city and one of the most severely affected areas.
EO4DroughtMonitoring allows the monitoring of drought events based on proven and objective indicators derived from Earth Observation (EO) data.
FireSat adds considerable value to existing fire detection assets. The solution uses nanosatellites to provide targeted coverage of Africa with improved temporal and spatial resolution than offered by existing satellite remote sensing of fires. The system intends to enable a step-change in the detection of smaller fires, down to 90m_ allowing earlier intervention to keep fires under control.
In the framework of the FP7 SPACE Project GEO-PICTURES, AnsuR and United Nations (UNOSAT) collaborated on using a smartphone App for crowdsourcing geo-referenced in-situ images for the purpose of improving flood assessment from Radar EO Images.
The imagery comes from Planet. It shows Kutupalong refugee camp, spreading over an area a little larger than ten square miles.
Satellite imagery shows destruction caused by a massive fire that swept through a Rohingya refugee camp at Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.
Through satellite imagery analysis and interviews with migrants living in the camp, Human Rights Watch confirmed that authorities had not relocated about 90 residential tents, five reception structures, and nine administrative structures in close proximity to contaminated areas.
The project considered the use of satellite imagery analysis to develop a scientifically-tested method for identifying and monitoring nomadic pastoralists, internally displaced persons (IDP) camps, and informal settlements in Somalia.
We provided details of a case study in which we applied deep learning methods to detect structures on multiple refugee settlements in a number of locations in Africa and the Middle East.
In this paper, recent results in methodological research and development of routine services in satellite mapping for humanitarian situational awareness are reviewed and discussed.
Monitoring and evaluating the activity of IDP camps in Afghanistan through the use of Machine Learning.
The presence of additional data to confirm or expand upon reports from more remote areas of Somalia could have expedited the identification of those at risk of hunger and displacement.
Improve the quality of information available about remote and inaccessible areas and enable WFP to be better informed of and to validate changes on the ground without the risk and investment of the time and resources required for a field visit.
Gisat participated in emergency response mappings in support of UN agencies mitigating food insecurity and situation of refugees and internally displaced people (IDP) in Horn of Africa.
This dataset contains open source derived data about the geographic locations (point geometry) of identified tent camps and other locations, such as collective centers, schools, mosques, sports facilities, host families, etc. in towns inside Syria where displacement has taken place.
Satellite imagery, provided by DigitalGlobe and analyzed by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, shows clear evidence of the buildup of fortifications and significant reinforcement of apparent CRP personnel and vehicles between June 2 and August 19, just 100 meters from the U.N. compound in Kadugli, South Kordofan.
Premise has partnered with iMMAP, an international not-for-profit organization that provides information management services to humanitarian and development organizations, to identify and validate these informal settlements by combining satellite imagery detection and the ground-truth data collection capabilities of the Premise contributor network in Colombia.
Nigeria’s vast and dynamic landscape includes numerous communities that lie outside the purview of the official map registry. The rural nature of these settlements, i.e., villages or hamlets, makes it difficult to reach communities to deliver health, education and other services. The use of satellite imagery combined with the technical knowhow of GRID3 has led to a significant improvement in mapping settlements.
Know Your City, is a global initiative jointly organized by Slum Dwellers International. Classic survey methods, such as households by-household census, are enhanced through addition of technologies, such as cell phones, portable GPS devices, aerial and remote photography, to complement slums mapping and data collection.
The project will use high-resolution satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company, and its crowdsourcing platform, called Tomnod, to tag key structures in refugee camps, such as tents and permanent structures, to improve UNHCR’s site planning and field operations.
The aim of the project EO4HumEn+ is to implement more automated routines to exploit the data stream of e.g. the Sentinel mission, improving the capabilities of EO methods to provide realistic population estimations also in urban areas as well as extend the established service portfolio to the diversifying needs of the humanitarian community, cooperating with a wide range of NGOs including ICRC, the Austrian Red Cross, SOS Children’s Villages, MSF and Groundwater Relief.
OpenStreetMap is used by UNHCR and humanitarian agencies in decisions that improve conditions for refugees, and by refugees themselves to navigate their new environments.
The Global Refugee Atlas visualizes and narrates core experiences of the millions of refugees under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) mandate using remote sensing data, crowdsourced social media data as well as a host of datasets from UNHCR and other international humanitarian agencies.
Satellite imagery on forcibly displaced civilians from Mogadishu shows a virtual new city is growing up to the west of the Somali capital.
YahsatÕs resources will be deployed to support the AuthorityÕs remote education programmes and facilitate help for young people, families and schools in countries affected by disasters and crises.
The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) project produces global spatial information about the human presence on the planet over time. This in the form of built-up maps, population density maps and settlement maps. This information is generated with evidence-based analytics and knowledge using new spatial data mining technologies.
GRID3 locates settlements so that all people, whether they live in farmland, suburbs, or cities, are visible to policy makers, critical service providers, and other stakeholders.
Track & Trust is a modular system suitable for many supply chain use cases including the humanitarian sector. Humanitarian aid organizations can use Track & Trust for development and disaster relief. Logistic companies can use it for supply chain services.
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has used Earth Engine to develop high-resolution maps of global surface water occurrence, change, seasonality, recurrence, and transition.
To improve the effectiveness and targeting of humanitarian delivery in Yemen through the provision of independent oversight. The UK delivers humanitarian support on a large scale in Yemen, but due to the conflict, it has no staff in the country. This programme will check that programmes are delivering the intended benefits and help ensure that programmes provide a holistic range of support to those most in need.
The project is investigating the possibility of detecting and monitoring in-region population displacement in Iraq and Lake Chad.
Using satellite imagery to illustrate the densification beyond Cucuta’s urban perimeter, in the contest of the Venezuelan crisis.
The objective of this collaboration was to assess the impact of the refugee flow in the context of the Boko Haram crisis in Niger, through the built environment.
The project, called Re-settlement Information and Observing System (RIOS) led by Institute for Environmental Analytics, at the University of Reading, will use Earth Observation (EO) satellites to provide a monitoring service for managing informal settlements in Colombia. The project will help mitigate against the danger of loss of life arising from natural disasters in settlement areas and to support the re-housing of displaced people.
New satellite images obtained by Amnesty International give a chilling new perspective on HungaryÕs frenzied efforts to repel refugees and asylum-seekers.
IDMC’s use of satellite imagery demonstrated the potentials of this innovative data source to draw a fast and accurate picture of population distributions, especially for specific local contexts.
Using satellite imagery from refugee camps in South Sudan, the team helped USA for UNHCR create prototypes of two new tools to increase awareness of the refugee crisis and potentially help inform relief efforts on the ground.
The detection process begins with the generation of a model from machine learning, supplied by the company Thinking Machines, which uses Sentinel-2 low-resolution satellite imagery to generate a probability map of new settlement locations.
A mixed methods approach to data collection was employed for this assessment, including mapping of camp infrastructure using satellite imagery analysis.
The UN Refugee Agency, Google, and data-communications provider O3b Networks have partnered to provide a Wi-Fi connection to refugees in these camps in Chad through satellite connections.
Buildings set up to serve refugees were among several destroyed in Ethiopia’s Tigray region according to satellite imagery received by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
Myanmar has bulldozed entire Rohingya villages to make way for a massive camp at the centre of a stalled plan to house returning refugees, an analysis of new satellite imagery shows.
New satellite images, provided to Mashable by commercial space imagery company DigitalGlobe, show the drastic changes to the Cox's Bazar landscape over a period of just four months, as densely populated settlements quickly began to cover large swaths of the region.
Talia’s emergency management solution provides high-speed IP communication via satellite, enabling first response, medical or emergency teams can have full communication capabilities.
Castor provides reliable end-to-end Internet solutions, allowing your organization to focus on your core business; aid.
Freedomsat is a high-speed Satellite Internet solution that delivers fast and reliable internet to difficult to connect spots around the world.
Marlink enables humanitarian operations to run smoothly and efficiently in remote locations where conventional communications are unavailable or unreliable.
With X2nSat, their clients get the robust emergency services of a large telecommunications company, with the personalized customer care tailored to their unique operational needs.
The Globalstar satellite system operates independent of regional terrestrial infrastructure.
A high-capacity low-Earth orbit satellite network capable of transferring hundreds of GB’s per month to and from any point on the globe. Kepler’s system is designed to be compatible with a number of existing off-the-shelf, fixed-deployable, maritime antennas, and next-generation flat panel antennas.
As the only truly global communications network, Iridium enables remote solutions for unmanned vehicle systems, making work safer and more efficient across land, air, and sea markets. Reliable connectivity with Global Line of SightSM is never out of reach for applications including: Infrastructure & Industrial Inspection; Remote Package Delivery; Disaster Assessment; First Response; Remote Sensing; Government & Military; Scientific Research.
Our product portfolio, branded iDirect and Newtec, integrates a wide variety of hardware, software and services seamlessly into a complete satellite communications solution. The product portfolio combines innovative technology and intelligent routing of IP data to support all clients' networking requirements.
In order for effective monitoring of SDGs targets, a training programme has been organized by the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute using open source spatial data available on Amazon Web Service Cloud Credit.
The present proposal aims at developing automated workflows for calculating SDG Indicators grouped by use of land cover maps as the baseline. The main goal is to adopt, improve and apply already proposed methodologies, which were used for generating global products with coarse spatial resolution data, to higher spatial resolution data (up to 10 m), which will be better suited for regional products and applications.
This project aims to create novel data sets, methods and techniques to advance the LUCC detection in Brazil, mainly supporting the INPE monitoring programs PRODES, DETER and TerraClass.
Utilizing Human Landscape data and Ecopia Building Footprints powered by Maxar, the analysts identify specific neighborhoods in Algiers that are more likely to be disengaged from politics and the economy—where government should prioritize community revitalization efforts and improve engagement, outreach and messaging.
This system identifies the time and seasonally varying distribution of the vulnerable population by using the de-identified telecom data and satellite images for enhancing disaster management.
Lack of comprehensive, accurate, up-to-date data on locations of slums and their characteristics has been a barrier to proper planning and addressing the needs of the urban poor in Metro Manila. To address this challenge, a unique geospatial approach was applied to process very high resolution satellite images and identify and delineate the slums at scale and in a short time frame.
A system for India which makes use of statistical and machine learning techniques to integrate data from earth observation, census and sample surveys to generate land-cover maps, population distribution maps and development indicator datasets at sufficient spatial and temporal resolution.
Satellite Imagery and call detail records (CDR), validated by ground-truth surveys, were used to develop models that can predict poverty in Ghana and Uganda.
Building footprints are useful for a range of important applications, from population estimation, urban planning and humanitarian response, to environmental and climate science. This large-scale open dataset contains the outlines of buildings derived from high-resolution satellite imagery in order to support these types of uses. The project being based in Ghana, the current focus is on the continent of Africa.
The objective of this project is to investigate and analyse the use and application of EGNOS and Galileo for emergency management, humanitarian aid and law enforcement paying special attention to the cases where EGNOS and Galileo (as compared to GPS) are the enablers for those applications.
Suitability of mixed-satellite-sensor derived 3D data for rapid urban population estimation in crisis situations.
This mapping product includes the detection of the type (phase of development of settlements, e.g., established/permanent or new developments) and extent (in terms of location and area) of informal settlements.
In late 2016, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UNITAR-UNOSAT entered into a three-year collaboration period with the purpose of developing a web-mapping interface for the monitoring and evaluation of 15 UNDP projects focused on infrastructure rehabilitation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Protect Critical Infrastructure- Build solutions to remotely manage, monitor, and optimize critical, high-value infrastructure, such as pipelines and utilities.
The Maxar News Bureau is a partnership program with trusted and respected media organizations that leverages technology for social good and global transparency. Maxar Technologies provides electro-optical and radar satellite imagery, analytics and expertise that are powerful complements to good journalism, providing indisputable truth at a time when credibility is critical.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UNITAR-UNOSAT entered into a three-year collaboration period with the purpose of developing a web-mapping interface for the monitoring and evaluation of 15 UNDP projects focused on infrastructure rehabilitation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Satellite Imaging Corporation (SIC) offers satellite image data by using the combination of panchromatic and multispectral bands to bring out the environment features that are most important to the project.
The GSE Humanitarian Aid (Respond) is an alliance of European and International organisations working with the humanitarian community to improve access to maps, satellite imagery and geographic information.
Missing Maps is an open, collaborative project in which you can help to map areas where humanitarian organisations are trying to meet the needs of people who live at risk of disasters and crises.
MapSwipe is an open-source mobile app that is making mapping around the world more coordinated and efficient.
Quake Global offers asset location solutions providing visibility and analytics even within the most complex situations.
The ultimate goal is remote, scalable, automated drone fleets which could airlift tonnes of goods between depots and allow farmers to monitor and optimize their crops more easily.
Global Search and Rescue (SAR) operations quickly locate and help people in distress.
India is a member of the international COSPAS-SARSAT programme for providing distress alert and position location service through LEOSAR (Low Earth Orbit Search And Rescue) satellite system. Indian Local User Terminals provide coverage to a large part of the Indian Ocean region rendering distress alert services to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Seychelles, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.
Honeywell SAR offers an immense portfolio of hardware and software solutions for majority of COSPAS-SARSAT systems in operation today. The technology spans the entire ecosystem: from ground stations to mission control systems, to Rescue Coordination Center systems and network infrastructure. Honeywell ground stations portfolio includes Low Earth Orbit (LEO) stations, Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) stations, and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) stations. In addition to solutions that improve beacon detections and location accuracy.
TSi announced that Taiwan has selected its Medium-altitude Earth Orbit Search and Rescue (MEOSAR) ground system to support regional search and rescue missions.
SPOT offers peace of mind, using 100% satellite technology. SPOT products keep you connected to the people and things that matter most. SPOT allows you to track assets, send and receive messages, send your GPS position and status, mark waypoints, track your progress on SPOT Mapping and notify search and rescue officials in the event of an emergency.
Flexible, reliable, and quickly deployable communications solutions specially designed to support the rapid response and recovery of a community.
Newtec Dialog® is a scalable and flexible multiservice satellite communications platform that allows service providers to access a wide range of markets, manage operational and capital costs effectively and create unique value for customers. Dialog provides the scalability and flexibility required to run successful, very efficient satellite networks and allows satellite service providers to build and adapt their network easily as their business grows setting them up for long-term growth and success.
OneWeb’s network supports Air, Land, Sea, and Space communications for government networks and missions demanding rapid deployability; military-grade network security; flexibility, and the ability to scale. The consortium behind OneWeb, led by the UK Government and the Indian mobile network operator Bharti Global, offers unique opportunities for the government sector to bring digital inclusion to millions of personnel through fibre-like connectivity for the first time.
Facebook Disease Prevention Maps are designed to help public health organizations close gaps in understanding where people live, how people are moving, and the state of their cellular connectivity, in order to improve the effectiveness of health campaigns and epidemic response. These datasets, when combined with epidemiological information from health systems, assist nonprofits in reaching vulnerable communities more effectively and in better understanding the pathways of disease outbreaks that are spread by human-to-human contact.
Partners, including Acasus, worked together to provide innovative satellite-based data maps to help vaccinators plan how to reach unvaccinated children.
The proper management and use of geospatial data and technologies (Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS, Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS)) can help filling this gap through the collection, management, visualization and use of geo-located data and information on vaccination service, population distribution as well as the establishment, maintenance and sharing of master lists e for the geographic objects core to immunization (health facilities, communities, ...).
This work is one example of how GRID3, one of the COVAX technical partners, aims to support sub-Saharan African governments’ efforts to end the pandemic.
Maxar’s DigitalGlobe is committed to supporting the brave efforts of the partners in the field, in hopes that putting those Congolese families on the map will help them receive the vaccines and medical care they deserve.
The daily work of vaccination teams can be tracked by using GIS, phones equipped to use the Global Positioning System (GPS) or other GPS loggers.
Over the years, eHealth Africa has collected and cataloged a wide variety of geospatial data and other data sets in the countries and regions they’ve worked in.
Using satellite data, NASA researchers observed the wetter-than-usual conditions and shared their insights about a potential outbreak with colleagues in international health organizations and African governments. While there is no current vaccine for humans, there is a vaccine for livestock. In response to the alert, Kenyan officials undertook a mass vaccination program for domestic livestock.
To improve the system, we partnered with Tanzania’s Medical Stores Department (MSD) to analyze delivery routes and available transport resources. Although MSD had a comprehensive list of facilities across the country, about 30 percent did not have a validated geocode, making them difficult to find unless you asked a local how to get there!
NASA Harvest developed a national level satellite-derived cropland map for Togo at 10-meter resolution within a 10-day timeframe using data from the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel 2.
Inmarsat offers the most flexible and reliable satellite Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity platform to ensure your remote communications needs are met. They help support digital aspirations by delivering the benefits of IoT through their two-way data connectivity services such as IsatData Pro (IDP) and BGAN M2M, through edge connectivity, innovative data platforms and leasing. They are helping industries from agriculture, energy and mining to transport and utilities do things more efficiently, more safely and more sustainably, regardless of where they operate.
GRID3 works with local stakeholders and data collectors to update, collect, produce, and build capacity for production and management of geospatial data on development infrastructure.
Global Forest Watch Pro (GFW Pro) is an online management application to support reducing deforestation in commodity supply chains.
PulseSatellite is a collaborative web-based tool that combines cutting edge artificial intelligence with human expertise to extract the most relevant information from satellite imagery for use in humanitarian contexts.
Global humanitarian needs outstrip resources. Expert geospatial and data analysis can help stretch those resources for maximum impact. Many professionals want to donate their energy and skills to help. MapAction is the bridge which enables them to do so effectively. A non-profit organisation that collaborates with partners around the world to help anticipate, prepare for and respond to humanitarian emergencies.
The Digital Earth Pacific (DEP) project supports the development of an operational earth observation system that takes decades of freely available data and brings it together in a sensible way within the Pacific context.
The ESA Urban-Thematic Exploitation Platform (U-TEP) provides access to EO information, processing tools, and computing resource.
It comes as a binary product showing built-up and non-builtup areas. An intermediate step in the production of this dataset is the generation of a soil sealing/imperviousness layer, showing in percentage the degree of sealed surface.
The EO4SD-Urban project provides support to the programme in the context of urban analyses and vulnerability assessment for the cities of Campeche (Mexico), Mendoza (Argentina) and Lima (Peru).
SpaceNet 7 has demonstrated that identifying, tracking, and detecting change in precise building footprints using moderate resolution (4m) Planet imagery is possible. Tracking urbanization and construction at the unique building level is critical for improving upon existing course population estimates.
Images taken from space are providing details to governments and relief efforts about how humanity is handling the Covid-19 crisis.
Antiviral drugs to treat Ebola patients in West Africa have been tested with the help of a transportable diagnostics laboratory developed with ESA’s support.
The satellite imagery, available through NGA’s EnhancedView program, will be used to support the daily operations of the organisations involved in combating the deadly disease.
The Disease Surveillance and Risk Monitoring (DiSARM) project, which ran from 2015-2020, built tools to help disease control programs use data to target interventions spatially, guide field teams more precisely, and evaluate coverage more robustly.
Reveal ensures equitable access to life-saving immunizations, antibiotics, and protective measures by supporting field teams in identifying where people live and what services are needed. Reveal promotes powerful analytics by combining geospatial data and context-specific planning and accountability tools to provide necessary information that ensures all families in need are found and receive services.
The Dengue MOdel forecasting Satellite-based System (D-MOSS) project is developing a dengue fever early warning system.The tool generates several months advance warning of likely dengue outbreaks.
HOT has been asked to help identify and map populated places in some of the most susceptible places.
Google Maps uses aggregated, anonymized data to show how busy certain locations are, so you can identify a store's peak hours, for example.
Thuraya will enable always-on voice and internet connections for COVID-19 relief missions, especially in regions where telecommunications infrastructure is likely to be weak or unavailable.
Both of these satellite providers are fully prepared to provide immediate satellite bandwidth to support basic internet, distance learning and telehealth to reach vulnerable populations.
Granular geographic targeting, down to 2-by-2-kilometer squares, may help pinpoint the very poorest who need urgent financial assistance—and COVID-19 vaccines.
Atlas AI's mission is to identify the most impactful and sustainable opportunities for economic well-being with an easy to use platform. To access insightful information in a data-spare environment, we created Aperture™ - a platform to host the most meaningful datasets for emerging and frontier markets. Covid-19 Countdown is working towards efficient and equitable vaccine distribution across the African continent.
World Health Organization regional centers have been leveraging geospatial technologies for years. GIS has revolutionized vaccine distribution planning, monitoring, and evaluation.
Fraym offers fast, efficient, and accurate spatial data and analysis from the national to neighborhood level to inform project planning and adaptive management strategies across the Global South.
The Government of Togo has launched an ambitious cash transfer program to provide immediate cash support to poor households that are impacted by COVID-19.
The ability of local and national governments to anticipate and plan for response needs, including testing, treatment, contact tracing is seriously hindered by the lack of reliable maps. HOT is trying to fill this gap.
During this epidemic, geospatial data provided a unique perspective and critical information for improved response and containment efforts.
As ever-more advanced satellites have been launched, disease researchers have acquired better tools to observe the temperature, precipitation, and vegetation conditions that are linked with certain diseases. Scientists have incorporated these data into models that assess the likelihood of disease outbreaks. By anticipating when and where conditions for these diseases might become favorable, researchers can help local governments and international health organizations focus their resources to mitigate outbreaks.
The model incorporates air temperature and rainfall data from NOAA models; land surface temperatures from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments; humidity and soil moisture data from NASA’s Global Land Data Assimilation System; human population density data from NASA’s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center; and chikungunya vector distributions from the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit’s VectorMap.
NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applications Program, which sponsors an array of disease-tracking efforts, currently has the highest number of projects and partnerships in its 20-year history.
The profusion of high-resolution, freely available satellite data has enabled Dr Boyd and her team to make the first credible estimate of the number of brick kilns across South Asia and their impact on the environment.
Geospatial imagery via satellites, combined with machine learning makes an ideal solution. It provides a non-invasive means of identifying illegal deforestation in small areas and alerting authorities to it, so they can carefully direct their limited resources.
A key task at the early stages of preparing for post-conflict reconstruction is to produce appropriate basic maps. Satellite images, such as those provided by Google Earth and others, can provide a good starting point for producing basic maps.
The HALO trust, an organization devoted to the clearance of landmines, uses satellite imagery within Google Earth Pro to determine landmines locations based on agricultural cultivation.
Track and identify illegal deforestation and enforce permits and land use regulations with Planet’s high cadence, global satellite imagery.
RAISG decided to start the process of making the status of illegal mining visible with a Pan-Amazonian approach. To do this, the first step was to create a map with the best available information compiled from different sources, with a focus on Indigenous Territories (IT) and Protected Natural Areas (ANP).
Verumar enhances the Philippine Government’s capability to conserve and sustainably use their oceans, seas and marine resources while contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 – Life below water. This is achieved by integrating and working in concert with the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) and other stakeholders to scope and introduce new satellite-enabled capabilities. These enhance fisheries management and enforcement activities, and directly enable illegal fishing to be countered with improved efficiency. This also enables BFAR’s aim for excellence in sustainable fisheries management, contributing to national food security.
Environmentally unsustainable fishing, including illegal and unreported fishing, harms the entire value chain, as well as introducing safety and security challenges. This solution uses fishing Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS), whereby equipment that is installed on fishing vessels provides information about the vessels’ position and activity.
A mini-program within the app WeChat that analyzes GPS data from all users and traces close contacts of all patients. This permits early tracing and quarantine of potential sources of infection. Data from the mini-program can also be merged with other data to predict epidemic trends, calculate individual and population risks, and provide recommendations for individual and population protection action.
This research leveraged fine-scale satellite data on urban areas to build a road-connected geospatial network upon which to model disease spread.
This project proposes the development of a system for assimilating air quality data from disparate sources using Bayesian learning and inference methods. In doing so, it will create a multisource database for timely local information on ambient air quality, allowing scientists, policy makers, and the general public to have access to the information they need to better understand and respond to their air quality situation.
UC San Francisco (UCSF) is working to create an online platform that health workers around the world can use to predict where malaria is likely to be transmitted using data on Google Earth Engine.
The ClimHealth project aims to integrate climate and environmental information from satellites into health surveillance systems to develop early warning and guide disease control.
The first deliveries of up to 2.5 million doses of COVAX vaccines by autonomous drone.
Macro-Eyes developed Striata, a product running core Macro-Eyes artificial intelligence (AI), to continuously assess the national health system and generate health facility readiness scores for COVID-19 response.
The ARBOCARTO V2 application was initially intended for health authorities, to enable them to target places where mosquitoes, which are vectors of human arbovirosis diseases, are likely to proliferate, in order to focus social mobilisation measures for vector control and to adapt the actions of field teams to the conditions of neighbourhoods at risk.
EO-based data, along with auxiliary spatial information, would bridge data gaps by complementing the spatial dimension and helping to identify the spatial foci for COVID-19 control measurements. Thus, this would allow knowing where vulnerable groups and individuals are, who they are, and how people are exposed.
New satellite images from Maxar show Iranian authorities digging large numbers of graves in the Qom area, which media reports say is due to the growing numbers of coronavirus victims in the country.
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) delivers internet and broadband connectivity services to a leading NGO dealing with an Ebola emergency campaign in Sierra Leone.
A groundbreaking study using high-resolution satellite imagery to analyse graveyards has found that deaths have nearly doubled in Aden, the centre of Yemen’s coronavirus outbreak.
This tool aims to understand the impact of conflict to structures in the city. Results can be analysed on several levels; from building level to neighborhood to city level.
The Ukhiya Camps Profile in Cox’s Bazar was conducted to serve as a guiding document for policy and decision makers in local, regional and national governments, as well as in the private sector and local and international NGOs.
Some studies have found a correlation between nightlight output and GDP on a city level, although few studies have generalised this to conflict settings.
SAFEDEM aims at providing a service platform addressing the needs of the Mine Action community to improve and optimize planning and preparation, and to reduce the impact of demining activities.
Earth observation (EO) via satellite remote sensing can fill these data gaps and provide a wealth of information ranging from short-term environmental risks to long-term changes.
Using up-to-date, high resolution satellite imagery, we conducted a complete census of real-time settlement distribution.
The SatCen Non Proliferation Team, part of the SatCen Operations Division, is responsible for the analysis of installations that are involved, or could be involved, in the preparation or acquisition of capabilities intended to divert the production of nuclear material for military purposes and, in particular, regarding the spread of Weapons of Mass destruction and their means of delivery.
Satellite imagery, with its ability to reliably monitor remote and otherwise inaccessible areas over time, provides a way to circumvent some of the challenges associated with monitoring border conflicts.
Iceye Sar Satellite Data For The Security Sector
Forests 2020 aims to use EO data from satellites to improve monitoring and management of forests in six developing countries: Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Ghana and Kenya. The project works with end users such as government ministries and regional forestry organisations to reduce deforestation and degradation. It works to increase restoration by improving their ability to monitor forests at risk, respond to fires and other drivers of land use change.
The International Cospas-Sarsat Programme provides accurate, timely, and reliable distress alert and location data to help search and rescue authorities assist persons in distress.
The Search And Rescue Repeater (SARR) instrument is one of the complement of American instruments provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The SARR receives and downlinks emergency signals from aircraft and ships in distress.
World Bank’s Geo-Enabling initiative for Monitoring and Supervision (GEMS) launched by the FCV Group to systematically enhance Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) as well as supervision and third-party monitoring (TPM) in FCV settings.
Within the border surveillance service, the main objectives are to reduce the number of illegal immigrants entering the EU undetected, to reduce the death toll of human lives at sea and to increase internal security of the European Union as a whole by contributing to the prevention of cross-border crime.
Global Fishing Watch is harnessing innovative technology to turn transparent data into actionable information and drive tangible change in the way the ocean is governed.
Inmarsat’s global communications network provides a data connection to each electoral post – no matter how remote – whilst in-house solutions engineers constantly work with world-leading manufacturers and partners to source the most reliable and cost efficient applications to enhance the election process.
Geo4Nonpro was a Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) project that ran from 2016-2020 and united geospatial analysis hobbyists, experts, and novices to use satellite imagery to interpret, annotate, and discover insights into weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs around the world.
MAAP can identify and determine the legality of deforestation at any scale and at any point across the entire Amazon basin.
While verifying the alert, they took georeferenced photos and measurements of the area, and recorded the names of suspected culprits who had invaded from a neighboring territory.
Geospatial imagery via satellites, combined with machine learning makes an ideal solution. It provides a non-invasive means of identifying illegal deforestation in small areas and alerting authorities to it, so they can carefully direct their limited resources.
The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) wishes to highlight the release of commercial satellite imagery showing North Korean victims likely engaged in forced labor inside North Korea’s Political Prison Camp No. 25.
As part of this study, the U.S. Committee for Human Rights worked with the Natural Resource Defense Council to obtain commercially available satellite imagery of the area over seven of the prison camps in North Korea.
Researchers at RAND had used satellite observations to get inside the Islamic State, to see how it governed and how cities fared when it took over. Now they turned their attention to Xinjiang. Working with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), they began looking at detention camps that Chinese officials insisted were empty.
ASPI researchers have identified and mapped over 380 sites in this network across Xinjiang, counting only re-education camps, detention centres and prisons that were newly built or significantly expanded since 2017. This represents the largest database of camps in existence, and we estimate it covers the majority of all detention facilities in Xinjiang.
In the most extensive investigation of China’s internment camp system ever done using publicly available satellite images, BuzzFeed News identified more than 260 structures built since 2017 and bearing the hallmarks of fortified detention compounds.
Reuters worked with Earthrise Media, a non-profit group that analyzes satellite imagery, to plot the construction and expansion of 39 of these camps, which were initially identified using publicly available documents such as construction tenders.
In 2003 the Nuclear Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) undertook a project to create a geo-spatial database of North Korea, drawing on information from U.S. and South Korean military maps.
RAND researchers explore new data on nighttime lighting in Xinjiang to offer new, empirical insights into China’s efforts to reeducate, detain, and imprison its Uyghur and ethnic minority populations across Xinjiang.
An analysis of satellite images from Myanmar found that hundreds of villages of the Rohingya ethnic minority have been set on fire since late August 2017.
New research by Amnesty International has revealed the devastating scale of destruction caused by the ongoing conflict in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions.
China has dismantled dozens of structures and moved vehicles to empty out entire camps along a disputed Himalayan border, where Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a face-off since last April, according to satellite images.
New satellite imagery shows the reservoir behind Ethiopia’s disputed hydroelectric dam beginning to fill, but an analyst says it’s likely due to seasonal rains instead of government action.
Satellite images have emerged that allegedly prove Rohingya villages were torched after Myanmar said "clearance operations" had ceased.
Amnesty International has assessed satellite imagery with smoke visible over burnt-out structures. Additionally, satellite sensors detected a recent active fire in the village, further corroborating the incident.
Images visible on satellite mapping services detail the charred remains of buildings in several Cameroonian villages.
Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery at True 30 cm can provide crucial insights for geointelligence (GEOINT) during conflict. European Space Imaging partnered with reseller Geo4i to investigate the current ongoing Libyan Civil War.
Using satellite imagery, a team of researchers led by Princeton University and the World Bank analyzed 42 oil production sites controlled by ISIS across Syria and Iraq.
Remote sensing using satellite imagery is one of the tools that is increasingly used to monitor how armed conflicts interact with the environment.
Remote sensing-based methods were employed to assess damages, and reconstruction and recovery needs in Syria.
Supplementing a preliminary analysis based on satellite imagery, members of the team collected more detailed conditions information and identified priorities for stabilization.
The project is planning to provide damage characterization and reconstruction planning support among other services in Iraq for specific World Bank projects.
For the past year, DigitalGlobe Analytics has been monitoring activity at political prison facilities in the Democratic PeopleÕs Republic of Korea (DPRK, more commonly known as North Korea) as part of a joint undertaking with the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea to shed light on human suffering in North Korea.
North KoreaÕs vast infrastructure of repression is further exposed in new satellite images showing the on-going development of two of the countryÕs largest political prison camps.
To establish the location of the detention facilities, HRW asked victims, witnesses, and defectors to indicate the building where they were held, visited, or served using satellite imagery.
Following the outbreak of protests and violent government repression across Libya in February of 2011 UNOSAT initiated a range of satellite-based analysis projects in close cooperation with sister UN agencies.
The project aims to monitor key natural resources in Lake Chad, through services such as detection of extraction of illegal resource and assessment of natural resources.
The UN Department of Political and Peace Building Affairs investigated new methodologies and techniques to understand the link between conflict and water availability in the fragile context.
The support provided to the UN mission included the only reliable estimate of the number of civilians trapped within the so-called “no-fire-zones”.
In Cairo, we examined where the schools, hospitals, and other key public services were located in relation to slums and this helped us work with partners to target limited resources to those who need it most.
This service allowed the World Bank Group to monitor the degradation of road condition over time in the DRC.
The Commission created an electoral boundaries map that defined the voting districts, based on the distribution of population.
UNOSAT and UNDP, long standing partners, are cooperating on a new satellite imagery analysis application, through the production of maps used in the validation of the civil and electoral registries in Vanuatu’s 83 islands.
These satellites are able to monitor activity and analyze potential security threats using high resolution imagery and with unparalleled collection capacity.
This report examines U.S. concerns regarding India-Pakistan security competition and assesses whether new and emerging technology could mitigate the risks of inadvertent escalation or the unauthorized use or theft of nuclear materials on the subcontinent.
In July, an explosion rocked a key Iranian nuclear facility. Iran called it sabotage and vowed to rebuild a destroyed building underground. Iran is now turning that promise into a reality, new satellite images show, reported the New York Times.
Dr. Lewis and team rely on satellite imagery to understand patterns of life and detect and monitor ongoing changes on the ground.
BlackSkyÕs high-revisit satellite imagery enabled researchers at Stanford UniversityÕs Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) to monitor the pattern of life at the Natanz nuclear facility and gain a better understanding of activity and events at the site.
April 21, 2021 Maxar Technologies image provides a unique look at the abandoned Kumho-ri Light Water Reactor (LWR) Site on North Korea’s northeast coast.
Satellite images reveal that China is building a second nuclear missile silo field. The Hami site was first spotted by Matt Korda, Research Associate for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, using commercial satellite imagery. Higher resolution images of the site were subsequently provided by Planet.
In the monitoring report on the 50 MWe Reactor at Yongbyon from 9 July 2021, ONN noted that the roof of one of the buildings adjacent to the main reactor hall had been removed. The scale of the reported activity appeared to be larger than the previously reported instances in 2018 and 2019. However, the nature of the recent activity remained unclear. ONN subsequently consulted a number of technical and satellite imagery analysis experts in an effort to identify what the recent activity could mean. This analytical report provides an update on the activities at the reactor site and discusses a possible hypothesis explaining the nature of the activity and the purpose of the building in question.
Compelling new satellite images, video footage and witness accounts analysed by Amnesty International strongly indicate that dozens of people killed by Burundian security forces in December were later buried in mass graves.
Human Rights Watch has assessed a total of 131 villages via satellite imagery for evidence of building destruction.
UNOSAT used a combination of fire detection data and VHR satellite imagery to analyse the situation on the ground during the course of the conflict.
HRW investigated the NATO airstriked in Libya.
UNOSAT engaged in multiple efforts to support UN agencies, the UN Mission in Sudan, Google, Harvard University, and NGOs to provide them with a range of satellite imagery and analysis products.
In a series of reports, published from July 14 to August 24, 2011, SSP identified apparent mass graves at eight sites in and around Kadugli, as well as evidence of corpses wrapped in what appear to be body bags and/or tarps at four sites.
Human Rights Watch used GPS data and satellite imagery analysis to map the precise locations were the attacks took place.
Following reports of forced labour at one camp, spatial and temporal analysis based on EO data revealed operational trends.
Using their Secure Watch satellite imagery platform, the team mapped remote regions of Lake Volta and pinpointed locations.
This product contains spatially explicit information on land subsidence areas and affected infrastructure.
The purpose of the project is to provide free access to up-to-date and reliable information on the magnitude and consequences of illegal amber extraction in Zhytomyr, Rivne and Volyn regions of Ukraine through the development and pilot implementation of an open system of remote monitoring of amber extraction.
The project helps policy makers, forestry protection and reforestation agencies, agricultural and budget officials, commodity buyers and growers and other local actors to make better decisions. It provides them with the IMAGE toolkit for up-to-date information on land use, economic statistics and deforestation. By showing the value of natural capital and vastly improving forest monitoring, the programme could substantially contribute to improved economic and environmental outcomes. Remote Sensing Applications Consultants use newly available optical and radar data from the Copernicus Sentinel satellite missions to detail surface cover at 10 metre precision.
The Forest Disturbance Early Warning System (FDEWS) provides regularly updated information about likely forest disturbances, even when skies are cloudy. Maps show disturbances that have occurred since baseline, with the date of first detection. These products readily improve knowledge of forest change and enable proactive intervention by the relevant authorities.
Designed to facilitate better management of tropical forests and find illegal logging in near real time, Forest Change Mapping highlights areas of change. Targeted at government users, and state level actors, interested in tropical forests, the forest change mapping service utilises high resolution radar data that is unaffected by clouds which often plague the use of optical Earth observation (EO) data in tropical and/or cloudy regions.
The aim of the project was assessing the evolutions of structural assets in Cameroon over time, so as to evaluate the impact of the recent straining of relations between the region and the rest of the country.
In a context with limitations in terms of ground-based supervision, the World Bank looked for alternative methods and an assessment of the evolution of the urban fabric in Mosul, Iraq, after the conflict.
Through satellite imagery analysis Human Rights Watch confirmed building destruction in 30 out of 35 villages examined in a 500 kilometer square area around Amerli.
Satellite images secured by Amnesty International offer further evidence of indiscriminate aerial bombardments and correspond to reports that homes, markets, hospitals and schools have been bombed.
AAAS, in conjunction with Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Genocide Intervention Network, has been monitoring and documenting the violence in 28 locations throughout the Darfur region of Sudan and eastern Chad since 2006.
The project evaluated the completion of transportation infrastructure (gravel roads mainly), as well as other small infrastructure projects (wells, boulis, defense walls etc.) that will help to reduce isolation and improve conditions of the remote communities in Burkina Faso.
This study examines the changes in climate and land-use/land-cover (LULC) along the livestock seasonal migration routes in El Gedaref region (eastern Sudan).
The project will provide customer specific decision support tools to help growers, including smallholders, improve their technical, environmental and financial performance.
Satellite imagery, household surveys, and cloud computing can be used to reveal population characteristics in countries, cities, and neighborhoods across the entire African continent.
It proposed a market-based innovative risk management solution in the form of Risk-Contingent Credit (RCC), a linked or bundled financial product that incorporates insurance protection, providing a risk-efficient balance between business and financial risks.
FruitLook provides weekly, semi real-time information on crop growth, evapotranspiration deficits and crop nitrogen status for irrigation blocks in orchards and vineyards in key growing areas of the Western Cape.
A pilot project by Self Help Africa using satellite imagery, heat mapping and mobile phone technology to gather data for the fight against an invading pest that threatens Africa’s food crops, has won an international award for innovation.
Disease risk maps showing the in-field risk zones of the most important wheat diseases during the vegetation period.
SAT4Farming, an initiative to reach thousands of small-scale cocoa producers with information and services to improve their productivity and sustainability. It is designed to use digital technology and satellite imagery to create individual Farm Development Plans (FDPs) that guide farmers over a seven-year period.
Ag|Knowledge 4.0 is a novel concept of an online platform providing the required integrated analytical services and indicators for agricultural risk monitoring.
The Satellite Applications Catapult has been working with users from across the agricultural sector in Latin America to educate and demonstrate how satellite technologies can help optimise the production of rice, soybean, and table grapes.
EOLO is a service to support agronomists and corn growers in their daily decisions about irrigation and phytosanitary treatments, with the goal to save costs related to water, energy costs and treatments.
The tool is a mobile application that merges expertise on banana genetic resources with artificial intelligence to quickly identify common afflictions that threaten bananas, allowing farmers and extension workers to act quickly and save their crops.
In 2010 ILRI, Cornell and other partners, launched an insurance scheme based on satellite imagery to predict and compensate insured pastoralists for livestock losses due to drought.
Satellite Earth observation is a powerful technique for continuously providing geospatial information across the agricultural value chain, to measure productivity and increase efficiency of agriculture, identify sustainability of farming practices and strengthening the resilience of rural communities.
The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) was launched on 29 December 2010, with a mission to deter a return to full-scale civil war between northern and southern Sudan.
Commercial satellite imagery of North KoreaÕs Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site from April 12 shows continued activity around the North Portal, new activity in the Main Administrative Area, and a few personnel around the siteÕs Command Center.
The project is planning to provide services related, but not limited, to environmental security issues for specific World Bank projects in Colombia, such as pollution and contaminated sites assessment.
When over 7 million Afghan voters went to the polls, satellites captured images of even the most rural polling stations.
This article explores a CNN-based approach leveraging Landsat 8 imagery to predict locations of conflict-related deaths.
AAAS reviewed satellite imagery of the Sheberghan area of northern Afghanistan, where possible mass graves were suspected of being created in 2001.
A 10-meter resolution map of Earth’s land surface from 2020. High-resolution, open, accurate, comparable, and timely land cover maps are critical for decision-makers in many industry sectors and developing nations. These maps improve understanding of important topics such as food security, land use planning, hydrology modeling, and resource management planning. In addition, national government resource agencies use land cover as a basis for understanding trends in the country's natural capital, which helps define land planning priorities and is the basis of budget allocations.
Determine risk factors associated with reducing or eliminating crop yield based on historical weather, geohazards, and crop health.
The BioGenerator uses satellite data to analyse plant production, or biomass, during the rainy season. Detecting production anomalies allows areas vulnerable to drought to be targeted. The BioGenerator is used by the SAP (Early Warning System) in Mali.
This project addresses the non-functioning market for capital allocation to smallholders.
Satellites give us detailed geographical and climate records of any place in the world, from the 1990s to today. We build on field research by collecting and analyzing this data and combining it with other relevant information like commodity prices and news coverage.
ICEYE provides timely and reliable data with its growing SAR satellite constellation, with customized solutions to help boost agricultural financing and improve control processes.
Croplytics® integrates sensor data and satellite imagery to translate data into actionable information for agribusinesses. It deploys the soil sensors on ground, uses satellites data, collects weather data, calculates ET and thereby build a model to provide agronomists and farmers with timely and large-scale diagnostics on crop issues.
Satellites continually scan African fields meaning continental wide monitoring and prediction is possible. PlantVillage utilizes many open-access tools that use remote sensing (MODIS / Landsat / NOAA / Sentinel / SMOS / FEWS NET).
It uses up to date satellite based crop production information and crop specific yield models to provide further information on future outcomes.
Using WaPOR it is possible to detect signals of vegetation stress linked to weather patterns, allowing farmers, government agencies and the international community to prepare for changes in agricultural output and to implement mitigation measures.
A pilot study was carried out by the World Food Programme (WFP) Mali in the Mopti region in 2019 where earth observation data was used to detect cropland abandonment in hard-to-reach areas to assess the physical impacts of conflict on croplands and therefore detect populations in likely need of food assistance.
This project uses open-source datasets to show the agricultural areas in distress and investigate to what extent the conflict has been responsible for the deterioration.
Establish an operational Agriculture Monitoring System based on sustainable methods, tools and technology, that improves the quality of agriculture information and reporting based on the integral use of geospatial technology.
Using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) remote sensing method, regional agricultural activity and vegetation on the ground was monitored and analysed by registering the spectral signature of chlorophyll and therefore the vegetation canopy, on a satellite sensor using a sequence of images over time.
AfriScout’s unique crowd-sourcing system of geolocated alerts enables pastoralists to enhance collaboration on land management by allocating specific areas to different herders.
The STAMP (Sustainable Technology Adaptation for Mali's Pastoralists) project improves resilience among pastoralists affected by extreme climate events through access and use of geo-satellite derived data via the development of a dedicated information service.
The Monitoring Ephemeral Water Bodies in Ferlo, Senegal Service is a web-based platform for assessing water availability in all known ponds, thus facilitating water management in arid areas such as the Ferlo Region of Senegal.
In a pilot project launched by Cornell researchers, satellite images and cell-phone apps will combine to help them find forage for their animals.
Project Concern International has developed customized digital community grazing maps overlaid with vegetation data derived from NASA satellites.
A multi-source water balance modelling approach driven by satellite data was used to operationally monitor daily water level fluctuations across the pastoral regions of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia.
The objective of the study was to evaluate the use of a time series technique that, when used with robust field training data, could be used to help identify agricultural fields showing anomalous vegetation signatures for targeted locust response and mitigation efforts.
National Food Security bulletins developed using the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor, Global Agriculture Monitoring System (GLAM) and Early Warning Explorer.
In 2017 the Office of the Prime Minister of Uganda used GEOGLAM satellite data to detect and forecast drought and initiate a proactive risk reduction and response plan three months earlier than they previously had.
The objectives of this study were to determine suitable spectral features for armyworm detection and to develop a mapping method at a regional scale on the basis of satellite remote sensing image data.
The Mobile Data for Moving Herd Management (MODHEM) project in Burkina Faso uses satellite data to inform pastoralists on the best locations for pastures and water areas via their mobile phones. Additionally, an early warning system will warn pastoralists of flooding, drought, and disease.
StockWater aims to put in place a system for monitoring the load of dams based on satellite data, and a specific processing system, thereby facilitating the work of the public authorities in this area.
EO4SD defined and will develop a cluster of land information services that will be delivered to the ADB and their stakeholders in the form of mapping and monitoring tools and training activities in order to enhance the success of the respective projects in Cambodia.
STAMP aims to improve resilience among climate affected pastoralists, through access to and use of geo-satellite derived data. This will result in an information service tailor-made to pastoralistsÕ information and decision making needs, giving them more predictability for their movements.
A cluster of land information services that were delivered to IFAD and the national level stakeholders: Land cover change mapping, Tools to assess land degradation and environmental conditions, Value chain assessment.
Pixalytics has derived soil moisture content, water body height and water extent – which includes both water bodies and saturated ground – information using microwave data from Earth observation (EO) satellites that can be used to identify and map water sources and water availability.
The Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) is an interactive web application designed to assist in managing and monitoring America’s valuable rangelands.
aWhere delivers weather-based agricultural intelligence to farmers, companies, development agencies and governments to enable data-driven decisions on adapting to increased weather variability at a local to global scale.
Open, timely, and science-driven information on crop conditions in support of market transparency and early warning of production shortfalls.
The service facilitates a crop modeling framework to assess drought and yields estimates using CHIRPS data for precipitation estimates and crop type maps derived from Landsat and Sentinel.
To contribute towards an integrated agricultural monitoring and early warning system for Africa, supporting decision making in the field of food security.
Satellite monitoring is an effective tool capable of observing the state of crops. It can be used by the agricultural insurance companies to a great advantage.
Pula is an agricultural insurance and technology company that designs and delivers innovative agricultural insurance and digital products to help smallholder farmers endure yield risks, improve their farming practices, and bolster their incomes over time.
The consultant developed the system that provides near-real-time satellite-based drought indices and provincial level drought warning information for policy makers.
This technical assistance project assisted the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) of the Philippines in implementing the Agricultural Land Information System (ALIS), a tool for an area sample survey method using personal computers that estimates agricultural land area and enables area sampling with minimal labor and low budgets.
The EO4SD project provided data, information and methods designed for monitoring land degradation/regeneration as well as desertification and land use trends.
Sen2-Agri aims to provide the international user community with validated earth observation (EO) algorithms and best practices for agricultural monitoring.
This project proposes the creation of an operational tool using data from optical and microwave sensors onboard of Earth observation satellites to monitor corn-growing areas.
The project is assisting the ADB ”Establishment of Climate-Resilient Rural Livelihoods” project, which in turn supports the Mongolian government’s efforts to develop a sustainable, climate resilient livestock sector and combat the degradation of grasslands due to overgrazing and climate change.
IRRISAT-MAROC aims to implement a system to help optimize irrigation water using satellite data.
The overall objective of the EvIDENz project is to develop and demonstrate methods and products on drought risk assessment that respond to national needs for the example of South Africa and Ukraine, and defined indicators of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR).
An ESA EO4SD-Agriculture and Rural Development project provided an analysis of agricultural production (losses) in areas under conflict in Syria.
The objective of this project is to provide users in Vietnam with a demonstrator of operational tools for the dynamic monitoring of rice crops using radar-based remote sensing data.
VNSC has developed and operated the Vietnam Data Cube (VDC), a country scale system of ODC which focus on the SAR data since the fact that Vietnam are expecting its own SAR satellite in next few years. The VDC is currently collecting satellite data: Landsat, Sentinel-1 & -2, ALOS-2 from the USGS, ESA, and JAXA for research and monitoring purposes in fields such as forest monitoring, rice monitoring and water quality monitoring in Vietnam.
The project will deliver space based agricultural production services that are aligned with the African Space Policy and Strategy and AfriGEOSS, the African segment of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) in the domain of food security.
agriBORA is an integrated SaaS platform focused on utilizing location-based insights to de-risk smallholder agriculture systems through the use of data-driven services and digital tools.
The Kenyan Livestock Insurance Programme (KLIP) is provided by the government to protect the most vulnerable pastoralists in Kenya. KLIP uses an algorithm that combines survey data on livestock mortality with EO data on vegetation cover to develop an index that predicts livestock mortality. During drought conditions and forage scarcity, the index predicts livestock loss. If this prediction is above a certain level of loss, it triggers an insurance pay-out.
The main objective of the InsSAT service was to offer a fully functional and operational system of automatic processing and analysis of satellite, meteorological and if necessary also aerial data, focused on providing tools for assessment and settlement of insurance claims in the agricultural sector.
U-NIEWS monthly bulletin can be used to understand the conditions of crops and pasture, food insecurity, weather/climate forecast and to determine the anticipated disasters which may occur in the days to come while providing the disaster and humanitarian response status update based on monthly statistics. The information in this bulletin can be used as baseline information for planning processes while detail information may required for respective locations through relevant local and technical agencies for local level planning.
This proposal aims to establish cloud computing services to host, process and analyse big Earth observation (EO) data and geospatial information for our projects focused on a) monitoring rice paddy (agriculture) and b) flood (disaster and water resources management).
The system includes a set of drought indices designed for use at different stages of agricultural operation through consultation and user needs. The system produces seasonal outlook on the indicators of precipitation, soil moisture, evapotranspiration and temperature to evaluate potential drought hazards.
The Ministry of Agroindustry in Argentina relied on both EO and the capacity of the GEOGLAM network to produce a precise and robust mapping of areas impacted by a major drought in 2018.
The project focuses on making full use of Sentinel-1 observations for operational rice mapping products demonstrated over the Mekong river delta.
Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, Livestock and Fisheries has issued the country’s first national crop monitor, with support from NASA SERVIR, Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), and the Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM). Information on crop conditions from across Kenya was made publically available in the first edition of the crop monitor in May 2018.
The Frost Monitoring and Forecasting service provides timely information on the current and future probability of a frost occurrence to help farmers in the Kenyan highlands prepare and reduce crop losses.
In Nepal, the NASA SERVIR programme developed maps to highlight district-level crop anomalies based on a NDVI to inform the government’s service delivery to food-insecure districts.
The purpose of the Public-Private Partnership is to expand financial service delivery to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia with a geodata-driven risk-mitigation (insurance) product that offers a basic safety net to protect them against weather related perils. In partnership with local financial institutions, the insurance product will be bundled with credit to purchase agricultural inputs. In combination with weather prediction services, the insured credit package will locally be made available through ICT infrastructure services (branchless banking). The project consortium will align to the rural finance strategy (RFS program) as managed by ATA. This allows for a systematic synergetic approach to provide financial inclusion, promote investment for agriculture, broker sustainable production methods and provide risk transfer tools. The followed system approach creates a suitable legal, institutional and organizational framework.
Harvesting provides an Agri-Lending suite which enables financial service providers to use their own historical data alongside alternative inputs such as satellite data, and thus make the lending life cycle more efficient. Harvesting’s goal is to help drive financial inclusion by providing actionable data to financial institutions to enable provision of loans.
Apollo Agriculture helps small-scale farmers maximise their profits in Kenya by bundling credit for farm inputs with insurance. Apollo Agriculture uses machine learning, EO, and mobile phones to deliver credit, farm products, and customised advice to farmers efficiently and at scale.
FarmDrive explores the use of satellite imagery to augment its data collection and analytics for evaluating loans to smallholder farmers in Kenya.
GEOBIS uses spatial and other geodata for providing effective, time and location specific advisory services to smallholder farmers in Bangladesh. It is aimed at improving agricultural productivity and farmer income, upgrading agricultural zoning and at improving the management of weather related emergencies.
The G4AW supported project, GEOPOTATO, aims to sustainably improve resource-use efficiency in potato production in Bangladesh by providing farmer with an EO-derived decision-support service to control the late blight fungal disease. The alert service is e provided on subscription to farmers, through SMS or voicemail.
The Locust Monitoring service, P-Locust, is a geospatial model for the timely location of desert locust development and gregarization risk zones in the western region of Africa.
Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) is an innovative crop pest and disease risk forecasting product designed for smallholders and commercial producers in developing countries. Bringing together a broad range of stakeholders, including plant protection authorities, space experts, private sector companies, and the farmers themselves, PRISE uses state-of-the-art crop and pest modelling techniques to provide users with advanced warning of a damaging outbreak and appropriate advice to mitigate crop losses.
David Hughes of Pennsylvania State University in the U.S. is leveraging real-time, high-resolution satellite imagery of smallholder farms along with artificial intelligence to automatically detect crop pests and diseases in Africa.
This service provides data on mapping, monitoring and assessing invasive species to local governments.
The Enhancing Drought Resilience and Crop Yield Security for the Lower Mekong Service provides drought nowcasts and forecasts at the regional level in the Lower Mekong Region and provincial level in Vietnam using hydrological and crop model information through the Regional Hydrologic Extremes Assessment System (RHEAS), a state-of-the-art water resources nowcast and forecast framework.
CropWatch Cloud is a cloud-based crop monitoring platform providing an agroclimatic, agronomic information service, with a unique solution for developing countries aspiring to conduct their own crop monitoring, in order to achieve food security.
In Ethiopia, EO4SD provided satellite-based data and capacity training to the teams of the World Bank’s Sustainable land management project – Phase II, IFAD’s Participatory Small-scale Irrigation Development Programme – Phase II, and UNDP-implemented Integrated Landscape Management to Enhance Food Security and Ecosystem Resilience child projects.
This project provides information on maize yields in Ghana, such as current yields to help plan harvesting, transport and processing, future yields to inform markets and enhance long term food security and past yields to help farmers benchmark and improve productivity. The monitoring and forecasting system is based on the integration of physical crop models, meteorological data and Earth observation satellite imagery.__Information is provided to farmers, supply chain actors, governments and international organisations.
A simple method for disaggregation of district-level production statistics over crop pixels by using a remote sensing approach.
In India, the Ministry of Agriculture developed Forecasting Agricultural Output using Space Agro- meteorology and Land-based Observations (FASAL).
They help smallholder farmers across Africa increase their productivity using advanced technologies.
Stanford researchers have developed a new way to estimate crop yields from space, using high-resolution photos snapped by a new wave of compact satellites.
The EO-FARM project is a collaboration with Swiss Re Foundation, using Earth observations data to enhance food security and resilience in small-holder dominated regions by revolutionizing fundamental datasets needed for agricultural monitoring and enhancing government Crop Insurance programs.
Alternative methods such as advances in satellite based technology are explored in this Technical Assistance to help countries adopt better approaches in estimating rice crop area and production, and consequently develop better evidence-based policy making.
ASAMS is a UK Space Agency funded project by an international team, led by the University of Nottingham in the UK, which is developing a Satellite-based Sargasso Monitoring System (SASAMS) initially focused on the Mexican Caribbean. This is planned to be a near real-time service to monitor pelagic sargassum upwelling and accumulation along the coastline.
Overview Verumar enhances the Philippine Government’s capability to conserve and sustainably usetheir oceans, seas and marine resources while contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 – Life below water. This is achieved by integrating and working in concert with the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) and other stakeholders to scope […]
During the week of world humanitarian day, Omanos Analytics and Global Surface Intelligence (GSI) are delighted to announce the launch of gEOthermalKenya: Earth Observation Insights for Sustainable Growth of the Kenyan Geothermal Sector. Supported by the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme, gEOthermal Kenya is one of 10 new pioneering UK space projects that will tackle development problems worldwide.
Vivid Economics and a consortium of partners have received funding from the UK Space Agency to design a parametric insurance product for emergency flood relief costs in Bangladesh. The project aims to make post-disaster response faster, cheaper, and more efficient.
The UK Space Agency announced £3.4 million funding from their International Partnership Programme for ten pioneering UK space projects that will tackle development problems worldwide.
Government backs new pioneering space projects that will apply UK expertise to tackling development problems across the globe.
On World Humanitarian Day (August 19) it has been announced that the Institute for Environmental Analytics (IEA) has been awarded a contract to use satellite data analytics to protect vulnerable people in informal settlements in Colombia from flooding.
Government backs new pioneering space projects that will apply UK expertise to tackling development problems across the globe.
Overview GRM 950 is a cost-effective outdoor iDirect 950mp satellite modem with next-level security features for use in challenging environments. Developed in conjunction with leading satellite hardware and airtime providers, the GRM (GRC Rugged Modem) series has been tested into iDirect hubs across multiple satellite service provider networks. Supporting both fixed location and mobile applications, […]
Overview GRM 200 is a low-cost, rugged, outdoor iDirect IQ 200 satellite modem for use in challenging environments. Developed in conjunction with leading satellite hardware and airtime providers, the GRM (GRC Rugged Modem) series has been tested into iDirect hubs across multiple satellite service provider networks. Supporting both fixed location and mobile applications, it’s been […]
Overview Cultural property is of great importance for humanity and cultural heritage sites in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions are being deliberately targeted in recent armed conflicts, resulting in damage, looting and in some cases total destruction. In addition, natural heritage sites nowadays are under constant myriad of threats ranging from climate […]
Overview Sustainable urban growth requires adequate planning. The current urban footprint and its potential future growth are important factors that affect a city’s ability to become sustainable and improve the quality of life of its citizens. The climate resilient urban simulation tool helps facilitate the analysis of different growth scenarios that allows cities to estimate […]
www.exactearth.com/products/exacttrax Overview Loss of life from small boats at sea, particularly fishing vessels, is a persistent and extensive global problem. Small-scale fisheries are also under threat in many areas of the world from global warming and over / illegal fishing. Small vessels also make up significant proportions of many nations’ overall boat populations, but can […]
Overview The overall aim of METEOR [Modelling Exposure Through Earth Observation Routines] is to provide robust national-scale exposure and multi-hazard information based on Earth observation (EO) data. Consistent, reliable information on exposure (building location and construction type) along with multi-hazard knowledge (i.e. how hazards such as earthquakes and landslides occur and interact) is vital when […]
Overview This service delivers coastline, and, where relevant intertidal maps. The coastline method works by identifying land-water boundaries in time series of SAR data and high-resolution optical images. Tidal corrections are applied in order to establish locations for high and low water shorelines, and the location of mean sea level. Tidal corrections are based on […]
Overview Over Overview Effective flood risk management requires clear and current information to make informed decisions. Ambiental produces high precision flood data in the form of hazard maps and flood risk analysis quantifications. Using a systems approach enables end-users in government, disaster response, insurance and the private sector to better prepare for and respond to […]
New modelling analysis released by WHO and partners ahead of World Malaria Day (25 April) showed that severe disruptions to insecticide-treated net campaigns and access to antimalarial medicines could lead to a doubling in the number of malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa this year to 760,000, compared to 2018.
www.grcltd.net Overview SCYTALE is a lightweight, man portable satellite communications solution equipped with a satellite terminal that can provide ‘office type’ communications, including telephony, email, internet, video conferencing and wi-fi. Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and can be carried by one or two persons depending on requirements. It does not rely on terrestrial mobile network […]
www.avantiplc.com Overview To address the digital divide, provide connectivity and promote economic growth, Avanti developed Every Community Online (ECO), an end-to-end internet hotspot solution for rural Africa. It provides a reliable and integrated Wi-Fi hotspot solution that enables broadband satellite internet access for communities, schools, clinics and businesses. Solution benefits A reliable and integrated Wi-Fi […]
https://www.intelligence-airbusds.com/land-administration/ Overview Airbus has developed a solution for monitoring changes to buildings in urban and rural environments through the analysis of three- dimensional satellite data. The focus of this solution is to ensure that property records can be kept up to date to enable equitable property taxation to raise much-needed funds for developing cities. Solution […]
http://telespazio-vega.com/ Overview Satellite-Structural Health Monitoring (S-SHMTM): Innovative use of satellite technologies in ground motion based structural engineering monitoring. It is a highly scalable solution that can monitor a single piece of infrastructure up to city-scale survey – to detect structural and ground motions. Satellite Ultra-Precise Motion Monitoring Integrated Technology (SUMMIT): Monitoring of ground motion of […]
https://tailingsdams.info/ Overview Dam Monitoring from SATellites (DAMSAT) uses satellite technology to remotely monitor water and tailings dams and other tailings deposit areas. The system will help authorities take preventative action and thus reduce the risk of failure of water and tailings storage facilities and the consequent damage to population and ecosystem services downstream. Solution benefits […]
www.the-iea.org Overview RE-SAT provides advanced data analytics to help energy planners and investors to locate renewable energy generators in order to optimise the amount of renewable energy generated, minimise their environmental impact and maximise the return on investment. Solution benefits Improve renewable energy planning through high-resolution estimates of power availability from renewable sources. Increase the […]
www.pixalytics.com Overview Pixalytics has derived soil moisture content, water body height and water extent – which includes both water bodies and saturated ground – information using microwave data from Earth observation (EO) satellites that can be used to identify and map water sources and water availability. Microwave EO data has the benefit of not being […]
https://www.rezatec.com/services/water-management/water-quality/ Overview Effective catchment management is vital for water companies to achieve water quality without having to undertake expensive treatment downstream. This means mapping, measuring, monitoring and predicting change across landscapes within catchments in order to better understand the relationship between land use and water quality. Until now, water companies have found it difficult to […]
www.iknowledge.co.tz Overview iKnowledge provides high speed broadband from Avanti’s HYLAS 2 Ka band satellite, to provide internet access to hundreds of rural schools in developing countries, using a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) satellite terminal receiver installed at the school. Classrooms are fitted with high speed satellite internet with fully-equipped Information and Communications Technology (ICT) […]
www.hrwallingford.com Overview The Dengue MOdel forecasting Satellite-based System (D-MOSS) project is developing a dengue fever early warning system. The tool generates several months advance warning of likely dengue outbreaks. One of the key components is a water assessment module that provides the additional benefit of improving water management in transboundary river basins. Solution benefits Probabilistic […]
www.inmarsat.com Overview SatComms for Rural Health Services from Inmarsat is extending the reach of basic medical services into remote areas, without mobile coverage or internet access by delivering professional training, data collection and disease monitoring using Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) satellite communications technology. Solution benefits Extension of basic medical services into remote areas […]
www.c-rise.info Overview C-RISe Near Real Time Marine Information Service – provides hourly updated satellite derived information on marine weather conditions, to provide the latest information on waves and winds, supporting planning of marine operations and warning of severe conditions as they approach. Satellite Earth observation (EO) data provide a valuable source of information on marine […]
http://www.inmarsat.com Overview Environmentally unsustainable fishing, including illegal and unreported fishing, harms the entire value chain, as well as introducing safety and security challenges. This solution uses fishing Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS), whereby equipment that is installed on fishing vessels provides information about the vessels’ position and activity. Solution benefits Provision of communications for vessel captains […]
http://www.eosphere.co.uk Overview eOsphere satellite ground receiving stations are installed in countries worldwide (including Indonesia, China, Ecuador and Malaysia) allowing agencies to detect and monitor the marine environment using medium resolution visible and thermal-infrared Earth observation (EO) imagery to determine ocean water quality and sea surface temperature. These EO derived ocean products can be used to […]
http://www.envsys.co.uk Overview Natural capital is those elements of the natural environment which provide valuable goods and services to people. SENCE provides maps of natural capital stocks to show how well areas of land are able to support ecosystem services such as: food provision, flood protection, pollination, carbon storage, diversity of plants and animals. Decision- makers […]
http://www.pixalytics.com Overview Pixalytics Portal provides automated Earth observation products to potential customers without the need for specialist knowledge of EO. Currently, it includes floodwater mapping, water extent/saturated ground mapping, ocean colour water quality and turbidity mapping. The user chooses their product and select the geographical area on a map they prefer. Then, once they have […]
Overview By estimating the value of alternative land uses, predicting forest loss and detecting it in near- real time, IMAGES helps land managers and policymakers understand and prioritise trade-offs in unprecedented spatial, temporal and economic detail. http://www.vivideconomics.com Solution benefits Analyses land use change scenarios to understand implications of agricultural and forestry policy interventions compared to […]
http://rsacl.co.uk Overview Remote Sensing Applications Consultants (RSAC) offers bespoke land cover and land use mapping services based on Sentinel and commercial high- resolution satellite Earth observation (EO) data. Present day and historical output maps are suitable for development planning, including site suitability analysis relating to REDD+ afforestation projects, and input to natural capital valuation systems. […]
www.terramotion.co.uk Overview Terra Motion Ltd. uses satellite radar data to provide comprehensive land surface motion monitoring that can be used to assess the health of tropical peatland and also provide geospatial intelligence on issues related to long term environmental land motion including mining, geoenergy, urbanisation and groundwater management. Using our novel ISBAS InSAR technique, anywhere […]
http://www.cgi-group.co.uk Overview Peatland Assessment in SE Asia by Satellite (PASSES) provides wide area observations of peat surface motion via the innovative PeatMotion product that can inform enhanced peatland restoration planning and assessment to assist with sustainable use of peatlands. Solution benefits PeatMotion offers cost effective and routine monitoring of surface motion over very wide and […]
http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/mwilliam/CARDAMOM.html Overview CARDAMOM provides robust analysis of forest carbon stocks and their dynamics. By combining a range of Earth observation (EO) data with a model that provides a forecast capability for forest fire risk, climate sensitivity, and carbon sequestration capacity. Solution benefits Provides a full assessment of the forest carbon and water balance, stocks and […]
https://le.ac.uk Overview Forests 2020 and ForestWatch-Optical (two separate products) deliver land cover and forest cover change information gathered from satellite Earth observation (EO) optical and radar data to end users at least every five days to monitor large land areas across the globe using custom-made solutions. Solution benefits High frequency and large area mapping of […]
rsacl.co.uk Overview The Forest Disturbance Early Warning System (FDEWS) provides regularly updated information about likely forest disturbances, even when skies are cloudy. Maps show disturbances that have occurred since baseline, with the date of first detection. These products readily improve knowledge of forest change and enable proactive intervention by the relevant authorities. Solution benefits Enables […]
http://telespazio-vega.com/ Overview Designed to facilitate better management of tropical forests and find illegal logging in near real time, Forest Change Mapping highlights areas of change. Targeted at government users, and state level actors, interested in tropical forests, the forest change mapping service utilises high resolution radar data that is unaffected by clouds which often plague […]
http://www.ceh.ac.uk/crops2015 Overview Land Cover plus Crops is a solution developed by Remote Sensing Applications Consultants (RSAC) to provide detailed annually updated crop maps of Great Britain. It provides parcel-level information derived from Earth observation (EO) data for every field in the country. It is now being applied in developing countries to offer improved understanding of […]
http://www.booker-tate.co.uk Overview High resolution Earth observation (EO) imagery and digital surface models are used to provide rapid assessment of land resources for defining Areas of Interest (AOI) for more specific ground truthing via detailed topographical, soil and geotechnical surveys to assess land agriculture potential. This gives a rapid assessment of land potential for agriculture by […]
http://www.envsys.co.uk/agriculture Overview Agri-track enables agri-businesses to receive up-to- date crop monitoring and forecasting information in formats they are familiar with (data, alerts, maps) that are compatible with their own corporate or crop management systems, enabling them to make near-real time decisions based on crop intelligence that scales from the field to countrywide. Crop- specific monitoring […]
http://www.sensonomic.com Overview Agriculture Simulations makes use of Earth observation (EO) data to solve challenges for agricultural planning, harvesting, logistics and long-term food systems resilience in a changing climate. It gives dynamic insight into complex human and natural systems by combining computational simulations and EO data. It enables both short-term operational and long-term strategic decision-making by […]
www.weathersafe.co.uk Overview The WeatherSafe platform provides field specific advice for coffee farmers. This is generated from satellite Earth observation (EO) data and bespoke weather forecasts, offering early warnings for pest and disease, supporting agronomist and farmer decisions making, helping farmers make faster, better choices which directly impact both the quality and quantity of coffee produced. […]
www.cabi.org Overview Pest Prediction aims to produce cutting edge research to provide pest and disease monitoring and forecast information, integrating multiple sources of data, Earth observation (EO), meteorological and vertical looking radar, to support decision making in the sustainable management of insect pests and diseases. Predictive models on wheat rust severity that are passed to […]
www.cabi.org Overview Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) is an innovative crop pest and disease risk forecasting product designed for smallholders and commercial producers in developing countries. Bringing together a broad range of stakeholders, including plant protection authorities, space experts, private sector companies, and the farmers themselves, PRISE uses state-of-the-art crop and pest modelling techniques to […]
www.earthi.space Overview Advanced Coffee Crop Optimisation for Rural Development (ACCORD) provides proactive, targeted crop management information to improve the livelihoods and incomes of smallholder coffee farmers in Rwanda and Kenya. The crop management advice, which is delivered via a mobile app, is derived from satellite Earth observation (EO) and advanced micro-climate information. The information helps […]
www.agritechinchina.org Overview Making grape production more resilient to weather and climate using Earth observation (EO) and smart sensors. Solution benefits Exploits satellite EO data and smart sensor technology (for soil, weather, crop conditions) and GIS modelling to: reduce water inputs, and improve frost and disease management identify suitable regions for new vineyard development improve sustainability […]
www.agricompas.com Overview The EcoProMIS platform is developed per crop and country to address the economical, technical and environmental challenges faced by a wide range of agricultural stakeholders. By combining satellite Earth observation (EO) with comprehensive crop production data we create “Knowledge for Free” for growers and partners, and “Decisions for a Fee” for customers. Solution […]
www.intelligence-airbusds.com/agriculture Overview Earth Observation for Flood and Drought Resilience focuses on alleviating poverty for farmers that currently have little or no access to insurance by demonstrating the efficacy of Earth observation (EO) data for supporting the micro-insurance market. It also focuses on building social and economic resilience to drought and flood by providing economic impact […]
www.dfms.co.uk Overview The Drought and Flood Mitigation Service (DFMS) provides robust meteorological, hydrological, and other Earth observation (EO) information as observations, forecasts, and data archives. Products for monitoring, near and long-term planning, and historical analysis are provided through an on-line portal to users in the government, commercial agriculture, and development sectors. Focussed on reducing the […]
www.rezatec.com/resources/projects/mexican-compass/ Overview The Crop Observation, Management and Production Analysis Services System (COMPASS) uses satellite Earth observation (EO) data to help smallholder farmers manage their sugar cane and wheat agriculture. It helps optimise crop productivity by identifying factors that cause the yield gap between crop potential and actual field performance. It also provides agronomic support to […]
www.inmarsat.com Overview Inmarsat provides in-situ powerful but easily deployable equipment, including Inmarsat’s new Global Xpress (GX) satellite equipment during disaster response scenarios. Global Xpress (GX) terminals allow communications at speeds not previously possible for emergency response teams and mobile BGANs allow responders to provide in situ impact assessments. Rapid deployment at the disaster area provides […]
www.avantiplc.com Overview Communication between emergency services, disaster responders and the public is critical in delivering fast, meaningful responses during emergencies or disasters. Avanti supplies high throughput fixed and mobile satellite connectivity providing secure, reliable, always-on voice and data communications in emergency situations. Solution benefits Satellite communications provide a secure, reliable, always-on communications infrastructure. Supports governments […]
www.eosphere.co.uk Overview Improved severe-weather resilience for herding communities using satellite Earth observation (EO). The solution provides improved capacity for distributing new and upgraded environmental information products. Solution provides information regarding pasture, snow and drought, including absolute regional averages, anomalies and trends, to stakeholders supporting herding communities including the insurance sector, government agencies coordinating livestock and […]
www.unitar.org/unosat Overview UNOSAT provides rapid satellite imagery analysis during natural and environmental disasters to improve situational awareness and support relief efforts. Our staff is able to process requests on a 24/7 basis year-round. Output products include maps, GIS- ready data, statistics and reports. They are shared with governments, UN agencies and other actors. Solution benefits […]
http://telespazio-vega.com/ Overview Rapid Flood Mapping Service (RFMS) provides a quick response in mapping flooded areas in the immediate lead up – and during – a severe weather event e.g. torrential rainfall. Targeted at national disaster resilience agencies and the first responder community. RFMS utilises high-resolution radar data that is unaffected by clouds and is capable […]
http://geocento.com/ Overview EASOS Data Discovery Hub is a user friendly, one stop shop, web platform that can be used to discover, select, order, receive, visualise and download Earth observation (EO) data, with convenient filtering tools. It provides efficient and independent access to imagery from the range of image suppliers to help monitor and assess areas […]
www.eosphere.co.uk Overview eOsphere satellite ground receiving stations have been installed in countries worldwide (including Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Greece, Mongolia and Cuba) to allow government agencies to detect and monitor forest and wild fires using medium resolution thermal infrared and visible satellite data in near real time. As well as detecting and monitoring fires, the product […]
https://www.clyde.space/ Overview FireSat adds considerable value to existing fire detection assets. The solution uses nanosatellites to provide targeted coverage of Africa with improved temporal and spatial resolution than offered by existing satellite remote sensing of fires. The system intends to enable a step-change in the detection of smaller fires, down to 90m² allowing earlier intervention […]
www.satoc.eu/projects/c-rise Overview Coastal Risk Information Service (C-RISe) delivers access to satellite-derived data on sea level, wind speed and wave heights; enabling stakeholders to use this information to improve socio-economic resilience to coastal hazards such as inundation, floods, storm damage, wetland loss, habitat change, coastal erosion and saltwater intrusion. Solution benefits Sea level information is critical […]
www.unitar.org/unosat Overview The overall aim of CommonSensing is to improve national resilience towards climate change, including disaster risk reduction, and contribute to sustainable development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), through the use of satellite Earth observation (EO). This is done by assessing climate predictions, coupled with hazard mapping and food security analysis to provide […]
www.elecnor-deimos.com/delegacion/deimos-space-uk Overview Service4EO is a back-end platform that delivers Earth observation (EO) products to applications that address a range of problems in developing countries. It collects and ingests EO data from satellites and drones combined with data from ground sources and processes the data to applications for sectors such as agriculture, urban mapping, forestry and […]
https://data.envsys.co.uk Overview Satellite Data Services is a cloud-based service delivering access to near-real time analysis-ready satellite imagery and derived products from the Sentinel-1 and 2 satellites. We handle pre- processing and associated costs, so you do not have to. Low cost monthly or annual subscriptions give users access to analysis ready satellite data under an […]
Overview The Ecometrica Platform brings together Earth observation (EO) ‘big data’ and turns it into strategic, geo-analytical insights for use by businesses and governments worldwide. An easy to use web interface enables non-experts to easily interact with and rapidly analyse large, complex environmental datasets – from forest protection to disaster response, sustainability metrics to full […]
Overview EASOS is a platform designed to provide high value decision support to tackle country specific environmental, security, and human challenges. Through its intelligent way of fusing data from terrestrial and satellite sources, EASOS provides knowledge on a wide variety of topics to different government departments on a local, regional, and international scale. Currently the […]