Editorial
Emmanuel Pajot
EARSC Secretary General
Welcome to the first eoMAG of 2022!
Despite the still ongoing pandemic, the EO ecosystem continued its development during 2021 last quarter.
From the institutional side, EUSPA finalized the signature of the agreements with the European Entrusted Entities and published last week its first report on the EO and GNSS market report; ESA launched three Accelerators: Space for a green future, Rapid and resilient crisis response and Protection of space assets… […]
Interview
For the summer & autumn edition of eoMAG! 63 we decided to interview Michal Brichta, who is is a co-founder of the newly-established Slovak Space Office and the head of its Industry Branch working under the Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO). In 2019 he initiated a new strategic approach to the comprehensive development of national space industry capabilities. Building on this approach, his team works today to support the further development of the Slovak space sector and its internationalisation with a focus on full utilisation of the country’s strong industrial and R&D potential as well as on the 21st century‘s newspace trends.
Industry Profile
We are very happy to bring your attention to one of the EARSC’s members – EOMAP
Marine coastlines, coral reefs, lakes or river catchments … – shallow waters are what they focus on. Since 2006, they have been mapping and monitoring aquatic environments for customers all over the world. Among these, they count renowned hydrographic offices, environmental agencies as well as industry partners. Their mission is to harness the terrabytes of satellite data recorded every day, offering our clients a quick, but panoptic view on shallow waters of their interest. This helps them deeply understand, manage and finally even mitigate impacts or changes. EOMAP is an Earth Observation expert for Satellite-Derived Bathymetry (SDB), Seafloor Classification and Water Quality Monitoring. In addition to high-tech data analytics, they provide IT-solutions, above all web-based software services. Last, but not least, they cooperate in manifold R & D projects, tackling artificial intelligence, green energy or drinking water. All in all, they strive to address both water related UN Sustainability GoalsOpens in a new window, SDG 6 and SDG 14.
EARSC Activities & Projects
Have you included your company in the OCRE EO Catalogue?
The OCRE EO Catalogue, similar to the OCRE Cloud Catalogue, is a key result of the OCRE project which aims to create a digital single market for EO and Cloud services for research in Europe. The first procurement activities where OCRE aims to [...]
How did PARSEC encourage the uptake of EO
technology to innovate for a greater good?
With the second phase of the programme having come to an end in December 2021, it’s worth a moment to reflect on the success the PARSEC Accelerator programme was able to achieve throughout its first and second phases, along with PARSEC’s lasting impact beyond these phases. PARSEC was designed to help small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups turn their ideas into commercial ... [...]
New strategy to support skills development for the space and geoinformation sector
The EO4GEO Alliance has published a strategy to support skills development for Earth Observation and Geoinformation (EO*GI) sector – an essential source of data information for supporting the Sustainable Development[...]
EARSC launched a new Working Group on Green Deal
EARSC launched a w/g dedicated to the Green Deal with the purpose to advocate increased use of EO for the Green Deal strategy encouraging the EU to adopt EO contribution through statements, position papers and ensuring awareness of the industry contribution responding to the monitoring needs for the Green Deal implementation. For further information contact info@earsc.org [...]
SeBS workshop 'The story of how Copernicus benefits European citizens'
On the 18th and 19th November, EARSC organised the SeBS results workshop supported by ESA. Over the two days, the project partners presented the results from both the various cross-sector studies as well as the case studies, highlighting the economic, environmental, regulatory, innovation & entrepreneurship, science and societal [...]
FIRE-Forum Focus Group Discussions
Building off the first round of the FIRE focus group discussions, the second round of the six sectoral events will be held online between February and April 2022. What? The second round of FIRE Focus Group Discussions is a series of six expert meetups, one for each of the target market sectors: agriculture, (wind) energy, infrastructure, marine, raw materials, and urban development. When? The event series takes place between February and April 2022... [...]
EARSC news
- EARSC closes one of our project flagship PARSEC at Valencia Digital Summit 2021
- On 13th January, EARSC welcomed Mr Jean-Jacques TORTORA, Director of European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) to discuss the changing geo-strategic landscape in the space sector and the impact for the EO services industry
- Geoff’s blog: Ecosystem Accounting: a step further to achieve the Green Deal objectives
- EARSC celebrates Christmas with our traditional ProseccEO – EARSC Christmas EOcafe
- EARSC welcomes a new colleague Elora Harjani Decooninck, a new project officer of the Harmonia Project
- EARSC launched a Working Group dedicated to the Green Deal with the overarching purpose to advocate increased use of EO for the Green Deal strategy
Members news
Earth-i announces 2nd Satellite Video Hackathon
18th January 2022 – Earth-i announces the 2nd VANTAGE coding challenge! The 2nd ESA funded Hackathon will focus on the analysis of colour HD Satellite Video to support Aircraft and Ship Detection and Motion Tracking. The challenge will take place between 14th February till the 14th March 2022. Winners will be awarded prizes of up to Euro 5,000!...[...]
VITO: WatchITgrow, creating a digital twin of every field
What started as a yield prediction and monitoring tool for the Belgian potato sector has grown into an open and holistic platform that supports the entire agricultural sector. WatchITgrow is ready for Interpom 2021, to show you the value and importance of combining data, using the newest data technologies, and to connect tools and players over the entire [...]
Eurosense: 3D tree map based on Artificial Intelligence and citizen science
Eurosense announces that our project proposal, together with VIVES University of Applied Sciences (Kortrijk, Belgium), to create a 3D tree map based on Artificial Intelligence and citizen science has been approved by Mrs. Hilde Crevits, Vice-Minister-President of the Government of Fland [...]
Area Monitoring — Going Large and Towards Finer Detail — Partnership with Planet and Batch Stat API
Without good data, even fancy models can and will produce noise. Without good technology, even perfect data can prove useless. Best things happen with cooperation. The progress of our Area Monitoring (AM) activities has been tremendous in the past twelve months. We have run a full scope AM production in Slovenia, informing farmers about preliminary results in August, [...]
Satellogic Rings in an Exciting New Year with Nasdaq
We have lots of exciting news to share with our fellow members and EO visionaries! First, we are proud to announce that as of January 26, 2022, Satellogic is a publicly-traded company listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange (“SATL”). This pivotal milestone is going to accelerate our growth as well as create new opportunities for people to invest in and advocate for Earth Observation technologies. [...]
DHI Gras: New cutting-edge EO tools deliver synoptic insight on "blue carbon" ecosystems
Coastal vegetated habitats, such as kelp forests, eelgrass meadows and rockweed beds are some of the most productive ecosystems on Earth. They provide us with many essential ecosystem services, for example food provision, water quality control, disaster resilience, tourism and at the same time, these ecosystems are important natural sinks for carbon... [...]
CloudFerro: ‘Building green applications under Horizon Europe programme – technology perspective’
Horizon Europe is the EU’s new ambitious research and innovation programme, having bold goals to tackle climate change and improve the quality of our daily lives. It has a long-term 2021-2027 budget of €95.5 billion, which represents a huge opportunity for building high skills, innovation and ... [...]
VITO: Transition to a sustainable planet through natural capital accounting
Our economy and our human well-being highly depend on nature and its “services”. Longley, we underestimated these services, but the recent COVID-19 pandemic - disrupting economies, societies and livelihoods around the entire globe - emphasized that nations have to speed up their transition to "Green Stimulus", Economic Recovery and Long-Term Sustainable Development. Otherwise we cannot restore employment and boost economic growth in sustainable manner...[...]
Geocento: How healthy is the market for VHR Earth Observation?
As Geocento approaches its tenth anniversary we have been taking stock of the market we operate in, focusing in particular on the very high resolution imaging business – the most commercial valuable part of the industry. The most obvious feature is that the industry has continued to grow, powered by technological innovations being introduced at scale. In 2011, 12 nano satellites were launched, this year there are predicted to [...]
EARSC & members' vacancies
- Sinergise is looking for Full-Stack Developer for Sentinel Hub
- GEOCENTO: Full-Stack Developer in Spain
- EARSC seeks an Operation Support Manager
- Sinergise: Front-end developer
- Sinergise: Java developer
- Copernicus Market and Innovation Officer at EUSPA
- ICT System Management Specialist
- GeoVille: Various Jobs
EO news
- EUSPA: The EO and GNSS market report is available
- On 31th January, the European Commission will host a Conference about the Sustainable Carbon Cycles; the conference will bring together decision makers and experts from different backgrounds to share their experiences in view of the upcoming EU regulatory initiative on the certification of carbon removals.
- A Horizon EU Call for Proposal about "A Soil Deal for Europe" is open; if you are an EO expert interested in MissionSoil, you can apply until 24th March 2022
- Accelerating the Use of Space in Europe
- Satellogic completes SPAC merger
Internationalisation
- EOMAP Opens A New Office In Dubai
- Strategic Alliance Between Synspective + AMH Philippines For SatSAR Support
- China launches new satellite for Earth observation
- NASA selects a dozen companies for smallsat launch services
- Oman Partners With SatRevolution and Virgin Orbit for Country’s First Satellite Launch
Events
- ESA-Industry seminar on the Future of ESA Earth Observation programmes - 12&13/04/2022
- Copernicus Horizon 2035 Conference - expressions of interest for virtual booths
- Copernicus and me - Launch event - 10 February 2022
- Save the date: EO4GEO Final Conference - 17-18 May 2022
- FIRE-Forum Focus Groups - Save the Date - February, March 2022
We welcome your feedback on our eoMAG. For any comments please reach out to us at info[at]earsc.org