The services under consideration in this feasibility study are aiming at providing ground motion information to operators of alpine transportation infrastructures such as railway companies, institutes representing the national roads and companies from the energy sector.

This study expects to identify integrated services to meet some of the needs of the wind power industry in relation to wind farms planning and their operational management. The proposed services will take advantage of existing space and terrestrial technologies, assets or product.

SEMAFORS, the Ship Efficiency Monitoring, weAther Forecasting and Optimised Routing Service is a user focused project in support of the shipping industry.

SEMAFORS will investigate, establish and demonstrate through sea trials a concept to improve ship fuel efficiency by providing the means to better planning, avoiding of adverse weather and by making better use of ocean currents. 

A tremendous opportunity exists for the global forest industry to capture the combined benefits of cutting edge technologies in the areas of satellite remote sensing technology, geo-referenced ground forest measurement, data analytics and cloud computing. The goal of the SATForM 3D project is to design and develop a web-based application integrating selected satellite earth observation imagery with innovative ground-based information, provided through a terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) forest measurement technique and geo-referenced using DGPS, and data analytics; to provide better management and more efficient utilisation of our global forest resources.

The project counts on the support of the main forest owners and forest managers in Ireland, who will collaborate in defining and validating the tool’s features and forest modelling functions so that it provides an innovative solution to their current needs. Both EO (Earth Observation) and non-EO data will be considered in the project.

Partnering with Africa to help strengthen health service delivery is a key driver of this project. The goal of the eHSA programme is to develop pan-African eHealth services enabled by satellite to benefit the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region. These services focus on providing various types of eHealth services to benefit citizens and health workers.

The DeSIRE (Demonstration of Satellites enabling the Insertion of RPAS in Europe) demonstration project is a joint ESA-EDA initiative aimed at demonstrating the safe insertion of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) in non-segregated airspace using satellites capabilities for RPAS command and control, ATC communications and Mission data transfer to ground, in order to satisfy the needs of potential user communities. The demonstration will be carried out in Spain through several flights using a RPAS (Heron 1) providing airborne maritime surveillance services to the Spanish Users involved in the project.

FarmingTruth is a precision agriculture service that furnishes end users (e.g. farmers, growers, agronomists, agricultural consultants, etc.) with a web-based soil and crop information system to enable the optimisation of land production for increasing yield at reduced input cost.