Blogs
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Policy Blog: What you need to know of ESA Agenda 2025
- May 17, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Blogs, European EO Industry, Policy Blog
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Geoff’s Blog: The Green Deal Explained
- May 7, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Blogs, European EO Industry, Geoff's Blog
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Geoff’s Blog: AI and EO revisited
- April 22, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Blogs, European EO Industry, Geoff's Blog
Celebrating our first anniversary we returned to the evidently popular subject of the use of AI technology for Earth Observations. In a previous EOcafe on the 4th February, we heard from the AI4EO project which is one of many springing up with different sponsors at European and national levels to promote this synergy between technologies. There are many initiatives[1] and one of our aims in EOcafe is to try to help clarify this somewhat complicated landscape.
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Policy Blog: The European Partnerships in Horizon Europe [second part]
- April 13, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Blogs, Policy Blog
In our previous Policy Blog, The European Partnership on Horizon Europe, we outlined the relevance of the European partnerships for the EO services industry. As we know, 10 candidates’ partnerships[1] exist in the Digital, Industry and Space area.
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Geoff’s blog: EO in the News or a (satellite) image is worth a thousand words
- April 9, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: EOcafe, European EO Industry, Geoff's Blog
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Geoff’s blog: The Reality of EO in the gaming world?
- March 29, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: European EO Industry, Geoff's Blog
Playing games is a an extremely old pastime but digital gaming – which is what is generally understood by the term – is new. Whilst gaming is big business, the imaginary world of games may not seem the obvious place to take real images of the Earth. But for a few companies it is and there is some very interesting business going on to bring these two worlds together.
One way, the most obvious (perhaps) is to use EO images as a backdrop for the game. This is the case with the Microsoft Flight Simulator which we understand is now using Sentinel-2 data to provide the terrain over which the aircraft is flying.
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Geoff’s blog: EO realizing the ambitions of the European Green Deal
- March 16, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Blogs, EOcafe, Geoff's Blog
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Geoff’s Blog: The EO and raw materials sectors: Is this partnership blooming?
- February 26, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Blogs, EOcafe, Geoff's Blog
In the EOCafe, “where the EO Community meet”, our subject for discussion had a more applications driven focus. This time it was dedicated to the use of EO information for the raw materials sector. “Raw materials” includes mining but also other means of extraction and even recycling as a means for production. Although, for the EO community, it could be obvious that EO data/information is useful for mining companies in several of its stages of operations, (from the exploration phase, environmental assessment & permits, to design, operations, mine closure and aftercare), for the mining sector there is still a long way to go for this relationship to succeed.
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Policy Blog: The European Agenda on AI
- February 23, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: Blogs
The European Agenda on AI: state of the art
Artificial Intelligence is one of the most strategic and horizontal instruments for innovation in many industrial activities. The European Union and all the Members States are putting a lot of effort in its standardization as wide range of different types of AI can be distinguished.
This is why AI applications are currently being implemented across a range of European industries, facing different barriers to adoption. The barriers are diverse and can be identified as endogenous on one hand with cultural resistance, lack of clear leadership, lack of knowledge and talent and financial consideration. On the other hand, as exogenous due for example to lack of venture capital funding, lack of data availability. -
Challenges and possibilities on bringing EO and AI together
- February 11, 2021
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: Blogs, Geoff's Blog
