Remember we participated at New Scientist Live? We had such great feedback from people there and such fun with the children that we decided to make our material available on-line. And so, just like that, the AURORA4Kids page is born! Check it out, download the material and inspire the next [...]
An AURORA pilot project (called AIR-Portal 4 Florence), aimed at monitoring ozone concentrations in the Florence urban area, started in August 2018 and will run for 1 year. The first 3 months are dedicated to development, followed by a 3 month validation period. The actual operational pilot will [...]
The AURORA Call for Ideas is now closed. Thanks for your interest in this challenge! Watch this space for updates on the Call and on AURORA [...]
AURORA at the ESA Φ-weeK event The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising a Φ-week event focusing on EO Open Science and FutureEO. It will be hosted in ESA-ESRIN from 12-16 November 2018. The event will review the latest developments in Open Science trends and kick-start innovative activities [...]
Flyby is an Italian aerospace SME, which specialises in the development of Decision Support Systems (DSSs) using cutting-edge technology in the field of Satellite Remote Sensing, Signal Processing and Big Data Analytics. The company was founded in 2001 with the aim to develop innovative solutions [...]
AURORA is back from holidays and hard at work! Our scientists and technological experts are working hard (more updates on results soon!) and, in the meantime, we are delighted to announce that we will be at the New Scientist Live event in London, from 20-23 September 2018! Come down and visit our [...]
AURORA is orbiting off into summer holidays, getting a well-deserved break before a full autumn of activities. After the break, we’ll be closing the Call for Ideas, we’ll be taking forward our data fusion and assimilation testing and validation and we’ll be completing our technological [...]
Science and Industry cooperation is a challenge. Science and its application on the market go at different speeds and with different trajectories. Scientists and industrialists often speak different languages. But, as AURORA partners are finding out, it is a challenge that is worth taking on. [...]
AURORA partners are busy getting ready for the 5th AURORA Progress Meeting. The city of Delft will welcome them all on the 24th and 25th of July, in the premises of our partner ST. We might not have time to visit the Nieuwe Kerk or the Oude Kerk, but between a post-meeting walk around the canals [...]
By popular demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for the Call for Ideas! Interested applicants now have until 30th November to submit their fabulous ideas for applications to use satellite data. Access all the necessary information [...]
AURORA is really excited to see the first data coming from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite. Following months of tests and careful evaluation, the first data on air pollutants have been released. These first maps show a range of trace gases that affect air quality such as carbon monoxide, [...]
A profile of the AURORA project has been published in the July 2018 issueof the magazine Open Access Government (pp. 178-179) The article, written by AURORA’s Principle Investigator Ugo Cortesi (CNR-IFAC), discusses the use of stmospheric data from space, and how to move from research to [...]
An overview of the AURORA project was presented at the 26th Panhellenic ArcGIS Meeting, held in Crown Plaza hotel, Athens (Greece) on 10 & 11 May 2018. This meeting provided the opportunity for the Greek GIS community to disseminate and share new ideas, and developments in GIS. The [...]
Science and Technology BV (abbreviated to ST) is a contract Research and Development (R&D) organisation that forms the bridge between applied research and commercial products. ST is an international company, established in 2000 and now employing a hundred, highly-educated and bright people [...]
The current challenges related to the AURORA project were presented at The European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018 in the second week of April in Vienna. This international meeting provides the main European forum for the dissemination of new research and technological development in geo [...]
Don’t forget to be up and watching the launch of the Sentinel-3B on 25th April! Sentinel-3A, has been in orbit since February 2016, measuring our oceans, land, ice and atmosphere. The information feeds a range of practical applications and is used for monitoring and understanding [...]
Take part to win big, while helping society! What is the AURORA Call for Ideas? It is designed to engage European students in the debate about the use of satellite data to address today’s societal challenges. The competition is open to students from Secondary School level to University and PhD [...]
The AURORA project held its 4th Project Meeting in Belgium on 24/25 January 2018. It was held at the headquarters of AURORA partner, the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy BIRA-IASB. With initial results starting to emerge, partners discussed the best means of ensuring that project’s integrated [...]
The opportunities to generate commercial business with satellite imagery has grown considerably over the years. Primary reasons for this trend are that more satellites have been launched, the quality of the data has improved, and the costs of the data have decreased. However, there is still a gap [...]