Within the AURORA project, and additionally funded by ESA and the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), Arno Keppens and colleagues from the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) have published an overview paper on the harmonization and comparison of atmospheric state [...]
The H2020 AURORA project has come to its end. Over three years dedicated to high level scientific research and its application in 2 fields that are relevant to everyone on this planet: air quality and safe-sun exposure. Satellites already in orbit or soon to be launched by ESA, the European Space [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
AURORA has published an article in the journal GIM-International regarding the objectives and applications of AURORA. Special emphasis is given to applications in the Health Sector, one of the many and diverse sectors that AURORA could have an impact on. Read the full article [...]
The current challenges related to the satellite-based UV radiation and the focus of the AURORA project were presented at the 17th European Society for Photobiology Congress, in the first week of September in Pisa. This international meeting provided an important forum for the dissemination of new [...]
The Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite is almost ready for its launch. ESA has launched an invitation for the media to see the satellite on 20 July at Airbus in Stevenage, UK, before it is shipped to Russia for launch. As well as viewing this state-of-the-art Copernicus satellite in the cleanroom, [...]
AURORA will be presented at an event organised by the H2020 Project HEAT-SHIELD “Integrated inter-sector framework to increase the thermal resilience of European workers in the context of global warming”. The event will take place on 13th July 2017 and will consider the impact of climate change [...]
AURORA, particularly her industrial partners, watch with interest the developments of EUGENIUS, an association founded by a group of European SMEs providing Earth Observation Services. They work together to design, create and deliver services and applications for natural resource management, using [...]
AURORA project will be presented at Nordic Ozone and UV-radiation Group (NOG) meeting later this week. Annual NOG 2017 is held on April 20-21, 2017, in Helsinki, Finland and hosted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. This meeting brings together a large number of scientists working on ozone [...]
CNR-IFAC will represent the AURORA project with a poster at the European Space Agency summer school on Monitoring of the Earth System to promote the exploitation of Earth Observation data across disciplines. The school is open to Early Career Scientists (i.e. Ph.D. students, young post-doctoral [...]
The AURORA project can now also be found on ResearchGate®! Every scientist involved in AURORA can link her/his profile to the project, while all others can subscribe for follow-up messages that reach thousands of researchers. Click here to access [...]
On the 28th of June, AURORA participated at an event organised by the NEREUS network at the European Parliament. The aim was to discuss what the Copernicus programme can do for regions. Representatives of many European regions gave their view on the potential for using Copernicus data. Regions [...]
AURORA was selected to participate in a survey launched by the European Commission to assess the added value of current and previous EU Framework Programmes. The survey gives stakeholdest a chance to provide input on the additional value of the Programmes compared to what can be achieved at [...]
The abstract for a poster presentation on the AURORA project has been accepted at EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference 2016, which will be held in Darmstadt, Germany from 26 to 30 September [...]
An interesting article concerning the quality of life and the economic impact related to air quality. “Air pollution causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year and costs up to 9% of EU GDP. Stalling on improving air quality is both dangerous and economically foolish, writes [...]
From May 9th to May 13th there has been the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2016, a great event organized in Prague (Czech Republic) by the European Space Agency (ESA). The first worldwide UV dosimeter dedicated to healthy sunbathing has been presented to the scientific world: the HappySun App. [...]