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 [...]
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 [...]
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 met in Athens from 19-21 July for their 3rd project meeting. The first day was dedicated to a workshop focused on exploitation, thanks to the European Common Exploitation Booster. The following days were dedicated to exchange focusing on scientific aspects and including [...]
The scientific coordinator of AURORA gave an overview presentation of the project at Meeting N. 14 of the Mission Advisory Group of Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5 in ESA-ESTEC (Noordwijk, NL) on November 1st, [...]
The abstract for a poster presentation on the AURORA project, has been accepted at the 5th Workshop on Atmospheric Composition Validation and Evolution 2016, which will be held at ESA-ESRIN in Frascati (Rome, Italy) from 18 to 20 October 2016. The poster Aurora Project: Simulation and Validation [...]
Within the initiative Alternanza scuola-lavoro organised for students of secondary schools in Europe, a series of seminars was organised at IFAC-CNR (Sesto Fiorentino, Italy). AURORA was represented with a presentation entitled “COPERNICUS: from the satellite to the smartphone”. The [...]
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 [...]
Following up on last week’s post for us non-experts…some more details about the SENTINEL satellite missions that AURORA deals with. Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5 will be carried on meteorological satellites. They will help us to monitor the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere. Why is this [...]
For those of us that are not experts in Earth Observation, the European Space Agency (ESA) has produced lots of material to help us understand their programmes and missions, and the impact they can have on our daily lives. Let’s start with the missions funded by the Copernicus global monitoring [...]
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. [...]
AURORA project officially starts on the 1st of February 2016. The web site and social media pages will provide you with continuous updates on the project progress and results. Do you remember what the project is about? Aurora is a space research project funded by H2020, whose overall objective is [...]