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Results Brochure 1 Introduction 3 Green City Watch – Taking nature online 26 – Energy decision made easy The start-up journey 4 Greenventory 27 Finding your competitive edge with Copernicus ieco.io – Optimising photovoltaic installations 28 A bit about our start-ups 6 IMMOSensing – Democratising he 2020 edition of the Copernicus Accelerator has officially sustainable solutions in support of modern agriculture. To do so, they Meet the Start-ups 8 the real estate market 29 come to an end. Looking back on the numerous mentoring utilised Copernicus data, as well as meteorological and crop intelligence. 3D EMS – AIntelligent golf course LENKÉ – Space and water solutions sessions, business pivots and client meetings, we must credit executive management 9 empowering communities 30 T the hard work put in by the mentors and entrepreneurs to support Overall, the start-ups benefitted from this coaching activity in their future ajuma – UV-bodyguard 10 MEOSS – Geospatial solutions the implementation of the Accelerator, in particular under the current business development and they regarded it as a catalyst in their growth. for smart territories 31 Audili – Remote topsoil analysis 11 circumstances. The Opening Bootcamp held in December 2019 in Helsinki offered AutoPlan – Making architects’ Nebula42 – Transparency a nurturing environment, equipping start-ups with tools that would lives easier 12 for emissions reporting 32 The Accelerator helps young start-ups to use Copernicus data assist them over the following 12 months to take their ideas and information to develop innovative products and ser- to the next level. The activity closed with the virtual Blokgarden – Urban farming as a service 13 OGOR – Efficient monitoring of agricultural land 33 vices for a wide range of sectors. This year, over forty “demoday” back-to-back with the European Space Blue Urban – Be a part of the solution selected start-ups were supported in their endeav- Week in December this year where the remark and not eutrophication 14 OxEO – Oxford Earth Observation 34 our to leverage Copernicus in a commercially able work and progress of the participants was PipeAI – Pipeline monitoring solution 35 BUDNIP – Nipping crop viable venture. The start-ups received training showcased. epidemics in the bud 15 Plantae – Optimising irrigation and mentoring from field experts, and learned agriculture 36 Cassava – Optimising harvests 16 to interact directly with potential future clients. The fourth edition of Copernicus Accelerator Purify – Find your healthy path 37 ConstellR – Revolutionising the Their ultimate goal was to establish themselves has paved the way for the 2021 cohort and temperature monitoring market 17 SoilViews – Soil analyses in the market with their ideas and business con- was officially started also at the European Space and recommendations 38 cepts. Week. We are looking forward to the new round Cooper – Climate data for everyone 18 of coaching and to support young entrepreneurs to TimberEye – Sustainable timber Diginove – Geolocalised demographic management using EO in Eswatini 39 Many of the participating start-ups addressed topics take root in the European innovation ecosystem. data all over the world 19 essential to global challenges, such as climate change, deforest- VIDA – Village Data Analytics 40 ECOTEN – Urban comfort 20 ation, and urban and sea pollution. For instance, one project developed We wish the best success to all the entrepreneurs who have participated Waterjade – Innovative technology EoSSENTIAL – Innovative geospatial a service to fight climate change misinformation: by using Sentinel-2 and and we encourage all future participants to take advantage of this unique for water data 41 solutions for sustainable Sentinel-5P data, it combines atmospheric data and satellite images to support activity. land management 21 Weter – From waste to resource 42 highlight the impact of climate change on the user and their surrounding Christoph Kautz Epic Blue – With you all the way 22 WindMAPS – Enabling wind environment. Another project drew on artificial intelligence, the Internet Head of Unit (Acting) turbines in urban areas 43 of Things, and Earth observation data to assist cities and businesses in Fallen Trees – Forest health European Commission designing more efficient clean air action plans. Lastly, there is an excel- monitoring from space 23 Xylene – Boosting trust in Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS) Unit B2 raw materials sourcing 44 lent example of a transformative team that coded an app to provide ForgingLabt – Forestry and agriculture 24 Zaitra – Smart forest management 45 GeoTwins – Discover places with similar opportunities 25 Meet our mentros 46

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6 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 7 3D EMS – AIntelligent golf course executive management

Website Milestones Powered by Earth observation and artificial intel- 3d-ems.com and Achievements ligence, 3D Executive management Systems Ltd. • Founded: 2019 (3D EMS) is a fast and efficient golf course - exec Team • Awards: utive management system. Their SaaS solution

Dario Vuljanko Copernicus Incubation 2020 is a user-friendly single page app that combines Dinko Matković data from satellites, drones and IoT court sensors Finalist EIT InnoEnergy PowerUp! Igor Magdalenić into meaningful insights in real-time. Golf course Croatia 2019 Siniša Ilakovac managers and operators can now monitor and IBM 2020 12K $ Cloud Award optimise their course’s energy consumption, labour Start-Up HQ requirements and equipment use. Both Copernicus Zagreb, Crotia and E-GNSS fuel their solution. Optimised irrigation and improved fire safety are achieved by deriving Meet the differentiated maps from Copernicus Sentinel-2 data to check the soil moisture, soil conditions, vege tation index, and state. Sentinel-1 time-series data are used to detect and monitor grasslands, while Start-ups Sentinel-3 data is used for drought monitoring. In addition to this, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service is used to better support fire management and the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service supplies imagery and reference data.

Covering all essential skillsets and sharing a passion for data science, Igor, Dario, Dinko and Siniša founded 3D EMS in 2019. They earned their spot in the Copernicus Accelerator after having been recognised as the finalist of EIT InnoEnergy PowerUp! the very same year. Their mission is to improve golf management in every aspect.

3D EMS AIntelligent Golf Course Executive Management System dashboard

Results Brochure 9 ajuma – UV-bodyguard Audili – Remote topsoil analysis

Website Milestones Imagine enjoying just as much sunshine as you need Website Milestones Soil is essential for all life on earth, but soil ajuma.eu and Achievements before you get burnt! ajuma helps you do just that audili.io and Achievements information is still gathered either via taking • Founded: 2019 by providing you with a wearable that continuously • Founded: 2019 samples by hand or, in some cases, with a machine. Team • Awards: monitors your healthy UV exposure and sends you Team • Funding: €65k Grants Audili develops a novel way of remote soil analysis

Annette Barth Winner Copernicus Masters DLR a warning before you are at risk. Firm believers of Stefan Schöpf • Awards: using the multi-spectral satellite imagery of bare Julian Meyer-Arnek Environment, Energy & Health preventing damage before it is too late, ajuma is Armin Schöpf Winner BayWa Smart Farming soils to provide highly scalable soil insights from Challenge 2019 powered by real-time UV measurement, seasonal, and Patrick Leiter Challenge 2019 of the space. Farmers, scientists and national agencies HQ personal data. This combination of data determines Copernicus Masters can therefore access historical and more recent

Munich, Germany the maximum time an individual can spend exposed HQ Incubated ESA BIC Austria 2019 soil insights at farm relevant scale to support policy to the sun without increasing their risk factor for Graz, Austria making and agricultural practices. Copernicus PARSEC 2020 selection developing skin cancer. The UV-Bodyguard wearable Sentinel-1, -2, and -3 data in combination with date is more than just a summertime accessory though – CGI U 2020 Cohort and time-stamped soil libraries are used to create it connects to a smartphone app and informs the their soil models. wearer of the minimum time they need in the sun to produce the necessary Vitamin D to avoid winter The founders Armin, Stefan and Patrick aim to depression, strengthen their immune system and provide global soil maps at farm scale to support their bone health. Both features are supported by policy making and agricultural practices. In 2019, using the ozone density observations from Copernicus the trio of software developers combined forces to Sentinel-5P and the UV forecasts of the Copernicus realise this goal and were selected as winners of the Atmosphere Monitoring Service. Additional local BayWa Smart Farming Challenge of the Copernicus datasets make the UV-Bodyguard even more reliable Masters in the same year. Their efforts have also for users around Europe. been recognised by the selection panel of the ESA BIC Austria, where the start-up was selected Munich-based founders Annette and Julian made it for incubation in 2020. their personal mission to improve our quality of life and have been working on preventing health problems associated with sunburns and lack of Vitamin D since 2018. Ajuma won the German Aerospace Centre’s Environment, Energy & Health Challenge of the Copernicus Masters 2019. Take your sun protection UVBodyguard plus Appscreen warning at 95 percent to the next level with ajuma’s UV-Bodyguard. Web-view of the soil information provided by Audili

10 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 11 AutoPlan – Making architects’ lives easier Blokgarden – Urban farming as a service

Website Milestones Earth Observation (EO) data can help solve the glob- Website Milestones Blokgarden weaves together urban gardening autoplan.ie and Achievements al housing crisis challenge – yes, you read that right! blokgarden.com • Founded: 2020 and technology to create an easy and fun way for • Founded: 2019 AutoPlan helps architects burdened by the time con- friends, classes, and groups of people to grow their Team • Awards: suming, manual, data-oriented tasks that come with Team own urban garden together. Combined with a user-

Dr. Greg Jackson, PhD €5,000 Open Data Engagement Fund designing a home. Their goal is to create a streamlined Tuomas Ilander friendly app and a variety of pre-planted seedlings, workflow that saves architects time and increases Jarno Laitinen Blokgarden’s goal is to help increase urban food €15,000 Enterprise Ireland New HQ the chance of a successful planning application. This Rene Dekker production while bringing people together in the Dublin, Ireland Frontiers Phase 2 Programme solution is powered by EO and uses the Copernicus process. Their innovative app reminds you when and €10,000 Parsec Accelerator Multi-Model Ensemble (MME), which provides daily air HQ how to care for your seedlings, but also allows you to quality and atmospheric forecasts. It also integrates Finland, Tampere ask your questions. Gardening tasks are automated €10,000 Entrepreneurs Copernicus Sentinel-5P data into the models. These within the app and can easily be shared among group First Accelerator inputs allow AutoPlan to generate environmental im- members. Copernicus climate change data are • Investments: pact reports for inclusion in planning applications. By compared to data and information gathered from

Angel Investment from using Copernicus data, the solution can ultimately help Blokgarden soil and weather sensors. This enables more people understand the environmental impact of them to combine macroclimate and microclimate NDRC@Arclabs their construction projects and begin to design more information into one data package, and better • Achievements: sustainable projects. predict future output. In spring, Blokgarden installs

EI New Frontiers Phase One and Two your box with the seedlings already planted. You AutoPlan was founded by Dr. Greg Jackson. He has grow your garden with the help of the application a PhD in computer science from Imperial College and gardeners harvest the crops and enjoy the London as well as experience in smart city design in results. To complete the garden’s sustainable life Dublin, London, and Singapore. In addition to launching cycle, Blokgarden picks up the boxes and recycles a network of air quality sensors in London, he has the soil in the autumn. founded two additional start-ups. AutoPlan was recently commis-sioned by Ireland’s open data portal to Founders Tuomas, Jarno, and Rene are passionate report on the impact of the smoky coal ban in Ireland. about improving food production for urban dwellers. Their beta version of the application was launched in They have already found success in their first summer August 2020 for testing with key customers ahead season and sold out of all their gardens. Their hope of a public launch in 2020. Through Greg’s passion for is that each individual garden brings together its innovation, AutoPlan is empowering users to achieve community in a meaningful (and fun) way. AutoPlan online Interface successful planning permission on more environmen The Blokgarden team proudly presenting their first prototype tally friendly buildings.

12 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 13 Blue Urban – Be a part of the solution BUDNIP – Nipping crop and not eutrophication epidemics in the bud

Website Milestones Eutrophication is a big word that describes a big Team Milestones The status of global food security is alarming and blueurban.ai and Achievements problem. It is the process by which harmful algal Blanca Robledo Díaz and Achievements protection against losses caused by crop epidemics • Founded: 2020 blooms, dead zones and fish kills arise due to an Adithya Iyer • Founded: 2019 can play a critical role in improving food security Team • Awards: increased volume of nutrients in water bodies. • Awards: worldwide. Budnip offers a solution to tackle this

Nadiya Saba Winner Copernicus Hackathon In the United States of America alone, 65% of HQ Winner Copernicus Hackathon problem by providing an autonomous warning Monish Manohar Kadam Ireland 2019 estuaries and coastal waters are moderately to Copenhagen, Denmark Denmark 2019 system for early anticipation and containment of Manmaya Prasad Panda severely degraded by excessive nutrient inputs. crop epidemics. This can avoid major losses by crop Winner Open AI Data Hosahalli Sampath Kumar Manohar Hackathon Ireland 2019 Eutrophication sets off a chain reaction in the producers worldwide. Budnip uses Copernicus ecosystem resulting in ocean acidification. Blue Sentinel data and deep learning algorithms to Winner Midas Medtech HQ Urban created a eutrophication monitoring and monitor the health of crop fields and detect Innovation Hackathon 2018 Dublin, Ireland forecasting system that provides a 360-degree anomalies that could indicate a crop disease view of the eutrophication level in water bodies. outbreak. Sentinel-1 C-band SAR and Sentinel-2 It supports the aquaculture economy worldwide MSI bands are used as the main sources of data with a rich visualisation of the nutrient status. To for crop monitoring and training the deep learning accurately calculate these eutrophication levels, algorithms. PlanetScope data is used for higher Blue Urban uses industry recognised parame- resolution and higher frequency monitoring. ters that have been derived from Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery. Artificial intelligence enhan With Blanca studying at the Technical University ced models allow the reliable forecast of eutro of Denmark and Adithya studying at the Indian phication levels. Institute of technology, the founding team has extensive knowledge and experience in remote Blue Urban is composed of a multidisciplinary sensing and deep learning and aim to leverage team with a strong background in environmental that expertise with Budnip. The team hopes to economics, software development and Earth reduce crop losses, ensure food security for an observation. They developed the idea at the Irish exponentially growing world population and to help Copernicus Hackathon in 2019 and have since farmers in their activities. Budnip was the winning won six international hackathons. The team is team at the Copernicus Hackathon in Denmark passionate about using Earth observation data 2019 and one of the finalists of the Copernicus to tackle climate change and hopes that they will Masters University Challenge 2020. contribute to a world with clear skies, healthy The Blue Urban team at the Copernicus Hackathon in 2019 ecosystems, and sustainable aquaculture. Example of the disease detection process in a winter wheat field

14 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 15 ConstellR – Revolutionising the Cassava – Optimising harvests temperature monitoring market

Team Milestones Food waste begins at the first stage in the supply Website Milestones The Earth’s land surface temperature is an impor Amish Ralhan and Achievements chain: on the farm. To reduce this waste, Cassava constellr.space and Achievements tant indicator of environmental changes and can Daniela De Medici • Founded: 2019 gives farmers, operators, and agricultural organi • Founded: 2020 as a GmbH help us to monitor and forecast critical factors in Tom Furniss • Awards: sations more control and precision over their Team • Awards: agriculture, natural disasters and infrastructure

Eliyas Woldegeorgis Leicester Innovation harvesting, decreasing wastage and increasing Max Gulde Public funding for In-Or- management. ConstellR will answer the emerging Jan Oliver Ringert Hub 2019 yields. Users can access the Cassava platform to Marius Bierdel bit-Demonstration in 2021 market need for this data by offering daily global Sirio Modugno search for any agricultural field of interest and Christian Williges coverage in high spatial resolution. In particular, Winner ESA Start-up display it on a map. With a simple click of a point Christian Mittermaier competition 2020 ConstellR will offer analytics-ready level-2 geore HQ on the chosen field, the platform will present a ferenced land surface temperature data that is Winner Digital Founders Leicester, United Kingdom graph of the crop yield and trend, allowing the HQ directly searchable and accessible via an easy to Competition 2020 user to easily identify the optimal harvesting Freiburg, Germany use, customised platform. Their advanced optical Winner Copernicus Masters ESA time. Cassava services will support the farmers system will bring unique benefits to analysts Copernicus 4.0 Challenge 2019 to increase the average harvest yields by 2%-5%, working to improve water management, precision depending on the crop type and farmer harvesting Seraphim Space Camp yield forecasts, wildfire monitoring and the rise Mission 3 2019 system. Cassava services are data-driven, built on of urban heat islands. Complementing their own top of machine learning models, and make use of data set, ConstellR uses Copernicus Sentinel-1, Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, together -2, -3 and -5P data to improve the accuracy of with extracted vegetation indices, and historical their land surface temperature models. harvesting data trends. ConstellR, founded in 2020, is a joint spin-off The team of six developed with the idea at a from the German Fraunhofer and the German hackathon run by Leicester University under the Aerospace Center. The team is motivated by their topic ‘food security and resilience’ where they desire to improve humankind’s capabilities to took out second prize. The team is composed of timely react to environmental changes, and to different experts in their respective fields including save our planet’s most precious resource, fresh computer programming, software development, water. They have had a successful first year, first machine learning, Earth observation and agriculture winning the ESA Start-up Competition, having technology. The team has since been invited to their first software product in beta testing, participate in the Leicester Innovation Hub. and finally receiving funding for an In-Orbit-

Cassava solution providing information on harvest forecast, Demonstration to test their technology. yield expectation and current yield nutrition Comparison between current systems and ConstellR technologies

16 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 17 Diginove – Geolocalised demographic Cooper – Climate data for everyone data all over the world

Website Milestones Cooper is a service passionate about fighting Website Milestones In 2050, 68% of the world population are projected cooperclimate.eu • Founded: 2019 misinformation on climate change. Their goal is diginove.com and Achievements to live in urban areas according to the United to raise awareness of the effect climate change • Founded: 2016 Nations. This offers great opportunities, but also Team has on areas and communities around the world. Team • Awards: challenges for citizens, businesses, governments,

Emilio Cortina Labra They do this by enabling you to access information Michel Benet Laureate 2nd Innovation and their partners. The dynamics of urban growth Ana Junquera Méndez about changes in the area you live in and share Pierre-François Besson Contest i-Nov 2019 and the development of population density are one Javier García Bermúdez them with your friends and wider network. Cooper Stéphane Gakovic of the most important factors in urban planning and leverages Copernicus Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-5P Steven Guern DIGINOVE aims to support a better understanding HQ data, combining atmospheric data and satellite of these parameters. They contribute to effective Oviedo, Spain images to provide the full picture on the climate HQ urban planning by offering a software tool called in your area. With their Cooper mobile app and Aix-en-Provence, France TeleCense. This tool evaluates population distri- Cooper desktop app, you can access and share bution and trends with efficient, up-to-date, and infographics among friends to highlight how accurate results and at a lower cost compared to climate change affects you and your surroundings. in-situ studies or census campaigns. It leverages This user-friendly experience is what makes Cooper Copernicus Sentinel-1 and -2 radar and optical unique among other climate data platforms. data to increase the accuracy when detecting settlements. TeleCense supports companies, autho Founded in 2019, the team’s mission is to educate rities, international organisations, and labs to assess the public about climate change. The founders and anticipate population growth and migration in have similar technical backgrounds, but each emerging countries. have unique interests that bring diversity into the team. Cooper understands that the social aspect The team of four want to improve the lives of is an important factor in making people care people in emerging countries. The team has a strong about climate change. That is why Cooper is background in image processing and understanding making reliable location-based data available for precise population information as a core requi everyone. rement for effective government and cooperate action. By providing accurate population estimation, the team expects that their TeleCense service will soon be largely used to grant people in emerging countries access to education, health services, Temperature data in Cooper mobile Satellite data and demographic expertise help users make the best decisions water, and electricity.

18 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 19 EoSSENTIAL – Innovative geospatial ECOTEN – Urban comfort solutions for sustainable land management

Website Milestones The future of our planet depends on building sustain Team Milestones Earth observation applications that are available and urban-comfort.eu and Achievements able cities. Why? The share of the world’s population Marin Leontenko and Achievements affordable to everyone have a positive impact on • Founded: 2017 living in urban areas has increased from 30% in 1950 to Damir Matić • Founded: 2020 climate change for a greener future. That is the vision Team • Awards: a predicted 60% in 2030, and most of the world’s met- Josip Stojak • Copernicus Accelerator: 2019 behind EoSSENTIAL, a solution that allows users to

Jiří Tencar Winner Vienna Startup ropolitan cities are already facing the effects of climate Antonio Morić Španić • Awards: remotely monitor and analyse the health of their forests Sagnik Bhattachajree Package 2020 change. ECOTEN offers services such as heat vulnera- Antonija Veselski Winner Copernicus Hackathon and agricultural parcels using Copernicus Sentinel-1 Clément Imbert bility maps and urban microclimate simulations to help LIST Geoinformatics Ltd. and Sentinel-2 data. By integrating Copernicus data 2nd place Climathon Zagreb 2019 cities determine the most efficient strategies to build with the data from the sensors and machines on test by Climate-KIC 2018 ZICER Incubation Programme HQ climate change resilience. Their solutions rely on satel- HQ fields, EoSSENTIAL offers three high-performing ser Winner Brno Copernicus Zagreb 2020 Prague, Czech Republic lite data from Landsat and Copernicus Sentinel satellites Zagreb, Croatia vices: SecureLand, VitalGrowth and RealWeather. Hackathon Green Roof Challenge 2018 to assess urban heat vulnerability through indices like SecureLand is a system that eliminates exhausting exposure and sensitivity. Their engineers then propose fieldwork by providing instant damage control noti Winner Copernicus Hackathon nature-based solutions such as water features and veg- fications. VitalGrowth is the integrated dashboard Nice 2018 etation to cool down those hotspots. As a COVID-19 combining the overall statistics with visualisations Finalist 2018 Katerva Awards support measure, ECOTEN have created maps that about the health and development of agricultural for Smart Cities locate nearby testing centres, health care facilities, and fields and forest lands. Finally, RealWeather is a system clusters of high-risk individuals now used by the city gov- that provides real-time information and alerts users ernments of Madrid, Strasbourg, and five other highly about adverse weather conditions and other risk affected cities. The EU Joint Research Commission has factors. also recommended the urban heat vulnerability index created by ECOTEN urban comfort as an indicator for EoSSENTIAL is composed of a multidisciplinary team SDG Goals. that combines knowledge and experience with youth and passion. They are set to disrupt the status-quo ECOTEN urban comfort is an environmental engineering of agriculture and forestry management. To comple company, a spinoff of ECOTEN (Smart Energy Solutions), ment this goal, the team has a strong background in a green building consultancy which was founded by Jiří. software development, forestry, and geography. The Together with his co-founders Sagnik and Clément, they idea that led to the foundation of EoSSENTIAL was are passionate about urban climate change resilience, born at the Copernicus Hackathon Zagreb in 2019 and green architecture, and remote sensing. The team has right from the start, the team has been able to partner extensive experience in the urban environment and with LIST geoinformatics, a company that has provided building fields and has developed a wide network inclu Demo version of the VitalGrowth solution the team with considerable development support. ECOTEN’s heat vulnerability map as an example of their smart energy solutions ding operations in the United States and soon in Asia.

20 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 21 Fallen Trees – Forest health Epic Blue – With you all the way monitoring from space

Website Milestones Firefighters, policemen, search and rescue teams, Website Milestones A reliable forest inventory forms the foundation epic.blue and Achievements and people working in heavy industry are just a few codecompany.se and Achievements of good forest planning. New opportunities in in- • Founded: 2016 examples of everyday teams who risk their own lives • Founded: 2014 corporating remote sensing and Earth observation Team • Awards: to protect the lives of others. Epic Blue believes that Team • Awards: data lowers costs and speeds up current sampling

Geert Claeys Point.IoT 2020 these teams deserve all the help they can get and has Anders Wihlborg Copernicus Masters 2014 practices. Fallen Trees takes advantage of this new Frederik Malesevic developed a workforce solution to increase safety and data available for forest management in its unique, Deloite Rising Star 2020 ESA App Challenge winner Michael Ilsbroux maximise productivity, without the need for expen- HQ multi-faceted platform. From disaster impact assess- EDA Defence Innovation Prize 2019 sive hardware investments or new work processes Sweden, Helsingborgt ESA BIC Sweden alumni ments to preventing insect invasions and tracking HQ EU Top 50 Innovative Startups 2019 and training. All that is needed is for first respond- PARSEC Accelerator 2020 forest health, Fallen Trees does it all. With these in- Leuven, Belgium ers to wear a small wearable called Shyn. Epic Blue’s sights, forest owners and insurance companies can Airbus Critical App Challenge 2018 Astropreneur Space Start-up service is based on IoT environmental and bio sensor Accelerator 2020 breathe easier, knowing that they always have a quick Most Disruptive Startup 2018 data and an AI driven location intelligence platform analysis at hand. Fallen Trees develops its solution us- • Funding: which is Galileo and Copernicus enabled. Key Coperni- ing Sentinel -1 and -2 data to detect ground moisture

650k in pre-seed and cus data generated by the emergency management and various vegetation indices. They then combine seed capital raised service feeds into the Epic Blue services support- that data using advanced distributed cloud AI/ML. ing the automatic detection of accidents, incident tracking of people and assets involved, and a near The Code Company was founded by Anders Wihlborg real-time learnings and outcome overview. and together with Jonas Claeson and Björn Lydeen, three computer software experts, they are passio The idea for Epic Blue was born when the team nate about providing insights into our planet using decided to put their technical background to use to satellite data. Anders is an experienced entrepre- help protect their family members who are first -re neur, having developed innovative mobile concepts sponders. Most of the team has a deep expertise in since 2007. In 2014 they won the Copernicus Masters software engineering. Collectively they have around ESA App Challenge for Fallen Trees. Since then, they 75 years of hands-on experience in geospatial informa- have been working hard on their test pilot and a new tion and situational awareness solutions. The team’s partnership with the Swedish Forest Association. goal is to increase the safety and security of all front- They have also joined forces with Forging Lab, a line workers through an effective and complementary fellow forest-focused Copernicus Accelerator start- partnership between people and state of the art tech- up. This ambitious start-up is making forest inven- nology. They aspire to provide the absolute best wear- tory and maintenance easy, affordable, and fast for The Shyn wearable and the Guardian platform offer safety in all locations able for seamless indoor and outdoor positioning. Forest Monitor web service everyone in the global forest industry.

22 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 23 GeoTwins – Discover places ForgingLabt – Forestry and agriculture with similar opportunities

Team Milestones How do we keep everyone safe and how do we Website Milestones “Ever wondered if two far apart regions in Europe Rui Lopes • Founded: 2019 continue to feed everyone? These are the two geotwins.eu and Achievements such as Porto in Portugal and Hvar in Croatia Pedro CiprianoRui Maia guiding questions that ForgingLab addresses • Founded: 2019 could be similar? The founders of GeoTwins did. Sergio Lorga with its agriculture solution. ForgingLab is a tool Team • Awards: They developed a platform to explore similar

to manage large and scattered areas by offering Ružica Krstić Most Innovative Solution geographies. Users can pick an area to use for HQ suggestive and predictive management infor Dražen Tutić Copernicus Hackathon the comparison process, select the criteria they Ansião, Portugal mation to clients. For example, the tool can Ulrike Klein Zagreb 2019 want to include in the analysis process, and the provide information on the total area cut during Nikola Kranjčić platform finds similar (GeoTwins) areas using a specific period or on the ideal time to harvest a multicriteria analysis. The tool allows the user grapes for wine production. As a result, clients HQ to compare any two locations and to identify twin can make better use of available resources and Zagreb, Croatia geolocations in Europe using criteria such as land considerably increase their value per hectare cover, temperature, precipitation, and wind. The of land. Copernicus Sentinel-1, -2 and -5 data is tool has applications across the tourism industry, a crucial part of the solution. In addition, the agriculture or in urban and regional planning. solution is fed with data from other types of sen- GeoTwins uses Copernicus Sentinel-5p data for sors such as in-situ IoT sensors. climate change detection in their multicriteria analysis. The team of ForgingLab has a strong background in data science, IoT technology, and finance. The team behind GeoTwins have a strong back- Rui Lopes, the founder, thought of the idea for ground in spatial data analysis with most of the ForgingLab when he put his expertise to use en- team currently working in spatial data research. suring that natural disasters such as the 2017 The idea for GeoTwins was originally developed at wildfire in Portugal would not happen again. the Copernicus Hackathon Zagreb in 2019 where ForgingLab is now part of the Respol Resinas S.A. the team was awarded second place overall and Group, a Portuguese manufacturer of resin deri first place in the smart cities and smart govern- vatives. Looking to the future, ForgingLab hopes ment category, as well as the prize for the most to make the food value chain more sustainable innovative solution. The team’s goal to make an and protect the environment, improving the interactive and user-friendly tool to explore the overall safety of society. similarities and differences across Europe, enable This map provides measurments of vegetation variables such as above users to find and learn something new, and most ground biomass, diameter at half height and average height among others Example of an area covered by hexagons importantly, enhance our curiosity.

24 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 25 Green City Watch – Taking nature online Greenventory – Energy decision made easy

Website Milestones Green City Watch is an open-source initiative spe- Website Milestones The transition of the energy sector towards carbon- greencitywatch.org and Achievements cialised in urban ecological engineering. Their suite greenventory.de and Achievements neutrality is a huge task for cities, energy utilities, • Founded: 2018 of products drives evidence-based urban green • Founded: 2019 and grid operators. The planning and realisation Team • Awards: space management with near-real time geodata Team • Awards: of such projects is complex, time-consuming,

Nadina Galle Maxar Technologies & on irrigation, ecological hotspots, standing water, Dr.-Ing. Sven Killinger Winner EWS Make It Matter and requires specific expertise. Greenventory Chris van Diemen Amazon Web Services GBDX for and flooding. Their flagship product, TreeTect, is Dr. David Fischer Award 2019 addresses these problems with a customer-specific Jim Groot Sustainability Challenge 2018 an open-source algorithm that creates AI-enabled Dr.-Ing. Kai Mainzer Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for cities, Top 100 energy start-ups Finalist University of Amsterdam tree inventories; inventories as dynamic as the Start Up Energy Transition energy utilities, and grid operators. Those services HQ Alumni Award 2018 trees themselves. While “smart cities” continue HQ 2020 make strong use of all types of high-resolution Amsterdam, Netherlands to innovate and invest in applications for waste Freiburg, Germany data, artificial intelligence, and optimisation World Bank Group’s Disruptive Technologies for Development management, mobility, and civic processes, urban algorithms. The main features of their service Challenge 2019 forestry has long been left behind. are an automated, digital mapping (inventory), as well as the analysis and optimisation of customer- De Bouwklup’s most “circular” idea of the year 2019 These customised solutions draw actionable in- specific energy systems. sights from satellites, LiDAR, and drones to improve transparency amongst local governments Greenventory was founded in 2019 by Sven, David, and support informed decision-making. In addition and Kai – three experts in energy technology to the use of commercial imagery, their solutions and geoinformatics. This dedicated team with a employ Copernicus Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aper- passion for data and energy systems has set itself ture Radar imagery and Sentinel-2 Multi Spectral the task of bringing energy system transformation Imagery products to bring nature to our doorstep. to cities. Their team has over 25 years of experience and have honed their technology at the largest Nadina, Jim, and Chris founded Green City Watch solar energy research institute in Europe, the in 2018. Their mission? To revolutionise the way we Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, value nature, bring transparency to local govern and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. They ment, and regenerate our cities. 2019 saw their describe their solution as the “Google Maps of efforts rewarded by the Copernicus Masters, energy”, a fitting name for a solution that delivers winning both the Planet “See Change, Change a holistic view of your energy system. the World” Challenge and the overall Copernicus TreeTect by Green City Watch - an AI-enabled tree Masters prize. Their solutions are already improving inventory as dynamic as the trees themselves nature in more than 30 cities around the world. The founders L-R: Dr.-Ing. Sven Killinger, Dr. David Fischer and Dr.-Ing. Kai Mainzer.

26 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 27 ieco.io – Optimising photovoltaic IMMOSensing – Democratising installations the real estate market

Website Milestones Renewable energy is key to worldwide sustain Team Milestones Ever moved to a new city and were unsure about ieco.io and Achievements ability. Not only does it help conserve natural Victor Pajuelo Madrigal • Founded: 2019 where to live? Ever considered buying property? • Founded: 2020 resources, but it also provides reliable power The hard question is how to identify the best area Team • Awards: supplies to improve energy security. ieco.io aims to HQ to purchase property as it depends on a variety of

Miguel Sánchez Best Ideas Diploma Actúaupm support the renewable energy sector by offering Barcelona, Spain factors and often involves asymmetric information de León Peque Programme Universidad Politécni- a software tool for photovoltaic (PV) installa between seller and buyer or landlord and tenant. Clara Casas Castedo ca de Madrid tion simulations. Focusing on the downstream PV IMMOSensing has developed a solution targeted industry, ieco.io provides precise information about toward these kinds of challenges. They integrate HQ savings and amortisation as well as on optimisation and make extensive use of data from multiple Vigo, Spain strategies for the design and performance of PV sources such as the Copernicus Sentinel-2, -3 and installations. With the help of this service, solar -5p together with GNSS signals, IoT sensor data, installers can make compelling proposals to their energy efficiency ratings and distances between customers in very little time. Moreover, ieco.io facilities just to mention a few. IMMOSensing can help maximise the impact of the dedicated helps to level the playing field in the real estate resources in photovoltaic installations. ieco.io uses market. the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service and Copernicus Climate Change Service to validate The team has the technical expertise to make their power generation simulations. Their service is IMMOSensing successful and targets their solution also based on the PVGIS Service by the European to real estate companies and investors as well Commission and the ERA5 dataset, which is a as to the wider smart city application sector. The reanalysis product from ECMWF. idea for IMMOSensing was born at the Copernicus Hackathon Barcelona in 2019 where the team won. Both wanting to fight climate change, Miguel Since then, they have been working on developing and Clara decided to put their backgrounds in their product directly with potential customer software development and data science to good through their involvement in the Copernicus use by founding ieco.io in 2020. The idea for ieco. Accelerator 2020 Market Validation Lab. The team’s io was born out of countless conversations with vision is to democratise the housing market by companies active in photovoltaic installations and distributing housing data equally between buyers is therefore based on the daily installation business and agencies. experiences of key stakeholders. With their solution, IMMOSensing aspires to erase An industrial PV installation designed with ieco.io asymmetric information in the real estate market

28 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 29 LENKÉ – Space and water solutions MEOSS – Geospatial solutions empowering communities for smart territories

Team Milestones Water as a source of life can be a scarce resource, Website Milestones Earth observation data is widely used for city Lensa E. Jotte and Achievements particularly in Africa. LENKÉÉ wants to empower stake- meoss.net and Achievements planning, analysing agricultural practices, and moni Dr. Nkeiruka N. Onyia • Founded: 2020 holders in developing countries with decision-mak- • Founded: 2018 toring the environment. Since this data is often • Awards: ing tools for the sustainable use of water resources. Team • Awards: fragmented, it can be difficult for local authorities

HQ Santander Start-up Seed Environment and natural resource monitoring are the Thomas Ferrero Winner Copernicus Hackathon to access and gain the necessary insights. MEOSS Leicester, United Kingdom Grant Funding target markets for LENKÉ. These industries are rela- Toulouse 2019 answers this problem with their diverse mapping ESA BIC UK 2020 tively new, especially in their pilot project area of the HQ tools. The MEOSS solution puts the needs of local • Achievements: Central Rift Valley Lakes in Ethiopia. LENKÉ offers Toulouse, France governments first – it is personalised, user-friendly a range of services including a soil water index fore- Winner call for projects Space and regulatory compliant. Users have access to Climate Observatory 2020 cast tool (SWIFT) and the water quality analysis tool three tools: MEO-UrbanGreen identifies urban heat (WQAT). Both products are decision support tools for islands, MEO-GreenEnergy supports the imple- users to monitor and manage their water resources mentation strategies of renewable energies, and and to optimise their harvesting. The SWIFT product MEO-Tourism3D offers a futuristic vision of tourism utilises soil water index data from the Copernicus in your area. These solutions depend on the Global Land Service (CGLS) together with Copernicus combination of Copernicus Sentinel-1 and -2 imagery Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 data. The soil water index to detect vegetation, buildings, sun exposure, and from CGLS quantifies the moisture condition at various local landscape data. depths in the soil. Other data used in these services include digital elevation model data, climate and weather The MEOSS team is composed of two satellite image data, physical soil properties such as drainage patterns processing engineers, a business developer, and the and soil types, and bulk density and infiltration rates. manager. In 2019, they won the Toulouse Coper- nicus Hackathon and Climathon and this year, the The original idea that lead to the foundation of LENKÉ team won the Space Climate Observatory call for was conceived during the Copernicus Hackathon projects in France with their new MEO-Climate pro- Leicester in 2019. This all-female team has a strong ject. Currently MEOSS has a working relationship background in water resource management, hydro- with ESA and the French space agency (CNES). The power engineering and Earth observation. LENKÉ has team recently released their new MEO-GreenEner- had a successful 2020 and have been selected for incu- gy app along with news of a partnership with Atos, bation at the ESA Business Incubation Centre UK and a global specialist in IT. Their mission is to provide have received funding from the 2020 Santander Start- innovative solutions to public actors looking to opti- Soil Water Index Illustration up Seed Grant. MEOSS land use cover change mise their local community’s environmental policies.

30 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 31 Nebula42 – Transparency OGOR – Efficient monitoring for emissions reporting of agricultural land

Team Milestones Air and water pollution are two of the most press- Website Milestones OGOR is the smarter way to understand the evo Richard Uchrin • Founded: 2019 ing concerns for maritime transportation. The prob- ogor.ro and Achievements lution of a field. Offering a traceability service, lem with current emissions reporting is that the • Founded: 2019 farmers can easily access data to verify their practices HQ system is not transparent, and it relies on self-re- Team • Awards: and impact on the fields. With this service, farmers

Budapest, Hungary porting by companies. Thanks to the help of Earth Dafina Jeaca Copernicus Incubation Round 5 can identify and analyse vegetation areas classified observation data, this start-up has come up with Cornel Nitu into four ranges and find the top-performing field. EIT ClimateKIC Accelerator 2020 a solution to both problems. Nebula42 has a mea Andrei Duhnea They can also identify the evolution of the fertile surement-based platform where data from the Valentin Popescu Best start-up in Romania EIT areas to understand how farming activities impacts Food Innovation Prizes 2020 Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) Daniela Faur the natural fertility. Users can access this data via a and the CAMS Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS), ”Best business” Award friendly web interface that processes several years the EU Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification of HQ InnovationLabs 2020 of advanced processed satellite images taken from Romania CO2 emissions (EU MRV) data collection, and other Bucharest, Romania Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2. Farmers can databases are combined to create one transparent OrangeFAB Accelerator now work smarter with up-to-date analytics about service. The Nebula42 platform is made to be used the history and evolution of their fields. by the liquified natural gas (LNG) market. This market presents a more sustainable alternative to the nor- The team of five people founded OGOR in 2019, mal fuel used by the shipping industry currently. with a goal to build and grow a sustainable business After gathering data, the team will then issue that contributes to the economic development a digital climate certificate to the client. of the European agricultural business sector. Cornel, Daniela, Andrei, Valentin and Dafina have In 2019 Richard Uchrin formed a start-up after seeing over 10 years of experience in the fields of remote a need for an emissions monitoring solution in the sensing, technology, and commercial development. maritime market. With an extensive background in In early 2020, they launched their platform, which business development and renewable energy, he is already has 49 regional trial customers, covering working toward making his start-up a success story. His 88,000 hectares of agricultural fields. goal is to eventually become an energy supply chain GHG emissions notary. This means that Nebula42 will be able to support the marine sector in monitoring GHG emissions over specific fuel supply chains. His solution is innovative, one-of-a-kind, and will help lead Nebula42 increases transparency for emissions reporting in the shipping industry the maritime industry into a more sustainable future. Field vegetation map from 20.08.2020

32 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 33 OxEO – Oxford Earth Observation PipeAI – Pipeline monitoring solution

Website Milestones Voluntarily-disclosed company-level data is cur- Website Milestones Worldwide demand for oil is rising at a rate of oxfordeo.com and Achievements rently insufficient to help fund managers identify, studiomapp.com and Achievements 1.2 million barrels per day. One of the big risks involved • Founded: 2018 manage, and mitigate long-term environmental • Founded: 2015 in meeting this demand is the costs of incidents caused Team • Achievements: and social risks. Oxford Earth Observation (OxEO) Team • Copernicus Accelerator: 2018 & 2020 by mining and transporting this oil and gas. This is where

Lucas Kruitwagen Support from UK Satellite helps investors incorporate social and environ- Leonardo Alberto Dal Zovo • Awards: start-up Studiomapp comes in. Their new service, PipeAI, Alex Money Applications Catapult mental risks into their decision making process by Angela Corbari Finalist NATO Communication is a satellite-powered pipeline monitoring system for a high level analysis of these risks by asset. They security and maintenance purposes. It processes satel- ESA Business Incubation & Information Agency’s Defence HQ Centre UK combine Earth observation data from Copernicus HQ Innovation Challenge 2019 lite imagery using artificial intelligence to detect Oxford, United Kingdom Sentinel-1 and -2 together with proprietary asset- Ravenna, Italy potentially dangerous interferences to the pipeline, Creative Destruction Lab 4th place xView 2018 level information to provide forward-looking risk Detection Challenge 2018 and to monitor any changes in the specific area of exposure projections on a global scale. They achieve interest. Compared to the current method of aerial 5th place Global Earth Observation this with a proprietary machine learning algorithm patrolling, PipeAI offers highly precise and accurate Challenge 2017 that draws on an array of hydrological, climate, and global coverage. They use Copernicus Sentinel-1 and -2 land cover data to produce the best available in- • Achievements: data to detect anomalies and then automatically zoom sights for their customer. Invited to the United Nation General in with VHR satellite images when a potential problem is Assembly in September 2019 to found. With this method, they can identify obstacles that OxEO was founded in 2018 by Alex Money and showcase how artificial intelligence might hinder pipeline construction as well as other illegal and space data can support achiev- Lucas Kruitwagen, who met at the University of construction activities that could result in accidents or ing the SDGs. Oxford. Alexis a former fund manager, with over endanger the pipeline. 25 years of experience in industry and academia. Lucas is a doctoral researcher specialising in Studiomapp was founded in 2015 and has achieved remote sensing and machine learning applications success at a national and international level. Specialised for sustainable finance. Alex and Lucas are joined in AI and ICT, this start-up is passionate about creating by a team of expert scientists, developers, and a better quality of life through innovation and Earth sustainable finance professionals. Their dream is Observation. With PipeAI, Studiomapp will provide to make environmental risk intelligence relevant faster, cheaper, and more accurate data than what is and accessible for every investor. currently available for the oil and gas industry, in line with the objective of the Sustainable Development Goal #9. Their solution has already been tested with SNAM, Europe’s largest natural gas infrastructure Detecting interferences (e.g. buildings) along the security corridor of the pipeline company with 33,000 km of pipelines. The three elements of OxEo’s service offer

34 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 35 Plantae – Optimising irrigation agriculture Purify – Find your healthy path

Website Milestones Plantae enables precision farming in irrigation ag- Team Milestones Cities around the world are working to protect plantae.garden and Achievements riculture by optimising crop growth and lowering Matej Novak • Founded: 2019 the health of their citizens and air quality is one • Founded: 2013 water consumption. Global food production is Adam Krivka of the key concerns. Particles in the air such as Team • Awards: expected to increase at least 70% by 2050 and along Jakub Lenner pollen or particulate matter can cause respiratory

Samuel López Most Innovative Startup with it, a significant increase in water consumption. problems and other serious health threats. Purify Javier Escudero at StartUp Europe Smart Currently 24% of water resources are consumed HQ offers a solution that provides the clearest possible Manuel Heras Agrifood Summit 2020 by the agriculture industry and the founders of Bratislava, Slovakia travel route based on distance and air quality. The

Gonzalo Gil Business Innovation Challenge Plantae resolved to develop more effective irriga- solution is personalised to the user and provides at Agroexpo 2018 tion techniques. Their wireless solution package allergen/aerosol information based on the user HQ consists of a set of sensors that gather real-time location and/or their planned destination. Purify 2nd prize European Enterprise Madrid, Spain Promotion Awards Ceremony information about the moisture, temperature, analyses Copernicus Sentinel-5p data together 2014 SME Assembly and other conditions of the crops. Low cost, easy with ground-based data collected by cities, and to install hubs are optimally distributed across the other available sources of data. The team plan to fields and relay information from the sensors to the iterate the product in the future by implementing cloud using both LoRa Radio frequency and GPRS. machine learning into Purify machine in an attempt Plantae uses data from the Copernicus Land Moni to understand how air quality affects individual toring Service in conjunction with the Copernicus users and to provide pre-emptive warnings when Atmosphere Monitoring Service to help provide they could be at risk. farmers and engineers with better information about their crops and irrigation strategies. Purify was founded by a team of passionate students with the vision to help people who struggle with The Plantae founders have been developing this cardiovascular or allergic health issues. The want solution since 2013. Their hard work has paid off, to ensure that they are exposed to as little air as they won the Business Innovation Challenge at pollution as possible. Their application will soon be Agroexpo in 2018. They have also been active in launched and accessible to users around Europe, the start-up community in Spain, being one of the bringing Copernicus Sentinel-5p data to European 20 start-ups selected out of 140 to pitch their citizens. solution at the Elevator Pitch Challenge in Madrid. Almond, wine, pistachio, and olive fields are just a few of the crops in Spain and Portugal already HUB (GPRS receptor) on an olive plantation benefiting from Plantae’s wireless solution. Opening page of the application

36 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 37 SoilViews – Soil analyses TimberEye – Sustainable timber and recommendations management using EO in Eswatini

Website Milestones One of the biggest farming challenges is a lack of Team Milestones The market for wattle timber harvest in Swaziland soilviews.com and Achievements knowledge about the condition of the soil and crop Yan-Liang Lin • Founded: 2020 is extensive. Close to 35,000 hectares of mostly • Founded: 2020 suitability. SoilViews offers a solution that saves far Eftychia Koukouraki private land are occupied with wattle forest and Team • Awards: mers both time and money. By providing them with Chukwuemeka Igwe approximately 100,000 hectares are operated by

Dimitar Dachkinov Winner Copernicus a web application service, farmers can quickly obtain timber plantations. TimberEye aims to improve Alexander Velchev Hackathon Sofia 2019 a soil analysis of their land and are provided with crop HQ the sustainability of wattle harvesting by enabling Yavor Yordanov suitability recommendations. Users of the web appli- Mbabane, Eswatini the regeneration of the natural ecosystem, cation simply submit the order form and can decide encouraging climate change mitigation actions, HQ whether they want to use Galileo GNSS services or and involving local communities. Using Copernicus Sofia, Bulgaria manual input to determine their land boundaries. Sentinel-2 data enhanced with drone imagery, SoilViews allows farmers to reduce time spent on in-situ tree inventory, and processed using deep soil analysis, service costs, and manpower. To provide learning algorithms, TimberEye can detect invasive their service, SoilViews uses Copernicus Sentinel-1, tree species that are valuable timber products. As Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-3 satellite data in combination a next step, TimberEye then connects landowners with expert trained deep learning classification mod- with local timber companies to sell their product. els. Soil analyses rely on images in the shorter wave- This enables local landowners in Eswatini to length spectrum and the deep learning models will be monetise the invasive trees on their land and trained for land segmentation and soil patch classifica- begin renaturing damaged ecosystems. tion. The classification results will be validated by com- paring them to historical soil analysis samples. All three team members of TimberEye are enrolled in a Master of Science in Geospatial Technology, The team has a strong background in web development an Erasmus Mundus Program. Yan-Liang Lin is and land monitoring. Team member Yavor works as specialised in Biology and Environmental Science, a soil survey specialist bringing an important skillset Eftychia Koukouraki in Computer Science and to the start-up. The team was formed thanks to the Electrical Engineering and Chukwuemeka Igwe in Copernicus Hackathon Sofia in 2019, where the three Geoinformatics and surveying. With TimberEye team members not only met for the first time and the team hopes to equip locals with expertise from came up with their idea for SoilViews but also came out professionals and work with local administrators as the winners of the Hackathon! The team’s mission and educators to implement sustainable resource Representation of SoilViews services in action ranging fromtheir is to improve agricultural efficiency and ultimately to Supervised training of an algorithm to determine presence management that directly tackles invasive species land selection tool to their plant-soil type sustainability report fight against world hunger. and absence of black wattle in Mbabane, Eswatini propagations.

38 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 39 Waterjade – Innovative technology VIDA – Village Data Analytics for water data

Website Milestones Using cutting edge digital technologies, Village Data Website Milestones Waterjade provides accurate and flexible water resou villagedata.io and Achievements Analytics (VIDA) pledges to make electricity accessible waterjade.com and Achievements rce monitoring and forecasting. Due to climate change, • Founded: 2018 in remote rural areas through its planning tool. Com- • Founded: 2014 the pattern of water flow in rivers sourced from preci Team • Awards: bining Earth observation (EO), big data, and machine Team • Awards: pitation, snow and ground waters can no longer be ac-

Tobias Engelmeier Winner Parsec Accelerator learning, they deliver an analysis of the location and Matteo DallAmico Copernicus Incubation 2018 curately forecasted by historical hydro-meteorological Finalist Start-up Energy potential demand for unelectrified populations not Stefano Tasin data. The team applies multiple modelling approaches Climate KIC 2019 HQ Transition 2020 previously known to governments and utility com- Ruggero Andreatta to a combination of satellite data, weather forecasting Munich, Germany panies. Their energy access model assigns scores to Nicolò Franceschetti EDI incubator 2019-2020 data, and in-situ measurements. This allows them to • Funded: settlements based on the correlation between sat- Lara Bombardelli SME Instrument Phase-1 2019 deliver forecasts with the highes accuracy for compa- European Energy Agency ellite images and on-ground data, then their techno nies whose daily business activities depend heavily on Private investors PARSEC 2020 logy enabled service helps stakeholders find the most HQ water availability. Waterjade uses Copernicus data and cost-effective mix of grid extension and distributed Pergine Valsugana • Funding: information, in particular, Copernicus Sentinel-2 data solutions. To do this, VIDA uses EO information layers (Trento), Italy 350 k€ Grants invested for snow cover detection and information from the derived from Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Copernicus Climate Change Service for seasonal fore- satellite imagery. Their solution helps governments casting. Their solution enables hydropower and other make better electrification plans, mini-grid develo water-dependent companies, such as water utilities, to pers to de-risk their portfolio and scale, and solar home improve production planning while maintaining safety system companies to identify better sales areas. regulations. Waterjade is also able to provide a real-time snow monitoring service that estimates the snow water The Village Data Analytics team has deep knowledge equivalent present in the catchment. of remote, frontier markets. Some of the team members have built mini grids themselves in Africa and A team of seven water professionals are working on Asia. The team’s hard work has been recognised as Waterjade with the mission to track actual water avail- finalists in both the Copernicus Masters and Start ability in any specific region around the world. The Up Energy Transition. In addition to the Copernicus company has been awarded by the European Commis- Accelerator, the team has also been awarded first sion through the SME Instrument Phase 1, by Climate place in the PARSEC Accelerator. TFE Energy recently KIC, and was accepted into PARSEC. In early 2020, their received funding from the European Space Agency newly developed water management solution for and private investors to build the next version of the EMASESA Metropolitana was awarded as the winner of VIDA uses satellite images and data analytics, VIDA technology. In that process, TFE Energy is sup- the experiment phase challenge of the European Data bringing development to remote areas ported by appliedAI, Germany’s leading AI incubator. Analytics and forecast services on river flow for industrial applications Incubator. Every drop counts!

40 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 41 WindMAPS – Enabling wind Weter – From waste to resource turbines in urban areas

Website Milestones More than half of all Italian olive oil is produced in Puglia Team Milestones What if the electricity grid would be decentralised? weter.it and Achievements (Italy) – that is almost 200,00 tonnes! Unfortunately, Kartik Venkatraman and Achievements WindMAPS believes they can make cities smarter by • Founded: 2019 a huge amount of olive oil mill wastewater is produced Shabari Pilkun Ravi • Founded: 2020 enabling local production of energy, starting with Team • Awards: in the process. More than three times as much. The Brent Poplier • Awards: wind turbines. WindMAPS provides solutions for the

Riccardo Fallacara 2nd place Copernicus good news is that this wastewater can be re-used to Leo Vargas PARSEC Accelerator complete wind-powered energy lifecycle, ranging Giovanna Soriano Hackathon Bari 2019 fertilise crop fields thanks to its high mineral content. from turbine location siting and turbine selection, Roberto Cilli This wastewater has a positive growing effect on HQ through to the operational support and an end of Estrazione dei Talenti Programme crops and its reuse is now the official Italian regulation. Tallinn, Estonia life decommissioning strategy. WindMAPS uses HQ That’s where Weter comes in. Weter transforms this Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery for roof classification Bari, Italy wastewater into an agricultural resource by reducing in urban areas to determine the best type of turbine the gap between demand and supply. To do this, they for a particular residential roof type. In addition, the rely on satellite data and Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery service fuses data from in-situ met-mast wind meas- to create predictive modelling systems. Then they can urements, weather stations, LiDAR measurements determine the needs of the fields and recommend from satellites (Aeolus satellite data), and wind turbine fertilisation and water irrigation techniques. power curves from urban wind turbine manufacturers. This combination of data is used to compute the power The Weter team met during the Bari Copernicus produced by a particular turbine at any given location. Hackathon in 2019. The team is passionate about re-using resources to create a more sustainable, circular Founder Kartik and his team have a strong back- economy. Founders Riccardo, Giovanna, and Roberto ground in engineering, machine learning, and big data. have backgrounds in project management, computer The idea for WindMAPS was born at the Copernicus science, and applied physics. They also have experience Hackathon Toulouse in 2019 where they won the in satellite imagery and signal processing projects. Since Airbus prize for innovation and it took off from there. their founding, they have participated in two other The team has also secured seed funding of 10,000€ challenges, the Puglia Talent Extraction programme, in the first PARSEC Accelerator Round. The team and the Bari Start-up Challenge Camp. Their initial hopes to support the diversification of urban and local services will start in the Apulian region, but their goal is energy production presently dominated by solar power. to grow it on a global scale, creating specialised solutions Ultimately, WindMAPS helps private entities to quan- for the agricultural and industrial sectors. From waste tify their contribution towards climate change mitiga- to resource – that’s the way Weter thinks! tion by reducing carbon emissions. The Weter app screen pages Interactive dashboard for the urban wind turbine deployment service

42 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 43 Xylene – Boosting trust in Zaitra – Smart forest management raw materials sourcing

Website Milestones Up to $258 billion is lost every year due to a lack Website Milestones If you work with Earth observation (EO) data, xylene.io and Achievements of transparency and compliance within interna zaitra.io and Achievements you know how many opportunities there are to • Founded: 2019 tional raw material supply chains. Xylene develops • Founded: 2020 improve current environmental monitoring and Team • Awards: a traceability solution that enables companies Team • Awards: planning techniques. When combined with artificial

Giuseppe Benenati Top 10 ESA Start-ups 2020 to import raw materials sustainably and responsibly, Marek Marušin Winner Copernicus intelligence (AI), the tools that can be created are Christopher Edwards comply with regulatory requirements, and disclose Rado Pitoňák Hackathon Brno 2019 game-changing. One start-up, Zaitra, loves to solve Winner Galileo.Copernicus this product journey to consumers. Utilising Galileo Martin Javorka problems with their solutions that combine EO and Synergy Challenge 2019 Incubated ESA BIC Prague HQ signals, Copernicus satellite data, and blockchain, AI. Their feature product, Ström, is a tool for smart Reutlingen, Germany • Funding: they offer users transparency about the origin HQ forest management. Ström monitors forest health

EXIST Business Start-up Grant and source of raw materials. They do this by Brno, Czech Republic with the help of synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) integrating georeferencing and timestamping data images and Copernicus Sentinel-2 multispectral from Galileo together with Copernicus Sentinel-2 bands. This data combined with weather infor data to validate remote areas where products mation and on-site data sources makes up the are sourced from. Consumers now know more backbone of Ström. It helps identify vegetation about their products, and importers and produ- around power lines that need trimming, as well as cers have more control over their supply chain. insects, droughts, and other events. They are also With this increased transparency, consumers can monitoring deforestation and forest inventory make more sustainable choices. thanks to SAR and multispectral imagery, as well as additional datasets or publications to validate Xylene was founded in 2019 by two driven entre- their AI models and algorithms. preneurs with experience in supply chain mana gement and mechanical and manufacturing Zaitra’s team is composed of experienced software engineering. Xylene has been selected as one developers who are passionate about the unity of of the Top-10 ESA space start-ups and won the AI and aerospace technology. Co-founders Rado and Galileo.Copernicus Synergy Challenge of the Galileo Martin are fluent in Python, and fellow co-founder Masters in 2019. They have also been involved in Marek is a remote sensing enthusiast. Zaitra’s programmes such as the MyGalileoApp Challenge, goal is to improve forest management in central BlockStart, and have previously participated in the and eastern Europe by providing universal access EGNSS Accelerator. Xylene is among the topmost to satellite data. Zaitra has recently released its promising European sustainability start-ups and is first prototype and is looking forward to what the Xylene’s satellite and blockchain supported transparency software-as-a-Service one to look out for in the next few years. Zaitra product display screenshot future brings.

44 Copernicus Accelerator 2020 Results Brochure 45 Meet our mentors

After my own start-up experience, I was eager to mentor an early-stage company. Supporting a start-up is both energising and enriching, with each session providing Alain Arnaud Fabrice Testa Laura Moreno Niels Dietzsch something new and unexpected. Seeing the growth of the team as Mercator Ocean Maana Electric EarthPulse APEXION Lisa Broekhuizen well as rapid tech development and business planning was great. It Alireza Taravat Federica Mastracci Laurens Bierens Panagiotis Ilias Project lead and remote helped me to progress further as both an entrepreneur and mentor sensing expert Deimos Space UK Telespazio Smart Farm Sensing B.tag">V. ILVO and look at my own company’s challenges from a different perspective. Space4Good Antonio Fonduca Gaetano Volpe Lisa Broekhuizen Paolo De Stefanis Venture Diplomat Latitudo40 Space4Good Day One srl

An odd turn of luck saw me match with an up and coming Benedikt Seitz Gunter Zeug Marco Gianinetto Pedro Branco Elmatrix, Seitz Ventures, Terranea Politecnico di Milano Virtual Angle B.V. start-up in the accelerator this year. But lucky it was as Das Lauftraining I have had the chance to learn and grow with this team. Inês Plácido Matt Kuppers Ruediger Suess We generated an extensive mind map during the Helsinki Bootcamp Bruno Science Park Graz Startup Manufactory Ltd / mygroshn that guided the monthly mentoring sessions throughout the next Sánchez-Andrade Nuño EurAfrica ICT / London School Microsoft Jakub Nosek of Economics Simon Chambers 12 months. As part of the team and I are both based in Munich, it has Yes4grow! AXSYSNAV Emmanuel MONDON been a pleasure to meet in person and make an impact together with Carles Debart Matthieu Lys Founder them in the local space ecosystem. What’s most inspiring is seeing GeoVille Johanna Braun Airbus Defence Stavri Nikolov them co-found the first European Cooperative Society (SCE) dedicated Founder/ Freelance and Space Digital Spaces Living Lab AdviceGEO to space! Christophe Bodin CBO Consulting Jose M. Mateu Md Bayzidul Islam Svend-Olav Carlsen Tradigenia Spacenus GmbH Hydrogen Rise AG Dimitrios Matsakis I greatly enjoy mentoring in the Copernicus Accelerator P. L. A. N. Jose Maria Meritxell Gimeno Teemu Tares and supporting start-ups to improve their product Sunico Gonzalez DRACO SYSTEMS Environmenta Applications offering and improve their growth strategy. I learned Elizabeth Gil-Rodan Freelance Ltd (Envia Oy) Abzu Mirko Tadic the value of providing an outside perspective. I believe start-ups can Karel Escobar Bridgeway Europe Thomas Blaschke sometimes get lost in their day to day operations and it is helpful to Elzbieta Jablonska ISAM Education Startup Accelerator University of Salzburg / Ned Dwyer have them stop, stand back and reflect on the business development. ARDITO Consulting Ltd Spatial Services GmbH Project Manager & Business The highlight was the Helsinki Bootcamp that was full of enthusiasm Kevin Mascarenhas Ned Dwyer Development Analyst Emmanuel Mondon Natural Flow Randbee William Carbone and good ideas, and it was fantastic to combine it with the European AdviceGEO Consultancy Consultants IBM Randbee Consultants Space Week.

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