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 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 [...]
With the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite set for liftoff on 13 October at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST), ESA are inviting 25 social media users to apply to join them at the launch event at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, ESTEC, the Netherlands. Information and [...]
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 [...]
The European Commission (EC) has launched an initiative to develop Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS) that facilitate access to Copernicus data and information from the Copernicus services. By providing data and information access alongside processing resources, tools and other [...]
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 [...]
Thanks to a satellite network and ground-based stations, it is now possible to get information about pollution in cities through an app on our mobile phones. See more about this project from the University of Bremen here, or in this article, in Italian, where you can also find information about [...]
ESA’s online Urban Thematic Exploitation Platform (U-TEP) has been launched and makes information from satellite data available for non-expert users to monitor the urban environment. The new processing tool bundles information contained in large amounts of satellite data. It is paving the way [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
From the 7 – 13 June a series of events are taking place within the Summer Science Event 2016 at the Sesto Fiorentino Campus, Florence. The Summer Science Event is about spreading science to the public, including families and children, The Event has a range of activities for all ages: [...]
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 [...]