Excited about 2 days in Brussels! Tomorrow is our Technical Review meeting with the European Commission – scary, but we’re ready! The day after, partners and Advisory Board members are hosted by our partner BIRA for our 6th progress meeting. Lots to talk about as the project rushes towards its [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 first Copernicus satellite dedicated to monitoring air pollution (Sentinel-5P) is set to launch in October. Click here to discover more about Sentinel-5P, about the preparation for launch and about the data it will provide to help us monitor air [...]
This summer the Copernicus services recognised the practical impact of the work being carried out within the AURORA project. Within the article “Still on Holiday – Discover how Copernicus can improve your summertime experience!”, they cited both the Happy Sun application [...]
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, [...]
A poster presentation on the AURORA project was presented at the Quadrennial Ozone Symposium 2016, held in Edinburgh (United Kingdom), on 4-9 September 2016. The poster abstract can he found here and was presented within the session Global ozone observations and measurement techniques. [...]
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 [...]
AURORA, along with ReDSHIFT another project funded by H2020 and coordinated by CNR-IFAC, will be presented during the event: “Successful Horizon 2020 projects / space and NEREUS network: Perspectives and opportunities for research, business and the territory”, to be held in Florence on [...]