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, [...]
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 [...]
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an international organisation based in Reading (UK), supported by 34 Member and Cooperating States (full list available here). ECMWF’s principal objectives are preparation, on a regular basis, of medium-range and long-range [...]
The air quality monitoring Sentinel-5P satellite is set for launch from Russia on 13 October at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST). Follow the launch via live webstream. AURORA partners have been involved in this historic moment. The Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) takes part in the [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 ECMWF Autumn Newsletter has been published. It describes ECMWF’s recently launched ten-year strategy and includes an article on the AURORA project. You can download the newsletter [...]
On Wednesday 28th September, AURORA will present some of its results during the INSPIRE conference being held in Barcelona (ES). The interactive session called ‘INSPIRE + Copernicus’ wil be moderated by Koen Verberne, from Datacraft, a member of the AURORA team. It is an important [...]
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 [...]
AURORA will be represented at the Sentinels4Regions event, being held on 28 June 2016 at the European Parliament in Brussels. The event presents the results of the joint NEREUS-ESA project “Improving Copernicus among Local and Regional Authorities“. Through this project, NEREUS and ESA [...]
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. [...]
The AURORA project will further improve the performance of HappySun, the innovative smart solution for solar photoprotection. HappySun is the satellite-based system for personal solar photoprotection: the innovative integrated solution for sun exposure through a specific smartphone app allowing for [...]