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 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 the 3rd of November, a workshop will be held in Florence to discuss Innovation in Meteorology 50 years after the flood of November 1966. CNR, Regione Toscana, Consorzio Lamma and various representatives of Public Institutions and Research Centres (including ECMWF) will present and discuss the [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
CNR-IFAC will represent the AURORA project with a poster at the European Space Agency summer school on Monitoring of the Earth System to promote the exploitation of Earth Observation data across disciplines. The school is open to Early Career Scientists (i.e. Ph.D. students, young post-doctoral [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After a week from the start of the project, the local press reported about the AURORA event and the AURORA kick off. You can read the complete text of these articles on gonews.it, on Il Tirreno and on [...]
On 30 January 2016, Ugo Cortesi and Alessandro Rossi from CNR-IFAC, were inteviewed by Radio Moka about the AURORA and ReDSHIFT projects, both funded by H2020. The radio broadcast was organised by the Caffè – Scienza Cultural Association in collaboration with Novaradio. Click here to download [...]
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 [...]
The AURORA project kick off meeting will be held in Tuscany on 3 – 4 February 2016. During the first day event, which will take place at Villa Il Gioiello in Florence, partners will discuss management, communication and financial issues. The main project bodies, General Assembly, External Expert [...]
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 [...]