Logica Limited Public Funding

TruDat (Trusted Data for Carbon, Science and Finance)

TruDat will provide robust, independently verified quality metrics, through linkage to the Centre for Carbon Measurement, to a variety of forms of EO data within CEMS in an operational manner, rendering them suitable for use, even by non-experts in emerging markets, e.g. auditing forest carbon & carbon trading schemes. Detailed generic procedures will be developed and used with optical & SAR datasets in a prototype carbon auditing service. This example will formulate the framework and provide integrated building blocks to facilitate the development of other commercial and scientific services, illustrating the real value that can be obtained from EO data when delivered to the customer as a “trustable validated commodity”.

HIVACROM: High Value Crop Monitoring

The benefits of precision architecture are well documented having trebled crop yields since the 1950s. However, present space-based monitoring services are failing to deliver for those crops that are high value for the UK, such as the potato and sugar beet industries which are collectively worth over £1bn per year. This project - the HIVACROM (High Value Crop Monitoring) project - is a proof of concept for a near real time, dynamic integrated crop monitoring service derived from Earth observation data to accurately estimate key canopy variables in high value crops, (initially potato & sugar beet), as well as soil moisture characteristics from satellite remote sensing imagery. The planned resultant service will provide mass market access for targeted agronomy; mapping and identifying areas of low crop growth as a result of disease, nitrogen deficit, poor seeding and water stress, as well as providing producers with a macroscopic monitoring tool of their cropped area

NGOBS - Next Generation Onboard Software

Today the development of onboard software is a high specialized and closed domain, which stiffles innovation and means that developing and deploying onboard software is expensive and time consuming. It is close to impossible to flight prove new, innovative onboard software solutions. The lack of a modern runtime platform in space is proving a hinderance in expanding the reach of commercial payloads. Aligning the onboard software with the IT mainstream would allow development of onboard software using standard software development kits. The proposed project will revolutionize the onboard software market in a similar way that the use of hardware COTS as satellite components has opened new opportunities and a new industry. It will develop a Java VM solution for deployment onboard a flight computer, including the protocols and APIs for remote monitoring and control using international space standards

Rapid Assessment, Characterisation and Localisation of GNSS denial of service attacks [RASCAL]

The RASCAL project will develop and demonstrate an innovative solution to GNSS interference detection, characterisation and localisation system. The approach will enable a wide variety of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) interferences to be detected, characterised and isolated in order to locate and remove the source of the interference. RASCAL will be suitable for handheld deployment, as well as for installation and operation within patrols cars or dedicated vehicles. Police forces, emergency services and frequency regulators will be able to use RASCAL to poinpont the type and location of an emitter that is causing interference to GNSS services. RASCAL will provide protection to open services, safety of life services (eg EGNOS) and governmental services (eg Public Regulated Service). RASCAL will addess a gap within existing capabilities, by focussing on a portable system capable of being used by multiple user communities in the private and public sectors.