Most of us remember the first Snake game Nokia had put on their phone in the nineties. We have come a long way. Nowadays there’s an app for everything and our smartphones are bustling with new tech solutions. From mobile apps crowdsourcing data for disaster management, to apps that send flu alerts, to traffic congestion management, there is no shortage of ideas. The app can be easily built and tested. But what's next?
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Satellite applications met the great outdoors in Bayonne for Eurisy’s conference Outdoor Sports: surfing avant-garde satellite solutions. You don’t see what one has to do with the other? Quite a few things actually! Notably in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Département, a haven for outdoor sports of all kinds, which boasts a strong outdoor industry.
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To keep you up-to-date with the latest news and innovation around satellites, we’re counting down our month’s top highlights!
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"Ideation is sometimes a mix of recklessness and ingenuity" Alexander Borg, Research and Innovation Consultant, Malta Innovation Technology Agency tells us. The Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) and The Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) organised their first Satellite data based App Challenge earlier this year. The result: 8 startups pitched their business ideas on how they would use satellite-data to develop their innovative idea into a testable, deployable and demonstrable solution. Here are Alexander's TOP 10 take aways!
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"[…] more effort should be carried out, on the ground, to talk to end-users and get new ideas from them.The fact that we can do that, in Europe, is perhaps our biggest competitive advantage in the face of much decried (by some) American competition, of the likes of Google and the rest. We – both public and private providers – can create European value-added services because we can talk to the end-users on the ground. We can find out what they need. And they need stuff. So we can insist on going beyond research, to create highly personalised solutions that rely both on Europe’s impressive satellite infrastructure and on field knowledge."
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To keep you up-to-date with the latest news and innovation around satellites, we’re counting down our month’s top highlights!
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Companies, governments, and individuals recognise Big Data and Open Data policies as drivers of innovation and growth. Satellite data is undoubtedly part of this Big Picture. But where does it stand? The EC, SMEs and civil society shared with us their views and expectations on Big Data.
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With Big Data and Open Data policies on everybody’s lips, 2015 confirmed that these trends are here to stay. Companies, governments, and individuals recognise them as drivers of innovation and growth. Satellite data is undoubtedly part of this Big Picture. But where does it stand?
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When it comes to satellite data, open data policies have come to be expected and welcome from public entities. However, a private satellite data provider going for the same policy will make some noise and raise some eyebrows. Surely the very point of such companies is to make money from selling such data, not giving them away for free. And yet…
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Many obvious geographic data user networks need, access, manipulate and use Big Data, but satellite data still lags behind in the mix. Hopefully, some things are about to change! We showed some examples during the latest round table organised in cooperation with ROSA, ESA and the EC.
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