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A programme of           Implemented by

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Introduction                              3    Green City Watch – Taking nature online           26

    The start-up journey                      4    Greenventory – Energy decision made easy          27   Finding your competitive edge with Copernicus
    A bit about our start-ups
                                                   ieco.io – Optimising photovoltaic installations   28
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                                                   IMMOSensing – Democratising
    Meet the Start-ups                        8    the real estate market                            29
                                                                                                                     he 2020 edition of the Copernicus Accelerator has officially       sustainable solutions in support of modern agriculture. To do so, they
                                                                                                                     come to an end. Looking back on the numerous mentoring             utilised Copernicus data, as well as meteorological and crop intelligence.
    3D EMS – AIntelligent golf course              LENKÉ – Space and water solutions
    executive management                      9                                                                      sessions, business pivots and client meetings, we must credit
                                                   empowering communities                            30
                                                                                                          the hard work put in by the mentors and entrepreneurs to support              Overall, the start-ups benefitted from this coaching activity in their future
    ajuma – UV-bodyguard                      10   MEOSS – Geospatial solutions                           the implementation of the Accelerator, in particular under the current        business development and they regarded it as a catalyst in their growth.
    Audili – Remote topsoil analysis          11   for smart territories                             31
                                                                                                          circumstances.                                                                The Opening Bootcamp held in December 2019 in Helsinki offered

    AutoPlan – Making architects’                  Nebula42 – Transparency                                                                                                              a nurturing environment, equipping start-ups with tools that would
    lives easier                              12   for emissions reporting                           32   The Accelerator helps young start-ups to use Copernicus data                             assist them over the following 12 months to take their ideas

    Blokgarden – Urban farming as a service   13   OGOR – Efficient monitoring                            and information to develop innovative products and ser-                                           to the next level. The activity closed with the virtual
                                                   of agricultural land                              33   vices for a wide range of sectors. This year, over forty                                             “demoday” back-to-back with the European Space
    Blue Urban – Be a part of the solution
                                                   OxEO – Oxford Earth Observation                   34   selected start-ups were supported in their endeav-                                                     Week in December this year where the remark­
    and not eutrophication                    14
                                                                                                          our to leverage Copernicus in a commercially                                                             able work and progress of the participants was
    BUDNIP – Nipping crop                          PipeAI – Pipeline monitoring solution             35
                                                                                                          viable venture. The start-ups received training                                                           showcased.
    epidemics in the bud                      15   Plantae – Optimising irrigation                        and mentoring from field experts, and learned
                                                   agriculture                                       36
    Cassava – Optimising harvests             16                                                          to interact directly with potential future clients.                                                       The fourth edition of Copernicus Accelerator
                                                   Purify – Find your healthy path                   37   Their ultimate goal was to establish themselves                                                           has paved the way for the 2021 cohort and
    ConstellR – Revolutionising the
    temperature monitoring market             17   SoilViews – Soil analyses                              in the market with their ideas and business con-                                                         was officially started also at the European Space
                                                   and recommendations                               38   cepts.                                                                                                 Week. We are looking forward to the new round
    Cooper – Climate data for everyone        18
                                                                                                                                                                                                               of coaching and to support young entrepreneurs to
                                                   TimberEye – Sustainable timber
    Diginove – Geolocalised demographic                                                                   Many of the participating start-ups addressed topics                                          take root in the European innovation ecosystem.
                                                   management using EO in Eswatini                   39
    data all over the world                   19
                                                                                                          essential to global challenges, such as climate change, deforest-
                                                   VIDA – Village Data Analytics                     40
    ECOTEN – Urban comfort                    20                                                          ation, and urban and sea pollution. For instance, one project developed       We wish the best success to all the entrepreneurs who have participated
                                                   Waterjade – Innovative technology                      a service to fight climate change misinformation: by using Sentinel-2 and     and we encourage all future participants to take advantage of this unique
    EoSSENTIAL – Innovative geospatial
                                                   for water data                                    41
    solutions for sustainable                                                                             Sentinel-5P data, it combines atmospheric data and satellite images to        support activity.
    land management                           21   Weter – From waste to resource                    42   highlight the impact of climate change on the user and their surrounding
                                                                                                          environment. Another project drew on artificial intelligence, the Internet                                             Christoph Kautz
    Epic Blue – With you all the way          22   WindMAPS – Enabling wind
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Head of Unit (Acting)
                                                   turbines in urban areas                           43   of Things, and Earth observation data to assist cities and businesses in
    Fallen Trees – Forest health                                                                                                                                                                                                 European Commission
                                                                                                          designing more efficient clean air action plans. Lastly, there is an excel-                                            Directorate-General for Defence
    monitoring from space                     23   Xylene – Boosting trust in
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Industry and Space (DEFIS) Unit B2
                                                   raw materials sourcing                            44   lent example of a transformative team that coded an app to provide
    ForgingLabt – Forestry and agriculture    24
                                                   Zaitra – Smart forest management                  45
    GeoTwins – Discover places
    with similar opportunities                25   Meet our mentros                                  46

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Take a look at the journey of the
Copernicus Accelerator 2020
participants                                                                      Investor
                                                                                 roadshow

                                                               Coaching

                     Helsinki
                     Bootcamp
                     3 December 2019

                                                   Market
                                                  Validation
                                                     Lab

                                                                          Virtual
                                       Virtual
                                                                          Bootcamp
                                                                          10-11 December 2020
                                       Training

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3D EMS – AIntelligent golf course
                                                executive management
            Website                        Milestones                                 Powered by Earth observation and artificial intel-
            3d-ems.com                     and Achievements                           ligence, 3D Exe­cutive management Systems Ltd.
                                           •   Founded: 2019                          (3D EMS) is a fast and efficient golf course exec-
            Team                           •   Awards:                                utive management system. Their SaaS solution
            Dario Vuljanko                     Copernicus Incubation 2020             is a user-friendly single page app that combines
            Dinko Matković                                                            data from satellites, drones and IoT court sensors
                                               Finalist EIT InnoEnergy PowerUp!
            Igor Magdalenić                                                           into meaningful insights in real-time. Golf course
                                               Croatia 2019
            Siniša Ilakovac                                                           managers and operators can now monitor and
                                               IBM 2020 12K $ Cloud Award
                                                                                      optimise their course’s energy consumption, labour
                                               Start-Up
            HQ                                                                        requirements and equipment use. Both Copernicus
            Zagreb, Crotia                                                            and E-GNSS fuel their solution. Optimised irrigation

Meet the                                                                              and improved fire safety are achieved by deriving
                                                                                      differentiated maps from Copernicus Sentinel-2
                                                                                      data to check the soil moisture, soil conditions, vege­

Start-ups                                                                             tation index, and state. Sentinel-1 time-series data
                                                                                      are used to detect and monitor grasslands, while
                                                                                      Sentinel-3 data is used for drought monitoring.
                                                                                      In addition to this, the Copernicus Atmosphere
                                                                                      Monitoring Service is used to better support fire
                                                                                      management and the Copernicus Land Monitoring
                                                                                      Service supplies imagery and reference data.

                                                                                      Covering all essential skillsets and sharing a passion
                                                                                      for data science, Igor, Dario, Dinko and Siniša found-
                                                                                      ed 3D EMS in 2019. They earned their spot in the
                                                                                      Copernicus Accelerator after having been recog-
                                                                                      nised as the finalist of EIT InnoEnergy PowerUp!
                                                                                      the very same year. Their mission is to improve golf
                                                                                      management in every aspect.

              3D EMS AIntelligent Golf Course Executive Management System dashboard

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ajuma – UV-bodyguard                                                                                                      Audili – Remote topsoil analysis

Website                            Milestones                                  Imagine enjoying just as much sunshine as you need      Website               Milestones                                       Soil is essential for all life on earth, but soil
ajuma.eu                           and Achievements                            before you get burnt! ajuma helps you do just that      audili.io             and Achievements                                 information is still gathered either via taking
                                   •   Founded: 2019                           by providing you with a wearable that continuously                            •   Founded: 2019                                samples by hand or, in some cases, with a machine.
Team                               •   Awards:                                 monitors your healthy UV exposure and sends you         Team                  •   Funding: €65k Grants                         Audili develops a novel way of remote soil analysis
Annette Barth                          Winner Copernicus Masters DLR           a warning before you are at risk. Firm believers of     Stefan Schöpf         •   Awards:                                      using the multi-spectral satellite imagery of bare
Julian Meyer-Arnek                     Environment, Energy & Health            preventing damage before it is too late, ajuma is       Armin Schöpf              Winner BayWa Smart Farming                   soils to provide highly scalable soil insights from
                                       Challenge 2019                          powered by real-time UV measurement, seasonal, and      Patrick Leiter            Challenge 2019 of the                        space. Farmers, scientists and national agencies
HQ                                                                             personal data. This combination of data determines                                Copernicus Masters                           can therefore access historical and more recent
Munich, Germany                                                                the maximum time an individual can spend exposed        HQ                        Incubated ESA BIC Austria 2019               soil insights at farm relevant scale to support policy
                                                                               to the sun without increasing their risk factor for     Graz, Austria                                                          making and agricultural practices. Copernicus
                                                                                                                                                                 PARSEC 2020 selection
                                                                               developing skin cancer. The UV-Bodyguard wearable                                                                              Sentinel-1, -2, and -3 data in combination with date
                                                                               is more than just a summertime accessory though –                                 CGI U 2020 Cohort                            and time-stamped soil libraries are used to create
                                                                               it connects to a smartphone app and informs the                                                                                their soil models.
                                                                               wearer of the minimum time they need in the sun
                                                                               to produce the necessary Vitamin D to avoid winter                                                                             The founders Armin, Stefan and Patrick aim to
                                                                               depression, strengthen their immune system and                                                                                 provide global soil maps at farm scale to support
                                                                               their bone health. Both features are supported by                                                                              policy making and agricultural practices. In 2019,
                                                                               using the ozone density observations from Copernicus                                                                           the trio of software developers combined forces to
                                                                               Sentinel-5P and the UV forecasts of the Copernicus                                                                             realise this goal and were selected as winners of the
                                                                               Atmosphere Monitoring Service. Additional local                                                                                BayWa Smart Farming Challenge of the Copernicus
                                                                               datasets make the UV-Bodyguard even more reliable                                                                              Masters in the same year. Their efforts have also
                                                                               for users around Europe.                                                                                                       been recognised by the selection panel of the
                                                                                                                                                                                                              ESA BIC Austria, where the start-up was selected
                                                                               Munich-based founders Annette and Julian made it                                                                               for incubation in 2020.
                                                                               their personal mission to improve our quality of life
                                                                               and have been working on preventing health problems
                                                                               associated with sunburns and lack of Vitamin D since
                                                                               2018. Ajuma won the German Aerospace Centre’s
                                                                               Environment, Energy & Health Challenge of the
                                                                               Copernicus Masters 2019. Take your sun protection
                            UVBodyguard plus Appscreen warning at 95 percent   to the next level with ajuma’s UV-Bodyguard.                             Web-view of the soil information provided by Audili

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AutoPlan – Making architects’ lives easier                                                                                                 Blokgarden – Urban farming as a service

Website                             Milestones                                      Earth Observation (EO) data can help solve the glob-      Website                          Milestones                                       Blokgarden weaves together urban gardening
autoplan.ie                         and Achievements                                al housing crisis challenge – yes, you read that right!   blokgarden.com                   •   Founded: 2020                                and technology to create an easy and fun way for
                                    •   Founded: 2019                               AutoPlan helps architects burdened by the time con-                                                                                         friends, classes, and groups of people to grow their
Team                                •   Awards:                                     suming, manual, data-oriented tasks that come with        Team                                                                              own urban garden together. Combined with a user-
Dr. Greg Jackson, PhD                   €5,000 Open Data Engagement Fund            designing a home. Their goal is to create a streamlined   Tuomas Ilander                                                                    friendly app and a variety of pre-planted seedlings,
                                                                                    workflow that saves architects time and increases         Jarno Laitinen                                                                    Blokgarden’s goal is to help increase urban food
                                        €15,000 Enterprise Ireland New
HQ                                                                                  the chance of a successful planning application. This     Rene Dekker                                                                       production while bringing people together in the
Dublin, Ireland                         Frontiers Phase 2 Programme                 solution is powered by EO and uses the Copernicus                                                                                           process. Their innovative app reminds you when and
                                        €10,000 Parsec Accelerator                  Multi-Model Ensemble (MME), which provides daily air      HQ                                                                                how to care for your seedlings, but also allows you to

                                        €10,000 Entrepreneurs
                                                                                    quality and atmospheric forecasts. It also integrates     Finland, Tampere                                                                  ask your questions. Gardening tasks are automated
                                                                                    Copernicus Sentinel-5P data into the models. These                                                                                          within the app and can easily be shared among group
                                        First Accelerator                           inputs allow AutoPlan to generate environmental im-                                                                                         members. Copernicus climate change data are
                                    •   Investments:                                pact reports for inclusion in planning applications. By                                                                                     compared to data and information gathered from
                                        Angel Investment from                       using Copernicus data, the solution can ultimately help                                                                                     Blokgarden soil and weather sensors. This enables
                                                                                    more people understand the environmental impact of                                                                                          them to combine macroclimate and microclimate
                                        NDRC@Arclabs
                                                                                    their construction projects and begin to design more                                                                                        information into one data package, and better
                                    •   Achievements:                               sustainable projects.                                                                                                                       predict future output. In spring, Blokgarden installs
                                        EI New Frontiers Phase One and Two                                                                                                                                                      your box with the seedlings already planted. You
                                                                                    AutoPlan was founded by Dr. Greg Jackson. He has                                                                                            grow your garden with the help of the application
                                                                                    a PhD in computer science from Imperial College                                                                                             and gardeners harvest the crops and enjoy the
                                                                                    London as well as experience in smart city design in                                                                                        results. To complete the garden’s sustainable life
                                                                                    Dublin, London, and Singapore. In addition to launching                                                                                     cycle, Blokgarden picks up the boxes and recycles
                                                                                    a network of air quality sensors in London, he has                                                                                          the soil in the autumn.
                                                                                    founded two additional start-ups. AutoPlan was re-
                                                                                    cently commis-sioned by Ireland’s open data portal to                                                                                       Founders Tuomas, Jarno, and Rene are passionate
                                                                                    report on the impact of the smoky coal ban in Ireland.                                                                                      about improving food production for urban dwellers.
                                                                                    Their beta version of the application was launched in                                                                                       They have already found success in their first summer
                                                                                    August 2020 for testing with key customers ahead                                                                                            season and sold out of all their gardens. Their hope
                                                                                    of a public launch in 2020. Through Greg’s passion for                                                                                      is that each individual garden brings together its
                                                                                    innovation, AutoPlan is empowering users to achieve                                                                                         community in a meaningful (and fun) way.
                                                        AutoPlan online Interface   successful planning permission on more environmen­                           The Blokgarden team proudly presenting their first prototype
                                                                                    tally friendly buildings.

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Blue Urban – Be a part of the solution                                                                                              BUDNIP – Nipping crop
                                         and not eutrophication                                                                                                              epidemics in the bud
Website                             Milestones                                  Eutrophication is a big word that describes a big      Team                             Milestones                                       The status of global food security is alarming and
blueurban.ai                        and Achievements                            problem. It is the process by which harmful algal      Blanca Robledo Díaz              and Achievements                                 protection against losses caused by crop epidemics
                                    •   Founded: 2020                           blooms, dead zones and fish kills arise due to an      Adithya Iyer                     •   Founded: 2019                                can play a critical role in improving food security
Team                                •   Awards:                                 increased volume of nutrients in water bodies.                                          •   Awards:                                      worldwide. Budnip offers a solution to tackle this
Nadiya Saba                             Winner Copernicus Hackathon             In the United States of America alone, 65% of          HQ                                   Winner Copernicus Hackathon                  problem by providing an autonomous warning
Monish Manohar Kadam                    Ireland 2019                            estuaries and coastal waters are moderately to         Copenhagen, Denmark                  Denmark 2019                                 system for early anticipation and containment of
Manmaya Prasad Panda                                                            severely degraded by excessive nutrient inputs.                                                                                          crop epidemics. This can avoid major losses by crop
                                        Winner Open AI Data
Hosahalli Sampath Kumar Manohar         Hackathon Ireland 2019                  Eutrophication sets off a chain reaction in the                                                                                          producers worldwide. Budnip uses Copernicus
                                                                                ecosystem resulting in ocean acidification. Blue                                                                                         Sentinel data and deep learning algorithms to
                                        Winner Midas Medtech
HQ                                                                              Urban created a eutrophication monitoring and                                                                                            monitor the health of crop fields and detect
                                        Innovation Hackathon 2018
Dublin, Ireland                                                                 forecasting system that provides a 360-degree                                                                                            anomalies that could indicate a crop disease
                                                                                view of the eutrophication level in water bodies.                                                                                        outbreak. Sentinel-1 C-band SAR and Sentinel-2
                                                                                It supports the aquaculture economy worldwide                                                                                            MSI bands are used as the main sources of data
                                                                                with a rich visualisation of the nutrient status. To                                                                                     for crop monitoring and training the deep learning
                                                                                accurately calculate these eutrophication levels,                                                                                        algorithms. PlanetScope data is used for higher
                                                                                Blue Urban uses industry recognised parame-                                                                                              resolution and higher frequency monitoring.
                                                                                ters that have been derived from Copernicus
                                                                                Sentinel-2 imagery. Artificial intelli­gence enhan­                                                                                      With Blanca studying at the Technical University
                                                                                ced models allow the reliable forecast of eutro­                                                                                         of Denmark and Adithya studying at the Indian
                                                                                phication levels.                                                                                                                        Institute of technology, the founding team has
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         extensive knowledge and experience in remote
                                                                                Blue Urban is composed of a multidisciplinary                                                                                            sensing and deep learning and aim to leverage
                                                                                team with a strong background in environmental                                                                                           that expertise with Budnip. The team hopes to
                                                                                economics, software development and Earth                                                                                                reduce crop losses, ensure food security for an
                                                                                observation. They developed the idea at the Irish                                                                                        exponentially growing world population and to help
                                                                                Copernicus Hackathon in 2019 and have since                                                                                              farmers in their activities. Budnip was the winning
                                                                                won six international hackathons. The team is                                                                                            team at the Copernicus Hackathon in Denmark
                                                                                passionate about using Earth observation data                                                                                            2019 and one of the finalists of the Copernicus
                                                                                to tackle climate change and hopes that they will                                                                                        Masters University Challenge 2020.
                                                                                contribute to a world with clear skies, healthy
                      The Blue Urban team at the Copernicus Hackathon in 2019   ecosystems, and sustainable aquaculture.                              Example of the disease detection process in a winter wheat field

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ConstellR – Revolutionising the
      Cassava – Optimising harvests
                                                                                                                                                                                     temperature monitoring market
Team                                Milestones                                       Food waste begins at the first stage in the supply       Website                           Milestones                                     The Earth’s land surface temperature is an impor­
Amish Ralhan                        and Achievements                                 chain: on the farm. To reduce this waste, Cassava        constellr.space                   and Achievements                               tant indicator of environmental changes and can
Daniela De Medici                   •   Founded: 2019                                gives farmers, operators, and agricultural organi­                                         •   Founded: 2020 as a GmbH                    help us to monitor and forecast critical factors in
Tom Furniss                         •   Awards:                                      sations more control and precision over their            Team                              •   Awards:                                    agriculture, natural disasters and infrastructure
Eliyas Woldegeorgis                     Leicester Innovation                         harvesting, decreasing wastage and increasing            Max Gulde                             Public funding for In-Or-                  management. ConstellR will answer the emerging
Jan Oliver Ringert                      Hub 2019                                     yields. Users can access the Cassava platform to         Marius Bierdel                        bit-Demonstration in 2021                  market need for this data by offering daily global
Sirio Modugno                                                                        search for any agricultural field of interest and        Christian Williges                                                               coverage in high spatial resolution. In particular,
                                                                                                                                                                                    Winner ESA Start-up
                                                                                     display it on a map. With a simple click of a point      Christian Mittermaier                 competition 2020                           ConstellR will offer analytics-ready level-2 geore­
HQ                                                                                   on the chosen field, the platform will present a                                                                                          ferenced land surface temperature data that is
                                                                                                                                                                                    Winner Digital Founders
Leicester, United Kingdom                                                            graph of the crop yield and trend, allowing the          HQ                                                                               directly searchable and accessible via an easy to
                                                                                                                                                                                    Competition 2020
                                                                                     user to easily identify the optimal harvesting           Freiburg, Germany                                                                use, customised platform. Their advanced optical
                                                                                                                                                                                    Winner Copernicus Masters ESA
                                                                                     time. Cassava services will support the farmers                                                                                           system will bring unique benefits to analysts
                                                                                                                                                                                    Copernicus 4.0 Challenge 2019
                                                                                     to increase the average harvest yields by 2%-5%,                                                                                          working to improve water management, precision
                                                                                     depending on the crop type and farmer harvesting                                               Seraphim Space Camp                        yield forecasts, wildfire monitoring and the rise
                                                                                                                                                                                    Mission 3 2019
                                                                                     system. Cassava services are data-driven, built on                                                                                        of urban heat islands. Complementing their own
                                                                                     top of machine learning models, and make use of                                                                                           data set, ConstellR uses Copernicus Sentinel-1,
                                                                                     Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, together                                                                                         -2, -3 and -5P data to improve the accuracy of
                                                                                     with extracted vegetation indices, and historical                                                                                         their land surface temperature models.
                                                                                     harvesting data trends.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ConstellR, founded in 2020, is a joint spin-off
                                                                                     The team of six developed with the idea at a                                                                                              from the German Fraunhofer and the German
                                                                                     hacka­thon run by Leicester University under the                                                                                          Aerospace Center. The team is motivated by their
                                                                                     topic ‘food security and resilience’ where they                                                                                           desire to improve humankind’s capabilities to
                                                                                     took out second prize. The team is composed of                                                                                            timely react to environmental changes, and to
                                                                                     different experts in their respective fields including                                                                                    save our planet’s most precious resource, fresh
                                                                                     computer programming, software development,                                                                                               water. They have had a successful first year, first
                                                                                     machine learning, Earth observation and agriculture                                                                                       winning the ESA Start-up Competition, having
                                                                                     technology. The team has since been invited to                                                                                            their first software product in beta testing,
                                                                                     participate in the Leicester Innovation Hub.                                                                                              and finally receiving funding for an In-Orbit-
                      Cassava solution providing information on harvest forecast,                                                                                                                                              Demonstration to test their technology.
                                     yield expectation and current yield nutrition                                                                             Comparison between current systems and ConstellR technologies

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Diginove – Geolocalised demographic
                                        Cooper – Climate data for everyone
                                                                                                                                                                             data all over the world
Website                             Milestones                                    Cooper is a service passionate about fighting         Website                         Milestones                                    In 2050, 68% of the world population are projected
cooperclimate.eu                    •   Founded: 2019                             misinformation on climate change. Their goal is       diginove.com                    and Achievements                              to live in urban areas according to the United
                                                                                  to raise awareness of the effect climate change                                       •   Founded: 2016                             Nations. This offers great opportunities, but also
Team                                                                              has on areas and communities around the world.        Team                            •   Awards:                                   challenges for citizens, businesses, governments,
Emilio Cortina Labra                                                              They do this by enabling you to access information    Michel Benet                        Laureate 2nd Innovation                   and their partners. The dynamics of urban growth
Ana Junquera Méndez                                                               about changes in the area you live in and share       Pierre-François Besson              Contest i-Nov 2019                        and the development of population density are one
Javier García Bermúdez                                                            them with your friends and wider network. Cooper      Stéphane Gakovic                                                              of the most important factors in urban planning and
                                                                                  leverages Copernicus Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-5P       Steven Guern                                                                  DIGINOVE aims to support a better understanding
HQ                                                                                data, combining atmospheric data and satellite                                                                                      of these parameters. They contribute to effective
Oviedo, Spain                                                                     images to provide the full picture on the climate     HQ                                                                            urban planning by offering a software tool called
                                                                                  in your area. With their Cooper mobile app and        Aix-en-Provence, France                                                       TeleCense. This tool evaluates population distri-
                                                                                  Cooper desktop app, you can access and share                                                                                        bution and trends with efficient, up-to-date, and
                                                                                  infographics among friends to highlight how                                                                                         accurate results and at a lower cost compared to
                                                                                  climate change affects you and your surroundings.                                                                                   in-situ studies or census campaigns. It leverages
                                                                                  This user-friendly experience is what makes Cooper                                                                                  Copernicus Sentinel-1 and -2 radar and optical
                                                                                  unique among other climate data platforms.                                                                                          data to increase the accuracy when detecting
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      settlements. TeleCense supports companies, autho­
                                                                                  Founded in 2019, the team’s mission is to educate                                                                                   rities, international organisations, and labs to assess
                                                                                  the public about climate change. The founders                                                                                       and anticipate population growth and migration in
                                                                                  have similar technical backgrounds, but each                                                                                        emerging countries.
                                                                                  have unique interests that bring diversity into the
                                                                                  team. Cooper understands that the social aspect                                                                                     The team of four want to improve the lives of
                                                                                  is an important factor in making people care                                                                                        people in emerging countries. The team has a strong
                                                                                  about climate change. That is why Cooper is                                                                                         background in image processing and understanding
                                                                                  making reliable location-based data available for                                                                                   precise population information as a core requi­
                                                                                  everyone.                                                                                                                           rement for effective government and cooperate
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      action. By providing accurate population estimation,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      the team expects that their TeleCense service will
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      soon be largely used to grant people in emerging
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      countries access to education, health services,
                                              Temperature data in Cooper mobile                                                         Satellite data and demographic expertise help users make the best decisions   water, and electricity.

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EoSSENTIAL – Innovative geospatial
                                        ECOTEN – Urban comfort
                                                                                                                                                                              solutions for sustainable land management
Website                            Milestones                                   The future of our planet depends on building sustain­         Team                       Milestones                                     Earth observation applications that are available and
urban-comfort.eu                   and Achievements                             able cities. Why? The share of the world’s population         Marin Leontenko            and Achievements                               affordable to everyone have a positive impact on
                                   •   Founded: 2017                            living in urban areas has increased from 30% in 1950 to       Damir Matić                •   Founded: 2020                              climate change for a greener future. That is the vision
Team                               •   Awards:                                  a predicted 60% in 2030, and most of the world’s met-         Josip Stojak               •   Copernicus Accelerator: 2019               behind EoSSENTIAL, a solution that allows users to
Jiří Tencar                            Winner Vienna Startup                    ropolitan cities are already facing the effects of climate    Antonio Morić Španić       •   Awards:                                    remotely monitor and analyse the health of their forests
Sagnik Bhattachajree                   Package 2020                             change. ECOTEN offers services such as heat vulnera-          Antonija Veselski              Winner Copernicus Hackathon                and agricultural parcels using Copernicus Sentinel-1
Clément Imbert                                                                  bility maps and urban microclimate simulations to help        LIST Geoinformatics Ltd.       Zagreb 2019                                and Sentinel-2 data. By integrating Copernicus data
                                       2nd place Climathon
                                       by Climate-KIC 2018                      cities determine the most efficient strategies to build                                                                                 with the data from the sensors and machines on test
                                                                                                                                                                             ZICER Incubation Programme
HQ                                                                              climate change resilience. Their solutions rely on satel-     HQ                             Zagreb 2020                                fields, EoSSENTIAL offers three high-performing ser­
                                       Winner Brno Copernicus
Prague, Czech Republic                                                          lite data from Landsat and Copernicus Sentinel satellites     Zagreb, Croatia                                                           vices: SecureLand, VitalGrowth and RealWeather.
                                       Hackathon Green Roof
                                       Challenge 2018                           to assess urban heat vulnerability through indices like                                                                                 SecureLand is a system that eliminates exhausting
                                                                                exposure and sensitivity. Their engineers then propose                                                                                  fieldwork by providing instant damage control noti­
                                       Winner Copernicus Hackathon
                                                                                nature-based solutions such as water features and veg-                                                                                  fications. VitalGrowth is the integrated dashboard
                                       Nice 2018
                                                                                etation to cool down those hotspots. As a COVID-19                                                                                      combining the overall statistics with visualisations
                                       Finalist 2018 Katerva Awards
                                                                                support measure, ECOTEN have created maps that                                                                                          about the health and development of agricultural
                                       for Smart Cities
                                                                                locate nearby testing centres, health care facilities, and                                                                              fields and forest lands. Finally, RealWeather is a system
                                                                                clusters of high-risk individuals now used by the city gov-                                                                             that provides real-time information and alerts users
                                                                                ernments of Madrid, Strasbourg, and five other highly                                                                                   about adverse weather conditions and other risk
                                                                                affected cities. The EU Joint Research Commission has                                                                                   factors.
                                                                                also recommended the urban heat vulnerability index
                                                                                created by ECOTEN urban comfort as an indicator for                                                                                     EoSSENTIAL is composed of a multidisciplinary team
                                                                                SDG Goals.                                                                                                                              that combines knowledge and experience with youth
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        and passion. They are set to disrupt the status-quo
                                                                                ECOTEN urban comfort is an environmental engineering                                                                                    of agriculture and forestry management. To comple­
                                                                                company, a spinoff of ECOTEN (Smart Energy Solutions),                                                                                  ment this goal, the team has a strong background in
                                                                                a green building consultancy which was founded by Jiří.                                                                                 software development, forestry, and geography. The
                                                                                Together with his co-founders Sagnik and Clément, they                                                                                  idea that led to the foundation of EoSSENTIAL was
                                                                                are passionate about urban climate change resilience,                                                                                   born at the Copernicus Hackathon Zagreb in 2019 and
                                                                                green architecture, and remote sensing. The team has                                                                                    right from the start, the team has been able to partner
                                                                                extensive experience in the urban environment and                                                                                       with LIST geoinformatics, a company that has provided
                                                                                building fields and has developed a wide network inclu­                                      Demo version of the VitalGrowth solution   the team with considerable development support.
ECOTEN’s heat vulnerability map as an example of their smart energy solutions   ding operations in the United States and soon in Asia.

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Fallen Trees – Forest health
                                        Epic Blue – With you all the way
                                                                                                                                                                          monitoring from space
Website                            Milestones                                     Firefighters, policemen, search and rescue teams,           Website                Milestones                                     A reliable forest inventory forms the foundation
epic.blue                          and Achievements                               and people working in heavy industry are just a few         codecompany.se         and Achievements                               of good forest planning. New opportunities in in-
                                   •   Founded: 2016                              examples of everyday teams who risk their own lives                                •   Founded: 2014                              corporating remote sensing and Earth observation
Team                               •   Awards:                                    to protect the lives of others. Epic Blue believes that     Team                   •   Awards:                                    data lowers costs and speeds up current sampling
Geert Claeys                           Point.IoT 2020                             these teams deserve all the help they can get and has       Anders Wihlborg            Copernicus Masters 2014                    practices. Fallen Trees takes advantage of this new
Frederik Malesevic                                                                developed a workforce solution to increase safety and                                                                             data available for forest management in its unique,
                                       Deloite Rising Star 2020                                                                                                          ESA App Challenge winner
Michael Ilsbroux                                                                  maximise productivity, without the need for expen-          HQ                                                                    multi-faceted platform. From disaster impact assess-
                                       EDA Defence Innovation Prize 2019          sive hardware investments or new work processes             Sweden, Helsingborgt       ESA BIC Sweden alumni                      ments to preventing insect invasions and tracking
HQ                                     EU Top 50 Innovative Startups 2019         and training. All that is needed is for first respond-                                 PARSEC Accelerator 2020                    forest health, Fallen Trees does it all. With these in-
Leuven, Belgium
                                       Airbus Critical App Challenge 2018
                                                                                  ers to wear a small wearable called Shyn. Epic Blue’s                                  Astropreneur Space Start-up
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    sights, forest owners and insurance companies can
                                                                                  service is based on IoT environmental and bio sensor                                   Accelerator 2020                           breathe easier, knowing that they always have a quick
                                       Most Disruptive Startup 2018               data and an AI driven location intelligence platform                                                                              analysis at hand. Fallen Trees develops its solution us-
                                   •   Funding:                                   which is Galileo and Copernicus enabled. Key Coperni-                                                                             ing Sentinel -1 and -2 data to detect ground moisture
                                       650k in pre-seed and                       cus data generated by the emergency management                                                                                    and various vegetation indices. They then combine
                                       seed capital raised                        service feeds into the Epic Blue services support-                                                                                that data using advanced distributed cloud AI/ML.
                                                                                  ing the auto­
                                                                                              matic detection of accidents, incident
                                                                                  tracking of people and assets involved, and a near                                                                                The Code Company was founded by Anders Wihlborg
                                                                                  real-time learnings and outcome overview.                                                                                         and together with Jonas Claeson and Björn Lydeen,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    three computer software experts, they are passio­
                                                                                  The idea for Epic Blue was born when the team                                                                                     nate about providing insights into our planet using
                                                                                  decided to put their technical background to use to                                                                               satellite data. Anders is an experienced entrepre-
                                                                                  help protect their family members who are first re-                                                                               neur, having developed innovative mobile concepts
                                                                                  sponders. Most of the team has a deep expertise in                                                                                since 2007. In 2014 they won the Copernicus Masters
                                                                                  software engineering. Collectively they have around                                                                               ESA App Challenge for Fallen Trees. Since then, they
                                                                                  75 years of hands-on experience in geospatial informa-                                                                            have been working hard on their test pilot and a new
                                                                                  tion and situational awareness solutions. The team’s                                                                              partnership with the Swedish Forest Association.
                                                                                  goal is to increase the safety and security of all front-                                                                         They have also joined forces with Forging Lab, a
                                                                                  line workers through an effective and complementary                                                                               fellow forest-focused Copernicus Accelerator start-
                                                                                  partnership between people and state of the art tech-                                                                             up. This ambitious start-up is making forest inven-
                                                                                  nology. They aspire to provide the absolute best wear-                                                                            tory and maintenance easy, affordable, and fast for
      The Shyn wearable and the Guardian platform offer safety in all locations   able for seamless indoor and outdoor positioning.                                                    Forest Monitor web service   everyone in the global forest industry.

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GeoTwins – Discover places
                                       ForgingLabt – Forestry and agriculture
                                                                                                                                                               with similar opportunities
Team                               Milestones                                     How do we keep everyone safe and how do we            Website           Milestones                                     “Ever wondered if two far apart regions in Europe
Rui Lopes                          •   Founded: 2019                              continue to feed everyone? These are the two          geotwins.eu       and Achievements                               such as Porto in Portugal and Hvar in Croatia
Pedro CiprianoRui Maia                                                            guiding questions that ForgingLab addresses                             •   Founded: 2019                              could be similar? The founders of GeoTwins did.
Sergio Lorga                                                                      with its agriculture solution. ForgingLab is a tool   Team              •   Awards:                                    They developed a platform to explore similar
                                                                                  to manage large and scattered areas by offering       Ružica Krstić         Most Innovative Solution                   geographies. Users can pick an area to use for
HQ                                                                                suggestive and predictive management infor­           Dražen Tutić          Copernicus Hackathon                       the comparison process, select the criteria they
Ansião, Portugal                                                                  mation to clients. For example, the tool can          Ulrike Klein          Zagreb 2019                                want to include in the analysis process, and the
                                                                                  provide information on the total area cut during      Nikola Kranjčić                                                  platform finds similar (GeoTwins) areas using
                                                                                  a specific period or on the ideal time to harvest                                                                      a multicriteria analysis. The tool allows the user
                                                                                  grapes for wine production. As a result, clients      HQ                                                               to compare any two locations and to identify twin
                                                                                  can make better use of available resources and        Zagreb, Croatia                                                  geolocations in Europe using criteria such as land
                                                                                  considerably increase their value per hectare                                                                          cover, temperature, precipitation, and wind. The
                                                                                  of land. Copernicus Sentinel-1, -2 and -5 data is                                                                      tool has applications across the tourism industry,
                                                                                  a crucial part of the solution. In addition, the                                                                       agriculture or in urban and regional planning.
                                                                                  solution is fed with data from other types of sen-                                                                     GeoTwins uses Copernicus Sentinel-5p data for
                                                                                  sors such as in-situ IoT sensors.                                                                                      climate change detection in their multicriteria
                                                                                                                                                                                                         analysis.
                                                                                  The team of ForgingLab has a strong background
                                                                                  in data science, IoT technology, and finance.                                                                          The team behind GeoTwins have a strong back-
                                                                                  Rui Lopes, the founder, thought of the idea for                                                                        ground in spatial data analysis with most of the
                                                                                  ForgingLab when he put his expertise to use en-                                                                        team currently working in spatial data research.
                                                                                  suring that natural disasters such as the 2017                                                                         The idea for GeoTwins was originally developed at
                                                                                  wildfire in Portugal would not happen again.                                                                           the Copernicus Hackathon Zagreb in 2019 where
                                                                                  ForgingLab is now part of the Respol Resinas S.A.                                                                      the team was awarded second place overall and
                                                                                  Group, a Portuguese manufacturer of resin deri­                                                                        first place in the smart cities and smart govern-
                                                                                  vatives. Looking to the future, ForgingLab hopes                                                                       ment category, as well as the prize for the most
                                                                                  to make the food value chain more sustainable                                                                          innovative solution. The team’s goal to make an
                                                                                  and protect the environment, improving the                                                                             interactive and user-friendly tool to explore the
                                                                                  overall safety of society.                                                                                             similarities and differences across Europe, enable
            This map provides measurments of vegetation variables such as above                                                                                                                          users to find and learn something new, and most
     ground biomass, diameter at half height and average height among others                                                                                    Example of an area covered by hexagons   importantly, enhance our curiosity.

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Green City Watch – Taking nature online                                                                                                      Greenventory – Energy decision made easy

Website                            Milestones                                         Green City Watch is an open-source initiative spe-      Website                             Milestones                                           The transition of the energy sector towards carbon-
greencitywatch.org                 and Achievements                                   cialised in urban ecological engineering. Their suite   greenventory.de                     and Achievements                                     neutrality is a huge task for cities, energy utilities,
                                   •     Founded: 2018                                of products drives evidence-based urban green                                               •   Founded: 2019                                    and grid operators. The planning and realisation
Team                               •     Awards:                                      space management with near-real time geodata            Team                                •   Awards:                                          of such projects is complex, time-consuming,
Nadina Galle                             Maxar Technologies &                         on irrigation, ecological hotspots, standing water,     Dr.-Ing. Sven Killinger                 Winner EWS Make It Matter                        and requires specific expertise. Greenventory
Chris van Diemen                         Amazon Web Services GBDX for                 and flooding. Their flagship product, TreeTect, is      Dr. David Fischer                       Award 2019                                       addresses these problems with a customer-specific
Jim Groot                                Sustainability Challenge 2018                an open-source algorithm that creates AI-enabled        Dr.-Ing. Kai Mainzer                                                                     Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for cities,
                                                                                                                                                                                      Top 100 energy start-ups
                                         Finalist University of Amsterdam             tree inventories; inventories as dynamic as the                                                 Start Up Energy Transition                       energy utilities, and grid operators. Those services
HQ                                       Alumni Award 2018                            trees themselves. While “smart cities” continue         HQ                                      2020                                             make strong use of all types of high-resolution
Amsterdam, Netherlands                                                                to innovate and invest in applications for waste        Freiburg, Germany                                                                        data, artificial intelligence, and optimisation
                                         World Bank Group’s Disruptive
                                         Technologies for Development                 mana­gement, mobility, and civic processes, urban                                                                                                algorithms. The main features of their service
                                         Challenge 2019                               forestry has long been left behind.                                                                                                              are an automated, digital mapping (inventory), as
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       well as the analysis and optimisation of customer-
                                         De Bouwklup’s most “circular”
                                         idea of the year 2019                        These customised solutions draw actionable in-                                                                                                   specific energy systems.
                                                                                      sights from satellites, LiDAR, and drones to im-
                                                                                      prove transparency amongst local governments                                                                                                     Greenventory was founded in 2019 by Sven, David,
                                                                                      and support informed decision-making. In addition                                                                                                and Kai – three experts in energy technology
                                                                                      to the use of commercial imagery, their solutions                                                                                                and geoinformatics. This dedicated team with a
                                                                                      employ Copernicus Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aper-                                                                                                     passion for data and energy systems has set itself
                                                                                      ture Radar imagery and Sentinel-2 Multi Spectral                                                                                                 the task of bringing energy system transformation
                                                                                      Imagery products to bring nature to our doorstep.                                                                                                to cities. Their team has over 25 years of experience
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       and have honed their technology at the largest
                                                                                      Nadina, Jim, and Chris founded Green City Watch                                                                                                  solar energy research institute in Europe, the
                                                                                      in 2018. Their mission? To revolutionise the way we                                                                                              Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems,
                                                                                      value nature, bring transparency to local govern­                                                                                                and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. They
                                                                                      ment, and regenerate our cities. 2019 saw their                                                                                                  describe their solution as the “Google Maps of
                                                                                      efforts rewarded by the Copernicus Masters,                                                                                                      energy”, a fitting name for a solution that delivers
                                                                                      winning both the Planet “See Change, Change                                                                                                      a holistic view of your energy system.
                                                                                      the World” Challenge and the overall Copernicus
                               TreeTect by Green City Watch - an AI-enabled tree      Masters prize. Their solutions are already improving
                                       inventory as dynamic as the trees themselves   nature in more than 30 cities around the world.         The founders L-R: Dr.-Ing. Sven Killinger, Dr. David Fischer and Dr.-Ing. Kai Mainzer.

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ieco.io – Optimising photovoltaic                                                                         IMMOSensing – Democratising
                                         installations                                                                                             the real estate market
Website                             Milestones                                        Renewable energy is key to worldwide sustain­           Team                         Milestones                                       Ever moved to a new city and were unsure about
ieco.io                             and Achievements                                  ability. Not only does it help conserve natural         Victor Pajuelo Madrigal      •   Founded: 2019                                where to live? Ever considered buying property?
                                    •   Founded: 2020                                 resources, but it also provides reliable power                                                                                        The hard question is how to identify the best area
Team                                •   Awards:                                       supplies to improve energy security. ieco.io aims to    HQ                                                                            to purchase property as it depends on a variety of
Miguel Sánchez                          Best Ideas Diploma Actúaupm                   support the renewable energy sector by offering         Barcelona, Spain                                                              factors and often involves asymmetric information
de León Peque                           Programme Universidad Politécni-              a software tool for photovoltaic (PV) installa­                                                                                       between seller and buyer or landlord and tenant.
Clara Casas Castedo                     ca de Madrid                                  tion simulations. Focusing on the downstream PV                                                                                       IMMOSensing has developed a solution targeted
                                                                                      industry, ieco.io provides precise information about                                                                                  toward these kinds of challenges. They integrate
HQ                                                                                    savings and amortisation as well as on optimisation                                                                                   and make extensive use of data from multiple
Vigo, Spain                                                                           strategies for the design and performance of PV                                                                                       sources such as the Copernicus Sentinel-2, -3 and
                                                                                      installations. With the help of this service, solar                                                                                   -5p together with GNSS signals, IoT sensor data,
                                                                                      installers can make compelling proposals to their                                                                                     energy efficiency ratings and distances between
                                                                                      customers in very little time. Moreover, ieco.io                                                                                      facilities just to mention a few. IMMOSensing
                                                                                      can help maximise the impact of the dedicated                                                                                         helps to level the playing field in the real estate
                                                                                      resources in photovoltaic installations. ieco.io uses                                                                                 market.
                                                                                      the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service
                                                                                      and Copernicus Climate Change Service to validate                                                                                     The team has the technical expertise to make
                                                                                      their power generation simulations. Their service is                                                                                  IMMOSensing successful and targets their solution
                                                                                      also based on the PVGIS Service by the European                                                                                       to real estate companies and investors as well
                                                                                      Commission and the ERA5 dataset, which is a                                                                                           as to the wider smart city application sector. The
                                                                                      reanalysis product from ECMWF.                                                                                                        idea for IMMOSensing was born at the Copernicus
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Hackathon Barcelona in 2019 where the team won.
                                                                                      Both wanting to fight climate change, Miguel                                                                                          Since then, they have been working on developing
                                                                                      and Clara decided to put their backgrounds in                                                                                         their product directly with potential customer
                                                                                      software development and data science to good                                                                                         through their involvement in the Copernicus
                                                                                      use by founding ieco.io in 2020. The idea for ieco.                                                                                   Accelerator 2020 Market Validation Lab. The team’s
                                                                                      io was born out of countless conversations with                                                                                       vision is to democratise the housing market by
                                                                                      companies active in photovoltaic installations and                                                                                    distributing housing data equally between buyers
                                                                                      is therefore based on the daily installation business                                                                                 and agencies.
                                                                                      experiences of key stakeholders.                                                  With their solution, IMMOSensing aspires to erase
                                An industrial PV installation designed with ieco.io                                                                                     asymmetric information in the real estate market

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LENKÉ – Space and water solutions                                                                                               MEOSS – Geospatial solutions
                                        empowering communities                                                                                                          for smart territories
Team                               Milestones                                       Water as a source of life can be a scarce resource,         Website            Milestones                                    Earth observation data is widely used for city
Lensa E. Jotte                     and Achievements                                 particularly in Africa. LENKÉÉ wants to empower stake-      meoss.net          and Achievements                              planning, analysing agricultural practices, and moni­
Dr. Nkeiruka N. Onyia              •   Founded: 2020                                holders in developing countries with decision-mak-                             •   Founded: 2018                             toring the environment. Since this data is often
                                   •   Awards:                                      ing tools for the sustainable use of water resources.       Team               •   Awards:                                   fragmented, it can be difficult for local authorities
HQ                                     Santander Start-up Seed                      Environment and natural resource monitoring are the         Thomas Ferrero         Winner Copernicus Hackathon               to access and gain the necessary insights. MEOSS
Leicester, United Kingdom              Grant Funding                                target markets for LENKÉ. These industries are rela-                               Toulouse 2019                             answers this problem with their diverse mapping
                                       ESA BIC UK 2020                              tively new, especially in their pilot project area of the   HQ                                                               tools. The MEOSS solution puts the needs of local
                                                                                                                                                                   •   Achievements:
                                                                                    Central Rift Valley Lakes in Ethiopia. LENKÉ offers         Toulouse, France                                                 governments first – it is personalised, user-friendly
                                                                                    a range of services including a soil water index fore-                             Winner call for projects Space            and regulatory compliant. Users have access to
                                                                                                                                                                       Climate Observatory 2020
                                                                                    cast tool (SWIFT) and the water quality analysis tool                                                                        three tools: MEO-UrbanGreen identifies urban heat
                                                                                    (WQAT). Both products are decision support tools for                                                                         islands, MEO-GreenEnergy supports the imple-
                                                                                    users to monitor and manage their water resources                                                                            mentation strategies of renewable energies, and
                                                                                    and to optimise their harvesting. The SWIFT product                                                                          MEO-Tourism3D offers a futuristic vision of tourism
                                                                                    utilises soil water index data from the Copernicus                                                                           in your area. These solutions depend on the
                                                                                    Global Land Service (CGLS) together with Copernicus                                                                          combination of Copernicus Sentinel-1 and -2 imagery
                                                                                    Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 data. The soil water index                                                                         to detect vegetation, buildings, sun exposure, and
                                                                                    from CGLS quantifies the moisture condition at various                                                                       local landscape data.
                                                                                    depths in the soil. Other data used in these services in-
                                                                                    clude digital elevation model data, climate and weather                                                                      The MEOSS team is composed of two satellite image
                                                                                    data, physical soil properties such as drainage patterns                                                                     processing engineers, a business developer, and the
                                                                                    and soil types, and bulk density and infiltration rates.                                                                     manager. In 2019, they won the Toulouse Coper-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 nicus Hackathon and Climathon and this year, the
                                                                                    The original idea that lead to the foundation of LENKÉ                                                                       team won the Space Climate Observatory call for
                                                                                    was conceived during the Copernicus Hackathon                                                                                projects in France with their new MEO-Climate pro-
                                                                                    Leicester in 2019. This all-female team has a strong                                                                         ject. Currently MEOSS has a working relationship
                                                                                    background in water resource management, hydro-                                                                              with ESA and the French space agency (CNES). The
                                                                                    power engineering and Earth observation. LENKÉ has                                                                           team recently released their new MEO-GreenEner-
                                                                                    had a successful 2020 and have been selected for incu-                                                                       gy app along with news of a partnership with Atos,
                                                                                    bation at the ESA Business Incubation Centre UK and                                                                          a global specialist in IT. Their mission is to provide
                                                                                    have received funding from the 2020 Santander Start-                                                                         innovative solutions to public actors looking to opti-
                                                    Soil Water Index Illustration   up Seed Grant.                                                                                 MEOSS land use cover change   mise their local community’s environmental policies.

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Nebula42 – Transparency                                                                                                                                                OGOR – Efficient monitoring
     for emissions reporting                                                                                                                                                of agricultural land
Team                               Milestones                                      Air and water pollution are two of the most press-          Website                 Milestones                            OGOR is the smarter way to understand the evo­
Richard Uchrin                     •   Founded: 2019                               ing concerns for maritime transportation. The prob-         ogor.ro                 and Achievements                      lution of a field. Offering a traceability service,
                                                                                   lem with current emissions reporting is that the                                    •   Founded: 2019                     farmers can easily access data to verify their practices
HQ                                                                                 system is not transparent, and it relies on self-re-        Team                    •   Awards:                           and impact on the fields. With this service, farmers
Budapest, Hungary                                                                  porting by companies. Thanks to the help of Earth           Dafina Jeaca                Copernicus Incubation Round 5     can identify and analyse vegetation areas classified
                                                                                   observation data, this start-up has come up with            Cornel Nitu                                                   into four ranges and find the top-performing field.
                                                                                                                                                                           EIT ClimateKIC Accelerator 2020
                                                                                   a solution to both problems. Nebula42 has a mea­            Andrei Duhnea                                                 They can also identify the evolution of the fertile
                                                                                   sur­
                                                                                      ement-based platform where data from the                 Valentin Popescu            Best start-up in Romania EIT      areas to understand how farming activities impacts
                                                                                                                                                                           Food Innovation Prizes 2020
                                                                                   Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)             Daniela Faur                                                  the natural fertility. Users can access this data via a
                                                                                   and the CAMS Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS),                                    ”Best business” Award             friendly web interface that processes several years
                                                                                   the EU Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification of           HQ                          InnovationLabs 2020               of advanced processed satellite images taken from
                                                                                                                                                                           Romania
                                                                                   CO2 emissions (EU MRV) data collection, and other           Bucharest, Romania                                            Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2. Farmers can
                                                                                   databases are combined to create one transparent                                        OrangeFAB Accelerator             now work smarter with up-to-date analytics about
                                                                                   service. The Nebula42 platform is made to be used                                                                         the history and evolution of their fields.
                                                                                   by the liquified natural gas (LNG) market. This market
                                                                                   presents a more sustainable alternative to the nor-                                                                       The team of five people founded OGOR in 2019,
                                                                                   mal fuel used by the shipping industry currently.                                                                         with a goal to build and grow a sustainable business
                                                                                   After gathering data, the team will then issue                                                                            that contributes to the economic development
                                                                                   a digital climate certificate to the client.                                                                              of the European agricultural business sector.
                                                                                                                                                                                                             Cornel, Daniela, Andrei, Valentin and Dafina have
                                                                                   In 2019 Richard Uchrin formed a start-up after seeing                                                                     over 10 years of experience in the fields of remote
                                                                                   a need for an emissions monitoring solution in the                                                                        sensing, technology, and commercial development.
                                                                                   maritime market. With an extensive background in                                                                          In early 2020, they launched their platform, which
                                                                                   business development and renewable energy, he is                                                                          already has 49 regional trial customers, covering
                                                                                   working toward making his start-up a success story. His                                                                   88,000 hectares of agricultural fields.
                                                                                   goal is to eventually become an energy supply chain
                                                                                   GHG emissions notary. This means that Nebula42 will
                                                                                   be able to support the marine sector in monitoring
                                                                                   GHG emissions over specific fuel supply chains. His
                                                                                   solution is innovative, one-of-a-kind, and will help lead
Nebula42 increases transparency for emissions reporting in the shipping industry   the maritime industry into a more sustainable future.                            Field vegetation map from 20.08.2020

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OxEO – Oxford Earth Observation                                                                                                             PipeAI – Pipeline monitoring solution

Website                            Milestones                                       Voluntarily-disclosed company-level data is cur-       Website                             Milestones                                         Worldwide demand for oil is rising at a rate of
oxfordeo.com                       and Achievements                                 rently insufficient to help fund managers identify,    studiomapp.com                      and Achievements                                   1.2 million barrels per day. One of the big risks involved
                                   •   Founded: 2018                                manage, and mitigate long-term environmental                                               •   Founded: 2015                                  in meeting this demand is the costs of inci­dents caused
Team                               •   Achievements:                                and social risks. Oxford Earth Observation (OxEO)      Team                                •   Copernicus Accelerator: 2018 & 2020            by mining and transporting this oil and gas. This is where
Lucas Kruitwagen                       Support from UK Satellite                    helps investors incorporate social and environ-        Leonardo Alberto Dal Zovo           •   Awards:                                        start-up Studiomapp comes in. Their new service, PipeAI,
Alex Money                             Applications Catapult                        mental risks into their decision making process by     Angela Corbari                          Finalist NATO Communication                    is a satellite-powered pipeline monitoring system for
                                                                                    a high level analysis of these risks by asset. They                                            & Information Agency’s Defence                 security and maintenance purposes. It pro­cesses satel-
                                       ESA Business Incubation
HQ                                     Centre UK                                    combine Earth observation data from Copernicus         HQ                                      Innovation Challenge 2019                      lite imagery using arti­ficial intelligence to detect
Oxford, United Kingdom                                                              Sentinel-1 and -2 together with proprietary asset-     Ravenna, Italy                          4th place xView 2018                           potentially dangerous interferences to the pipeline,
                                       Creative Destruction Lab
                                                                                    level information to provide forward-looking risk                                              Detection Challenge 2018                       and to monitor any changes in the specific area of
                                                                                    exposure projections on a global scale. They achieve                                                                                          interest. Compared to the current method of aerial
                                                                                                                                                                                   5th place Global Earth Observation
                                                                                    this with a proprietary machine learning algorithm                                                                                            patrolling, PipeAI offers highly precise and accurate
                                                                                                                                                                                   Challenge 2017
                                                                                    that draws on an array of hydrological, climate, and                                                                                          global coverage. They use Copernicus Sentinel-1 and -2
                                                                                    land cover data to produce the best available in-                                          •   Achievements:                                  data to detect anomalies and then automatically zoom
                                                                                    sights for their customer.                                                                     Invited to the United Nation General           in with VHR satellite images when a potential problem is
                                                                                                                                                                                   Assembly in September 2019 to                  found. With this method, they can identify obstacles that
                                                                                    OxEO was founded in 2018 by Alex Money and                                                     showcase how artificial intelligence           might hinder pipeline construction as well as other illegal
                                                                                                                                                                                   and space data can support achiev-
                                                                                    Lucas Kruitwagen, who met at the University of                                                                                                construction activities that could result in accidents or
                                                                                                                                                                                   ing the SDGs.
                                                                                    Oxford. Alexis a former fund manager, with over                                                                                               endanger the pipeline.
                                                                                    25 years of experience in industry and academia.
                                                                                    Lucas is a doctoral researcher specialising in                                                                                                Studiomapp was founded in 2015 and has achieved
                                                                                    remote sensing and machine learning applications                                                                                              success at a national and international level. Specialised
                                                                                    for sustainable finance. Alex and Lucas are joined                                                                                            in AI and ICT, this start-up is passionate about creating
                                                                                    by a team of expert scientists, developers, and                                                                                               a better quality of life through innovation and Earth
                                                                                    sustainable finance professionals. Their dream is                                                                                             Observation. With PipeAI, Studiomapp will provide
                                                                                    to make environmental risk intelligence relevant                                                                                              faster, cheaper, and more accurate data than what is
                                                                                    and accessible for every investor.                                                                                                            currently available for the oil and gas industry, in line
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  with the objective of the Sustainable Development
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Goal #9. Their solution has already been tested with
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  SNAM, Europe’s largest natural gas infrastructure
                                                                                                                                           Detecting interferences (e.g. buildings) along the security corridor of the pipeline   company with 33,000 km of pipelines.
                                       The three elements of OxEo’s service offer

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Plantae – Optimising irrigation agriculture                                                                                    Purify – Find your healthy path

Website                            Milestones                                       Plantae enables precision farming in irrigation ag-     Team                   Milestones                                    Cities around the world are working to protect
plantae.garden                     and Achievements                                 riculture by optimising crop growth and lowering        Matej Novak            •   Founded: 2019                             the health of their citizens and air quality is one
                                   •   Founded: 2013                                water consumption. Global food production is            Adam Krivka                                                          of the key concerns. Particles in the air such as
Team                               •   Awards:                                      expected to increase at least 70% by 2050 and along     Jakub Lenner                                                         pollen or particulate matter can cause respiratory
Samuel López                           Most Innovative Startup                      with it, a significant increase in water consumption.                                                                        problems and other serious health threats. Purify
Javier Escudero                        at StartUp Europe Smart                      Currently 24% of water resources are consumed           HQ                                                                   offers a solution that provides the clearest possible
Manuel Heras                           Agrifood Summit 2020                         by the agriculture industry and the founders of         Bratislava, Slovakia                                                 travel route based on distance and air quality. The
Gonzalo Gil                            Business Innovation Challenge                Plantae resolved to develop more effective irriga-                                                                           solution is personalised to the user and provides
                                       at Agroexpo 2018                             tion techniques. Their wireless solution package                                                                             allergen/aerosol information based on the user
HQ                                                                                  consists of a set of sensors that gather real-time                                                                           location and/or their planned destination. Purify
                                       2nd prize European Enterprise
Madrid, Spain                          Promotion Awards Ceremony                    information about the moisture, temperature,                                                                                 analyses Copernicus Sentinel-5p data together
                                       2014 SME Assembly                            and other conditions of the crops. Low cost, easy                                                                            with ground-based data collected by cities, and
                                                                                    to install hubs are optimally distributed across the                                                                         other available sources of data. The team plan to
                                                                                    fields and relay information from the sensors to the                                                                         iterate the product in the future by implementing
                                                                                    cloud using both LoRa Radio frequency and GPRS.                                                                              machine learning into Purify machine in an attempt
                                                                                    Plantae uses data from the Copernicus Land Moni­                                                                             to understand how air quality affects individual
                                                                                    toring Service in conjunction with the Copernicus                                                                            users and to provide pre-emptive warnings when
                                                                                    Atmosphere Monitoring Service to help provide                                                                                they could be at risk.
                                                                                    farmers and engineers with better information
                                                                                    about their crops and irrigation strategies.                                                                                 Purify was founded by a team of passionate students
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 with the vision to help people who struggle with
                                                                                    The Plantae founders have been developing this                                                                               cardiovascular or allergic health issues. The want
                                                                                    solution since 2013. Their hard work has paid off,                                                                           to ensure that they are exposed to as little air
                                                                                    as they won the Business Innovation Challenge at                                                                             pollution as possible. Their application will soon be
                                                                                    Agroexpo in 2018. They have also been active in                                                                              launched and accessible to users around Europe,
                                                                                    the start-up community in Spain, being one of the                                                                            bringing Copernicus Sentinel-5p data to European
                                                                                    20 start-ups selected out of 140 to pitch their                                                                              citizens.
                                                                                    solution at the Elevator Pitch Challenge in Madrid.
                                                                                    Almond, wine, pistachio, and olive fields are just
                                                                                    a few of the crops in Spain and Portugal already
                                       HUB (GPRS receptor) on an olive plantation   benefiting from Plantae’s wireless solution.                                               Opening page of the application

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