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drones

How to improve flood response with EO data?
  • Satellite,
  • drones,
  • flood monitoring,
  • data fusion,
  • flows,
  • emergency response

How to improve flood response with EO data?

By Lisa Landuyt 24.06.2024

Floods! Unfortunately, they are happening all over the world and occurring more often and more intensely due to climate change. There is an urgent need..

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Waste Watchers enables citizens to detect and map litter with drones and AI
  • drones,
  • AI,
  • plastic pollution,
  • , citizen science,
  • Waste Watchers

Waste Watchers enables citizens to detect and map litter with drones and AI

By Klaas Pauly 19.10.2023
Worldwide, rivers transport 1 million kg of plastic waste into the ocean, every day! The best way to prevent this is to clean up litter while it is still..
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Collecting super high resolution drone data for crop monitoring
  • Crop monitoring,
  • drones,
  • MAPEO,
  • drone based phenotyping,
  • crop mapping

Collecting super high resolution drone data for crop monitoring

By Dries Raymaekers 12.06.2023

The OpsDrone project, funded by VLAIO, wants to boost the use of drone services for agricultural applications. One of the big future trends we see in..

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Streamline your drone operations with MAPEO
  • drones,
  • MAPEO,
  • drone management system,
  • drone data

Streamline your drone operations with MAPEO

By Dries Raymaekers 17.02.2023

When using a SaaS platform to manage drone missions and analyze the data delivered, companies expect it to be easy, flexible and completely open. They..

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Monitoring tidal influence on algae with drones
  • Water & coast,
  • drones,
  • water quality monitoring,
  • MAPEO Water

Monitoring tidal influence on algae with drones

By Willem Boone 29.09.2022
In the Netherlands, Rijkswaterstaat is responsible for the management and maintenance of the main infrastructure facilities including the waterways. In..
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Artificial Intelligence to detect marine plastic litter
  • drones,
  • EO Data,
  • AI,
  • artificial intelligence,
  • marine litter,
  • plastic pollution

Artificial Intelligence to detect marine plastic litter

By Els Knaeps 17.03.2022
Marine plastic litter is one of the major environmental problems we are facing today. Tons of plastics end up in our oceans hereby impacting marine..
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High precision ship positioning with drones
  • drones,
  • Port of Antwerp,
  • ship positioning,
  • mooring policy

High precision ship positioning with drones

By Pieter-Jan Baeck 28.10.2021
The Port of Antwerp is one of the largest ports of Europe. A massive number of ships arrives every day to load and unload as quickly as possible. No time..
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Object detection for plant phenotyping with Phase One and MAPEO
  • Agriculture,
  • drones,
  • AI,
  • MAPEO,
  • phenotyping,
  • Phase One,
  • object detection

Object detection for plant phenotyping with Phase One and MAPEO

By Carsten Wieser 12.02.2021

The use of drone imagery has revolutionized plant phenotyping research tremendously over the past few years. You can not only obtain more detailed and..

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Searching for disease-resistant sugar beet varieties
  • Agriculture,
  • drones,
  • MAPEO,
  • phenotyping,
  • machine learning,
  • Beetphen

Searching for disease-resistant sugar beet varieties

By Stephanie Delalieux 05.01.2021

To boost productivity and ensure food security, we need to protect our crops. The use of disease-resistant crop varieties represents an important means to..

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Applying spatial models to better examine plant traits
  • Agriculture,
  • drones,
  • MAPEO,
  • phenotyping

Applying spatial models to better examine plant traits

By Joris De Wolf 07.12.2020

In agricultural field experiments we examine plant traits to evaluate new seeds or agro-chemical products. Ideally the soil fertility is as homogenic as..

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Developing an object detection workflow for drone imagery
  • drones,
  • AI,
  • MAPEO,
  • precision agriculture,
  • phenotyping

Developing an object detection workflow for drone imagery

By Sam Oswald 17.08.2020

Drone imagery has been revolutionary for agricultural research applications; allowing us to understand plants, plant traits and the impacts of various..

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Belgian test sites to support EO missions
  • drones,
  • EO Data,
  • validation,
  • BELAIR

Belgian test sites to support EO missions

By Bart Bomans 02.06.2020

Earth observation research is a multidisciplinary research topic and acquiring data for this type of research is not always easy. A lot of organizational..

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Drone-based flower count in fruit orchards
  • Agriculture,
  • drones,
  • MAPEO,
  • fruitculture

Drone-based flower count in fruit orchards

By Stephanie Delalieux 04.03.2020

As a fruit grower you want to obtain a rich and profitable harvest at the end of the season. Reducing the number of flowers and fruitlets early in the..

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How Aphea.Bio is using drones to evaluate biostimulants
  • Agriculture,
  • drones,
  • MAPEO,
  • phenotyping

How Aphea.Bio is using drones to evaluate biostimulants

By Marcelo Labra 10.12.2019

"Agricultural biologicals" is a broad term for naturally occurring substances such as micro-organisms and natural extracts that have the potential to..

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How to integrate a multispectral camera under a low-cost drone
  • drones,
  • Camera & Sensor,
  • MAPEO,
  • multispectral

How to integrate a multispectral camera under a low-cost drone

By Robrecht Moelans 03.09.2019

Drones are a popular platform in the world of remote sensing. They are often budget-friendly, flexible to use and allow to monitor hard to reach areas at..

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Drones and dredging! Is there a match?
  • drones,
  • dredging,
  • Jan De Nul,
  • MONOCLE,
  • water quality monitoring

Drones and dredging! Is there a match?

By Liesbeth De Keukelaere 26.02.2019

In remote sensing, drone data has become more and more popular over the years. For agriculture monitoring or disaster management but drone data can also..

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Can we use drones in disaster management?
  • drones,
  • airborne,
  • maritime surveilance,
  • flood monitoring

Can we use drones in disaster management?

By Jan Dries 24.01.2019

In today’s world, governments, administrations and private companies rely more and more on geo-information. Critical situation management teams are fully..

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Image analytics for objective plant variety assessment
  • Agriculture,
  • drones,
  • MAPEO,
  • phenotyping,
  • plant breeding

Image analytics for objective plant variety assessment

By Esther Monard 20.06.2018

As Belgium’s biggest service provider for agriculture and horticulture, AVEVE is continuously looking for innovative solutions. In plant breeding we’re..

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New technologies help plant breeders make a leap forward
  • Agriculture,
  • Image Processing,
  • drones,
  • EO Data

New technologies help plant breeders make a leap forward

By Jürgen Decloedt 12.07.2017

Imagine a field, where 10000 variaties are growing in tighly, regularly spaced plots. Welcome to the daily live of plant breeders. Plant breeders observe,..

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Wind turbine blade inspections, going beyond the marketing story
  • Image Processing,
  • Infrastructure,
  • drones

Wind turbine blade inspections, going beyond the marketing story

By Pieter-Jan Baeck 15.06.2017

Drones pop up everywhere. Even in the world of wind turbine inspection. But to set up an automated inspection process however, we need more than a flying..

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Drones to monitor water quality
  • Water & coast,
  • drones,
  • dredging,
  • sediment concentration

Drones to monitor water quality

By Dries Raymaekers 06.04.2017

The International Maritime Organization predicts a significant increase in the transport of cargo and goods by sea over the coming decades. Due to this,..

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