Introducing Grasp Global's Cutting-Edge Product CatalogUE for Advanced Air Quality Monitoring"

PUBLIC GRASP CATALOGUE BUILT UPON ARLAS.

25 May 2023, Media Release

Lille – Toulouse: 25 May, 2023 GRASP Global has launched its “Public GRASP Products Catalogue” for businesses and organisations tracking and studying air quality, the company announced today. The platform offers advanced remote sensing products that enable the forecasting of hazardous air pollution events and estimation of past exposure. The catalogue also includes data sets that can be used to help understand climate change. The catalogue was built by Gisaia, a geospatial big data technology company.

The Public GRASP Products Catalogue includes a visualisation tool to explore the data. The products in the catalogue are created from satellite data from a variety of European instruments, which are then processed into advanced remote sensing products by GRASP.

The GRASP processing system is unique in its capability to combine data from multiple space sensors as well as incorporate data from ground instruments. This allows for the study of specific areas with high precision.

COMING SOON!

The catalogue will soon include data from GRASP’s own GAPMAP-0 space instrument, which was launched on April 22, 2023. This marks the first time a commercial space instrument has been deployed for the characterization of particulate air pollution in cities and communities.

When completed, the GAPMAP series of instruments will comprise a constellation of ten advanced cubesats that will collect 100 times more data globally than traditional air quality instruments already in space.

GAPMAP products will be available to the public alongside other existing products in the catalogue, providing users with valuable information about the Earth’s surface, clouds, and atmospheric aerosols.

MONITORING FOR EFFECTIVE MEASURES

Air pollution is among the greatest environmental risks to public health, according to the World Health Organisation. Outdoor air pollution is estimated to have caused 7 million premature deaths worldwide in 2019.

GRASP facilitates the use of satellite measurements to establish whether particles are likely man made (industrial and vehicular emissions) or from natural sources such as wildfire smoke or desert dust and whether they are produced locally or transported from more distant locations.

Thus the Public GRASP Products Catalogue can be a critical tool to determine the sources and downwind areas affected by air pollution. This provides a significant weapon for the public and policymakers to fight for improved air quality by holding the producers responsible.

“The GRASP software makes it possible to use the satellite measurements to establish whether particles are likely produced by industry or swept in from natural sources such as wildfire smoke or desert dust. This is useful for governments, cities, and even companies who want to monitor air pollution and design effective mitigation measures,” said Dr. David Fuertes, GRASP Global’s co-founder and CEO.

The catalogue is linked to the existing GRASP Open platform, which currently has around 1,200 users from the scientific community in 64 countries. It is built upon ARLAS-Server, an open-source technology brick for big data visualisation and exploration. Catalogue users can easily and quickly find relevant products through spatial as well as temporal filters. It is run on Gisaia’s ARLAS-Cloud service.

“We are honoured to be part of a mission that helps to address one of the world’s greatest challenges. We thank GRASP for choosing our technology and trusting our team with this assignment,” said Laurent Dezou, Gisaia’s CEO.
“The long term strategy is to keep developing the tool, adding analytics capabilities thanks to the power of ARLAS,” added Dr. Fuertes.

GRASP Global Services supports worldwide efforts to monitor the health of people and the planet. Space agencies, governments, city authorities, and companies that wish to effectively track air pollution are invited to explore the publicly available catalogue.

For more details

To learn more about the Public GRASP Products Catalogue, contact GRASP Global at office@grasp-sas.com.

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About GRASP Global

GRASP Global is a start-up company that employs a variety of tools to monitor and understand the Earth’s atmosphere and surface.

These tools include the development and deployment of spaceborne cubesats, ground instruments, and the GRASP algorithm. The GRASP algorithm provides unique capabilities to combine data from multiple instruments to provide advanced products for air quality and climate change.

GRASP has more than a decade of experience in developing hardware and software for space applications and has worked with the largest international space agencies. The company has been engaged in the development of the operational algorithms for generating surface and aerosol products for Sentinel-4, 3MI, and CO2M future ESA and EUMETSAT missions.

GRASP designs and manufactures ground instruments that are deployed in global networks by NASA and the SPARTAN network.

Recently, GRASP launched the first in a series of cubesats designed to monitor the atmosphere for air quality and climate applications.
For more information about GRASP Global, visit www.grasp-sas.com

About Gisaia

Gisaïa is an expert in geospatial intelligence with experience in facilitating the rapid deployment of technology solutions for deeper geospatial and big data analysis.

Our ARLAS framework® is built to serve efficiently: every function is developed to not only support the ease of operations but also deliver expected results.

Gisaïa offers geospatial technological expertise to players in various sectors. Using ARLAS®, Gisaia supports users in developing products and services for diverse use-cases.

Some of Gisaïa’s references in the spatial industry include: Airbus Defence and Space, the French Space Agency, the French Public Research Institution, IRD and GRASP Global.

For more information about Gisaia visit: www.gisaia.com and ARLAS: www.arlas.io

MONTPELLIER MÉDITERRANÉE MÉTROPOLE EXPERIMENTS WITH arlas.city

As Part Of A Research And Development Contract

3 February 2022, Media Release

Media release, 3 February 2022

In a quest to expand its smart city initiatives, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole has chosen a consortium that includes Gisaïa among 10 others consortia in a smart city initiative for digital technology at the service of the territory’s project. It is a one year experimental work for the metropolis to offer new services to the city.

The competitive call for projects received over 30 innovation applications covering diverse themes: mobility, culture, energy, the environment, living in the city, digital inclusion and IOT.

Gisaïa, ICIA Technologies, and Patrick Gendre, who is a mobility expert, proposed the “Open Mobility Dashboards” project.

This project responds to the Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole mobility plans for 2030. The Métropole is looking to develop mobility indicators that will support data-backed decision making to improve travel for its citizens. arlas.city, our public transportation data analytics solution will support the initiative in developing public transport indicators. The Open Mobility Dashboard will also include mobility indicators for pedestrians and cyclists.

The projects were selected based on the the following criteria

The service: level of utility, added value,
The innovative nature of the project
Potential economic benefits: visibility and development potential of the project
The ability to be experimented (the quality of the protocol and the monitoring of uses)
Interoperability and reuse
The overall coherence of the project in terms of sustainable development, resilience and contribution to the quality of life of citizens

In France, Montpellier, joins Tisseo collectivities in using arlas.city for public transportation decision making.

Arlas.city supports public transport operators, authorities and researchers in ensuring that their decisions are founded on data. Various business departments in the Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole will provide their expertise to improve feedback and knowledge of the application contexts of the services developed by the winners.

Request for a demonstration of arlas.city here.

GET IN TOUCH For more details

contact@gisaia.com

About Gisaïa:

Gisaïa brings seven years of geo-big data analytics expertise, and a robust geo-analytics solution, “ARLAS^Ⓡ. The ARLAS framework has been tried and tested in diverse use cases for geospatial intelligence, especially in Earth observation data optimisation.

Arlas EO solution software for building Earth Observation Data catalogues

Gisaia IN

DOMINO-X PROJECT CONSORTIUM

22 Octobre 2021, Media Release

Media release, 22 Octobre 2021

Our team joins others from the French space sectors to form a consortium that has been chosen by the Directorate General of Enterprises (DGE) and Centre National d’Études Spatiales for the DOMINO-X project.

We are proud and happy to contribute to this innovative initiative that will exploit Cloud and Artificial Intelligence technologies to standardize the architectures of ground-based Earth Observation segments and promote the emergence of a modular product and service offering. This will facilitate a need to offer customers lower costs for their requests.

Airbus Defence and Space are leading the DOMINO-X consortium that brings together other experts from: Airbus, Thales Alenia Space, Safran, CS Group, Orange and Capgemini, Gisaïa, Stack Labs, Human design Group, Geotrend and Leanspace.

Gisaïa will be fronting our solution, ARLAS for geospatial data analytics . This is not the first time that Gisaïa joins some of the consortium members and offers solutions that simplify the access to Earth Observation products. ARLAS is part of the framework that Theia and Dinamis are built on.

ARLAS is open source architecture software that is also built on the latest big data technologies making it both easily interoperable with other solutions. It scales easily with a growing archive . This is important in the DOMINO-X mission which seeks to explore volumes of Earth Observation data, from diverse product families. But that is not all, ARLAS will also be offering interactive visualisation of the data with a simplified filtering process that makes it easy to quickly sort through data and find what one is looking for.

The DOMINO-X ultimate quest is to deliver valuable insights for decision making from Earth Observation data by making it accessible to as many users as possible.

For more details contact

dolphine.rambaud@gisaia.com

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Gisaia wins EU Horizon2020 UFO Challenge with ARLAS for geospatial data - AIS data. European Union Horizon2020 UFO Challenge 2021 Winners

FAIR WINS UFO 2021 Challenge

EUROPE UNION Horizon 2020 UFO Challenge

06 July 2021, Media Release

FAIR Consortium,

Media brief, 06 July 2021

Gisaïa, Skyline Partners, e-Odyn are excited to announce that their consortium won a grant by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme coordinated by Aerospace Valley. The award was through a tendering process that saw the consortium emerge with top scores for their proposal responding to “Emerging indUstries new value chains boosted by small Flying Objects – UFO”

The UFO project seeks to develop cross-sectoral industrial value-chains between selected emerging industries, to stimulate new products and services from small and medium enterprises.

Mr Thaddé Bouchard, the UFO Coordinator at Aerospace Valley shares what got FAIR on the winning list.

“Based on a high quality application, the project FAIR presents for UFO a great opportunity to combine new market opportunities with climate change tackling. The parametric products proposed by FAIR, leveraging on advanced scientific and insurance models, represent a highly innovative approach for ship insurance. FAIR proposes a promising solution in contrast with traditional practices of the insurance industry in the marine sector demonstrating how satellite data can foster the value chains of emerging industries.”

The award will allow the consortium to bring together their aggregated technologies to develop and test a parametric index insurance product for the marine sector. Mr Bouchard notes that FAIR put together the right actors to successfully execute the project.

The grant runs between May 2021 – May 2022. After the one year development period, the consortium aims to put a fully transparent risk transfer product that protects ship owners while also benefiting the environment . This will be achieved through full automatiomation of risk calculations based on Earth observation data to cover overlooked aspects of operations.

The consortium, which is made up of marine data specialists, geo-big data analytics experts and parametrics insurance specialists, believes that this project will open up a new revenue stream for Small Flying Objects (SFOs), in high value marine insurance .

For more details contact

dolphine.rambaud@gisaia.com

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UFO’s media release from published here on their website.

About the consortium:

eOdyn’s solutions rely on its Omni-Situ ocean dynamics (wind, wave, surface current) measurement technology. It delivers high temporal and spatial resolution, in real-time with virtually global offshore coverage, thanks to machine learning algorithms mining into marine traffic data.

Gisaïa brings seven years of geo-big data analytics expertise, and a robust geo-analytics solution, “ARLASⓇ”. The ARLASⓇ framework has been tried and tested in diverse use cases for geospatial intelligence, especially in Earth observation data value creation. The ARLASⓇ framework already powers INSDEXⓇ, an index insurance technology platform produced and run by Skyline Partners.

Skyline Partner is a UK Insurtech company, specialised in index-based parametric insurance. Our solutions are data & technology-driven and underwritten by top tier international re/insurers with superior ratings. Skyline has developed its own index insurance technology platform INSDEX® and aggregates high-value data from multiple sources.

MEDIA RELEASE

Gisaïa launches arlas.city with Tisséo Collectivités as first adopter.

December, 14, 2020

Arlas.city is a geo-analytical solution for Public Transport Authorities. This innovative SaaS service gives public transport decision-makers the ability to respond to the needs of residents for efficient public transport. Arlas.city enters the market with Tisséo Collectivités.

"Arlas.city offers us a powerful visualization of our transport offer via a reactive and ergonomic interface. The proposed geospatial analysis tools will quickly allow our study managers to enlighten our managers on the state of our network and help them make decisions to develop it. We believe that arlas.city is, at the crossroads of GIS and the public transport business, the solution of excellence that we are looking for."

Tisséo

Collectivités

Tisséo Collectivités’ transport network is vast, complex and includes different modes of transport; metro, tramway, bus and cable car. Tisséo benefits from the harmonious alignment of all their data sources, which are distributed in several silos. Indeed, arlas.city offers a unified, global and instantaneous view of the different Tisséo data silos covering, among other things, the network elements (113 lines and 3674 stops), ticketing, and the advances/delays observed.

This allows Tisséo to measure theoretical, operational and societal performances. Tisséo’s teams can carry out customer analyses and obtain economic indicators to make precise and timely strategic decisions, for example to determine where to place stops, establish a new link between modes or even increase or decrease the frequency of services.

Arlas.city offers a unique analytical perspective on the operational performance of the transport network and its attractiveness to the public through the integration of population and ticketing data. In addition, arlas.city is interoperable with other solutions, eliminating redundancy and providing an efficient and seamless tool chain. This cloud solution offers great flexibility, especially for the growing need for remote working. Its ease of use makes it accessible across all public transport authorities’ command-chain for synchronised, evidence-based choices.

But arlas.city doesn’t stop there, as ongoing developments will allow the integration of demographic data.

Toulouse public transport network data viewed on arlas.city

"It will be possible to directly measure the match between supply and demand and to assess the proportion of the population benefiting from the supply. Not forgetting the power of the isochron calculator directly usable in arlas.city, which allows for instantaneous calculation of accessible areas, according to a network configuration and several origins. It should be noted that the bicycle stations are also used in the isochron calculations."

Sylvain Gaudan,

Technical Director of Gisaia.

Isochrones – curves connecting points accessible to travelers in a given time – are excellent indicators of network performance. Moreover, isochrones, once projected onto population data, allow the social performance of the population to be estimated.

arlas.city is constantly evolving to bring more tangible facts to decision-makers. Decisions are justified and supported by reliable data and analysis. They lead to a balanced and efficient public transport network that ensures mobility, accessibility and passenger satisfaction.

Index Insurance - Geospatial Intelligence.

INSDEX POWERED BY ARLAS.

21 September 2020, Media Release

London – Toulouse: 21 September 2020 – Skyline Partners and Gisaïa announce their strategic partnership and the launch of, Skyline’s index insurance technology, starting with Solar.

Solar is a unique index insurance solution by Skyline for renewable solar energy, powered by Gisaïa’s geospatial solution ARLAS that will bring a unique risk transfer and management platform for clients to explore, monitor and insure the lack of solar radiation.

The same data used to pay claims will be used to monitor their risks in full transparency for customers and risk carriers.

Combined with faster and guaranteed payouts, Solar will support project developers and green investors in securing better funding terms and help them manage their risk appetite.

“Gisaïa’s expertise in geospatial big data exploration has been proven in the high-tech space industry. Their ability to deliver high quality geospatial visualisation is unprecedented in the insurance industry. We are very excited to partner with them and bring this unique value proposition. Our shared focus on innovation, technology and data cement this partnership for the long term.” Laurent Sabatié and Gethin Jones, Skyline Partners Co-Founders and Directors.

“Skyline Partners have unique expertise and experience in parametric insurance underwriting. Skyline’s ability to keep up with innovative trends and even become early adopters aligns with our quest to explore new spaces to deploy our ARLAS® framework. We are thrilled to find a partner who shares in our push for excellence and positive customer experiences” Laurent Dezou and Sylvain Gaudan, Gisaïa Co-founders and Directors.

Index-based insurance, whilst already a well-known mechanism, has been slow to emerge as an established risk transfer option by risk carriers and customers. This is starting to change and index insurance is now accelerating to complement traditional programmes, in markets where cover gaps or exclusions exist, or conditions are tightening.

With Skyline aims at facilitating and spreading the use of index insurance, as an efficient and transparent means of risk transfer with fast and guaranteed access to cash at the occurrence of adverse events.

New upgrades will soon be released, to accompany existing Skyline index solutions for renewable wind energy, agriculture and natural catastrophes. In addition, Skyline has also developed a beta version of index insurance technology for distributors and risk carriers that integrates the same visualisation capabilities, but also index risk modelling, large scale pricing and payout trigger notifications.

By combining Skyline’s index modelling capabilities with Gisaïa’s big data geospatial expertise, the partnership will create a powerful and unprecedented proposition for the insurance industry. It will bring significant value to customers, brokers and carriers to help them comprehend, manage and transfer risks, in line with their specific needs.

For more details

Contact Skyline to discuss index-based insurance: enquiries@skyline.partners

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About Skyline Partners

Skyline Partners is a private-equity funded UK insurtech company, focusing solely on index-based parametric insurance. Our solutions are data, technology-driven, and underwritten by top tier international re/insurers with superior ratings. Skyline has developed its own index insurance technology platform and aggregates high-value data from multiple sources. Our initial focus is on Renewable Energy, Agriculture, and Natural Catastrophes, but our ambition is to develop index solutions for all classes and segments. For more information on our vision and solutions, visit www.skyline.partners

About Gisaia

Gisaïa is an expert in geospatial intelligence with experience in facilitating rapid deployment of technology solutions for deeper geospatial-big data analysis. Our ARLAS ® framework is built to serve efficiently: every function is developed to not only support the ease of operations but also, deliver expected results. We have tried and tested the potential of ARLAS ® framework’s versatility in diverse use-cases, with great results. For more information about Gisaia visit: www.gisaia.com and ARLAS: www.arlas.io

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