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.

Screenshot of the "Public GRASP Catalogue"

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

Gisaia Presents ARLAS-EO at Eureka Meets the Atlantic Rio de Janeiro

ARLAS-EO at
"Eureka Meets the Atlantic"

EUREKA MEETS THE ATLANTIC focuses on the promotion of entities which bring about disruptive innovation aligned with the sustainable development goals.

March 29, 2022

Massive Earth Observation (EO) data that is not fully harnessed

The Earth Observation (EO) industry was set off with the upstream sector with deployment of satellites. The numerous constellations that have been orbiting the Earth to send back products continue to expand. This is great news for data generation because, the more diverse and massive the data, the higher the likelihood to get valuable insights.

But most of the EO data generated is not fully harnessed.
This challenge is posed by the massive nature of the EO data and the technical capacity to easily distribute it.

There are numerous societal benefits from Earth observation data; change detection, situational analysis and predictions. The faster more people can access the data, the easier it will be to put it to use. Gisaïa leverages its expertise in geo big data analytics to accelerate the promotion and valorisation of EO data.

Eureka Meets the Atlantic for wider Copernicus data applications

The “Eureka meets the Atlantic” seeks to advance the European Commission agreement to promote the use of Copernicus images and products generated, for positive impact in various sectors, such as agriculture, forestry, resource optimisation or infrastructure management.

At Gisaïa we have shown diverse use of Copernicus data using our ARLAS framework, a solution that facilitates rapid development of geoanalytics platforms for various use cases.

So, when the Portugal Space Agency put out a call for applications for Startup and SMEs to be part of the entourage going to Rio de Janeiro for the third round of Eureka Meets the Atlantic, we were excited to apply and be chosen among the ten companies on this mission. We will be among Spotlite, Agroinsider, Eyecon Group, Bold Robotics and Spin Works (Portugal), Sentinel Hub (Austria), World From Space (Czech Republic), Lelieur BV (Belgium) and Terradue (Italy) and Gisaia from France.

We use this opportunity to advance our goal to make the massive EO data, including Copernicus data; reachable, exporable and valued. The third Eureka meets the Atlantic will focus on how innovation based on Earth Observation (EO) can be disruptive in the current status quo of the blue economy.

Brazil Earth observation data industry

Brazil is an Earth Observation innovation leader in Latin America. In over 50 years of Earth observation activities, it has shown positive growth in both technological advancement and the societal benefits derived from EO investments. Also, Brazil evolving space governance measures and policies for revamping the country’s space program fosters confidence in their long-term investment in Earth Observation innovations.

Our solutions align with Brazil’s Earth observation sector’s quest to accelerate the EO downstream market for societal benefits, evidenced in their high investment in EO educational programs and innovation like the recent launch of AMAZONIA-1. The EO downstream ecosystem top drivers in Brazil are environmental and resources monitoring, change detection among others.

Brazilian EO sector players thus require solutions that easily facilitate multi-data sources for analytics which we provide. They need to consult data or diverse dimensions and from different sources for deeper insights. ARLAS framework eliminates any challenges linked to silos by merging the data regardless of their dimensions. This provides a powerful tool that will help the Brazilian EO stakeholders to quickly explore Copernicus data and others.

Eureka is the world’s biggest public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation, present in over 45 countries. 

If you are part of the Brazil Earth Observation sector, you can register here to attend the event where our representative will be happy to meet you.

Our team is also available to provide a demonstration of how our solutions can help you go further, faster.

Gisaia
at Paris Space Week

Gisaia will be at Paris Space Week on March 14 - 15, ready to meet and show you how ARLAS Exploration and ARLAS-EO help accelerate Earth observation data exploration and uptake.

February 03, 2022

WHY PARIS SPACE WEEK

Unlike most sectors, Earth Observation sector players do not have many international events that unite stakeholders to explore industry trends. Paris Space Week is one of the few events that bring together many stakeholders from the spatial industry: upstream and downstream markets. Here, participants get to showcase and learn about the latest innovations besides discussing the future of the industry.

This year, Paris Space Week is expecting over 1000 attendees drawn from diverse countries and backgrounds; government, academia, and the private sector. The event presents diverse opportunities for attendees to network through different activities set in their agenda. Gisaïa uses this opportunity to keep up with the industry trends and meet with potential users of our solutions for geo big data analytics.

The Earth observation industry is quickly growing in significance and in size. This is partly due to the increase in new sensors and constellations deployed. They are also of a wide variety and when coupled with innovation in the ground segment, they generate data that is processed and can be distributed widely. The application of artificial intelligence to derive richer analytics and support change detection capabilities helps to reduce the “time to market” from academia to society, for evidence-based decision making. 

EO data’s significance in drawing valuable intelligence to benefit the society is without question. But, the increased data generation is not matched in consumption. That is why Gisaia provides solutions that helps EO sector players to quickly put their data in the hands of those who need it. We will be at the Paris Space Week, 2022 on March 14 -15 where we look forward to interacting, learning and sharing how the Earth observation downstream market growth can be quickly accelerated.

Showcase all available EO data in one place with ARLAS-EO

If you are an Earth Observation provider, you most probably get your products and data from multiple sources. Sometimes the data comes from in-house constellations plus secondary suppliers. Your users may need to access this data from the different sources for a single project. Providing this data on a single platform not only facilitates smooth exploration of the data, it also ensures quick retrieval.   

ARLAS-EO allows you to showcase all your EO data in one place. With the multi-collection feature, users can easily select the data source and even more interesting, select multiple sources to view the available data all at once. Also, for EO data providers, this helps centralise maintenance, support and even supply, eventually limiting costs linked to operations

Now more than ever, data platforms need to be intuitive and responsive besides being informative.

Data-driven evidence with ARLAS Exploration

Gisaia also provides ARLAS-Explo upon which ARLAS-EO  is built. It facilitates geospatial intelligence. Built upon big data frameworks, it scales with your data eliminating the challenges posed by a growing data archive. Arlas-Explo allows EO data users to get deeper insights from their collection, supporting data-driven evidence. You can carry out analytics on various datasets at the same time by easily cross-linking them. This helps save on the time it takes to move from one view to the next or one platform to another. 

ARLAS-Explo is versatile as demonstrated in various applications leveraging Earth observation data: telecommunication, fleet management, insurance, maritime intelligence, among other change detection subjects. Whether you are working on sustainable management of resources, security, or business optimisation linked to Earth observation, our solutions built upon the ARLAS stack are an important brick to support data-driven decision making.

Come meet us at Paris Space Week, booth number S8 where our team will be waiting to hear about your mission and give you live demonstrations of both ARLAS-EO and ARLAS-Explo.

Contact us to book a demo in advance

USING DATA TO DESIGN EFFECTIVE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN AFRICA

Gisaia proposes HAKIKA, a systematic solution to build public transport data banks and geoanalytics for effective public transit planning and management.

May, 19th 2022

UNDERSTANDING THE PUBLIC TRANSPORT NETWORK IN PLACE

In many cities in Africa, public transportation is only licenced by public authorities then run independently by private entities. This means that often, authorities cannot ensure effective services to travellers. Private owners, while providing a valuable service, tend to prioritise  their business interests first. However, they would all benefit from an optimised and well managed transport network .

Authorities want to ensure fair mobility with services reaching as many travellers as possible, while service providers seek fast routes and filling times to optimise their fuel and expenses for positive returns.Therefore, although travellers in Africa want to go far, and fast, like everywhere in the world, they are stuck in the middle with uncertainties at many levels: they cannot confidently say how far they have to walk to catch a bus, when it will show up or how long the journey will take to their destination.

However, these challenges have solutions: Public transport authorities, when equipped with the right tools, can ensure reliable services for the travellers.

They can act as bridges between the service providers and the users to ensure equitable distribution of services.

Among the many indicators on public transport efficiency, there are three key ones. Frequency.  Accessibility.  Reliability. How can authorities assess and gauge them especially in a complex public transport network: many routes, many operators with diverse transport modes?

Gisaïa developed arlas.city to help address this very challenge. arlas.city is a timely solution which offers public transport decision-makers the opportunity to get a global view of the system in place. It merges, realigns and visualises public transport data that is often in silos, over time and space.

Africities presents us with the possibility to meet the relevant public transport stakeholders: authorities, operators and researchers who can take advantage of our project HAKIKA, to develop a robust public transport data bank and explore these data for decision making. HAKIKA is a word in Kiswahili that means: ‘to be sure’. 

THE VALUE OF A PUBLIC TRANSPORT DATA BANK

In the era of big data, Africa is not left behind. From health to education and even technology, in both public and private sectors, Africa is not shy to build digital knowledge bases and consult them for decision making.

But only a few African cities have a public transport data bank, and in fact most cities lack it. This rich resource would not only inform authorities in African cities of their public mobility situation, but it could also allow them to proactively avoid errors made in western countries before they started consulting data ( underserved areas, long waiting times, poor connection between intermode changes, among others) when designing their networks and services. 

Most African cities are young and currently experiencing rapid growth in population, And in Africa, more than anywhere else, city travellers rely on public transportation to meet their social and economic needs. A trend that should be encouraged because shared transportation is shown to have many benefits for both travellers and the environment. The global push to get more people to use shared transportation can be guided in Africa, as it is in other places, by data-based analytics.

The HAKIKA project proposed by Gisaia offers: 

  1. A systematic approach to generate data.
  2. A reliable system to transform the data to global standards
  3. A scalable solution, arlas.city, to put this data insights into the hands of decision makers

To generate the data, HAKIKA relies on a robust device developed by CLS. 

CLS is a company that provides tracking technology for various uses: animals, ships, road vehicles and more. Their solution is based on satellite technology to guarantee systematic and uninterrupted data collection. 

To transform the data, Gisaia leverages its data engineering and data scientists team : they use machine learning to produce algorithms to standardise the data. This step gives the data points generated the capacity to be extensively analysed and to provide valuable insights on the service offer.

But data banks are only useful when exploited.

 

DATA-BACKED DECISION MAKING

The value of generating and maintaining a public transport data bank is to use it for service optimisation for effective public mobility. 

HAKIKA’s third axis is based on arlas.city, a powerful geoanalytics cloud solution built on the latest big data technologies.

This allows arlas.city users anywhere, anytime to explore, visualise and analyse massive and diverse public transit data. Authorities can, for instance, use it to quickly identify bottlenecks. They can also identify underserved, or overserviced areas, and take action to ensure more efficient and equitable services.

Contact us to book a demo in advance

arlas.city

FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT DATA ANALYTICS

Gisaia was at Autonomy Paris presenting arlas.city to authorities, operators and researchers for public transport data-backed decision making.

March 24, 2022

Unlocking data silos for a global viewPublic Transport Optimisation Grounded on Data

All the investment that has been made in public transportation can only be maximised if residents believe that they can rely on the system. But how can authorities and operators measure this? Gisaïa developed arlas.city to help address this very challenge.

arlas.city is a timely solution which presents public transport decision-makers with the opportunity to not only study current network challenges but to also go back in time and learn from service gaps. arlas.city merges, realigns and visualises public transport data that is often in silos, over time and space for a global view of the entire network. 

 Autonomy Paris presented us with the possibility to meet the relevant public transport stakeholders: authorities, operators and researchers. 

Responding to Travellers Needs

COVID-19 triggered many questions on the future of public mobility. While we are witnessing changes in lifestyle that also impact mass transit,  we know that the surest way to understand these changes lies in rigorous monitoring and analysis. This is where data plays a key role. Now more than ever, public transport decision makers need data-backed decisions.

Effective public transportation is marked by user appreciation which is indicated by; increased uptake, service endorsement and reduced personal vehicles use. This is easily achieved once flow bottlenecks are eliminated and access is promoted. 

Shared mass transportation is of course one of the sustainable means of travelling. When it works well, everyone benefits. We know that we are offering an important piece of the puzzle to present a global view of the data, leading to tangible solutions. 

arlas.city is built upon open-source technology making it easily customisable and extendable. It does not come with fixed analytics dashboards. Users can create new indicators based on their needs. In France, it is UGAP certified for easier acquisition. 

Public Transport Optimisation Grounded on Data

arlas.city can be used anywhere in the world where public transport data lies in silos to support data-backed decisions for optimised public transport services.

So, Autonomy Paris, an international mobility event, was not only a place to showcase our solution, we also wanted to use this opportunity to learn about public transport needs and trends. The event allowed us to contribute to the big picture, addressing effective public transportation for travellers of diverse needs. 

The future of efficient, reliable and appreciated public transportation lies in harnessing the power at hand; looking deeply at the information nested in the voluminous data generated everyday, in the public transport sector. 

If you stopped by our booth, you probably had a chance to exchange with the team and get a live demo of arlas.city. If you did not and would love to, get in touch and we will give a demonstration of how you can make the most of your data to optimise public transportation.

Contact us to book a demo in advance

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

  1. The service: level of utility, added value,
  2. The innovative nature of the project
  3. Potential economic benefits: visibility and development potential of the project
  4. The ability to be experimented (the quality of the protocol and the monitoring of uses)
  5. Interoperability and reuse
  6. 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

 About Gisaïa:

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

ITS Congress in hamburg

INNOVATING FOR THE FUTURE OF MASS TRANSIT & FLEET MANAGEMENT

October 04, 2021

THE TREND POST COVID 19

Globally, property pricing has always been tied to essential amenities. As agents often say “Location. Location. Location.” Up in the list of coveted ‘should haves’ is ‘public transport nearest to me’. The ‘near me’ phenomena means that people are increasingly demanding easily accessible efficient services from their mass transit providers. 

Google trends record of the searches with the term ‘near me’ between 2004-2021

Even with COVID 19’s triggered migration out of city centres (where public transportation is often better connected) to suburbs, properties closer to public transportation still top buyers’ and renters’ requirements. This means that public transport has a future way beyond COVID 19. Current data already shows positive heat maps around mass transit areas. Decision makers are of course interested in the trend as they seek to optimise their offer. The answers they know, lie in analysing past activities against new trends. Historical and real data merged into one platform can start drawing a clear picture.

OPTIMISING TRANSPORTATION SERVICES WITH DATA

Arlas.city is designed to help authorities and operators to have a global view of their offer and make necessary changes backed by data. As the near me trend continues, a great combination of key user indicators; frequency, accessibility and reliability offers services that ensures riders get as close as possible to their destination, and in the least amount of time. These indicators are already set in arlas.city. But that’s not all, there is room to add as many datasets as required to expand the analytics for even more nuanced analysis.’

Isochrons calculations of the Toulouse mass transit network showing how much time it takes to go from one point to diverse destinations.

ITS CONGRESS IN HAMBURG 

The need for better systems often draws the mobility sector together to explore innovative ways to move the industry forward. One such event is the  ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) Congress which is one of the biggest occasions that brings together the mobility industry to discuss smart mobility and the digitalisation of transport. The event takes either as a regional or global assembly. This year, Hamburg will be hosting the world congress from the 11th to the 15th of October. It is a great platform to promote innovative solutions for sustainable mobility. The participants, who are also drawn from the mass transit sector, are invited to ‘Experience Future Mobility Now’. The event offers various activities; exhibitions, academic track, plenary sessions, thematic conferences and live demonstrations.

ITS Congress Hamburg  2021 already has over 300 exhibitors confirmed, and expects over 15,000 visitors invested in the transit industry from all over the world, including public transport authorities and operators who will be seeking solutions for smarter, cleaner and greener mobility. 

Gisaïa is part of the Business France entourage. We will be happy to receive congress participants at the French Pavilion to demonstrate our solutions for data-backed decisions for public transportation and fleet management analytics

You can book a live demo with us during your visit by sending an email to: contact@gisaia.com .

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

ALSO SEE

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 ARLASframework has been tried and tested in diverse use cases for geospatial intelligence, especially in Earth observation data value creation. The ARLASframework 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.

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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