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UK - Space Capabilities Catalogue
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PREFACE
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CATAPULT PROGRAMMES
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THE UK SPACE INDUSTRY
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INTRODUCTION
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AGRICULTURAL - TECHNOLOGY
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30Mhz
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Abaco Group
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Agricompas
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Agrii
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Agrimetrics Ltd
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AgSpace Agriculture Ltd
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BASF
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Cervest
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Cultinova
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Earth Rover
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Ecometrica
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Environment Systems
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Global Surface Intelligence (GSI)
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GroundData
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HayBeeSee
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Hummingbird Technologies
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KisanHub
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Mantle Labs
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Map of Agriculture
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Muddy Boots
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Remote Sensing Applications Consultants Ltd (RSAC)
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RHEA Group
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RHIZA
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Small Robot Company
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Soil Essentials
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The Institute of Environmental Analytics (IEA)
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Vega
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WeatherSafe
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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
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James Hutton Institute
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The John Innes Centre
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National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB)
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Rolin Technologies
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Rothamsted
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Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
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UK Centres of Agricultural Innovation
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ACADEMIA
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EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
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BioCarbon Engineering Ltd
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Carbomap Ltd
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Carrak Consulting Ltd
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CGG
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Cornish Lithium Ltd
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decisionLab
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DigitalGlobe (Maxar)
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Element AI
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HR Wallingford
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North Coast Consulting Ltd (NCC)
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Spottitt Ltd
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Telespazio VEGA UK Ltd
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Terrabotics Ltd
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Terravision Exploration
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ATEC-3D
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DriverNet
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Energeo
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Focal Point Positioning
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Grid Smarter Cities
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Humanising Autonomy
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Immense Simulations
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IMR Technologies UK
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IPoint Technology
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Lacuna Networks Ltd
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Microlise
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Moniteye
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Ridersmate Ltd
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Valerann
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VolkerHighways
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Yatto
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ACADEMIA
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HEALTH AND WELLBEING
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CorporateHealth International UK Ltd (CHI)
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Docobo Ltd
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Mapmyhealth Ltd
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Odin Medical Ltd
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Sarissa Biomedical Ltd
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Spirit Healthcare Ltd
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TekiHealth
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Ufonia Ltd
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GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE
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Archangel Imaging
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Astrosat
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Esri (UK) Ltd
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Geospatial Insight
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Geospock
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iGeolise
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Ito
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Oxbotica
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Precision Decisions
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The Geolnformation Group
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Treemetrics Ltd
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Veripos Ltd
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ONS Data Science Campus
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Ordnance Survey
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Roke Manor Research
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UK Hydrographic Office
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EARTH OBSERVATION
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Astigan Ltd
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Bird.i
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Deep Planet
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Earth-i
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eOsphere
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exactEarth
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GeoCento
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Oxford Earth Observation (OxEO)
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Spacemetric Ltd
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Specto Natura (SN)
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The Land App
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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Aurora-Ai
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Darktrace
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Filament
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iAbra
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Logical Glue
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Ryelore AI
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SenSat
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Terrabotics
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Tractable
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Tumbling Dice
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Xihelm
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AAC Clyde Space
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DataSat Communications Ltd
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DDK Positioning
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Iotic Labs Ltd
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Isotropic Systems, Inc
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Livewire Digital Ltd
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Novocomms Limited (NVC)
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RigNet
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
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Airbus Defence & Space Ltd
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Albora
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Altitude Angel
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BDE Space
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BSC Filters
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Caribou Digital (UK) Ltd
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CGI IT UK Ltd
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Cobham RAD Europe
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Inmarsat Global Limited
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MiX Telematics Europe
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NSSLGlobal UK
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PhiPhase
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Viasat
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Wireless Innovation Ltd
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ACCESS TO SPACE
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Added Value Solutions (AVS)
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Alba Orbital
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Astroscale
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Avanti
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Black Arrow Space Technologies
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Bright Ascension
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Craft Prospect
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Effective Space
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GMV-UK
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Goonhilly Earth Station
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Horizon Technologies
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Infinite Orbits
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InSpace Missions
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Kayser Space
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Kepler Communications Inc
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Lift Me Off
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Lockheed Martin UK Strategy
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Systems Methera
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NanoAvionics
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OneWeb
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Open Cosmos
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Orbital Express Launch Ltd (Orbex)
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Orbital Micro Systems (OMS)
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Oxford Space Systems
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QinetiQ
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RAL Space
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SciSys Space
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Sen Corporation Ltd
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Sky and Space Global (SAS)
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Skyrora Ltd
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Spaceport Cornwall
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Surface Technology International (STI)
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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL)
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Surrey Space Centre
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Thales Alenia Space
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EXPLORE NEW MARKETS
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AECOM Infrastructure & Environment Ltd
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Ambiental
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ARGANS Ltd
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City Science
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Deimos Space
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Geomatic Ventures Ltd
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Rezatec
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SCISYS UK Ltd
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Stratian
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Tactical Wireless Ltd (TWL)
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Wolfram Research Europe Limited
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AEON
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Aetheric Engineering
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Andrew Cutts
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Atrium Space Insurance Consortium
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ESA BIC UK
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Geoger Ltd
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Ove Arup & Partners International Ltd
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Rheinberry
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PREFACE
The world is in the early stages of a new
By connecting industry and academia, we
digital
get new research off the ground and into
revolution,
with
space
technology
increasingly at its heart. Satellites are now critical infrastructure, as
fundamental
to
the
global economy as the energy grid or the internet. Whether monitoring global weather or keeping
the
world’s
population
connected,
located and informed, there is virtually no aspect of modern life satellites do not enhance. From
manufacturing
satellites
to
delivering
data services, the UK space sector has always been commercially orientated. The industry is now worth
some
economy
and
billion of this total.
£14.8
billion
exports
to
the
represent
UK £5.5
With a 3.3% annual growth
rate and 948 ‘live’ organisations, the sector is mature,
widespread
and
boasts
an
exceptionally highly-skilled workforce. The
international
space
sector
is
currently
undergoing a significant change. The industry is less dependent on major government contracts for large-scale infrastructure and is moving towards commercial services provided by privately funded organisations. In the UK, our industry is ideally
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placed to exploit this new-space revolution.
the market more quickly. We help organisations make use of and benefit from
satellite
technologies,
bringing
together multi-disciplinary teams to generate ideas and solutions in an open innovation environment. In
collaboration
with
our
partners
within government, academia and business we continue to inspire innovation and support the development of commercial products and services across UK businesses. Through the exploitation of satellite applications, together we can deliver new benefits to society and grow the satellite applications sector sustainably for even greater success. To this end, we are pleased to bring together in this document a brief introduction to a diverse range of successful companies in the UK Space Sector. These companies span a wide range of disciplines and are grouped by the industries they serve. By increasing the visibility of the capabilities of UK space companies we hope to stimulate future collaborations and new
The Satellite Applications Catapult is at the heart
business as well as innovative new solutions for
of UK industry, with a strong track record of
customers and end users.
helping businesses, areas and regions unlock customer demand, open new markets, drive exports, attract investment and create new jobs. We work with businesses of all sizes to realise their potential from space infrastructure and its
Innovating for a better world, empowered by satellites. Mark
Chief
Innovation
Satellite Applications Catapult
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CATAPULT PROGRAMMES
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Geospatial Intelligence - We help businesses use the intelligence from the rapidly increasing scale of satellite and related geospatial data to place the UK at the forefront of the fourth industrial revolution. We are also a global focal point for geospatially empowered industries including transport, agriculture, energy and financial services. Ubiquitous Connectivity - By combining and nurturing the UK’s worldleading capabilities, we accelerate UK industry to be well placed, both in capacity and global reach, to meet global opportunities covering telecommunications, aviation, satellites and automotive. By taking leadership in connectivity and geospatial intelligence to build a space-enabled economy, the UK will capitalise on growing global digital markets such as Intelligent Transport, Sustainable Living, Blue Economy and Government Services. These four programmes are at the centre of the Catapult’s strategy and focus on areas of high potential growth for satellite applications. They are designed to help organisations advance existing technology or create new products and services, unlock demand for solutions and demonstrate what spacederived services can make possible. They showcase UK capability in using satellite applications to tackle real-world problems, which opens new markets, drives exports and creates jobs. Our strength is being a neutral, trusted partner that can work in diverse markets and do anything from innovating and developing technology to facilitating introductions between organisations where we recognise potential benefits. Many of the projects in our four Market Programmes link to the Grand Challenges within the Government’s Industrial Strategy: for example, satellite connectivity, artificial intelligence and big data will be crucial enablers for the health of the UK population and link to the Grand Challenge of Ageing Society. Other projects are closely related to AI and data, clean growth and future of mobility challenges.
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Two key trends present a global economic opportunity for the UK satellite applications sector: geospatial intelligence - an ever-growing demand for data that is accurate, personalised, localised and available globally in real-time, and ubiquitous connectivity – everything connected, everywhere for everyone.
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AGRICULTURE
Space-enabled services will help us produce food for a growing population and manage scarce resources efficiently and sustainably. Sustainable business models could open economic opportunities worth $12 trillion and up to 380 million jobs by 2030 . Increasing demand and global population growth is putting intense stress on our natural resources. Satellites can inform us of the status of the environment anywhere around the world and alert us quickly if anything changes, benefitting both people and wildlife. Satellites can also support industries as diverse as agriculture and mining, boosting productivity and reducing both cost and environmental impact. Satellites can inform us of the status of the environment anywhere around the world and alert us quickly if anything changes, benefitting both people and wildlife.
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Improving Supply Chains We continue to grow our presence in Latin America, where this year we’ve seen the launch of our COLombian COcoa (COLCO) project. COLCO involves developing an integrated quality control system to monitor the entire Colombian cacao supply chain, covering both production and post-harvest processes. By supporting improved quality and volume of cocoa production through increased monitoring, certification and localised processing, the aim is that farmers’ income will increase. In particular, we’re focussing on increasing volume by improving the yield of cacao-producing land, to avoid deforestation. COLCO will also result in: - Better pest and disease control/planning - Reduced spoilage and waste - Improved enforcement of food safety and public health regulations - Enhanced social and environmental sustainability COLCO is funded by the Newton-Caldas fund via Innovate UK, with partners including the Manufacturing Technology Centre (part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult), Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International and Cervest in the UK, and CHCh and the Federation for Cacao Producers, Fedecacao, in Colombia. We’re now exploring expansion into other supply chains.
Managing Deforestation Earth And Sea Observation System (EASOS) Another major project in development this year has been ForestMind – a supply chain traceability concept initiated by Sainsbury’s. The Consumer Goods Forum has long pledged to achieve zero net deforestation in its members’ supply chains, but to date there has been no neutral entity to provide the actionable intelligence needed to prove compliance. This is what ForestMind will address. Building on the successful business model pioneered by our spinout OceanMind, which provides similar intelligence to combat illegal and unregulated fishing, ForestMind will be powered by the technology behind the Earth and Sea Observation System (EASOS) and leverage world-leading UK capabilities in geospatial analytics, supply chain policy, traceability and deforestation risk analysis.
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We’re now in the final stages of agreeing funding from the European Space Agency and the UK Space Agency. When ForestMind is live, organisations in the supply chain will be able to verify deforestation impact claims, make responsible purchasing decisions and demonstrate their commitment to customers and other stakeholders.
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EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
The majority of global mining players have a presence in the UK (Glencore, BHB Billiton, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Vedanta Resources). Their combined revenues in 2018 are predicted to be £266bn. The International Council on Mining and Metals is based in London. The UK has three of the world’s top ten mining engineering schools: University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and Imperial College London. This provides a great community for large UK organisations and SMEs to develop mining products and services. Declining productivity has led to a new digital movement within the industry, “Intelligent Mining” and near real-time information is driving evidence-based decision making and is providing geological insight on the national to local scale. The support for complimentary technologies is also significant, with the application of AI and big data being one of the industrial grand challenges that the UK is helping to adress.
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Avoiding Disaster The Brumadinho tailings dam disaster in January 2019 Brazil was devastating. However, it was not an isolated occurrence. There have been 185 similar events recorded in the last decade, 11 of them resulting in serious failure. There is a compelling rationale for major changes in the regulatory frameworks relating to extractive industries, and the implementation of new standards and practices to avoid more incidents. Satellites, combined with complementary data and advanced processing, can help drive this change. A number of stakeholders are already moving in this direction. We are working with them on a range of initiatives to provide situational awareness and reduce the risk of failures in future. One example is the UK Space Agency funded project DAMSAT, which is being led by HR Wallingford. This project is providing a proof of concept of an economical way to remotely measure displacements of tailings dams and other mining infrastructure.
Operational Monitoring In Colombia, we are leading the GAIA SPACE project, developing a secure environmental monitoring service for strategic decision-making. It will provide frequently updated data and alerts of mining activity to regulatory and enforcement authorities to increase operational efficiency and coordination. Funded through the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme (IPP), GAIA SPACE is being designed and developed by a multidisciplinary consortium of UK and Colombian partners. These include academic institutions, not-for-profit innovation companies, environmental sustainability consultants and technology development experts.
Improving Stakeholder Trust
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Social License to Operate (SLO) refers to the acceptance or approval by the public of a company’s practices and procedures, which for the extractive industries includes local communities approving of mining operations in their hometowns. SLO gives communities the power to delay or even stop mines already in operation. When this happens, it is often caused by a lack of trust and communication between the commercial mining companies and local stakeholders, which may include communities, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), multilateral banks and governments. We’re exploring how to redefine social engagement using satellite data (commercial and open), analytics and web tools to create a transparent, visually intuitive and quantified baseline identifying the status of an area of interest prior to any mining activity and investment. In turn, this is enabling UK businesses to enter this global industry and to become more confident in their reliance on accurate satellite data.
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Integrated communication and navigation will allow faster, more efficient transport by road, rail, sea and air, generating less pollution and improving connections between communities. The global market for Intelligent Mobility was worth £140 billion in 2014 and will grow to £900 billion by 2025 . The Intelligent Transport programme is supporting the UK to become a world leader in the ‘Future of Mobility’. Our research shows innovative and advanced satellite enabled technologies make transportation systems safer and increase the efficiency of existing transport infrastructure. We are working with partners to deliver ground-breaking solutions to improve road safety, tackle congestion and smooth traffic flow. In turn, this will have beneficial effects on the environment leading to a reduction in air and noise pollution. As the market transitions towards the use of autonomous vehicles we will see demand for ubiquitous connectivity rise. Companies will continue to use real-time data to inform and manage our transportation systems. However, they are rapidly moving towards using the time spent in-transit to sell, entertain and enhance the customer experience. We have strong traction from activities to date, our 5G Step-Out Centre will help the Catapult and industry create, test and commercialise hybrid satellite 5G terminals. By demonstrating hybrid connectivity, we have influenced major UK satellite operators, positioning them to optimise the global market for automotive connectivity. 016
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Automotive 5G Step-Out Centre at Westcott This is a joint £1m funded venture between the Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (BTVLEP) and the Satellite Applications Catapult, focused on resilient communications. It offers an open and accessible UK test centre for all International Telecommunications Union (ITU) primitives providing total standardised commercial off the shelf (COTS) testing facilities. It also offers test and development OFCOM licences from 700Mhz to 4200Mhz and satellite and terrestrial capabilities. LightBar Connectivity anywhere, anytime for mission-critical data and services The Lightbar Project, in collaboration with Inmarsat and the University of Swansea, will deliver connectivity anywhere, anytime for mission-critical data and services. This in-vehicle system seamlessly switches between terrestrial and satellite communication networks and prioritises data according to the situation. We aim to provide multiple users with continuous coverage for critical applications used by the emergency services and other professional vehicle operators by 2020. With integration of on-board devices, emergency services will always be able to receive and send data, improving situational awareness and response times. Supported by the Home Office, LightBar will benefit both the emergency services and the wider UK economy. Ubiquitous connectivity with consistent bandwidth performance makes resilient positioning and intelligent routing data available to dispatch stations. Working to save lives this vital data makes it possible to optimise routes to increase the available work time, reduce drive times and fuel consumption. I_HeERO From April 2018 a new European Union initiative takes effect called eCall. The eCall system is a satellite enabled automotive technology installed in all new motorcycles, cars and light commercial vehicles sold within the EU. The aim is to bring rapid assistance to motorists involved in a collision anywhere in the EU. The system is activated by the driver or automatically in the event of a serious accident and will then dial the 112 European emergency telephone number. Airbag deployment and impact sensor information, as well as GPS co-ordinates are sent wirelessly to local emergency services.
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The Catapult demonstrated the eCall system, to highlight the value of a satellite enabled automotive technology at the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Congress in Strausberg. This demonstration came as the result of a collaboration with IMR-Tech (an Australian company). We invited IMR-Tech to attend an I_HeERO event and they have subsequently benefitted from Catapult services including business support and providing input into future strategy options for eCall. Since then, IMR-Tech have registered a UK business. We are now working to establish a UK research base for the company. In addition to this we negotiated an opportunity for them to join the SAFE proposal and they have been included in an ESA eCall bid. The IMR-Tech ‘SafeGuard’ device provides a Cloud based solution that can be retrofitted to any vehicle regardless of make and model and is currently on sale in Australia. The company is now looking to fulfil opportunities in Asia, Europe, Middle East and the UK.
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HEALTH & WELLBEING
Satellite connectivity and geospatial solutions can be used to create smart solutions that reduce costs and increase productivity. They can help government services – local, national and international – to make informed decisions that impact both people and places. Satellites can help deal with the emerging issues of an ageing society and the delivery of healthcare services, especially in remote communities. The global digital health market is expected to grow to £43 billion by 2018. One area where satellites are making a major impact is in health and wellbeing, by helping us to deliver improvements in patient care that are sustainable and generate impact for businesses. This is particularly useful in rural areas, where poor connectivity limits access to developments in digital health that support healthy ageing. Improvements for over-65s, the fastest growing, highest cost healthcare demographic (£46 billion) could offer incredible economic benefits. Satellites are making a major impact in health and wellbeing, by helping us to deliver improvements in patient care that are sustainable and generate impact for businesses.
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Highlands and Islands Enterprise – Using satellite data for life sciences and healthcare We have worked with the Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) over a number of years on projects where satellite technology could benefit remote and rural areas. Initially, together with Tactical Wireless, we developed Satellite Ultrasound for Rural Stroke (SURS); portable technology that takes a stream of images that can be sent back from remote areas to a hospital or GP surgery for assessment. This initiative is now being rolled out to more areas of the UK and has located Tactical Wireless in the Highlands, where it is forecast to generate 50 new jobs.
PillCam Alongside RAPID, we supported Corporate Health International (CHI), a Danish company, in trials focussing on the use of ‘capsule endoscopy’, known as PillCam™, for early diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases. These range from inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) to bowel cancer; the latter being the only cancer that can be fully prevented if its precursors – polyps – are detected early. The vast majority of endoscopies are undertaken at clinics with expensive, invasive technologies, but this project showed it is possible to use satellite connectivity to shift the diagnosis process away from clinics and into people’s homes. This eliminates travel time and costs, reduces the load on clinics and improves the patient experience. This service is operational today in Denmark and they are now looking at implementing it in the Scottish Highlands. The project influenced CHI’s decision to invest in Scotland, where it plans to create jobs from 2019.
NHS Arden & GEM Partnership
Highlands and Islands Enterprise – Using satellite data for life sciences and healthcare
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We recently formalised our partnership with NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (Arden & GEM) to further our joint work on embedding satellite technology within digital healthcare. We have already successfully collaborated with NHS Arden & GEM on initiatives to manage long-term conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and diabetes, and they worked with us on the AID-GI project. Now, we will pursue a range of initiatives through this partnership, including an 18-month ESAfunded project looking at air quality, which is a major threat to health in the UK – some 40,000 premature deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution. We will also be working on a demonstrator for ambulance connectivity. This partnership follows the announcement in June 2018 that the UK Space Agency would be working with NHS England on a joint initiative to improve patient care worth up to £4 million.
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GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE
The geospatial industry was valued at an c. $299.2bn in 2017 and is projected to reach $439.2bn by 2020 as it finds growing adoption in planning, utilities management, e-governance, applications, retail and logistics, disaster management, and various other applications. Satellite observations are a key component and growing rapidly. In 2017, there were 620 EOrelated satellites in orbit. This will grow to 1,500+ by 2025. With the exponential data growth, AI will allow rapid development of highly bespoke services at lower cost and time than today. This will result in faster start-up emergence, accelerated growth, and scaling of SMEs. The UK is considered first in the world for governmental AI readiness, reflecting the UK’s capability to absorb and exploit the innovative potential of AI. The UK is also ranked first for satellite and commercial applications regarding the international research base and a recent geospatial survey ranked the UK as number two globally for geospatial readiness. There is a good business base with potential for growth, as seven of the top 100 geospatial start-ups in the UK (63 are in the US).
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Artifical Intelligence (AI) and machine learning hold enormous potential for ‘good’ when used alongside satellite data, but much of the UK’s AI expertise is held within academia. In 2018, the Catapult collaborated with the University of Oxford and the European Space Agency (ESA) to establish Frontier Development Lab (FDL) Europe – an intensive, eight-week summer sprint for researchers to develop new tools using AI and space data to solve major real-world problems and encourage them to consider careers in the sector. Small teams with specialisms in AI, data science and space were supported by ESA and other partners to produce workable ideas with potential for future development. Catapult experts provided guidance, plus access to ground truth maps and highresolution data that would otherwise be costly and difficult to obtain. One team applied machine learning to satellite imagery to quickly produce maps of buildings affected by flooding, generating interest from UNICEF. The second developed a system for detecting and mapping informal settlements using only lowresolution Sentinel-2 imagery. The aim is that both will now be developed into functional tools.
Orbital Witness Promoting entrepreneurship is crucial for the Catapult. Our 10% Time Programme lets staff validate a business idea with our support in return for part-ownership when the company is spun out. Orbital Witness is one such idea, combining space technology with traditional real estate law, identifing legal risks associated with property transactions. As well as raising over £1.2million in Series A funding in the last year and winning grants from Innovate UK and the European Space Agency, it has also signed contracts with major companies in the legal, insurance and retail sectors.
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Launched in September 2018, NovaSAR-1 is a small synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mission that was designed for low-cost programmes. The UK has access to 15% of the acquisition schedule of NovaSAR and we’re assisting the UK Space Agency in managing this quota via the Sentinel Data Access Service (SEDAS). 2019 saw us add extra storage to the Climate, Environment and Monitoring from Space (CEMS) facility to store the data, which will be available via the SEDAS portal. NovaSAR data applications include Precision Agriculture, Forestry, Disaster monitoring and Security.
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UBIQUITOUS CONNECTIVITY
Without ubiquitous connectivity, we will experience an increasing digital divide that disadvantages rural communities and limits national productivity. To accelerate the economic benefits of connectivity across all users, vehicles, and businesses, we must seek to combine and nurture the UK’s world-leading capabilities. This will underpin the UK’s position as a leader in AI and the data economy. With appropriate investment and government interventions in standards, policies, and regulatory frameworks, there is an anticipated 50% penetration increase of satellite connectivity into future mobility systems on a global basis by 2030. This represents a potential market value exceeding £500bn, covering manufacturing and distribution, satellite infrastructure deployment and operation, and connectivity service provision. The Automotive sector is predicted to account for 55m IoT connections by 2024, representing more than a third of all connections. The UK is engaging with activities that shall create resilient services. This will contribute to productivity increases, particularly autonomous vehicles where £20bn of UK productivity impact is expected in 2030.
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5G-MOBIX The huge step up in performance offered by 5G mobile networks holds potential for a range of new applications. Hence we are very excited to be involved in one of the largest related global projects: 5G-MOBIX. Launched in November 2018, 5G-MOBIX is an H2020 project that will evaluate the benefits of 5G for connected and automated vehicles. Trials will take place on roads across EU countries, including cross-border and urban corridors, and in China and South Korea. The project will enable innovative automated driving applications from both technical and business perspectives, as well as considering local legal, business and social aspects. 5G-MOBIX is co-funded by the EU and led by ERTICO – ITS Europe. Of the 46 partners, we are the only one from the UK, with our Westcott centre chosen as the location for the development and testing of key technologies prior to deployment at the trial sites. Our work will create significant opportunities for UK industry and place the UK space sector in a strategic position within the 5G landscape.
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
Global markets and businesses are being transformed by UK applications in AI and autonomy. The wireless and digital technology innovations are underpinning a massive increase in capability of new satellites, with digital manufacturing lowering the cost of access to space, creating the era of “New Space�, where satellites are becoming commoditised. The UK's ability to create digital representations and rapidly design, implement, test and operate new technologies in orbit, as well as the ability to access petabytes of data, and create seamless global mesh networks for billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is stimulating innovation in new business models. Emerging technologies are at the core of all of these and will continue to shape the future of the satellite industry presenting a wealth of opportunities for development and integration into systems, products, and services.
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Enabling Seamless Connectivity There’s increasing demand for vehicles to be seamlessly connected to the internet at high speed and low cost. This is being driven by ever-improving autonomy, infotainment, and emergency and location-based services. By 2022, 320 million cars will be ‘connected’, generating US$155 billion of secure and connected services*. Our CASSIS 2 project (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System) is addressing this by developing, demonstrating and commercialising all the satellite elements needed for vehicle connectivity: − A compact, light, low-cost, satellite-terrestrial hybrid vehicle terminal based on technology that’s scalable to accommodate different applications and price points. − A flexible, high capacity satellite payload for high bandwidth connectivity. − Critical services for vehicles, requiring ubiquitous and continuous connectivity. CASSIS is supported by Innovate UK and the European Space Agency under the Advanced Research Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme. The Technology Phase kicked off in January 2019, with product integration and lab tests planned for 2020, and in situ field testing and demonstrations in 2021, stages which further support the development of manufacturing and supply chain provision in the UK. * PwC; Connected car report 2016; Opportunities, risk, and turmoil on the road to autonomous vehicles
Reducing Emergency Response Times Fast response times are crucial following serious car accidents. People who receive treatment within the first 60 minutes have up to a 50% higher chance of survival and there is a significant reduction in long-term disability. That’s why the European Union’s eCall road safety initiative is vital, aiming to reduce emergency services response times by 50% in rural areas and 60% in built-up areas. In vehicles with eCall enabled, calls to the 112 European emergency number are triggered either by the driver or the system itself, with GPS co-ordinates, airbag deployment and impact sensor information then sent to the local emergency services.
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Our involvement in the I_HeERO project has helped to deliver the necessary infrastructure upgrades to support eCall, which is now mandatory on all new motorcycles, cars and light trucks in the EU. We were involved in demonstrating the benefits of satellite technologies as part of such a system with a view to driving inward investment, business creation and growth across the 11 participating EU Member States and 58 commercial partners.
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Companies innovating in the New Space market have attracted $18bn in investment in 412 companies since 2009. SpaceWorks is predicting 2,600 satellites to launch over the next 5 years. The UK is a market leader (~20-40% share) but needs to ensure that market position continues. Low cost launch is enabling new opportunities. The global space launch services market will grow from $8.88bn in 2017 to $27.18bn by 2025. The UK is developing a small satellite vertical launch facility in Sutherland, Scotland and a horizontal launch spaceport in Cornwall. The in-orbit servicing market is growing and predicted to be $300m by 2027. This is a first step toward in orbit manufacture which will open new horizons for the space sector. Four of the top new in orbit servicing businesses have a presence in the UK due to the UK’s regulatory environment and presence of major constellation operators.
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In-Orbit Demonstration This year saw a significant milestone in our In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) programme as the first mission was launched into space. IOD-1 GEMS, with its lightweight weather data payload from Orbital Micro Systems, was dispatched to Nanoracks in February 2019, and then delivered to the International Space Station in April for launch. The IOD programme enables organisations to demonstrate their technology on CubeSat platforms. Also this year: − IOD-3 AMBER was upgraded to a 6U CubeSat and awarded to Horizon Technologies for an adapted version of its FlyingFish™ system for tracking vessels at sea − IOD-4 opened for applications − IOD-5 TARS will be Kepler Communications’ final prototype for its GEN1 low Earth orbit constellation. This partnership will also see Kepler build a UK supply chain for its new satellite constellation with overall service capability for Kepler estimated to be a around £71 million by 2022 − IOD-2 and IOD-6 are progressing and announcements will be made soon. Open Cosmos will provide a one-stop mission package for IOD-6, marking the start of a commercially sustainable service in this field. This follows their use of our new Disruptive Innovation for Space Centre (DISC) to effectively grow its business, which has seen staff levels rising sharply, recruiting 30 people in 2018 and doubling in size every 6 months. In addition, we’ve been working with Infostellar to provide enhanced access to our ground station at Goonhilly and plan to extend the IOD programme with more missions.
National In-Orbit Servicing Facility Servicing satellites and removing space debris is a significant challenge, so we have started working on an in-orbit servicing system based on advanced robotics. The project, led by Astroscale and funded by the Robots for a Safer World Industrial Strategy Challenge will also create a new national satellite operations centre at Harwell.
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The new facility will enable UK companies to unlock opportunities in space debris removal, in-orbit satellite servicing and other autonomous robotic applications. The partnership with Astroscale which has already increased its headcount to 17 from 4 is the beginning of an exciting period which includes the creation of the In-Orbit Servicing and Manufacturing Working Group to help position the UK as a major player in this global market.
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EXPLORING NEW MARKETS
The Catapult is focused on a number of specific market areas, but we are committed to remaining open to new opportunities that reside in other sectors. Our Explore Markets programme ensures that we remain conscious of this need, undertaking ongoing market assessments across all potential market sectors and making informed decisions to guide us on our future focus and activities. This research allows us to characterise each market, assess its potential for the space community and if appropriate, build up a strategy and programme of work that would enable us to support that market effectively.
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Monitoring Fishing Activity Monitoring fishing vessels after they left sight of shore was once impossible, but our OceanMind project challenged that notion and successfully proved that it was possible to tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. As a result of this success, in July 2018 OceanMind was spun out of the Catapult as a separate, not-forprofit limited company, with support from DRK Foundation and Pew Charitable Trusts. Since then, the OceanMind team has doubled in size, with experts in monitoring from all over the world now working alongside them. In its first 9 months, it had a turnover of £1.1 million. OceanMind continues to work with projects such as the UK Government’s Blue Belt Programme and has a growing roster of commercial and governmental clients. OceanMind won the ‘SeaWeb Seafood Champion Award for Innovation’ 2019 and in January 2019 it received a grant from Microsoft’s AI for Earth programme to scale up the use of artificial intelligence in detecting fishing activities.
The Spatial Finance Initiative By integrating Earth observation data, remote sensing and machine learning with financial systems, it’s possible to transform the availability of information in such systems and change how risks, opportunities and impacts are measured and managed by financial institutions. This is ‘spatial finance’. In February 2019, we launched the Spatial Finance Initiative in the City of London. This collaboration between the Catapult, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and the City of London Green Finance Initiative will undertake world-leading research into the opportunities that spatial finance offers, and channel the findings into real-world, finance-related applications. We are now establishing an Advisory Board, planning a follow-on event and setting up the Initiative’s first research project. The team will work closely with the finance community and geospatial and financial services organisations to translate its research into practical and pre-operational products and services.
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Raising awareness of the value of geospatial solutions in a market where adoption is currently low is expected to result in job creation and increased revenues for commercial, not for profit and academic organisations in the UK.
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THE UK SPACE INDUSTRY
Satellites
a
critical
infrastructure,
as
fundamental to the global economy as the energy
with income forecasted to grow further by 4.8% to £15.5 billion in 2017/18.
grid or internet. Space is a UK success story. Upstream contributes £2.4 billion to the £14.8 From
manufacturing
data services,
the
satellites UK
to
space
always
been commercially
2000,
coordinated industry
delivering
sector
orientated.
at £12.4 billion.
Since Although, generally, most activities saw growth in
actions have trebled the size of the sector. With
the UK, Space Manufacturing was the engine for
3.3% annual growth and one third of our outputs
growth (27% growth per annum), contributing three
exported, space now supports 15.3%
quarters of the overall change in total income.
GDP
-
some
£300bn.
and
has
billion, though the downstream still dominates
government
The
of
UK
sector boasts
productivity at 2.6 times the national average and
This
was followed by Ancillary Services (7%
p.a.) and Space Operations (2% p.a.).
is recognised as a vital element of UK economic growth. That growth ambition is to create a
Exports grew to £5.5 billion in 2016/17, or 37.4%
sector worth £40bn by 2030.
of total income. This is up from 36.4% in 2014/15 and this export intensity is one third higher than
The UK space industry now comprises 948
the UK economy. All 13 UK regions are currently
pure space organisations, with 39 new entrants
home
per year since 2012. This growth has seen
organisations,
the
commercially-
employment) are concentrated in London, South
focused, with 82% of income from sales to
East and East of England, and Scotland. This
consumers and businesses. However, the public
has made UK export a truly national effort.
industry
become
more
to
headquarters though
of
industrial
space sites
(and
sector share of income has also increased from 14% (2014/15) to 18% (Space Agencies 4%,
Employment in the UK space industry increased at
Government 14%).
a rate of 4.3% per annum to 41,900 jobs in 2016/17 and a total employment supported of
The
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are
global
sector
is
now
changing
from
117,000 jobs. The space industry workforce is
one characterised by large government contracts
exceptionally
to one that is driven by private investment,
employees holding at least a primary degree.
innovation, and commercial opportunities. Along
This is higher than any sector covered by
with the US, the UK is a leader in this changing
ONS
environment.
With £566m or 10% of GVA invested in R&D, the
highly-skilled,
Census
data
for
with
England
3
in
4
and Wales.
space industry is 6 times more R&D intensive Currently, the UK accounts for 5.1% of the
than
global space economy (2016/17). Total UK space
Space Manufacturing (14% of income on R&D).
industry income grew to £14.8 billion in 2016/17
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the
UK
average.
This
is
led
by
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The UK pioneered the development of small,
providers), and there is often an extended
low-cost satellites that are driving a global
value chain (as added value products are
commercial revolution. We are well-established
created toward meeting end-user need) and
trailblazers
ultimately delivery to end-users.
remote the
of satellite
communication
and
sensing technologies, where much of
growth
connectivity,
potential and
resides.
Information,
location services from space
In addition, the UK’s Universities have long been active
in
space
already underpin ÂŁ300bn of wider UK economic
advanced instruments
activity with many markets still underdeveloped.
ESA
science missions)
related
(flown to
on
R&D,
from
almost
Machine
all
Learning
for autonomous operations and data analysis. It
is
important
to
recognise
that
the
satellite applications sector includes the space
The Satellite Applications Catapult is pleased
sector
and
to deliver the UK Capabilities Catalogue to
data), organisations that use
showcase the great capabilities and organisations
delivering
(those space
launching
satellites
that data to create products (e.g.
geospatial
that we can deliver here, in the UK, and abroad.
solution developers or communications service
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AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURE
Our global food system is facing unprecedented
Satellites provide connectivity, monitoring and
challenges: a growing middle class is evolving their
locational information across the breadth of global
appetite for variety and convenience; agricultural
agricultural
emissions are set to triple by 2050 unless
constellations, payloads and launch are enabling
substantial productivity gains are employed, and
increased tracking and observational capability.
continued demand for natural resources means
Coupling
over 70% of global freshwater is now used in food
computing, data infrastructures and analytics is
production. These pressures will increasingly place
increasing the possibilities for the creation of near-
a strain on agricultural value chains and influence
real-time
the market forces which shape food production.
optimising interventions and reducing loses. Whilst
Consumers are increasingly questioning where and
this creates new possibilities for products, services
how their food is produced, and they do not want
and decision support, it also presents a challenge
their actions to contribute to poor animal welfare,
for the agricultural sector to ensure that the latest
deforestation or labour exploitation. Put simply, the
technology is linked appropriately with production
current consumer trends are at odds with the
challenges and therefore, can be used to deliver
globalisation of food production and, as a result,
the gains required to meet the societal, economic,
new
political and environmental needs.
solutions
are
required
to
address
this
systems.
these
Developments
developments
actionable
intelligence
with
in
‘smarter’
essential
to
challenge.
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With its recognised strength in world-class science, Agricultural science and technology, known as
innovation, and interdisciplinary research, the UK is
‘Agri-tech’
Using
well placed to be a global partner of choice, which
technology in agriculture can help improve crop
will create new opportunities for international trade
performance, monitor changes to the environment
and enable inward investment. The UK has world
and ensure inputs are applied efficiently. The
leading expertise in satellite applications and
applications of technology are broad and far-
applications, for example, the use of advanced
reaching, and the opportunities are not fully
data
realised. Satellite-enabled technology has the
Hummingbird Technologies, as well as Agri-
potential to provide numerous products, services
Robotics as personified through the Hands-Free
and applications to transform the global food
Hectare Project between Harper Adams University
system.
and Precision Decisions.
can
help
offer
a
solution.
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analytics
through
companies
such
as
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30Mhz ABOUT 30Mhz
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
30MHz provides real-time remote crop monitoring on any device, so you get the full context, historical insight on what your crops have been experiencing, and live alerts to respond quickly to current conditions.
From optimising irrigation and ventilation, to preventing disease or sunscald, improving pest management or predicting shelf life, 30MHz delivers the metrics that matter to agriculture and horticulture, on a single platform that makes sense.
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2017 Web Address: www.30mhz.com
Part of the 30MHz Sensor Toolkit, the ZENSIE Dashboard, gives you real-time alerts, analytics, and visualizations of the data captured by wireless sensors from the physical world.
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Abaco Group ABOUT ABACO GROUP
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Working with clients in the field of Land Management solutions for thirty years; their leadership in innovation, portfolio of technology, and knowledge assets have stablished Abaco as a global software company.
SITI TRP is a complete and powerful software platform aimed at creating an innovative land representation model. This carries historical records and is easy to update. It is conceived as a complete land knowledge system serving technical, administrative, and planning activities.
Abaco engage with a market through an individual and flexible offering in cloudbased solutions, knowledge sharing platforms, geospatial intelligence, and mobile apps that support their view that more capillary penetration of such solutions into daily activity is a sign of things to come.
Location: Reading Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address: www.abacogroup.eu
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Agricompas ABOUT AGRICOMPAS
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Agricompas partners with growers, universities, and research institutes to share and create comprehensive crop data and knowledge.
Agricompas provides decision support to all major actors in crop value chains to improve the technical, environmental, and economic efficiency of their processes.
While supporting the activities of its partners, Agricompas commercialises decision support to value chain actors like processors, financers, and traders.
Producing more and better food is only sustainable when individual production units or fields are optimised per grower and location is provided in near real-time. Agricompas’ unique holistic approach combines detailed crop knowledge with socio-economic data and applies this in the decision support modules of: Productivity, Finance, Insurance, Supply Chain, Food Security, Environment, and R&D.
Subscribing customers receive timely alerts and reports via user-friendly interfaces. Agricompas develops industrial research collaborations and commercial ventures with partners and clients in major crops and geographies with a clearly identified commercial potential.
Location: Oxford Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.agricompas.com
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Agrii ABOUT AGRII
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
A leading provider of agronomy services, technology, and strategic advice, Agrii combines excellence and innovation with the latest research and development to ensure that customers can meet today’s farming challenges with knowledge and confidence. Agrii deliver Agri-intelligence and innovation.
A variety of products enable Agrii to ensure the most efficient methods of farming. Such software enables farms to manage the application of seed, fertiliser, livestock, and infrastructure.
Location: Andoversford Size: 501 to 1,000 employees Founded: 1977 Web Address: www.agrii.co.uk
By monitoring several factors like soil and weather, Agrii enables precision farming to ensure maximum yield and fertility.
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Agrimetrics Ltd ABOUT AGRIMETRICS LTD
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Agrimetrics provides, connects, and analyses complex data to drive greater productivity for agri-food businesses and to deliver food sustainably. They aim to help solve the global challenges of economically, ethically, and environmentally sustainable food production using data, analytics, and artificial intelligence.
Agrimetrics provides data and tools to agri-food businesses, researchers, and policymakers to address the global food challenges.
Location: Harpenden Size: 11 to 20 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.agrimetrics.co.uk
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AgSpace Agriculture Ltd A BOU T AG S P A C E AGR I CU L T UR E
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
AgSpace was founded by a team from the precision agriculture specialist firm, The Courtyard Partnership, in 2013. AgSpace has gone from strength to strength, acting as software wholesaler for several notable businesses and winning development grants to further develop the precision agriculture market.
Toolsets use satellite data to provide farmers with information that enables them to decide how much seed and treatment products to buy, and how best to use them. AgSpace also enables Agri-Tech research by providing large-scale, aggregated, anonymised data.
Location: Swindon Size: 11 to 20 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address: www.ag-space.com
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BASF ABOUT BASF
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
BASF and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a collaboration agreement to evaluate how satellite-derived data and images can best be used for agricultural purposes. In close partnership with farmers, the partners’ long-term goal is to translate this information into digital tools and services. BASF’s Crop Protection division provides innovative solutions for agriculture, turf, ornamental plants, pest control, and public health. By delivering new technologies and know-how, BASF Crop Protection supports the effort of growers and pest management professionals to make a better life for themselves and society.
Their broad portfolio of active ingredients, seed treatments, biological controls, formulations, and services optimises the efficient production of high-quality food and protects against postharvest loss, damage to buildings, and the transmission of disease. BASF’s systems provided targeted agronomic advice on the use of crop protection products and machinery, digitally based crop management operations, and aim to provide information on optimal planting and harvesting times.
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Location: London Size: 5,200+ employees Founded: 1880 Web Address: www.basf.com
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Cervest ABOUT CERVEST
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Cervest is a pioneering machine learning platform in the agri-food sector that monitors, predicts, and simulates crop and land productivity, empowering the growers, buyers, and insurance and policy makers who manage the world’s resources to make climate-smart decisions in an increasingly volatile world.
Cervests products enable enterprise-grade, realtime crop performance monitoring for buyers as well as field-level and personalised forecasts for growers. For the supply chain, Cervest provide aggregated insights and shared intelligence for policy and business.
Partnering with leading enterprises in food and crop science, as well as government bodies, Cervest’s revolutionary platform can simulate crop performance for any time period and any crop, anywhere on Earth. Led by a passionate team including sector experts, world-renowned scientists, and technologists, it provides personalised science-powered prescriptions to help customers adapt to change; create a resilient supply ecosystem; and rebalance the planet’s natural capital for the future.
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Location: London Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.cervest.earth
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Cultinova ABOUT CULTINOVA
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Their mission is to leverage the power of the Internet-of-Things in order to improve the way we produce and consume food, design our cities, and preserve our natural resources.
Cultinova deliver a customised, web-enabled, sensing and data management solution designed to help tackle some of the world‘s most pressing challenges, from food security to sustainable urbanisation, environmental protection, and health-related issues.
Location: Derby Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2011 Web Address: www.cultinova.com
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Earth Rover ABOUT EARTH ROVER
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Driven by the need to bridge the gap between today’s farming methods and the autonomous farm of the future, they call their approach the “pragmatic transition” combining best-in-class technologies with existing equipment to deliver working applications, such as scouting, weeding and selective harvesting, that help farmers improve productivity.
Earth Rover is a UK start-up aiming to provide the first robotic agriculture system that is viable for farmers.
Location: Newport Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2017 Web Address: www.earthrover.cc
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Ecometrica ABOUT ECOMETRICA
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
There is a growing public demand for timely, useful, consistent, continuous information to assess risks, manage operations, and monitor policy and investment outcomes. The flows of earth observation (EO) data from space, air, and land greatly exceed the capability of current EO technologies to deliver them to the people who need to turn that data into actionable insights and real-world strategic decisions.
Ecometrica’s range of commercial earth observation solutions takes satellite-derived big earth data and turns it into strategic, digital, geoanalytical insights for use by businesses and governments worldwide.
Ecometrica is at the forefront of combining downstream space data with contextual business and economic data to provide practical information solutions to environmental, risk, and civil protection challenges.
From forest protection to disaster response, sustainability reporting software to full global supply chain intelligence, Ecometrica’s technology uses machine learning and worldclass human innovation and expertise to provide public and private sector customers with a complete view of fast-changing information and rapid, critical decision-making tools on local, regional, national, or supranational scales.
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Location: Edinburgh Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2008 Web Address: www.ecometrica.com
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Environment Systems ABOUT ENVIRONMENT SYSTEMS
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Environment Systems is an environmental and agricultural data consultancy.
Their range of products includes application ready maps to monitor crop performance, estimate production, improve management practices, resource planning, and market intelligence as well as metrics for breeding, agchem, phenomics, and agronomy trials.
A trusted provider of evidence and insight to governments and industry across the world, Environment Systems provides data-driven environmental consultancy services, specialising in geoinformatics and satellite earth observation for ecological and agricultural intelligence.
Location: Aberystwyth Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address: www.envsys.co.uk
Global Surface Intelligence (GSI) ABOUT GLOBAL SURFACE INTELLIGENCE (GSI)
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GSI maps the changing behaviour of the world’s resources. Its AI and machine learning based technology uses patented algorithms to establish changes in land assets and transforms big data into the deepest insights available for optimised asset management. GSI’s deep learning intelligence platform provides the toolkit for various companies to exploit EO data.
Location: Edinburgh Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2012
The Environment Systems Data Services platform makes it possible to: − Monitor crop development − Identify crop damage at an early stage and over wide areas − Combine the data with models to forecast yield − Compare fields over time and across seasons
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES GSI’s ForestNow can inventory tree height, classify species, track pest, fire and disease, and provide ongoing monitoring services. Similarly, one of their other products, GSI’s LandNow, is used for:
− Plant and tree species classification − Proof of harvest − Yield analysis − Outlier detection in yield insurance fraud − Track change in land use − Owners changing land use from crops to trees − Crops that have been harvested − Determine crop species and plant schedules − Crop yield forecasting GSI’s EnergyNow allows for land classification and value analytics for infrastructure planning.
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GroundData ABOUT GROUNDDATE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Autonomous remote sensors for Agriculture and Earth Observation.
GroundData offer orderly feeds of environmental data for agriculture and to supply ground truth to calibrate earth observation data. Their equipment records conditions above and below ground every few minutes, 24 hours a day. The data is transmitted automatically to their cloud-based data warehouse where it can be accessed via a web-based portal or linked to other systems via an API.
GroundData monitors conditions in fields to help growers make better decisions. Their communications systems send data back from arrays of sensors to a secure cloud-based data warehouse 24 hours a day using a variety of wireless technologies. Growers and their advisers can view the state of a crop without travelling via our web-based dashboard which also provides data exports and offers links to downstream farm management and agronomy systems via our API. They provide farmers and their advisors accurate up to date environmental data recording exactly what is happening in their fields, both above and below ground. They can also provide ground truth data to satellite operators and downstream users to calibrate satellite observations.
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Location: Harwell Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2017 Web Address: www.grounddata.co.uk
They offer a full range of environmental sensors: Rainfall and irrigation measurement Air temperature and humidity Soil temperature and moisture Ambient light/radiation input Daily photographs for remote observation and leaf canopy measurement − Other sensors available on demand − − − − −
Apart from increased precision, their system prevents wasted journeys e.g. should a crop not have emerged sufficiently for an inspection. Users also have the option of looking back through the growing season to double check their analysis. For Earth Observation, they can supply anonymised data as a by-product of their existing users or deploy custom autonomous arrays of sensors to collect the data required.
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HayBeeSee ABOUT HAYBEESEE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
HayBeeSee are creating a novel robotics platform allowing large daily coverage, close proximity sensing, and interaction for farmers.
Their platform frequently acts in fields, collecting data as well as interacting and targeted spraying.
Location: Harwell Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.HayBeeSee.com
Hummingbird Technologies ABOU T HUMM I NGB I RD T ECHNOLOG I E S
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Hummingbird Technologies is an artificial intelligence business using imagery and data analytics from drone and satellite technology, along with proprietary algorithms, to provide farmers with 2cm/ pixel maps of their crops at a canopy level at critical decision-making junctions in the season. Hummingbird uses the most advanced machine learning and computer vision techniques, delivering actionable insights on crop health directly to the field.
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES Hummingbird offer a range of different services across a variety of Cereal and Veg crops, such as crop stress detection, detection of diseases, weed grass mapping, and nutrient management mapping as well as yield prediction and plant counting in row crops. Hummingbird have also been doing a lot of bespoke work with more unique crops such as Christmas trees and tailored mapping such as pest-damage.
Hummingbird has done a vast amount of R&D work and has flown in excess of 140,000 hectares, across 8000 flights. The actionable data being processed and provided back to the customer within 24 hours, in a mobile app and desktop format, with maps downloadable as exportable treatment maps in shapefiles.
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2015
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KisanHub ABOUT KISANHUB
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
KisanHub is a Crop Intelligence Platform and was born out of a desire to give farmers everywhere a sophisticated, meaningful, yet simple decision-support. KisanHub’s core technology brings together public and private data and the platform is built to connect farmers with the rest of the supply chain. This connectivity is achieved through the collaboration tools provided on the platform. This in turn empowers all the market participants to communicate with farmers for in-season operational, agronomic, or business advisory services. The aggregated data on crops provide supply chain visibility to enterprises where such contractual relations with farmers exist.
Their platform connects enterprises with their growers to provide crop intelligence through crop specific apps and is focussed on in-season agronomy advice on pest/diseases, fertiliser application, irrigation management, and yield prediction to reduce the input costs and improve profit margins. These insights are provided to farmers and their enterprises by assimilating and aggregating disparate datasets. The suite of applications fit around the enterprise’s needs, with the key operational and agronomic data being seamlessly shared throughout the platform. The aim of KisanHub is to connect agriculture for the benefit of farmers globally to help them grow more and use less.
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Location: Cambridge Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address: www.kisanhub.com
The platform provides advise on pest/diseases, fertiliser application, irrigation management, and yield prediction so farmers can apply the right input of a right product at the right time and in the right quantity.
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Mantle Labs ABOUT MANTLE LABS
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Mantle Labs process billions of pixels of image data simultaneously from multiple satellites to provide a data cube of the earth. They look at vegetation health, soil moisture, climate impact and human activities on the surface of the earth.
Geobotanics is an agriculture platform designed for on-demand analysis of agriculture and crops in a region.
Using proprietary petabyte scale deep learning engines, they can provide high resolution data, every day, anywhere on the globe.
Location: London Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.mantle-labs.com
Geobotanics can: Identify crops on the ground Check the crop health Identify problem areas in cropping zones Determine crop stages Provide Yield predictions Delineate Field Productivity zones Enable Farm Benchmarking Give Irrigation advise Provide Nitrogen application recommendations Integration with equipment providers such as tractors − Drought Index − − − − − − − − − −
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Map of Agriculture ABOUT MAP OF AGRICULTURE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Map of Ag is a global pioneer in agricultural analysis and modelling technology. They provide expert knowledge and insight to agriculture and food chain industries from offices in the UK, Argentina, and Newzealand.
Providing access to intelligently sourced data and information from farms, they enable businesses within the agriculture industry and food chain to maximise the impact of planning and decisionmaking.
Location: Woodbride Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2012 Web Address: www.mapof.ag
Map of Ag enables the generation of insight to gain knowledge of industry trends by talking directly to farmers and, more specifically, to address targeted questions which are relevant to your business.
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Muddy Boots ABOUT MUDDY BOOTS
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Beginning over 20 years ago, Muddy Boots develop software that enabled growers and agronomists to manage their farms out in the field. Their cloud infrastructure allows data to pass up and down supply chains, enabling customers to instantly view, manage, and report on the quality, traceability, and compliance of their products and suppliers. Having instant access to their data, users can make business critical decisions that help them to reduce waste, increase efficiency, and mitigate risk.
Muddy Boots have developed a suite of software solutions that allows data to pass up and down supply chains from farm to retailer, providing insight that enables customers to instantly view, manage and report on the quality, traceability, and compliance of their products and suppliers.
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Location: Ross-on-Wye Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 1996 Web Address::en.muddyboots.com
Such software enables consumers to: − Schedule and complete audits, assessments, and visits through a single system − Measure and address the performance of your supply chains − Centralise product specifications to ensure the delivery of an accurate and consistent approach to quality control − Driving waste and cost out of business − Easily access, update, and share due diligence information to ensure that a supply chain is always safe and approved to supply − Connect with farmers, agronomists, and contractors to quickly access, update, and share field and crop activity
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Remote Sensing Applications Consultants Ltd (RSAC) ABOUT RSAC
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RSAC was established in 1986 to provide specialist services to developers and users of Earth Observation. The company continues to develop expertise in the use of remotely sensed data for land applications worldwide. In addition to image processing and analysis, this expertise encompasses GIS, field data collection, and development of customised applications and services.
RSAC produces CEH Land Cover plus Crop Map, the first ever detailed annual crop map of the whole of the UK. They have provided services to the UK Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) since 1996 and to the Welsh Government (WG) since 2006 for the Remote Sensing Control of European Areabased Agricultural Subsidies. Over the last 30 years the company has been involved in many research and application development projects on agricultural, forestry, and environmental topics with UK agencies, the European Space Agency, and the European Commission.
They apply computer-based satellite image analysis techniques operationally, maintaining a leading edge in this developing field through active participation in UK, European Union (EU) and European Space Agency (ESA) projects. RSAC is experienced with a range of satellite imagery, airborne data, and aerial photographs, specialising in developing methods for the effective use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, alone or in conjunction with optical imagery, for agricultural applications.
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Location: Alresford Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 1986 Web Address: www.rsacl.co.uk
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RHEA Group ABOUT RHEA
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RHEA Group offers aerospace and security engineering services and solutions, system development, and technologies. With 25 years of experience in the professional engineering service market, RHEA Group opens the world to the engineering services of tomorrow.
The company has supported more than 100 spacecraft, covering space missions such as Rosetta, Mars Express, Copernicus, and Galileo with the Manufacturing and Operations Information System (MOIS). They also provide security, infrastructure, and agricultural services which help drought and flood mitigation to support farmers.
The company’s background and roots are within space and it has grown and expanded to other fields, including aerospace, concurrent design, system engineering, physical security and cybersecurity.
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Location: Harwell Size: 201 to 200 employees Founded: 1992 Web Address::www.rheagroup.com
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RHIZA (IPF) ABOUT RHIZA (IPF)
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RHIZA brings together the combined strengths of SoilQuest and IPF, which is already in use on over 500,000 Ha of arable land across the UK.
RHIZA deliver access to expertise and knowledge as well as their Contour web interface and app which provides:
RHIZA is built on a deep understanding of both farming and the new opportunities of digital agriculture and agronomy. They work closely with leading farmers and agronomists. Their years of experience with creating management zones based upon in-field soil variations puts RHIZA in a unique position to maximise the benefits of digital agriculture.
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Location: Swindon Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2004 Web Address: www.ipf-uk.com
− Hyper Local Weather Data: Highly advanced weather models provide temperature, wind speed, soil moisture, soil temperature and field accessibility − NDVI Imagery: High resolution NDVI that allows the best in field decision making − Soil Brightness Mapping: Map soil variation using high resolution satellite imagery and EC scanning to measure electroconductivity while passing each field, determining the soil variations at two depths − Variable Rate Planning: Produce variable rate lime, seed, P&K and nitrogen plans easily and intuitively − Biomass: Predicted crop GAI − Growth Stage Prediction: Ensure more accurate application timings and planning − Pest & Disease Models: Analyse and predict pest and disease pressure − Yield Potential: Predicting the yield of your fields
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Small Robot Company ABOUT SMALL ROBOT COMPANY
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An Agri-Tech start up commercialising a deceptively simple idea: small robots not big tractors, because unfortunately big tractors are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. Currently, 90% of energy is used ploughing and cultivation and ploughing is only necessary because of heavy machinery crushing soil.
Building robots that will seed and care for each individual plant in your crop. They will only feed and spray the plants that need it, giving them the perfect levels of nutrients and support, with no waste.
Location: Portsmouth Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2017
Web Address: www.smallrobotcompany.com
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Soil Essentials A BOU T SOIL ESSENTIALS
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The leading Scottish precision agriculture specialists based near the foot of the Angus Glens, who provide integrated solutions through the seasons to make a farmer’s life easier and more profitable by farming smarter.
KORE delivers hardware, software, consultancy, training, support, and research to improve the whole value chain for anything grown on land. It incorporates the very best in technologies from other industries as well as ground-breaking research in agriculture. Every KORE roll out is unique and based around genuinely improving your industry.
Location: Brechin Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2000 Web Address: www.soilessentials.com
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The Institute of Environmental Analytics (IEA) ABOUT THE IEA
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The Institute for Environmental Analytics vision is to harness the power of big data using cutting-edge expertise in big data analytics and visualisation to the benefit of a user’s organisation, providing meaningful and effective communication of data to give commercial value.
They work with organisations large and small, public and private, in a commercial time frame, to help them turn environmental data into competitive advantage. Their speciality is in rapidly developing proof-of-concept data applications to provide bespoke software tools to support better decision making and risk management, from strategic planning to day-to-day operations. This process helps organisations across industry from renewable energy to infrastructure and agriculture.
Location: Reading Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.the-iea.org
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Vega A BOU T VEGA
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Production processes are becoming ever more complex. It is important that the measurement technology used to control and monitor the processes is more understandable and intuitive. Vega has set itself the goal of developing innovative measurement technology that is easy to install and operate and offers maximum safety and reliability.
Its product portfolio includes level measurement sensors, point level switches, pressure transmitters, and equipment and software for integration into process control systems.
Location: Burgess Hill Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 1982 Web Address: www.vega.com
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WeatherSafe ABOUT WEATHERSAFE
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WeatherSafe emerged from a Satellite Applications Catapult Hackathon and is now launching a range of agricultural data products for the coffee market in Rwanda, developing easily accessible apps for small farmers up to importers and government departments. The company is currently engaged in fundraising activities to support the next stage of business development. The company plans to expand its coverage to other coffee-growing countries in Africa and Latin America, and to develop apps targeted at producers of similar crops.
WeatherSafe apps provide remote management information and intelligence to help stakeholders across the agricultural supply chain. The apps are powered by a data platform that integrates high resolution satellite data with hyper-local weather forecasts, agronomic models, and best practice farm modelling.
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Location: Harwell Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address: www.weathersafe.co.uk
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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) ABOUT THE BBSRC
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BBSRC is part of UK Research and Innovation, a body which works in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities, and government to create the best possible environment for research and innovation to flourish. They aim to maximise the contribution of each of their component parts, working individually, and collectively. They work with their many partners to benefit everyone through knowledge, talent, and ideas.
BBSRC fund world-class bioscience, people, and research infrastructure that helps to tackle major challenges such as the impact of climate change, a healthier old age, sustainable food production, land use, and energy production.
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Location: Swindon Size: 201 to 500 employees Founded: 1994 Web Address::www.bbsrc.ukri.org
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James Hutton Institute ABOUT THE JAMES HUTTON INSTITUTE
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The James Hutton Institute is an interdisciplinary scientific research institute in Scotland established in 2011 through the merger of Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) and the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute. The institute, named after Scottish geologist James Hutton, one of the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, combines existing Scottish expertise in agricultural research, soils and land use, and works in fields including food and energy security, biodiversity, and climate change.
Across the globe nations are facing growing demands to provide food, energy, and water from finite land and natural resources. These challenges are complex, interconnected, and everchanging. Encompassing a distinctive range of world-class research strengths in land, crop, water, environment, and socio-economic science integrated within an interdisciplinary system approach allows the James Hutton Institute to work in partnership with people, organisations, and governments to deliver practical solutions for a shared future.
Location: Dundee Size: 501 to 1,000 employees Founded: 2011 Web Address::www.hutton.ac.uk
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The John Innes Centre A BOU T THE JOHN I NNE S CENTRE
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An independent, international centre of excellence in plant science, genetics, and microbiology. The John Innes Centre’s knowledge of plants and microbes’ feeds into addressing the challenges faced by society; including food security, improving the health of a growing population, and their research has a significant impact on industrial biotechnology.
The John Innes Centre’s Scientific Departments work together with partners across the world to achieve international strategic goals. They also host a range of Scientific Facilities and support functions that deliver world-class scientific technologies and expert support to all researchers on their site in Norwich.
Location: Norwich Size: 501 to 1,000 employees Founded: 1910 Web Address: www.jic.ac.uk
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National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) ABOUT THE NIAB
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NIAB’s mission is to provide independent science-based research and information to support, develop, and promote agriculture and horticulture; helping the industry to fulfil its potential in supplying food and renewable resources, while respecting the natural environment.
NIAB’s traditional business continues to focus on the provision of independent, science-based technical and commercial services to government which seeds industry and the wider agricultural and horticultural industries. NIAB’s technical service provision to arable agriculture has been strengthened and deepened with the integration of TAG.
Location: Cambridge Size: 201 to 500 employees Founded: 1919 Web Address::www.niab.com
NIAB is a full-service provider offering integrated services from molecular genetics and breeding, plant growth and trials, and data collection through to analysis and interpretation on a wide range of crop species (food, non-food, and ornamentals). Services include:
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Roslin Technologies ABOUT ROSLIN TECHNOLOGIES
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Roslin Technologies is an agriculture biotechnology company that has been established as the commercialisation arm of the world renowned Roslin Institute and University of Edinburgh’s Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. As well as developing a range of new products, they offer a strong platform for industry engagement through a range of services, licencing, and collaboration opportunities.
Roslin Technologies is a joint venture that builds upon a strong and novel partnership between the world leading research, knowledge, and expertise that is contained within the University of Edinburgh and two investment and business development partners with a strong global network and reach.
Located at the University’s Easter Bush Campus, which is part of the Midlothian Science one, Roslin Technologies is well placed to play a leading role in delivering strong industry impacts from new developments in Agri-tech. Although still rapidly developing, the one is already one of the largest animal science innovation hubs in the world, being home also to several organisations with animal science expertise and an international reputation for conducting world class research and teaching.
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Location: Edinburgh Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address::www.roslintech.com
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Rothamsted ABOUT ROTHAMSTED
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Rothamsted Research has a strong history of innovation through collaboration and now holds partnerships with numerous research institutions and universities in over 50 countries. The Rothamsted Centre for Research and Enterprise (RoCRE) is a unique hub promoting collaboration and innovation by partnering with commercial agricultural technology businesses. Rothamsted Research is also a founding member of three UK Agri-Tech innovation centres that bring together a wide range of public and industry partners, namely Agrimetrics, the Centre of Innovation Excellence in Livestock, and the Centre for Applied Crop Science.
Rothamsted scientists publish around 300 papers in international science journals each year, of which more than 70% are open access. They also make numerous data, software tools, and other information widely available to the global scientific community and other stakeholders or beneficiaries of their work.
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Location: Harpenden Size: 501 to 1,000 employees Founded: 1843 Web Address::www.rothamsted.ac.uk
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Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) ABOUT THE STFC
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A new body which works in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities, and government to create the best possible environment for research and innovation to flourish. They aim to maximise the contribution of each of their component parts, working individually and collectively. They work with our many partners to benefit everyone through knowledge, talent and ideas.
STFC support an academic community of around 1,700 in particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy including space science, who work at more than 50 universities and research institutes in the UK, Europe, Japan, and the United States, including a rolling cohort of more than 900 PhD students.
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Location: Swindon Size: 1,001 to 5,000 employees Founded: 2007 Web Address::www.stfc.ac.uk
Their two Campuses are based around their Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at Harwell in Oxfordshire, and their Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire; each of which offers a different cluster of technological expertise that underpins and ties together diverse research fields. The combination of access to world-class research facilities and scientists, offices and laboratory space, business support, and an environment which encourages innovation, has proven a compelling combination, attracting startups, SMEs, and large blue chips such as IBM and Unilever.
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UK Centres of Agricultural Innovation (UKCAI) ABOUT THE UKCAI The Centres for Agricultural Innovation are a new collaborative model between the Agri-Tech sector and government. They comprise:
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− CHAP - The Centre for Crop Health and Protection – To support farmers to better manage crop threats such as pests and diseases; − CIEL - The Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock – To create new livestock technology and products that improve livestock farming profitability and productivity; − Agri-EPI - The Agricultural Engineering Precision Innovation centres – To help the UK’s Agri-food sector develop technologies that will increase the productivity and sustainability of UK agriculture; − Agrimetrics – Focused on the use of data science and modelling – To help build a more productive, sustainable, and efficient food system. As well as increasing the UK’s capacity for translating agricultural innovations into commercial opportunities, the centres are intended to stimulate inward investment and help improve UK farming practice.
Location: Harpenden, York, Edinburgh Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: N/A
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The UK currently have many institutions, including agricultural colleges, universities and institutes, as well as private research organisations in vested in Agricultural-Technology. Such institutions include: − Aberystwyth University The Centre for Space and Earth Monitoring focus research on the application of Space and Earth observation techniques within an environmental context. − Cambridge University − Cranfield University Cranfield has a long history in space systems, having undertaken space studies since the 1960s with expertise including sensor technology, precision engineering, earth observation, spacecraft/satellite design and mission design. − Exeter University − Harper Adams University − Lincoln University − Newcastle University − Nottingham University Nottingham Geospatial Institute is a leading cross-disciplinary research and teaching institute. Their Geospatial Research and Applications Centre of Excellence helps businesses take advantage of satellite technologies. − Oxford University The University of Oxford provides a wide range of space activities across many departments. Over 100 researchers are researching spacecraft technologies or data from space within the Oxford Space Research Network. − Reading University − Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) − Sheffield University − Southampton University − Sussex University Areas of research include on-board computers, parallel processing, manmachine interface, neutral networks, fault tolerance, smart space instruments, data compression, and evolutionary instruments.
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The UK is recognised globally as a historic home of agricultural research. The John Innes Centre, the Roslin Institute, Rothamsted Research, the National Institute for Agricultural Botany (NIAB) and East Malling are names that resonate around the world with research that covers a range of disciplines. This includes crop and livestock genetics and genomics, Agri-engineering, nutrition, and health in crops and livestock, environmental sciences, food science, and human nutrition. It covers new and emerging fields including functional foods, nutraceuticals, clean technology, and energy generation from waste. Research is also taking place in related topics such as industrial biotechnology and synthetic biology.
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ABOUT BIOCARBON ENGINEERING
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BioCarbon Engineering aims to restore earth's natural ecosystems by understanding them at a much deeper level, and re-planting at scale.
BioCarbon Engineering provides monitoring, analytics, and automated spreading services on open cut mine rehab areas, oil and gas rehab areas, as well as biodiversity offset areas covering all terrain types.
Natural and anthropogenic causes destroy 26 billion trees each year and they believe that industrial scale deforestation can only be tackled with industrial scale reforestation.
Location: Oxford Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2014
Web Address: www.biocarbonengineering.com
They provide ecosystem restoration services, including planting, data acquisition, and analysis, to project management organisations. They look to partner with organisations that have deep local knowledge, strong reputations for delivering positive restoration outcomes, and a demonstrated commitment to the communities in which they operate. BioCarbon Engineering ultimately provides mapping, data analytics, direct seeding, and precision pod planting enabling integrated analytics and planting solutions for large-scale ecosystem restoration projects.
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Carbomap Ltd A BOU T CARBOMAP
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Carbomaps mission is to make remotely sensed environmental data more affordable and accessible to all.
Carbomap designs and sells ready-to-assemble Earth observation tools, deforestation software, DIY webplatforms, and other useful geospatial analysis products such as:
Carbomap have an international reputation in remote sensing methodologies; lidar forest mapping, satellite radar mapping, and measuring forest structure, carbon sequestration, as well as managing airborne and UAV surveys.
Location: Edinburgh Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2012 Web Address: www.carbomap.xyz
− Instant-Omega: A real-time processing engine, the world’s first compact, real-time, “no-click solution” for 3D laser scanning. It can be used with LiDAR systems onboard UAVs or aircraft, or as part of a mobile mapping unit, and automatically corrects the point cloud on the move − F-Lux: A new UAV designer to provide a bespoke long-endurance airborne LiDAR solution to rival airborne LiDAR for unit area cost They also offer consulting services.
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ABOUT CARRAK CONSULTING
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Carrak Consulting provides environmental management and sustainable development tools for proposed and operational mines, as well as assessments for the regeneration of land affected by former mineral development and wastes.
Carrak Consulting carries out a range of environmental and geological assessments in the UK and worldwide. The company is conversant with international standards and the requirements of the IFC and Equator Principle Financial Institutions and has experience in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Armenia. Carrak Consulting works with members of the Cornwall Mining Alliance to provide bespoke consultancy packages.
Carrak Consulting offers a range of geoenvironmental and project implementation services to land and mineral developers. The company aims to deliver solutions that add value and minimise risk to developers seeking to adopt practical, attainable, and effective approaches to the responsible management of natural resources. Carrak Consulting is passionate about identifying and promoting environmentally, socially, and commercially viable opportunities throughout all stages of a project lifecycle.
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Location: Cornwall Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.carrakconsulting.co.uk
Services include: − Environmental & social capacity building − Environmental impact, risk & liability assessments − Project management − Environmental monitoring & management − Environmental audits, fatal flaw analysis & action planning − Waste classification, permitting & management − Mineral planning appraisals − Responsible mineral exploration & development − Sustainable operations & Best Available Techniques − Contaminated land risk assessment & remediation − Mining instability assessments − Ground investigations & stabilisation − Mine closure planning & landscape restoration − Due diligence and technical reporting − Peer & independent review − Site supervision & compliance monitoring − Coordination of baseline data collection programmes − GIS & digital data integration & modelling − Geological appraisals
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ABOUT CGG
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CGG is a leader in cutting-edge geoscience. They have achieved leadership through a strong focus on innovation and a commitment to delivering the best sustainable solutions to their clients' energy challenges through a unique range of technologies, services, and equipment designed to acquire extremely precise data and images of the Earth's subsurface. They also provide state-ofthe-art software and services for analysing that data and developing a deeper understanding of the subsurface for exploration, production, and optimisation of oil and gas reservoirs.
One capability at CGG is provided by Earth Observation (EO) experts within CGG’s NPA Satellite Mapping group who believe that soil moisture estimation algorithms developed for use with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, and specifically open-access Sentinel-1 data with its 6-day acquisition frequency across the UK, open up the possibility of remotely estimating soil moisture at higher spatial resolutions. It is hoped that this capability will provide actionable information to clients, either as a confirmatory dataset used alongside the SMI, or as an extra input into the SMI itself.
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Location: Crawley Size: 5,001 to 10,000 employees Founded: 2000 Web Address: www.cgg.com
CGG’s Rapid prototyping of an EO-derived soil moisture estimation algorithm using Sentinel-1 data project will involve leading SAR experts, who between them have decades of experience in deriving actionable information from SAR data collected in offshore and onshore environments.
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ABOUT CORNISH LITHIUM
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Cornish Lithium is a highly innovative mineral exploration and development company focused on the environmentally sustainable extraction of lithium from geothermal brines in the historic mining district of Cornwall, UK. The company has secured agreements with the owners of mineral rights over a large area of the County and is using modern technology to re-evaluate the region for lithium and other vital technology metals such as tin, copper, and cobalt. A secure domestic supply of such metals is considered vital to the industrial strategy of the UK as it moves towards the production of electric vehicles.
The use of modern digital computer technology has enabled the company to combine large historical datasets with satellite and other geophysical data to allow the reinterpretation of mineral potential in the light of modern extraction technologies. Cornish Lithium is conducting innovative research into mineral extraction and development in the UK and has secured Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) advance assurance as a “Knowledge Intensive� company. Cornish Lithium participated in a government funded project to use satellite technology to identify lithium in Cornwall and has recently been awarded funding from the prestigious Faraday Challenge fund as part of a tripartite study into the possibility of establishing a lithium processing facility in the UK.
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Location: Cornwall Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.cornishlithium.com
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ABOUT DECISIONLAB
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decisionLabs build tools and models of business problems using the latest technologies from Data Science, Analytical Modelling, and Operational Research. They are experts in Mathematical Optimisation and Simulation.
Some of Decision Labs tools include:
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Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2011 Web Address: www.decisionlab.co.uk
− Optimisation: decisionLab works with industryleading software to apply powerful optimisation approaches and identify the best possible option to: − Improve operational efficiency − Increase productivity − Gain competitive advantage − Reduce financial risk − Simulations: This helps to determine the limitation of the operation of a system or process, over time. It is normally performed by changing parameters in an existent model and observing its evolution and outputs. The science of modelling a system consists of building a framework (e.g. software) that facilitates the understanding of the system and predicts its behaviour. − Descriptive analytics: The purpose of descriptive analytics is to summarise what happened. Consumers may already be using descriptive analytics techniques, including data modelling, trend reporting, and regression analysis to assimilate the large volumes of data readily available in your organisation. Welldesigned, these spreadsheet models can quickly and effectively extract the insights needed to help understand past business performance and inform decisions to improve future performance. − Predictive analytics: Uses a variety of statistical, modelling, data mining, and machine learning techniques to study recent and historical data, thereby allowing analysts to make predictions about what might happen in the future. − Prescriptive analytics: Goes beyond descriptive and predictive models by recommending one or more courses of action and showing the likely outcome of each decision. − Asset Lifecycle Management: This aims to minimise the costs associated with the maintenance, replacement, and overhaul of equipment. Suspending operations is expensive, while replacing equipment too early increases equipment costs over the lifetime of a system. However, unanticipated stoppages due to failure of equipment can be even more costly. 068
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ABOUT DIGITALGLOBA (MAXAR) DigitalGlobe is now a part of Maxar Technologies. DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial, high-resolution, world imagery products, and services. Sourced from their own advanced satellite constellation and aerial network, their imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses from mapping and analysis to navigation technology. With advanced collection sources, a comprehensive Image Library, and a range of online and offline products and services, they enable clients to access and integrate imagery seamlessly into business operations and applications.
Location: London Size: 1,001 to 5,000 employees Founded: 1993 Web Address: www.digitalglobe.com
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES Some products and services include: − Industry-leading satellite imagery with rich diversity in temporal, spectral, and spatial resolution plus unparalleled accuracy. Satellite imagery is ideal for users who are looking to process and manipulate imagery for map-making, imagery analysis, and information extraction, or for organisations needing a high-resolution, highly accurate base map of their area. − Information layers: Information derived from satellite imagery data, including 3D models and digitized polygons, to provide additional context about on-ground conditions. For users who need geospatial data beyond just pixels in telecommunications, insurance, oil & gas, emergency response, and mining. − Analytics: Cloud-based environment for algorithms that unlock patterns in geodata to inform decisions. Ideal for developers and data scientists looking to quickly count, classify, or identify features in geospatial data on a large scale.
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Element AI A B O U T ELEMENT AI
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Element AI is an artificial intelligence solutions provider that gives organisations unparalleled access to cutting-edge technology. Bringing together the best in entrepreneurship, technology, and academic ecosystems. Element AI is building an AI-First World to elevate collective wisdom.
Element AIs products are designed to connect the dots across a user’s data, generating intelligent new insights employees can use to make faster, better-informed decisions on the ground.
Location: London Size: 201 to 500 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.elementai.com
Element AIs AI enablement tools save users across finance and supply chains time in the necessary steps of labelling data and training AI models. They work with users to implement governance, train staff, and assemble data and technology to scale to a user’s full AI ambition.
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A BOU T HR WALLINGFORD
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HR Wallingford is an independent engineering and environmental hydraulics organisation with extensive experience of using Earth Observations (EO) to deliver practical solutions to the world’s water-related challenges.
HR Wallingford has extensive experience of working with EO, including leading research consortiums for the UK Space Agency. Current EO projects include:
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Location: Wallingford Size: 201 to 500 employees Founded: 1947 Web Address: www.hrwallingford.com
− Developing the Dengue forecasting Model Satellite-based System (D-MOSS). The software combines satellite data with weather forecasts and a hydrological model to predict dengue epidemics up to six months in advance. − Developing a system, called DAMSAT, to monitor the movement of dams remotely. The software uses EO and real-time in-situ devices combined with the organisation’s in-depth knowledge of dam safety and hydrological and hydraulic modelling. − Working with Copernicus European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts to develop an app that will help water companies with drought management. − HR Wallingford’s unique mix of know-how, assets and facilities include state-of-the-art physical modelling laboratories, a full range of numerical modelling tools and, above all, enthusiastic people with world-renowned skills and expertise.
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A BOU T NCC
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North Coast Consulting Ltd. (NCC) is a Minerals and Environmental Consultancy, specialising in the provision of services to the world mining sector. NCC draws on years of experience to offer bespoke assistance to the UK and International Mining Market.
NCC can provide high quality help to enable mining companies and funding agencies to implement environmental and social management solutions that will satisfy both national and international standards and requirements. NCC is well versed in preparing works in line with international mining-related guidance, including the Equator Principles, the International Finance Corporation Performance Standards, and the World Bank Mining and General Guidelines for Environment, Health and Safety.
Location: Cornwall Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2008
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Web Address: www.north-coast-consulting.co.uk
NCC has worked in over 40 countries world-wide and has over 40 years’ experience in servicing the mining industry. NCC provides services at all stages of mine development, from the exploration and construction phases, through the operational stage, and into closure and post-closure stages. NCC can provide mineral management and environmental guidance in a number of areas, and offers, among others, the following services: − Environmental Auditing − Environmental Management Systems − Environmental Management and Monitoring Plans − Environmental and Social Action Plans − Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIAs) − Environmental Baseline Surveys − Environmental Risk Assessments − Environmental and Social Contributions to Feasibility Studies − Mineral Agency − Minerals Management − Mine Closure and Rehabilitation Plans
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A BOU T SPOTTITT
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Spottitt is an Oxfordshire based start-up, a geospatial company specialised in the provision of easy, efficient, and low cost, self-service, satellite analytics for the energy, environment, and infrastructure sectors. In general, their customers need to understand the past, present, and changing situation on the ground at locations all over the world, they struggle to find this information and, therefore, spend valuable time and resources manually gathering and manipulating info. Spottitt’s cloud-based platform and their machine learning based algorithms makes searching, accessing, and performing complex analytics on multiple up to date open source and commercial satellite imagery as easy as shopping online. Spottitt provide Earth Observation and Geographic Information System consultancy on a project basis, but their specialty is automating the entire workflow whether it be land based analyses, feature extraction, monitoring, and change detection.
The Spottitt team have developed a range of automated analyses based on optical satellite imagery, ranging from land cover to building recognition, which are tailored to the renewable energy sector and the needs of several paying clients. The Spottitt team are looking to extend the range of services offered both on a bespoke and automated basis, particular focus areas include Utilities and Insurance.
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Location: Harwell Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2017 Web Address: www.spottitt.com
Spottitt's automated services are delivered via its cloud-based geoportal through which customers can search, purchase, and run complex image analyses anywhere in the world using multiple sources of commercial and open source satellite imagery. Analyses are processed on demand and are conducted fully automatically in the space of a few hours. Spottitt utilises satellite imagery, of all various types (multispectral, SAR and in the near future hyperspectral), which are made up of multiple bands of data at different frequencies. Thanks to the advances in cloud computing and AI all of this can be analysed by Spottitt and information extracted, adding extra value beyond visual inspection of an image. Automating image access, analysis, and result visualisation means that huge surface areas can be analysed, mapping species coverage, changes, and risks around oil & gas lines and installations, on a regular frequency, and at any global location
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A BOU T TELESPAZIO VEGA
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Telespazio VEGA UK is a dynamic and experienced consulting, technology, and engineering services business. Following its merger into the Telespazio Group in 2011, they now have access to a vast array of world leading facilities and services, which they provide both within the UK and to their export markets. With a strong history in the European space arena starting in 1978, they have rich relationships across the space industry with staff working closely with the European Space Agency (ESA) on programs and projects for 35 years.
Telespazio VEGA offers robust and reliable ground segment systems for satellite missions and utilise space assets to develop downstream applications across a wide variety of sectors. They provide world leading scientific services on earth observation and space science missions. Their valued and experienced knowledgeable experts deliver consulting and engineering support to space missions worldwide. They seek to support their core Space market while at the same time looking to exploit Space assets, technologies, and processes (such as satellite communications, earth observation data, meteorology, and navigation applications) in other market sectors such as Defence, Transport, & Energy.
Location: Luton Size: 201 to 500 employees Founded: 1978 Web Address: www.telespazio-vega.com
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Terrabotics Ltd A BOU T TERRABOTICS
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Terrabotics develops and deploys cutting edge algorithms to make sense of a new generation of Earth Observation imagery at scale.
Terrabotics can rapidly transform terabytes of satellite, aerial, and UAV/drone imagery into very high precision true 3D terrain data and 2.5D digital elevation models. Terrabotics 3D Mapping from Space via The Cloud enables an image processing pipeline that generates detailed and accurate digital terrain elevation data possible from high resolution imagery, and all at lightning speeds. This can be used to plan activities such as large-scale exploration surveys; right-of-way routing; model flooding and hydrology; large infrastructure site selection; and many other terrain critical activities
Terrabotics rapidly transforms terabytes of Satellite and Aerial imagery into next-level data products, ready for actionable 3D and 4D terrain intelligence services for the Energy, Natural Resources, and Commodities sectors and beyond. They are tackling the abundance of Earth Observation 2.0 data coming from new constellations of low-cost imaging satellites, to help industries accurately, yet remotely map, measure, and monitor their operations in hazardous and hostile terrains around the World.
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.terrabotics.co.uk
They also perform rapid time-series analysis on image and video sequences collected from satellite, aerial, and UAV/drone platforms to automatically detect and identify environmental and man-made changes to the Earth's surface. Their image processing engine utilises a fast, precise, and robust method to automatically map changes. It is the product of more than 15 years of R&D into image registration and correlation methods. It can be used to regularly monitor activities such as encroachment on key infrastructure and assets i.e. pipeline or powerlines; baseline and record environmental changes; and observe and analyse global industrial activity to inform market decisions. 073
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ABOUT TERRAVISION EXPLORATION
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Terravision Exploration is a dynamic and innovative Ground Surveying Exploration Company, using industry leading geophysical technologies, at the cutting edge of Electromagnetic engineering.
Terravision Exploration began its journey by conducting pioneering deep GPR surveys utilising its proprietary technology; GPRplus. The GPRplus radar technology is derived from a requirement of the Russian space programme to scan for water on Mars. Existing ground penetrating radar technologies traditionally penetrate to 20m in conducive conditions. GPRplus is consistently effective to depths of up to 200m, with unrivalled resolution, clarity, and speed in a diverse range of environments.
Terravision Exploration, also known as TVX, is focused on delivering a comprehensive Geophysical, Geomatic, and Geotechnical service to a range of applications including Civil Engineering, Mining Exploration, and Environmental Assessment. By utilising the latest technologies and systems, Terravision Exploration can provide intelligent, cost effective, and efficient solutions where other systems have failed. This includes the integration and implementation of new, nondisruptive, and propitiatory technologies through both airborne and terrestrial systems in our continued pursuit of excellence.
Effective in the most challenging of terrains, GPRplus has a proven track record operation all over the world, on water or ice, clays, and highly concentrated saline environments. A very localised and light operational footprint, GPRplus has minimal impact on the environment and surrounding operations.
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Location: Surrey Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address:www.terravisionradar.com
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The UK is recognised globally as a historic home of agricultural research. The John Innes Centre, the Roslin Institute, Rothamsted Research, the National Institute for Agricultural Botany (NIAB) and East Malling are names that resonate around the world with research that covers a range of disciplines. This includes crop and livestock genetics and genomics, Agri-engineering, nutrition, and health in crops and livestock, environmental sciences, food science, and human nutrition. It covers new and emerging fields including functional foods, nutraceuticals, clean technology, and energy generation from waste. Research is also taking place in related topics such as industrial biotechnology and synthetic biology. The UK currently have many institutions, including agricultural colleges, universities and institutes, as well as private research organisations in vested in Agricultural-Technology. Such institutions include: − Aberystwyth University The Centre for Space and Earth Monitoring focus research on the application of Space and Earth observation techniques within an environmental context. − Cambridge University − Cranfield University Cranfield has a long history in space systems, having undertaken space studies since the 1960s with expertise including sensor technology, precision engineering, earth observation, spacecraft/ satellite design and mission design. − Exeter University − Harper Adams University − Lincoln University − Newcastle University − Nottingham University Nottingham Geospatial Institute is a leading cross-disciplinary research and teaching institute. Their Geospatial Research and Applications Centre of Excellence helps businesses take advantage of satellite technologies. − Oxford University The University of Oxford provides a wide range of space activities across many departments. Over 100 researchers are researching spacecraft technologies or data from space within the Oxford Space Research Network. − Reading University − Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) − Sheffield University − Southampton University − Sussex University Areas of research include on-board computers, parallel processing, man-machine interface, neutral networks, fault tolerance, smart space instruments, data compression, and evolutionary instruments.
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ATEC-3D ABOUT ATEC-3D ATEC-3D use fixed wing and multi rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’S) for a wide variety of UAV Aerial Photography, Survey, and Monitoring applications. They provide cost effective and reliable aerial solutions worldwide and across a variety of different industries. Their range of services includes UAV Aerial mapping, UAV aerial surveying, aerial inspections, aerial photography, and video. ATEC-3D’s UAV aerial photography, survey, and monitoring services can be used for a wide range of different applications for use by individuals, small businesses, large corporations, local authorities, or emergency services. All their UAV operators are authorised by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to conduct aerial work and are fully insured.
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The services are available for a wide range of applications in areas such as mining, environmental monitoring, construction, security, and surveying.
Location: Hawkinge Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2012 Web Address: www.atec-3d.com
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ABOUT DRIVERNET
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
DriverNet has created a platform that enables customers to get the basics right first time, every time. DriverNet’s digital approach automates a series of analogue work flows, allowing customers to focus on achieving their main business objectives, and remove the costs, stress, and inefficiencies associated with managing drivers and fleets in conventional ways.
Whatever type of mobile operation a user’s business deploys or supports, DriverNet offers a range of services and channels that seamlessly connects people, partners, and processes together in a more swift, safe, secure, and sustainable way.
Location: St Helens Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.driver-net.com
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Energeo A BOU T ENERGEO
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Energeo utilise geospatial Big Data, Open Data, and Machine Learning to create unique insights into existing energy performance and future potential for renewable and sustainable energy. Their innovative analytics techniques allow them to assess energy scenarios across city-scale areas at an individual property level of detail. The intelligence they deliver enables their clients to identify energy opportunities efficiently and non-intrusively and facilitates early project aggregation further reducing costs and increasing efficiencies.
Energeos product and services range continues to develop and includes rooftop and ground mount solar PV, wind, Ground Source Heat Pumps, property retrofit, energy efficiency, building heat loss, and sustainable mobility, and on-street parking datasets. Their clients use their services for a wide range of applications; fuel poverty mitigation, emissions reduction, power network analysis, peerto-peer energy sharing, technology roll out, grant/ funding access, lead generation, and more.
Location: Coleshill Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.energeo.co.uk
Energeo have developed a formidable record in innovation, receiving funding, and support from the European Space Agency, Innovate UK, UK Space Agency, the Satellite Applications Catapult, and Western Power Distribution. In addition, Energeo were finalists of Ordnance Survey’s Geovation Challenge series, are an Ordnance Survey Licensed Partner, and are a Google Enterprise Partner.
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ABOUT F OCA L PO I NT POS I T I ON I NG
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Focal Point Positioning is bringing accurate position and time to smartphones and autonomous platforms through its products; S-GPS and D-Tail™. S-GPS is a software upgrade for GNSS receivers that dramatically improves their sensitivity and accuracy in urban environments and indoors. D-Tail™ is their state-of-the-art 3D human motion tracking engine that can utilise smartphone-grade IMUs to provide high accuracy trajectory reconstruction with very low drift.
S-GPS is a smartphone-based sensor fusion, machine learning, and signal processing suite designed to provide satellite positioning capability in areas that have, until now, been unreachable. This new approach provides market-leading sensitivity in conjunction with a powerful new multipath-mitigation process. These features dramatically improve the performance of existing GNSS receivers, providing new capabilities and higher availability in urban environments and even indoors.
Location: Cambridge Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2015
Web Address: www.focalpointpositioning.com
D-Tail™ is a human-motion-modelling system that can accurately track users in three dimensions using the inertial sensors in their smartphone or wearable devices. The result is a precise trace of the user’s motion, going well beyond the levels of detail and accuracy provided by simple dead-reckoning and WiFi fingerprinting techniques.
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Grid Smarter Cities A BOU T GRID SMARTER CITIES
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Grid Smarter Cities is a smart city ecosystem of smart but simple solutions, connecting communities and people with transport, parking, goods, and services.
Grid Smarter Cities connects city businesses, services, people, and technology to make engaging, living, working, and socialising in urban spaces easier and more attractive.
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2014 Web Address:www.gridsmartercities.com
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ABOUT HUMANISING AUTONOMY
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Humanising Autonomy envisions a future where people around the world can naturally and intuitively interact with autonomous systems and is creating a new category of human-centred products that help people and autonomous systems to better understand, interact, and work with each other.
They build human-centred tools that define how autonomous systems interact with people. Their pedestrian intent prediction platform makes autonomous vehicles safer and more efficient in urban environments. Using culture and context specific predictions, they capture the full complexity of human behaviour in urban environments around the world.
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2017 Web Address: www.humanisingautonomy.com
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Immense Simulations A BOU T IMMENSE SIMULATIONS
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Immense are a software company enabling intelligent mobility. They have built a software platform that revolutionises how transport stakeholders use simulation to make informed decisions associated with the movement of people and goods.
They deliver large-scale, reusable, highly detailed simulations of people, places, and mobility systems that answer the ‘what-if’ questions. Their goal is simple; they provide the easy to use tools that give customers the insight they need to make the best possible decisions. Whether they are a transit authority, planner, mobility company, or fleet operator, Immenses tools enable customers to plan, implement, and operate cost effective and efficient mobility solutions.
Their cloud-hosted SaaS platform provides detailed, data-driven ‘worlds’ that enables advanced strategic and operational decision support to drive down costs and increase efficiencies across the transport eco-system - from public authorities to mobility service providers.
Location: Milton Keynes Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.immense.ai
By creating highly detailed, synthetic worlds customers can not only gain a better understanding of how to improve today’s mobility, but also envision future worlds, rapidly testing the alternatives that will turn them into reality. Solving today’s challenges is just the first step of their journey. Their ImSim prediction engine is powering Intelligent Mobility, MaaS, and the integration of Connected Autonomous Vehicles.
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ABOUT IMR TECHNOLOGIES
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IMR Technologies provides incident alert solutions for companies and organisations in all sectors where vehicles are used. They provide bespoke and extendable, incident awareness and management solutions that can be modified to suit the ever-changing needs of customer. They are able to tailor solutions and technology to the types of vehicles and the environment they are used in, with low ongoing costs after the initial purchase of the equipment.
IMR Technologies’ Sentinel products are advanced safety systems designed to assist with the detection and notification of serious onroad and off-road accidents. The use of an automated crash alert devices (ACAD) such as IMR Sentinel means that crash victims will receive the immediate attention they need, no matter where they are. IMR Sentinel is fully compliant with the EU's eCall vehicle emergency system protocol.
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2011 Web Address:www.imr-tech.com
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IPoint Technology A BOU T IPOINT TECHNOLOGY
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IPoint Technology aim to create agile, IoT focussed technology solutions to address emerging Industry trends in the public transport and logistics industry. By centralising the access and management of vehicle operational data they can offer vehicle operators and manufacturers increased operating and management efficiencies which reflect current and future industry trends.
IPoint Technologies iCentral™ solution connects and collects data across city infrastructure which includes Street Furniture, Bus Stops, Rail Platforms, Passive Sensors for road condition monitoring, Air Pollution, Noise Pollution, Spatial Information, Bridge and Structure monitoring, electric vehicle charge point monitoring, traffic sensors, wireless sensor networks, city bike scheme monitoring, and Urban Planning Solutions.
Location: Cardiff Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2017 Web Address:www.ipoint.ie
Similarly, their transport solutions are across all on-board systems. They can offer advanced telemetry, vehicle checks, tachograph analysis, security monitoring, passenger counting, route management, estimated time of arrival services, passenger announcement systems, CCTV and high-speed passenger Wi-Fi services via their single sign on iCentral™ platform with payload security monitoring and analysis, staff security monitoring, route management, fleet tracking, CCTV, Container Tracking, connected port monitoring, vehicle networking and communications as an additional service. 082
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ABOUT LACUNA NETWORKS
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Lacuna Space is at the forefront of satellite IoT connectivity, with low-cost and highscalability as its fundamental tenets in its system design. Over the course of the last two years, they have been developing satellite gateways, and modifying Semtech’s LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology (LoRa Technology) to enable direct communication from LoRa-based devices to their satellite gateways, using the LoRaWAN™ protocol.
Lacuna Space offer an ultra-low-cost tracking and detection service for short data messages that is ubiquitous. Their devices and sensors allow for no coverage blank-spots as moving devices pass through remote regions with a battery powered to send data for up to five years. Their devices allow smart automatic connection with no user required, seamlessly integrated with networks to finds the best route to deliver data. Some applications include: − − − − − −
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Location: Harwell Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address:www.lacuna.space
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ABOUT MICROLISE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Microlise fleet management solutions help vehicle operators to reduce the cost and environmental impact of their fleet operations. They do this by tracking commercial vehicles to help fleet managers maximise utilisation, increase efficiency, and improve safety and driver performance.
Delivering telematics, journey management, and proof of delivery solutions, Microlise products help fleet managers to deliver the very best customer experience by providing real-time visibility of vehicles against schedule. Cutting edge telematics technology provides real-time visibility of assets, their health status, and how they have been used. Fleet performance analysis tools enable the user to identify health and usage trends, reduce operating costs, and optimise service regimes to get the most from a fleet.
Location: Nottingham Size: 201 to 500 employees Founded: 1982 Web Address: www.microlise.com
A modular approach allows customers to take advantage of a solution that meets their specific requirements and a dedicated solution roadmap ensures operators can take advantage of the latest innovations and developments in the telematics industry.
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Their plant solution delivers the tools to ensure a secure fleet and lets you remotely monitor location and machinery health and usage. As such, security will be improved, fleets will be managed more effectively, and uptime will be boosted to ensure assets are operational for longer.
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ABOUT MONITEYE
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Moniteye combines the latest in remote sensing technology with GPRS and GSM networks to accurately measure structural movement and wirelessly transmit the data to a secure server. Their online gateway, accessible from any web-enabled device, graphically displays the recorded movement allowing asset owners to make better, data-driven decisions.
Moniteye can utilise a wide range of flexible products to fit almost any industrial requirement. They are also able to develop bespoke products to suit specific project needs. Their current range enables consumers to monitor domestic and commercial subsidence, domestic extension movement, and to monitor bridge joint movement, wall, and embankment movement (for both lateral and horizontal movement), to sense vibrations and to deliver high value data to monitor the smallest of movement of critical infrastructure, including land, and buildings, detecting millimetre level movements.
Location: Oakham Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2005 Web Address: www.moniteye.co.uk
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Ridersmate Ltd A BOU T RIDERSMATE
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Ridersmate provides advanced GPS safety and tracking for road cyclists, mountain biker, motorcyclists, and horse riders.
Fitting easily onto any cycle, motorbike, or saddle, Ridersmate constantly tracks the user’s location, speed, heading, and altitude then texts selected individuals should the rider become separated from their ride.
Location: Gloucestershire Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.ridersmate.com
At the same time, Ridersmate records data about a user’s journey which can be easily saved, stored, and shared with other Ridersmate users.
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A BOU T VALERANN
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Valerann was founded to bring a different perspective to the intelligent transportation industry by turning the existing road infrastructure into a comprehensive source of data.
Valerann strives to make roads smart everywhere around the globe. They aim to support and enhance the smart transportation revolution and serve as an enabler of advanced technological developments.
They are data advocates looking to disrupt the transport industry by enabling the road to be an active part of the mobility ecosystem. They created a new data stream for applications, which is not user-dependent, transforms the operations of road management, and provide external information to connected vehicles.
By combining hardware and software, Valerann takes control over the entire process. From hardware manufacturing, through data collection and all the way to the analysis’ presentation, the involvement of third parties is not essential.
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.valerann.com
The Smart Road System is a closed loop system, which reduces its sensitivity to external disturbances and ensures secure data transfer and storage. V-API functions as a gateway to all the knowledge accumulated by the system, providing a continuous surge of information from every part of the road. In a world powered by data, Valerann’s API is a source for valuable, non-user-dependent information passed in real-time and highresolution.
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The Cloud Control Centre is a comprehensive solution for road monitoring and management. It is collecting essential data from the road, analysing it and consolidating the relevant information in one place.
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ABOUT VOLKERHIGHWAYS
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VolkerHighways is an integrated highways service provider operating across London and the South of England. Their goal is to deliver the best highways solutions within the industry through efficiency, responsibility, and a focus on clients and their customers.
Their services include highways term maintenance, street lighting and electrical services, surfacing, traffic management, and public realm infrastructure projects. They also offer Smart City services, through VolkerSmart Technologies.
Location: Hoddesdon Size: 501 to 1,000 employees Founded: 1959 Web Address: www.volkerhighways.co.uk
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Yatto A BOU T YATTO
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Yatto breaks all the rules of IOT and cloud computing. Many emerging IIOT applications require coordinated, in real time analytics at the ‘edge’, using algorithms that require a scale of computation, and data volume/velocity previously seen only in the data centre.
Traditional Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) work where minimal data needs to be acquired infrequently by cloud systems for processing (think reading, but not managing, utility meters, and low value object tracking). In comparison, an intelligent city needs to optimise traffic in real-time. Power distributors need to predict energy usage and manage endpoints in real time. Heart patients need automated alerting over always awake and reliable networks in real time. Yatto enable on-demand access and rapid mesh communication with self-healing for smartcities, emergency services and many other applications.
Location: London Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.yattoltd.com
Their fog platform uniquely combines distributed AI for ML at the node level, coupled with an ultraefficient wide-area wireless mesh transport required for mission-critical and real-time massive industrial applications.
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Such institutions include: University of East Anglia University of Hertfordshire University of Hull University of Liverpool University of Sussex Areas of research include on-board computers, parallel processing, man-machine interface, neutral networks, fault tolerance, smart space instruments, data compression, and evolutionary instruments. − University of Warwick − − − − −
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ABOUT CHI
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CorporateHealth International (CHI) is a global healthcare service dedicated to offering a minimally invasive video capsule service to investigate the Gastrointestinal tract. They wanted to minimise the time and risk inherent in traditional endoscopy procedures (e.g. colonoscopies) by using a tiny camera within a capsule that the patient swallows. CHI has put their ideas into practice and provides an innovative service for a tried and tested technology.
Most endoscopies are undertaken at clinics with expensive, invasive technologies, but the Wireless Video Capsule Endoscope showed it is possible to use satellite connectivity to shift the diagnosis process away from clinics and into people’s homes. This eliminates travel time and costs, reduces the load on clinics, and improves the patient experience. This service is operational today in Scandinavia, Germany, and the Scottish Highlands. They are now looking at implementing it across all of Scotland, England, and Northern Europe.
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Location: Inverness Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.corphealth.co
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ABOUT DOCOBO
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Docobo Ltd is a UK medical device company that supplies eHealth solutions to enable Community Care and improve the quality of life of patients, carers, and clinicians. More than 40 PCTs and Trusts in the UK, and several international healthcare organisations, are currently using DOC@HOME Telehealth supporting many thousands of patients.
Information is transmitted to DOC@HOME® via a choice of patient interaction devices and methods such as CAREPORTAL®, DOCOBO-APP™, which can be downloaded onto an Android tablet, Docobo TV or smartphone, including the patient's own device, and DOCOBO-WEB™ which offers access via a web browser such as, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. Any device capable of running one of these browsers can access DOC@HOME®.
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Location: Bookham Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2001 Web Address:www.docobo.co.uk
DOC@HOME® enables clinical teams to enrol, set up, and manage their patients from any standard PC, tablet, or smartphone, via secure web interfaces. DOC@HOME® also manages the connection, encryption, and transfer of data between the server and the patient interaction devices. Information is presented to the clinician through a number of display screens such as a list of patients, current monitoring status, any alerts that need attention, graphical displays of trends in symptoms, and vital signs. From here clinicians can enrol new patients, add and edit question sets, set and edit alert parameters, view and add intervention records, and send messages to the patient. Settings and questions can be made in cohorts or set to the specific needs of an individual patient.
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ABOUT MAPMYHEALTH
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Mapmyhealth is a UK-based healthcare company established in response to the overwhelming global threat of long-term conditions.
Mapmyhealth offers MapmydiabetesÂŽ, the only NICE endorsed diabetes self-management and collaborative care service, fully integrated with usual care.
They deliver digital therapeutics that are embedded into usual care pathways to help healthcare providers tackle long-term conditions in the most engaging, effective, and scalable way possible.
Location: Oxford Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2012 Web Address: www.mapmyhealth.co.uk
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Odin Medical Ltd A BOU T ODIN MEDICAL
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Odin Vision, founded by a team of clinicians, medical imaging, and artificial intelligence (AI) experts, is developing the next generation of AI enabled applications for endoscopic procedures.
Odin Vision is leading a new era of artificial intelligence (AI) enabled application for gastroenterology. They are creating a suite of tools that support doctors to improve detection and diagnosis of disease. Their award winning, deep learning technology has been developed by academic and clinical experts at University College London who have been leading this research field for the past 20 years.
Location: London Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2018 Web Address: www.odin-vision.com
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ABOUT SARISSA BIOMEDICAL
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Sarissa Biomedical specialise in the development and production of novel biosensors for the measurement of neuroactive chemicals during in vitro and in vivo studies for research and clinical diagnostic applications. Sarissa has a philosophy of innovation and continual improvement of its products to bring the latest in biosensing technology to the scientific research community.
Their biosensors consist of a series of layers that convert a "dumb" microelectrode into a "smart" device capable of measuring specific analytes in real-time. The analyte sensitivity depends upon the nature of the enzymes included in the sensing layer.
Location: Coventry Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2002 Web Address: www.sarissa-biomedical.com
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Spirit Healthcare Ltd A BOU T S P I R I T H E A L T HC A R E
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Working in partnership with patients, the NHS and local government, Spirit’s ongoing mission is to deliver real value in healthcare, empowering people to take control of their health, make best use of NHS resources, and utilise new technology.
CliniTouch Vie is a digital health solution to help improve patients’ lives. Spirit Healthcare is connecting patients and clinicians through technology to keep those with long-term conditions out of hospital. Patients can use CliniTouch Vie to monitor themselves safely at home, and their clinical teams welcome the ability to access this information, helping them decide who needs their care first, enabling them to effectively prioritise their workload.
Location: Leicester Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2007 Web Address: www.spirit-health.co.uk
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ABOUT TEKIHEALTH
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TekiHealth Solutions provides a bespoke telemedicine consultation service that preserves the unique patient benefits of face-to-face care whilst significantly easing GP and healthcare system pressures and costs.
TekiHealth have designed a telemedicine scheme that will provide a home visiting service for GP practices in Cumbria. The service is ideal for an integrated care community, but would also work for clusters of practices who experience a high demand for home visits with the associated staff shortages. Their aim is to maximise GP time and improve efficiency by eliminating the need for the doctor to travel. Using one GP and 3 Health Care Assistants, a total number of 18 home visits could be conducted in an afternoon.
They offer a unique, innovative, managed service built around “Remote GPs� who will work alongside surgeries, in hard to recruit localities.
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2018 Web Address: www.tekihealth.com
Rurality and associated poor broadband access are major issues faced by many communities in the UK meaning online services such as GP at hand are not possible. Their intention is to utilise satellite communications as a key component in the reliable provision of their proposed services in these communities. Because satellite technology is not dependent on existing telephone line infrastructure, or geographical location, rural areas will be able to access fast, reliable connectivity. Some areas do have fibre-optic broadband and we will utilise this in those hot spots.
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Ufonia Ltd ABOUT UFONIA
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Ufonia is applying artificial intelligence technologies to solve the biggest challenges in healthcare.
Ufonia is an artificially intelligent system that monitors health and wellness through a conversation with a medical voice 'chat-bot'. Ufonia can analyse the overall sentiment of participants response language and capture extra information, beyond the limited structure of the basic questionnaire. This information is likely to be important when trying to determine why particular patients improved more or less than others; and when trying to make more subtle distinctions in the outcomes from different treatments.
Location: Oxford Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2017 Web Address: www.ufonia.co
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The UK has several institutions, universities, organisations, as well as private research organisations looking at innovation in Intelligent Transport. Such institutions include: University of East Anglia University of Hertfordshire University of Hull University of Liverpool University of Sussex Areas of research include on-board computers, parallel processing, man-machine interface, neutral networks, fault tolerance, smart space instruments, data compression, and evolutionary instruments. − University of Warwick − − − − −
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A BOU T ARCHANGEL IMAGING
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In 2016, Archangel Imaging was born in the heart of Harwell. With support from European Space Agency, government, and commercial partners, they have developed several machine vision payloads and have expanded their business.
Their systems allow partners and customers to solve some of the World’s toughest problems in the most difficult places by putting the intelligence at the point of need. Unmanned vehicles equipped with payloads function as intelligent team members, able to perform without high bandwidth communications.
Their technology helps fight crimes, save lives, and protect the environment in remote areas where cloud-based artificial intelligence solutions just simply cannot work. They provide solutions that can be integrated to different platforms and missions in these areas, update live and improve with every use.
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Location: London Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.archangel.im
Their flagship products, HyRIZON, InSite, and Watchman, can be utilised in different industries and by land, air, or sea. On-board parallel processing means no more tethering of unmanned systems to manned payload consoles or server rooms. Insite: Visual geolocation without GPS for noisy, obstructed environments Watchman: Smart surveillance with automatic detection, tracking, and alerts Hyrizon: Smart hyperspectral vision to detect camouflages and the invisible Cerebella: Custom-made company mission management system Wamcam: Automated animal recognition and alerts for wildlife research and conservation
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A BOU T ASTROSAT
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Headquartered in Musselburgh, Scotland, Stevenson Astrosat (“Astrosat”) is a Space Technology and Earth Observation (EO) services company which employs 30 highly skilled scientists and engineers worldwide. By turning satellite-driven data into easily understandable visuals and combining it with data gathered on Earth, we are able to create innovative space solutions that can deliver vital, accessible information to enable a wide variety of end users make decisions in a timely manner. This empowers people to address various global challenges in order to make Earth a more sustainable and safer place to live on for many years to come.
Following Astrosat’s incorporation in 2012, the company was involved in a variety of exciting R&D projects with the UK Space Agency (UKSA), European Space Agency (ESA) as well as a number of high-profiled commercial customers in the UK, Europe and worldwide. Our portfolio of space products span a wide variety of market sectors. These include Forestry, Agriculture, Energy, Healthcare, Humanitarian Aid & Disaster Relief (HADR), Planning, Building & Construction and Oil & Gas. By leveraging core technologies that underpin our products, we are able to modify and adapt them so that they can be reapplied in an innovative manner to solve new challenges. This approach allows us to develop solutions that can be brought to market a lot quicker whilst remaining competitive in the EO market. Astrosat’s service offerings are built upon our core values of developing sustainable solutions that enables people to leverage the strengths of space to solve challenges faced on Earth.
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Location: Musselburgh Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2012 Web Address: www.astrosat.space
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A BOU T ESRI UK
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Esri UK provides world-class geographic information systems (GIS).
Esri built ArcGIS, the world’s most powerful mapping & spatial analytics software. ArcGIS software and apps combine mapping and data analytics to deliver location intelligence and meet digital transformation needs for organisations of all sizes.
Esri was founded to help solve some of the world’s most difficult problems. They do so by supporting their users’ important work with a commitment to science, sustainability, community, education, research, and positive change.
Every day Esri support millions of GIS powered decisions, helping businesses become more profitable and public service more efficient through a better understanding of location analytics:
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Location: Aylesbury Size: 201 to 500 employees Founded: 1969 Web Address: www.esriuk.com
− Retailers use GIS for site selection and demographic modelling − Insurance companies use GIS to make decisions around risk exposure − Governments use GIS to reduce costs and provide online services for citizens − Utility companies use GIS to help maintain and locate assets across the UK, driving better customer service − Housing associations use GIS to manage estate repairs and reduce costs − Police forces use GIS to reduce crime and improve public safety
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A BOU T GEOSPATIAL INSIGHT
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Geospatial Insight was established in 2012 by a team of highly experienced Geospatial experts to address a gap in the market for delivering actionable business intelligence sourced from satellite imagery.
Geospatial Insight have several core products including: − TankWatch provides a satellite-based approach to deliver frequent and regular information reports across global oil storage tanks sites − DroneWatch provides a secure portal for clients to view commissioned drone footage. Designed and developed exclusively by Geospatial Insight, their DroneWatch service provides a secure portal to view commissioned drone footage alongside exact mapping of the flightpath − RetailWatch generates year-over-year analysis of consumer traffic at major retail outlets worldwide − PalmWatch provides an advanced, alternative data source for monitoring oil palm fundamentals − WheaTrac is an advanced visual monitoring platform that harnesses satellite imagery, variable factors, human intelligence, and machine learning algorithms to help predict wheat yield − BreatheClean monitors Urban Air Pollution from Space, a ground-breaking solution developed by Geospatial Insight that uses satellite technology to map and monitor real-time levels of air pollution
Initial steady growth focussed on building strong foundations for the future by securing partnerships with a comprehensive network of global satellite, aerial, and UAV providers and development of products.
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2017 saw rapid growth following investment. Significant expansion of resource occurred through the recruitment of highly skilled technical and sales teams, the relocation of Geospatial Insight’s HQ in the Midlands, and the launch of a new office in the heart of London’s financial district. Today the company has an enviable market position as one of the leading providers of geospatial intelligence in the World with proven expertise across the investment, insurance, and corporate sectors through groundbreaking alternative data solutions that are augmenting traditional data analytics, enabling rapid response to major catastrophe events, and fundamentally revolutionising how insurers, investors, and markets make business decisions.
Location: Birmingham Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2012 Web Address: www.geospatial-insight.com
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ABOUT GEOSPOCK
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GeoSpock harnesses trillions of data points to discover hidden patterns and create a valuable new perspective in markets ranging from maritime and logistics to smart cities and data technology.
Using GeoSpocks technology, businesses can process extremely granular customer movement data. Their technology can enable prediction and avoidance of traffic bottlenecks, thereby allowing better use of physical infrastructure for V2V and V2X applications, real-time analytics of geospatial data can be mission critical where sub-second response to events is needed, e.g., emergencies.
Location: Cambridge Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address: www.geospock.com
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iGeolise A BOU T IGEOLISE
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Distance is almost universally measured in miles or kilometeres, but the founders of iGeolise think differently, they think about location in terms of how long it would take to travel as this is a more useful figure to know. Since its launch in 2009, iGeolise has produced solutions that let individuals and businesses view online content by travel time, considering details such as preferred forms of transport and time of day.
IGeolise developed an application programming interface (API) to locate, rank, and sort content by travel time that can be integrated into consumer-facing websites or apps. This platform is live in seven countries and trialled successfully in nine others. Business platforms can plot and analyse geographical information based on travel time and projects such as locating offices and/or stores, and marketing information by catchment area.
Location: London Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2010 Web Address:www.traveltimeplatform.com
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A BOU T ITO
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Working with the world’s leading journey planners, transit operators, authorities, governments, and consultancies, ITO are changing the way people move. Data in Motion.
Ito Transit Hub transforms operational data into a single source of highly accurate passenger information allowing customers to deliver consistent information through all channels. Ito transforms complex data into striking visualisations, helping customers to share new insights, communicate stories, and amplify messages. Their visualisations are ideally suited to any situation where customers need to understand and communicate temporal and spatial data to: − Launch and promote data products and services − Communicate complex insights for new transport infrastructure schemes
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2009 Web Address: www.itoworld.com
Ito have developed the technology to transform realtime data in any format into consistent, reliable feeds using self-learning journey prognosis algorithms to deliver accurate real-time journey predictions.
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Oxbotica ABOUT OXBOTICA
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Oxbotica is an autonomous vehicle software company. Their technology enables machines to robustly navigate, understand, and act in their specific environments.
Oxbotica’s autonomous control system, Selenium, enables vehicles to understand their environment. Caesium is their cloud-based fleet management system, which schedules and co-ordinates fleets of autonomous vehicles.
Whether complete systems or individual components, Oxbotica’s pioneering, platform-agnostic technology can be integrated across multiple domains — from airports and warehouses to farms and mines, and even on other planets.
Location: Oxford Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.oxbotica.com
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ABOUT PRECISION DECISIONS
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Precision Decisions grew out of a family farming business and continues to offer comprehensive precision farming services based on sound agronomic and practical experience. They have an expanding team which now has specialities across agronomy, engineering, software, customer service, as well as a dedicated workshops and development facilities.
Precision Decisions’ online mapping portal, MiFarm, has multi-layer functionality which can be utilised through a simple and intuitive online platform for field mapping and map display which helps to provide clear, concise information and reliable professional services to optimise user efficiency.
Through continuous organisational development, their capabilities and new working relationships allow them to offer an even wider range of products and services to consumers and their research into future technologies is creating exciting possibilities. Precision Decisions is now part of the larger Map of Agriculture group of companies
Precision Decisions’ data services create a simple and easy way to manage a users valuable farm data whilst their other capabilities provide sophisticated mapping with boundary, yield, protein, and variable rate application. Precision Decision also provide surveying software which comes from an RTK base station and radio mast. Similarly, a selection of telematics and GPS tracker packages are available, both off-the-shelf and tailored to suit specific requirements. N-Sensor ensures that the right and optimal rate of fertiliser is applied at each individual part of the field. It has become the benchmark technology for precision agriculture.
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Location: York Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2006 Web Address:www.precisiondecisions.co.uk
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ABOUT THE GEOINFORMATION GROUP Verisk GeoInformation is an awardwinning, market leader in geospatial data and analytical solutions in the UK. They are part of Verisk, a leading data analytics provider in the insurance, natural resources, and financial services sectors. They are at the forefront of innovation and development in the geospatial sector creating unique and valuable geospatial products for the professional user.
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES GeoInformation have four key products, UKMapÂŽ which is a highly detailed large-scale topographic map database, UKBuildings which is a national coverage detailed property database, UKLand which is a national land use database, and UKSurvey which is a series of data collection solutions. To support the use of their products they have a portfolio of value-added services designed to deliver fast and flexible access to its highly detailed and feature rich databases.
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Location: Cambridge Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 1998 Web Address: www.geomni.co.uk
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ABOUT TREEMETRICS
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Treemetrics is a software business which provides forest management technology to the forestry industry worldwide.
Forest HQ utilises technological advances in mobile applications, remote sensing, data mining, and satellite communications technology to deliver a total census of the forest.
Founded in 2005, Treemetrics has spent a number of years developing world leading solutions to help forest managers and owners manage forests and harvesting operations much more efficiently. Treemetrics software platform, Forest HQ, brings data and insights from across the forest estate into one central platform which can be easily integrated with existing systems and remotely accessed across any device.
Forest HQ is a central platform which takes user data from their devices and existing platforms into one central place, anytime, anywhere. The primary aim of Forest HQ is to help forest owners and managers to make better decisions to improve profitability and sustainability.
Treemetrics' mission is to create new technology to preserve the environment and ensure the sustainable use of natural resources. Their technology is devoted to the protection of environmentally sensitive ecosystems.
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Location: Cork Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2005 Web Address: www.treemetrics.com
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A BOU T VERIPOS
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With deep roots in the marine electronics industry dating back to the 1980s, VERIPOS is now a premier provider of high precision navigation, positioning products, and services to the offshore marine oil and gas industry. Focused on reliability, innovation, and customer service, they leverage both the Global Navigation Satellite Network (GNSS) and their own proprietary corrections network to deliver the most robust, high performance positioning solutions available in the offshore marketplace.
VERIPOS offer an independent supply of high precision GNSS positioning receivers and corrections services and their solutions are critical to the marine oil and gas industry, enabling dynamic positioning, drilling, marine seismic exploration, surveying, and construction.
Location: York Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 1989 Web Address: www.veripos.com
Their technologies focus on GNSS including global corrections services as well as advanced algorithms for specialised applications. VERIPOS offers highly robust precise positioning services that deliver centimetre, decimetre, or metre level accuracy, even under difficult offshore marine operating conditions. VERIPOS offers a range of software options to serve a user’s visualisation and processing needs. Their software provides information and tools such as real-time position, quality control, real-time tide estimation, or coverage mapping. It also provides users with critical information that will help make sound decisions regarding a user’s quality of position.
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VERIPOS products are also designed and approved for marine positioning and navigation. They contain cutting-edge technology that is not only upgradeable and flexible, but is simple to operate. With varying performance capabilities, each of their products offer variants which allow them to receive GNSS correction services.
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ONS Data Science Campus ABOUT THE ONS DATA SCIENCE CAMPUS The goals of ONS’s Data Science Campus are to investigate the use of new data sources, including administrative data and big data for public good and to help build data science capability for the benefit of the UK. A new generation of tools and technologies is being used to exploit the growth and availability of these new data sources and innovative methods are being created to provide rich, informed measurement and analyses on the economy, the global environment, and wider society.
Location: Newport Size: 1,000 to 5,000 employees Founded: 2017
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Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Britain, and a worldleading geospatial data and technology organisation. As a trusted partner to government, business, and citizens across Britain and the world, OS expertise and data helps customers in energy, utilities, property, retail, and finance deliver efficient services.
Geospatial capability: They help national mapping agencies and industry build efficient capability to meet growing demand for data. By providing advice, training, implementation, technology platforms, and managed services, they are enabling cities and nations to benefit from geospatial data.
Their accurate location data is used for smarter solutions to the world’s most complex problems including resource management, urbanisation, and population growth. By being at the forefront of geospatial capability for more than 225 years, they have built a reputation as one of the world’s most inspiring and trusted geospatial partner.
Smart Cities: Connected cities require geospatial data: They integrate complex data, from multiple sources into geospatial frameworks and enhance Smart capability. They have worked on projects enabling driverless cars, 5G, and IoT demonstrators.
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Location: Southampton Size: 1,001 to 5,000 employees Founded: 1791 Web Address: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
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ABOUT ROKE MANOR RESEARCH Roke Manor Research is a world-class electronics engineering consultancy. They seek to enable their clients to maximise their investments in science and technology. Trusted by government and industrial partners worldwide, they deliver technology-based R&D services, provide independent advice, and solve technically challenging problems.
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES Whether users are developing a technology concept, analysing a critical function, prototyping for validation, or demonstrating a capability, Roke has an established track record of delivering in: − Applied analysis & experimentation − Data science − Communications infrastructure & info management − Cyber security − Electromagnetic intelligence − Test and evaluation services
Location: Romsey Size: 201 to 500 employees Founded: 1956 Web Address: www.roke.co.uk
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UK Hydrographic Office A BOU T UKHO
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The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is the UK’s agency for providing hydrographic and marine geospatial data to mariners and maritime organisations across the world. The UKHO is a trading fund of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and is located in Taunton, Somerset with a workforce of approximately 900 staff. The UKHO is responsible for operational support to the Royal Navy and other defence customers, is the Maritime charting arm of UK MOD, and is currently developing AI capabilities.
The UKHO supply defence and the commercial shipping industry, they help ensure Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), protect the marine environment, and support the efficiency of global trade. Together with other national hydrographic offices and the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), the UKHO works to set and raise global standards of hydrography, cartography, and navigation. The UKHO also produces a commercial portfolio of ADMIRALTY Maritime Data Solutions, providing SOLAS-compliant charts, publications, and digital services for ships trading internationally.
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The UK has strong research capability in space and satellite applications: Government investment in the research base across the UK has resulted in growth for both the upstream sector and those developing satellite data derived solutions for downstream markets. This is exemplified by the world leading research in Quantum Technologies (gravity sensors and cryptography), Material science research (gallium-nitride transmitters offering higher data rates for communication for space), 5G (enabling seamless connectivity and indoor and outdoor positioning), computer vision, lasers and photonics, robotics and artificial intelligence (University of Surrey’s new Hub), and battery technology contributing to the uptake and growth of the sector. Additionally, core data science and their applications are exceptionally strong in the UK with R&D capability distributed across the academic community in leading universities and research centres. Earth Observation (EO) data is a key tool to enable environmental science research (35% of the 2015 NERC portfolio) with a dedicated NERC funded research centre, the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), to provide a focus for EO science and bring research through to application. UK’s Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation (CEOI), funded by UK Space Agency with co-investment from industry supports the pull through of academic research to the development of next generation EO instrumentation. The UK is top in EO and planetary science (according to citations, of the top 1% of cited papers, 29% are authored by UK academics). There are two groups actively contributing to this achievement: UK internationally renowned geospatial organisations, companies, institutions and universities, including: The Met Office, Satellite Applications Catapult, Ordnance Survey, the National Physical Laboratory, the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) and the associated universities, SPOTTITT, CGI, Terrabotics and Geospatial Insight. Alongside these stakeholders the community also has access to key processing and data storage facilities like Jasmin (STFC) and CEMS (Catapult – see Geospatial Innovation Environment below). − UK's AI domain presence, including: the government backed Alan Turing Institute, Oxford and Cambridge Universities (including spinning out internationally recognised companies such as Deepmind) and world class private companies including ARM, Tessella and IBM Research UK. −
UK heritage in delivering space data, including: Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) leading the small satellite revolution − Strathclyde University taking a lead in nanosatellite research − Earth-i pioneering commercial delivery of full colour video from space − Thales Alenia Space and Airbus D&S leading sensor development. −
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Earth Observation (EO) is one of the fastest growing
exploitation of EO data. The UK is home to many
industries in the UK. Northern Sky Research (NSR)
internationally renowned organisations, including
estimated that the EO industry will grow to $4.5bn/
the Met. Office, Satellite Applications Catapult,
year globally by 2024. London Economics have
Ordnance Survey, National Physical Laboratory, the
analysed the UK space industry and suggest that UK
National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) and
EO industry income will grow to £625 million by
a rich ecosystem of commercial SME’s and start-
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ups.
The UK is well positioned to support this strong
Our industry research excellence is demonstrated
market growth, being at the forefront of both R&D
by the UK being ranked first for EO and planetary
and the commercialisation of EO technology and
science
applications. The UK has an enviable heritage and
citations, of the top 1% of cited papers, 29% are
competitive advantage in many areas of EO
authored by UK academics, further signifying the
including data quality and validation; utilisation of AI
UK’s research strength.
for EO and a very strong tradition in the commercial
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ABOUT ASTIGAN
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Astigan Ltd is a UK company, established in 2014 by Ordnance Survey and private investors to develop and commercialise the UK’s first commercial sub-orbital Earth Observation HighAltitude Pseudo Satellites (HAPS).
Atigans aim is to develop a UK designed and manufactured, cost-effective and reusable vehicle which could carry scientific instruments, cameras, and telecommunications equipment above the majority of the Earth’s atmosphere and for the platform to perform many of the tasks of satellites without the cost and risk of having to go into Earth orbit.
Location: Southampton Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.astigan.uk
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Bird.i A BOU T BIRD.I
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Bird.i is a broker of satellite imagery, developing business intelligence indicators with CV. They also aim to make the best imagery from the world’s leading providers’ accessible and affordable through a unique monthly subscription to their Portal or API.
Bird.i provides access to the latest up-to-date satellite images as well as historic satellite imagery which can be viewed in high resolution, up to 30cm on a global basis and up to 12.5cm in selected areas, with on demand access to the most accurate images available today.
Location: Glasgow Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.hibirdi.com
They also have a flexible and easy-to-use portal to search, view, compare, and download the best images from providers in a seamless user experience. An Image Integration Service provides a plug and play API and offers instant image views into mapping applications or location-based services.
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ABOUT DEEP PLANET
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Deep Planet uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to provide solutions for precision agriculture, deforestation, water, and gas monitoring. Their forecasting and monitoring analytics platform can identify early signs of crop stress, detect soil moisture levels, predict crop yield, monitor land coverage, identify tree species, forecast future water levels, monitor gas emissions, and track commodity and inventory levels.
Deep Planet track crops through satellites. Their algorithms help farmers to reduce costs, improve yield and commodity traders to navigate market volatility. Their initial focus is to support grape growers by providing a vineyard decision management tool. Deep Planet uses remote sensing data to provide analytics to detect water levels and detect methane to provide strategic and operational information.
They start with historic satellite data, known economic trends, and ground truth data, train computer architecture models and predict future results. Then, they provide recommendations and actionable insights that can improve returns or yields and reduce costs.
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Location: Harwell Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2018 Web Address: www.deepplanet.ai
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ABOUT EARTH-I
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Earth-i is at the forefront of the commercialisation of space. Today they supply high-resolution image data services from the DMC3/TripleSat Constellation, KOMPSAT series of satellites, and SuperView satellites to clients across the globe. Their range of services, from data processing to analytics, help policy makers and innovators take more effective decisions, more rapidly.
Earth-i provides an assured stream of space imagery for any location on Earth, whether forests, ports, mines, refineries, construction sites, farms, roads, or car parks. Such imagery is then applied to several applications, such as: − To enhance sustainable urban development and smart city planning, their satellite data aids city infrastructure management and population density mapping − To enhance maritime monitoring and tracking with satellite data, providing live vessel tracking for boats and cargo ships with real-time data and detailed mapping − A resource mapping satellite imagery to aid sustainable Oil and Gas exploration, Earth-i provide remote sensing geology services including oil spill detection − Satellite technology to make geological mapping easier, for any location on Earth, allowing for the acquisition of high quality, very high-resolution mapping services − Enhanced decision making for government organisations on land and carbon management, as well as law enforcement with satellite images − Earth-i’s precision farming technology enhances organisations’ site-specific crop management using satellite imagery
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Their vision is that a consistent flow of Earth Observation data will drive powerful new insights into what’s happening on Planet Earth, at any location and in near real-time. Such insights will unlock the answers to the most challenging of questions and drive the big decisions about how we manage our world to deliver security and prosperity for our communities. They hope to deploy their own constellation of small, agile, Earth Observation satellites. These satellites will enable them to offer clients worldleading video and still images from space, with a level of spatial and temporal resolution that’s never been seen before. The goal is to unlock the powerful analytics and insights governments and industry require to make the decisions that increasingly shape our planet. Earth-i aspires to grow their agricultural portfolio through image provision, as well as direct products and services.
− Satellite data enhancing environmental disaster response and risk reduction through flood, forest fire, and deforestation detection and monitoring services − Commercial and insurance risks aids in construction and engineering by analysing locations for commercial and insurance risks with satellite mapping
Location: Guildford Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address: www.earthi.space
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ABOUT EOSPHERE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
eOsphere provides sustainable satellite Earth observation solutions for a wide range of commercial and governmental customers. Key application areas include the provision of affordable ground receiving stations for hazard and environmental monitoring and a rangeland management capability, being deployed as a part of the SIBELIUs IPP project.
eOsphere offer several services in the following areas:
− Forest and Wildfire Monitoring: eOsphere
ground stations allow government agencies to detect and monitor forest and wildfires using medium resolution thermal infrared and visible satellite data in near real time. As well as detecting and monitoring fires, the derived products also detect burn scar area, smoke, aerosol and air quality, volcanic eruptions, and ash. − Marine Environment Monitoring: eOsphere ground stations allow agencies to detect and monitor the marine environment using medium resolution visible and thermalinfrared Earth observation imagery to determine ocean water quality and sea surface temperature. These ocean products can be used to monitor the health and productivity of marine habitats, increasingly under pressure from human activity and climate change, by detecting oil slicks, algal blooms, high chlorophyll, and suspended matter concentrations and ocean fronts. − Earth observation for rangeland monitoring: The SIBELIUs service is building improved severe-weather resilience for Mongolian herding communities using satellite Earth observation. The solution provides improved capacity for distributing new and upgraded environmental information products. Pasture, snow, and drought products are being distributed to stakeholders supporting herding communities including the insurance sector, government agencies coordinating livestock and land use, and directly to the herders through text messaging. An Open Data Cube forms a key component of the SIBELIUs infrastructure which allows time series of satellite data and derived products to be queried by staff at the country’s Meteorological Institute and other government agencies.
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The SIBELIUs project, supported by the UK Space Agency, is delivering improved severe-weather resilience for Mongolian herding communities using satellite Earth observation. The solution provides improved capacity for distributing new and upgraded environmental information products, regarding pasture, snow and drought, to stakeholders supporting herding communities. Stakeholders include the insurance sector, government agencies coordinating livestock and land use, and local countryside officials and directly to the herders through television and text messaging. Osphere have been building international partnerships, working in countries throughout the world since 2001. eOsphere satellite ground receiving stations are installed in China, India, Mongolia, UK, Iraq, Sudan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Greece, Ecuador and Cuba. eOsphere have also work together extensively with companies, universities and government institutions throughout Europe.
Location: Harwell Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2001 Web Address: www.eosphere.co.uk 119
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ABOUT EXACTEARTH
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exactEarth was established for the purpose of making Satellite AIS data services available to the global maritime market. exactEarth leverages advanced microsatellite technology to deliver vessel monitoring solutions characterised by high performance, reliability, security, and simplicity.
exactEarth is a leading organisation in the field of global AIS vessel tracking, collecting the most comprehensive ship monitoring data and delivering the highest quality information to customers around the world.
Location: Harwell Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2010 Web Address: www.exactearth.com
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GeoCento A BOU T GEOCENTO
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
GeoCento was founded in 2011 by a team who, despite their different backgrounds, had all been experiencing similar problem with access to satellite imagery. With initial support from the European Space Agency (ESA) Business Incubation Centre at Harwell, they combined their skillsets and experience to develop a single, neutral, user-friendly platform for access to satellite imagery which now supplies customers worldwide.
They have developed EarthImages, a suite of web-based applications and APIs which provide users of imagery with the necessary tools to search for, select, and access imagery from a multitude of civilian satellites.
Location: Harwell Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2011 Web Address: www.geocento.com
Alongside this technology, their expert knowledge ensures that users can be confident that they are providing them with the data which serves their requirements best, in terms of budget or application. GeoCento provide access to a multitude of image sources, with their global connections with an unprecedented number of satellite and airborne imagery providers, covering all a consumer’s imagery needs.
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ABOUT OXEO
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Oxford Earth Observation (OxEO) applies predictive models to data extracted from satellite imagery. They derive location-specific assessments of the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk that various physical assets are exposed to. The company was formed to help meet the growing demand from institutional investors for objective, accurate, and contextually relevant information on the range of ESG risks embedded within their portfolios. Increasingly, these risks are climate related and OxEO is closely aligned with the expectations of the Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD).
The solution that OxEO is currently developing focuses on water risk. The sensing systems that they draw from include Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1, Landsat-8, Landsat-7, and Landsat-5. These systems have the sensing bands required to detect and analyse surface water and have temporal frequencies and spatial resolutions sufficient to make the detected trends meaningful. The water risk analysis uses SAR and NDWI data. The normalised-difference band combination, and the availability of these three bands in four sensing platforms, allows OxEO to conduct water analysis that is agnostic of the sensing platform. It enables OxEO’s derived decision-ready analysis to be timely, prescient, relevant, and valuable.
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OxEO identifies the drivers of ESG risk within spatially defined boundaries. They use data extracted from multispectral earth observation imagery to analyse historic changes in localised risk. Time series reductions of this data are regressed with climate variables and socioeconomic indicators to derive projections. The company’s mission is to apply the best of science and technology to understand and ameliorate ESG risk.
Location: Oxford Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2018 Web Address: www.oxfordeo.com
The unit of spatial analysis is the water catchment, this is defined as an area of land from which all surface and sub-surface waters flow to outlet points. Catchments vary in size and hydrological complexity. Their objective is to provide insight on likely changes over time to the extent and quality of water bodies identified within each catchment. These changes affect assets that rely on these water bodies such as mines, farms, industrial areas, and settlements. Investors have direct and indirect exposure to these assets via their portfolios. OxEO’s plan is to monitor changes in millions of identified water bodies across thousands of catchments, using near-daily satellite revisit data. They aim to describe how these changes might affect location-specific assets, that are recorded and updated on a decentralised asset register. In addition, they aim to project how asset-level risk might change in the short, medium, and long term, based on the best available climate science, and supplemented by contextual information. In time, they also intend to provide investors with insight on the inter-dependencies between assets; for example, where farms, mines, and settlements may compete for access to scare water resources under conditions of climate variability. 121
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ABOUT SPACEMETRICS
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Spacemetric is a software company streamlining the transformation of raw data from satellite and airborne sensors into imagery products ready for analytics. The company delivers affordable, high-performance, software solutions for all types of geospatial imagery to sensor operators, solution integrators, and large users of image data in both the civilian and defence sectors.
The Keystone software delivers value through a range of solutions including:
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Location: Nottingham Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2007 Web Address: www.spacemetric.com
− Complete satellite image data processing chains able to provide access to data and products in near real-time − Multi-sensor satellite image catalogues for archiving and indexing user imagery on a single platform ready for easy search and visualisation − Integrated satellite image data portals for online ordering, generation and dissemination of satellite image products The Keystone Image Management System is Spacemetric's software data hub for handling, processing, and serving geospatial imagery from any type of flying or orbiting imaging sensor. It is based on rigorous photogrammetric techniques that ensure high quality results and rapid data delivery while minimising costs by enabling extensive use of on-demand services that minimise the necessary processing and storage footprint.
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ABOUT SN
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Specto Natura (SN) Limited is a Cambridge based consultancy which enables its clients to deliver useful, accurate, and reliable environmental information from remote sensing/Earth Observation (EO). They aim to sit between users, which require geospatial services, the service providers, who deliver EO-based products, and the technology developers, who are pushing the inside of the envelope. In this position, they can maximise the benefits to users of EO data which is built on the latest technology, but within a robust and viable context to deliver sustainable results.
Specto Natura (SN) offers a wide range of services including project planning, project management, data collection, analysis, interpretation, reporting, publication, education, and training. The expertise within SN covers the fundamental physical basis of the measurements being made by EO instruments, the processes they illuminate, the practical application of such information, and the socio-economic and conservation impact. They focus on user engagement, requirements gathering, product specification, and finally validation stages of the value chain. These skills have been applied to work with and within UK government agencies and undertaking on a range of activities from blue-skies research to operational delivery. At the European level, they have had close links to THE European Commission (EC) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) through projects and advisory groups for more than a decade. They have been heavily involved in the Copernicus (formerly Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)) programme, its transition via the Copernicus/GMES Initial Operations (GIO) phases, and now in its current operational activity through several critical land domain projects. Recent projects include the validation of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service panEuropean and hot spot products, the conceptual design of Europe's next generation of land monitoring products, and the exploitation of regular EO observations for habitat monitoring in large scale coastal adaption schemes. Going forward SN is working on European Natura 2000 grassland monitoring, the exploitation of high cadence fine spatial details EO image data feeds, and the promotion of EO-based products and services to grow the user community.
SN has been operating for over 10 years and has a broad range of clients from the government, private and academic sectors within the UK and across Europe. They have experience of working for UK government delivering products and advice related to EO and land applications for almost two decades.
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Location: Cambride Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2008 Web Address: www.specto-natura.co.uk
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ABOUT THE LAND APP
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
The Land App is an easy-to-use, collaborative, online mapping platform to help users and their teams design and manage land-based projects. Developed in partnership with Ordnance Survey, The Land App connects all stakeholders in the rural industry on a single digital map of the land.
The Land App brings together the necessary data and information in one place to allow farms, estates, and rural professionals to quickly create digital maps of their land. It also helps people easily share maps with other stakeholders (from advisers to government) via the product’s collaboration tool. For land managers, such as farms and estates, The Land App helps manage land to protect rural business and deliver environmental benefits to: − Easily design revenue-generating schemes and projects with digital drawing tools − Instantly assess the viability of schemes and projects with automatic valuations − Reduce the risk of fines with accurate measurement tools and official data
Location: London Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.thelandapp.com
For professional services, such as agents and consultants, The Land App allows users to effectively support clients with their land-based projects to:
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− Manage all user clients and maps from a single dashboard − Accurately design schemes and projects with digital drawing tools and official data − Improve the chances of successful applications with templates for rural subsidy schemes − Save time and money by sharing maps digitally For business and government, The Land App provides a digital connection between users and their customers to: − Understand more about where your customers and their land-based projects are − Reduce administration costs by receiving higher quality applications in digital format − Improve communication and efficiently resolve issues by using a shared digital map of the land − See change on-the-ground and evaluate progress as customers share photo uploads
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE // Satellite Applications Catapult
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ABOUT AURORA-AI
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Aurora has been at the forefront of deploying computer vision, machine learning, and pattern recognition solutions for over 15 years; its solutions for authentication of individuals have been installed worldwide. Aurora technology enables many automated passenger validation systems at some of the world’s largest airports.
Aurora-AI has a portfolio of solutions in the Air Industry. They are helping improve operations, either with front of house passenger processing systems or back end operational improvement software. They also have other successful initiatives across multiple market sectors, for example, they provide solutions relating to face recognition, data analytics, bag tag OCR, threat detection, and processing functions.
Location: Higham Ferrers Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 1998 Web Address: www.aurora-ai.com
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Darktrace ABOUT DARKTRACE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Modelled on the human immune system, Darktrace’s technology is a world leading, enterprise-grade AI with over 2,300 customers worldwide.
The UKHO supply defence and the commercial shipping industry, they help ensure Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), protect the marine environment, and support the efficiency of global trade. Together with other national hydrographic offices and the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), the UKHO works to set and raise global standards of hydrography, cartography, and navigation. The UKHO also produces a commercial portfolio of ADMIRALTY Maritime Data Solutions, providing SOLAS-compliant charts, publications, and digital services for ships trading internationally.
Protecting corporate networks, cloud, and virtualized environments, IoT and industrial control systems, Darktrace autonomously detects and fights back against emerging cyber-threats across the enterprise.
Location: Cambridge Size: 501 to 1,000 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address:www.darktrace.com
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ABOUT FILAMENT
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Filaments mission is to help enterprises apply AI in their businesses. They understand that the skills needed to do this are in short supply (and expensive), and infrastructure requirements are complicated. For this to happen they are equipping their clients with tools and solutions that are usable, scalable, and affordable.
The Filament AI Hub is their platform for productionising data science, import models, integrate them into business applications, and putting them to work at scale, in the cloud or onpremise. Filament’s Author NLP is a suite of tools that enable users to upload and organise data, annotation tools to enrich the data, and create models using the enriched training data, all in one easy to use web interface.
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Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.filament.ai
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ABOUT IABRA
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Founded in 2010, iAbra’s focus is deriving utility from the ever-growing amounts of sensor data in the world. Artificial Intelligence is moving from the cloud to embedded applications. This is enabling a wide range of use cases including automotive, defence, manufacturing, healthcare, and agriculture. iAbra’s predominant focus is on AI imagery and video analytics, but they also have experience in the field of EO.
Machine Learning ecosystems have been built mostly on GPUs for the cloud, where neural networks are generally very large and inefficient. This cloud based neural networks and powerhungry GPUs make the AI use cases requiring embedded inference more difficult or impossible to engineer.
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Location: Bedfordshire Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2004 Web Address:www.i-abra.com
The FPGA’s efficiency and low power consumption are better able to deliver embedded applications. iAbra’s tools ensure that efficient neural networks are created and optimised for embedded FPGA silicon, delivering low power AI inference for a variety of applications. iAbra Neural PathWorks is the machine learning software platform from iAbra. It provides the neural network creation element of their end-toend tool chain for embedded AI inference on FPGA. Neural Synapse is the AI Inference architecture for neural networks created in PathWorks.
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ABOUT LOGICAL GLUE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Logical Glue brings transparency to the forefront of business decision making, unlocking the power of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and delivering actionable insights that create business value.
The Logical Glue XAI platform allows users to harness the most value from their data, extracting valuable insights to support fast, accurate business decision making.
Logical Glue’s Explainable AI (XAI) boosts predictive intelligence, enables consumers to explore and analyse their data, discover trends and patterns that improve decision-making, uncover hidden potential in underused information, and deliver rapid ROI.
Logical Glue build business boosting, futureproofed XAI-powered systems that bring transparency to the forefront of business decision making and ensure best practice accountability offering real business value. Their explainable, reliable, and interpretable human-centric solutions deliver actionable insights that will pay dividends for a user’s business today and in the future.
Logical Glue empowers the business user to leverage trusted insight from data in new ways across all lines of business and in many functional areas.
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Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2009 Web Address:www.logicalglue.com
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ABOUT RYELORE AI
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Ryelore AI enables financial institutions to make investment decisions from visual datasets with deep learning algorithms. They seek to commercialise new artificial intelligence research in order to build intelligent and accurate algorithms. They also train intelligent algorithms to understand visual data from satellites, drones, and the Internet. Finally, they use their combined hedge fund and machine learning experiences to extract, clean, and process insights so they can be easily used to make investment decisions.
Ryelore AI have several core products and services including: − Measuring oil storage volumes, they can determine oil storage volumes in any port or country using satellite imagery providing transparency in oil storage levels to oil traders in financial markets. − Identifying real estate opportunities, enabling investors to better identify low and high-risk agri-businesses and create an opportunity to tilt investment to actually sustainable farms. − Measuring factory farming risk, enabling the measurement of economic growth in undocumented regions and assist better decision-making by local governments, aid agencies, and investors.
Location: Durham Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.ryelore.com
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SenSat ABOUT SENSAT
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
SenSat turns complex visual and spatial data into a real time simulated reality that helps computers solve real world problems. The cloud-based technology allows companies operating in physical domains, such as infrastructure construction, to make more informed decisions based on multiple variables at large scale and complexity.
SenSats cloud-based technology Mapp™ allows companies operating in physical domains to make more informed decisions based on multiple variables at large scale and complexity. They do this by creating the highest resolution digital replicas of real-world locations in three dimensions. This serves as the basis from which they can incorporate complex data sets, linked via location.
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.sensat.co.uk
They make it possible for computers to understand the real world through the lens of highly detailed simulated realities, to learn how things work, and to change the way we make decisions.
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ABOUT TERRABOTICS
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Terrabotics Space:Cloud:Earth:Analytics super-pixel engine transforms Earth Observation big data into value-added products and information. Terrabotics provides 3D mapping based on Computer Vision expertise, initially focused on Oil & Gas.
Terrabotics have several core products and services which address:
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Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.terrabotics.co.uk
− Plan Pipelines; Analyse elevations, gradients, and terrain ruggedness to determine the most economical route. Determine proximity risk to social and environmental factors by using their smart landcover and humansettlement mapping algorithms. − Measure Volumes; Use high precision digital terrain elevation models to estimate earth working volumes, such as mining stockpiles, waste piles, pits, and quarry excavations or calculate cut and fill for large construction projects. − Assess Flood Risk; Use the most up to date DEMs, DSMs, or DTMs to model the impact of rising flood water levels. See which areas most at risk to flash flooding or long-term sea-level rise are. Inform decisions for flood mitigation measures or avoidance zones with detailed and timely terrain elevation data derived from the most high-resolution satellite, aerial, or drone imagery. − Select Sites; Assess the lie-of-the-land to aid rapid and efficient site selection. Find the optimum locations for placing major facilities such as oil & gas well pads and drilling sites or central processing facilities. − Map Drainage & Model Outflow; Use 3D digital terrain elevation data to automatically map the natural watersheds and drainage patterns of the landscape. Model how and where water, oil leaks, or chemical spills will flow into the surrounding environment and watersheds. − Perform risk and crisis scenarios modelling for mining tailings dams or hydro-electric dam projects. − Assess Visual Impact; Use 3D digital terrain data to model the visual impact of proposed construction projects on their neighbours and surrounding environment. − Perform line-of-sight and view-shed analyses for windfarms, solar projects, and any large infrastructure. − Predict Signal Propagation; Predict the propagation of radio waves over complex terrain, enhanced with natural and man-made obstacle ‘clutter’. Identify signal ‘dead spots’ and plan the efficient deployment of transmitters and receivers to optimise network coverage. − Model Noise Pollution; Use the latest 3D surface elevation models derived from satellites, aircraft, or drones to predict how environmental and industrial noise will propagate through a 3D terrain environment. Measure and model the effects of natural clutter and barriers to signal and noise propagation created by the topography. 133
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ABOUT TRACTABLE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Tractable develops artificial intelligence for accident and disaster recovery. From car accidents to natural disasters, their AI looks at photos of damage and predicts repair costs. By providing their AI to the largest insurers worldwide, claims are settled quickly & efficiently, which in turn impacts livelihoods. Their technology is patented and trained on one of the largest datasets in the industry.
Tractable uses AI to disrupt the industry by collecting damage data, analysing it, enabling efficient repairs, and accelerating settlements. This helps to reduce the disruption to the lives of consumers by utilising imagery and connecting the repair ecosystem in the automotive and disaster sectors.
Tractable do meaningful applied research, transforming breakthrough discoveries in deep supervised and semi-supervised learning into products that help people recover from accidents and disasters painlessly.
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.tractable.ai
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Tumbling Dice ABOUT TUMBLING DICE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Tumbling Dice is a software company with a suite of products that helps users interpret the world around them in new ways. From image recognition to image capture and mapping change, Tumbling Dice can support users in their commercial, creative, or scientific endeavours.
Tumbling Dice offers three products: − Daisy: Image recognition software for identifying any two- or three-dimensional object, − Rana: Movement-based image capture that only films when it detects movement; and − Mensor: Maps topographical change over time and can even map change in minute architectural detail.
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ABOUT XILHELM
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Xihelm is a leading computer vision startup, combining deep learning, computer vision, and artificial intelligence to create solutions for real world problems – changing the economics of industries. They have a leading technical team of software engineers and PhD researchers, with extensive commercial experience, patents, and publications.
AgriView is a leading computer vision platform, enabling commercially viable, automated harvesting of fruit and vegetables. Using their own advanced computer vision and deep learning platform, together with off-the-shelf robotics, Xihelm are creating an efficient system to increase farm yield whilst reducing both the unpredictability and rising cost of labour.
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Location: London Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.xihelm.com
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UBIQUITOUS CONNECTIVITY
UBIQUITOUS CONNECTIVITY // Satellite Applications Catapult
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mobile satellite communications, and each of the
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ABOUT AAC CLYDE SPACE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
AAC Clyde Space specialise in providing advanced small spacecraft, mission services, and subsystems. They are a market leader in small satellite solutions and services for government, commercial, and educational organisations.
AAC Clyde Space is the trading brand formed of Ă…AC Microtec and its subsidiary Clyde Space. They offer a wide range of commercially focused satellite solutions and services available as a comprehensive package, empowering customers to both customise and streamline their mission and services.
Location: Glasgow Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2005 Web Address: www.aac-clyde.space
AAC Clyde Space have specialist expertise and experience in delivering a wide range of commercially focused satellite solutions including Space-as-a-Service, a comprehensive end-to-end mission service where they take care of everything from design to data delivery, enabling users to concentrate on their core business. Their range of subsystem and spacecraft products have an impressive on-orbit heritage.
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Their EPIC spacecraft platforms combine decades of heritage from their widely used CubeSat subsystems, with a 100% success rate in delivering CubeSat missions, resulting in an industry-leading performance and capability.
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ABOUT DATASAT COMMUNICATIONS Datasat Communications is a remote communications specialist delivering secure and reliable networks too hard to reach places and the world's harshest environments. They are a leading service provider of VSAT satellite communications, combining intelligent outdoor wireless technology to design and build for end-to-end multi-service networks over a single infrastructure.
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES Datasat provides high quality satellite-based networks worldwide. One of the few independent VSAT satellite service providers to own its own Teleports, the company offers a one stop solution for the design and deployment of robust, reliable, and scalable VSAT communications networks into geographically dispersed sites. Its networks are precisely tailored to meet the customers’ requirements.
Location: Hatfield Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 1987 Web Address: www.datasat.com
DDK Positioning
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ABOUT DDK POSITIONING DDK Positioning is a provider of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) corrections. Their positioning solutions are designed in-house and are used to enhance a user’s ability to improve and deploy location-based services, asset tracking, and GNSS positioning applications. Their solutions can be delivered across almost any communication links including 3G/4G, Wi-Fi, and satellite. These delivery technologies and accurate proprietary algorithms allow them to provide customers with ubiquitous precise positioning globally.
Location: Laurencekirk Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.ddkpositioning.com
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ABOUT IOTIC LABS
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Iotic Labs vision is a world where anything can interact with anything to define and help solve the most intractable problems and forge opportunities for the future. Iotic's patented cloud-hosted capability creates Iotic Twins, true digital twins.
An Iotic Twin is a true digital twin, a comprehensive, interoperable version of anything: all its data, all its controls, through its whole life. Iotic Space is the scalable environment in which Iotic Twins securely, programmatically interact. It is not a 3D model or visualisation of an asset, but a through-life, semantically defined, virtualisation of an asset.
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.iotic-labs.com
Iotic Twins are composites of data and controls able to model behaviours and meaningfully, programmatically interact with other twins. The interactions between Iotic Twins removes complexity, allowing Iotic enables anything across an Enterprise to have a Twin of any Asset – sensor, building, engine, database, person, supply chain, billable hour, or model. Interactions between Iotic Twins are brokered with access control policies allowing granular control of enduring or transitory interactions.
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Isotropic Systems ABOUT ISOTROPIC SYSTEMS
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Isotropic Systems Limited (ISL) is developing the world’s most spectrally efficient, low profile antennas that are conformal, multi-band, and electronically steerable. The company’s team of industry experts and scientists have reached a major breakthrough in technology and innovative antenna design.
ISL’s antenna will be the first truly ‘broadband’ low-profile antenna with fully electronic beam steering, easily scalable to effective apertures and can be designed to match almost any desired form factor. Designed for satellite broadcast, VSAT, microwave, multipoint wireless, and 5G broadband communications, the antennas are low cost and have no moving parts to adhere to the stability requirements of mobility.
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address: www.isotropicsystems.com
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Livewire Digital Ltd ABOUT LIVEWIRE DIGITAL Livewire Digital design Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions that provide reliable, optimised communications links that operate over cellular, terrestrial, and satellite services. Combining networking knowledge with expertise in broadcast video, electronics and mechanical engineering, Livewire Digital offer leading edge products and bespoke systems to a broad range of markets and organisations.
Location: Leatherhead Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 1991 Web Address: www.livewire.co.uk
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Novocomms Limited (NVC) A BOU T NVC
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
NVC has its roots in the research laboratories of the University of Birmingham, which has led the way in antenna theory for over 40 years. NVC has licensed technology from the university and developed a portfolio of its own IP, keeping it ahead of the requirements from its markets. NVC has not only the theory and IP to demonstrate its leadership in the market, but has proved that it can win orders from some of the world’s largest manufacturers in the face of longestablished competitors.
Novocomms offer antenna expertise for IoT device and gateway solutions, resulting in better performance for the IoT system. Novocomms is designing and developing a new generation of smart multi-band, multi-functional, multi-port, compact, configurable antenna technology systems for different market segments. The antenna system uses industry leading SmarTennaÂŽ technology with patented antenna elements and adaptive antenna tuning system.
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ABOUT RIGNET
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
RigNet is a global technology company that provides customised communications services, applications, and cybersecurity solutions, enhancing customer decision making and business performance.
RigNet delivers integrated technology services to customers seeking a competitive advantage through digital transformation. From managed communications services, to industry-leading cybersecurity, to breakthrough machine learning analytics, RigNet enables businesses that rely on distributed operations to reach new peaks of performance.
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Location: Westhill Size: 501 to 1,000 employees Founded: 2001 Web Address: www.rig.net
Some services include: − Managed Communications: RigNet offer unparalleled communications infrastructure with satellite backhaul with L, C, Ka, and Ku bands, fiber, microwave, and cellular with live monitoring − Cybersecurity and Encryption: RigNet’s Enhanced Cyber Services, in conjunction with their Security Operation Center (SOC), is designed to provide real-time threat detection, network visualisation, and timely mitigating response using their advanced intrusion prevention tools − IIoT and Apps: Their portfolio offers a range of connectivity solutions, real-time monitoring applications, and end-to-end ‘sensor-to-server’ services giving users greater visibility, control, and situational awareness of operations, anywhere in the world − Data and AI: RigNet's Intelie Live platform can capture every bit of data across a user’s distributed assets whether oil platform operations to ship engines, in order to capture, process, and analyse thousands of events per second in real-time − Systems Integration: Conceptual engineering and consultancy are a core competency. The company develops the definition of the project’s telecommunication requirements and establish the criteria for achieving goals
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ABOUT STS DEFENCE
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STS Defence is a UK based technology and engineering business, specialising in mission-critical communications, electronics, and intelligent systems. They operate in markets that include the defence, marine, aerospace, and nuclear sectors. They help customers to resolve complex technical challenges, investigating and creating innovative solutions, designing and manufacturing equipment and assemblies, and integrating and supporting systems through-life.
They offer three complementary and closely linked capabilities. By operating across the lifecycle spectrum, they offer an agile, low-risk, and cost-effective way to investigate, develop, deploy, and sustain technology that delivers results. These capabilities include: − Research and Technology: They identify and develop intelligent monitoring and integrated communications technologies − Design and Manufacture: They offer a solution-focused design and manufacturing capability, delivering components, and assemblies that meet the most stringent quality standards − Integration and Support: They integrate electronic systems onto military platforms and provide training solutions and integrated logistic support through-life
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Location: Gosport Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2004 Web Address:www.sts-defence.com
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The UK has several institutions, universities, organisations, as well as private research organisations looking at innovation in Intelligent Transport. Such institutions include: University of East Anglia University of Hertfordshire University of Hull University of Liverpool University of Sussex Areas of research include on-board computers, parallel processing, man-machine interface, neutral networks, fault tolerance, smart space instruments, data compression, and evolutionary instruments. − University of Warwick − − − − −
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Satellite services are becoming increasingly capable
advances in miniaturisation and the use of non-space
and, therefore, relevant to both government and
off-the-shelf products, creates an industry more agile
commercial enterprise as a means of acquiring data
and responsive to market and user demands. This
and of deriving and disseminating information. The
new component, to the satellite service landscape,
increasing rate of technology transfer between
has the ability to influence all the major satellite
terrestrial and satellite-based systems facilitates a
services.
convergence between the two, leading to a future where satellite and terrestrial services form a
The evolution of individual technologies represents
seamless panorama of capability over the next 10
the enablers underpinning the creation of services
years.
addressing market needs. Because the services provided by satellites can address multiple markets, and
with dependency on infrastructure that employs a
commercialisation of terrestrial technologies has
vast range of technologies, it is appropriate to
outpaced that of spaceborne technologies. The next
orientate the analysis methodology around the
20 years will see a closing of this development gap.
service concepts. These are pivotal for the future
The emergence of small satellites, through the
commercial exploitation.
Historically
the
rate
of
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ABOUT AIRBUS
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Airbus believe their purpose is to improve life on Earth and beyond through their cutting-edge Space technologies. With every technological breakthrough they bring people closer together, they navigate new frontiers and discover new and unexplored destinations, and they do not just take innovations to Space, their Space solutions help solve global challenges on Earth.
Whether mapping every star in our galaxy or looking back at planet Earth, Airbus has been helping to answer big questions from space for more than 50 years. Supplying reliable systems that range from electronic components to full telecommunications relay platforms, scientific satellites, and manned spacecraft, Airbus provides solutions for customers around the globe.
Location: Stevenage Size: 14,000+ employees Founded: 1989 Web Address: www.airbus.com
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Albora ABOUT ALBORA
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
ALBORA develops next-gen geolocation technologies for Autonomous Navigation (autonomous cars, drones, etc), Industrial IoT, and Logistics Applications (asset tracking and management).
Their product, using their proprietary technology Alcore (3 patents granted), is a hybrid geolocation solution consisting of a highperformance (multi-constellation: GPS, Galileo, Beidou, and multi-frequency) GPS, in the asset and in the cloud, to provide better location to micro-mobility platforms, logistics companies, and OEMs. Their solution is affordable and lowpower, especially suited for city environments (high buildings), and has a PaaS (Position-as-aService) business model with a monthly fee per asset.
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2017 Web Address: www.albora.io
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ABOUT ALTITUDE ANGEL
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Altitude Angel are an aviation technology company delivering solutions which unlock the potential of unmanned aircraft to routinely fly in airspaces all over the world. Their market-leading products support U-Space services and Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM); uniquely providing reliable, safe and innovative solutions for airspace regulators, drone manufacturers, operators, and developers across the globe.
Their purpose-built cloud platform supports both U-Space and UTM, and delivers marketleading services to drone operators, manufacturers, and software developers. Their innovative solutions for ATM enable customers to access a rich source of real-time airspace, environmental, and regulatory data which is expertly customised to specific operation. GuardianUTM provides an integrated portfolio of scalable and robust digital communications services to aviation stakeholders, national drone registration solutions, and integrated identification services to deliver comprehensive, protected airspace management solutions.
Location: Reading Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.altitudeangel.com
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BDE Space ABOUT BDE SPACE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Based near Oxford in the UK, BDE Space are an engineering consultancy specialising in Satellite communications. They design Satellite earth stations and VSAT networks for International Carriers, ISP’s, Broadcasters, and system integrators. Since they do not sell any physical hardware, their proposals are not biased towards any manufacturer and they are able to provide their clients with technically justified and economical solutions reinforced by their 30+ years in the satellite industry.
BDE Space produce technical procurement specifications for Satellite Earth Stations, Design Satellite Earth Stations, undertake commissioning testing of Satellite Earth Stations, write Operation and Maintenance manuals for Satellite Earth Stations, and provide Technical Training courses in Satellite Communications
Location: Didcot Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.bdespace.com
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ABOUT BSC FILTERS
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
BSC Filters (MPG York), a Dover company, is recognised as a top tier space and defence contractor in the design and manufacture of microwave filters, IMUX, OMUX, and waveguide and coaxial passive components, from prototype for research and Engineering Model qualification to high volumes on the supply chain for the mega-constellation markets.
Working from VHF to 94GHz, BSC Filters specialises in Waveguide, Interdigital, Combline, Cavity, Helical, Lumped Element, and Suspended Substrate devices. Other components they are also able to offer include Couplers, Equalisers, Switched Filter Banks, Transitions, and Waveguide assemblies. BSC Filters is ISO 9001:2015 certified and offers customers the most extensive range of filter based products in the industry.
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Location: York Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 1989
Web Address: www.dovermpg.com/bscfilters
Caribou Digital (UK) Ltd (trading as Caribou Space) ABOUT CARIBOU SPACE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Caribou Space supports organisations to bridge the space and development worlds by working with governments, space agencies, development agencies and private sector space companies.
Caribou Space provides the following services: ODA fund and programme strategy: Strategic
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Location: Farnham Size: 1 to 10 staff Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.caribou.space
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recommendations for the design and delivery of ODA programmes. Fund management: Large scale ODA funds (£100M+), and seed stage funds (£4M+). Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E): Design of M&E systems, delivery of process and impact evaluations and M&E training. Research, communications and knowledge sharing: Conducting research on market opportunities, user needs, use cases and impact of space solutions. Sharing knowledge publicly of what works, doesn’t work and why, through diverse communications channels including press and media, publications, social media, conferences and workshops. Programme management: Delivery of complex, multicountry, multi-million-pound programmes in developing countries. Product strategy: Supporting strategy for the sustainability and commercialisation of space solutions for developing countries. Economic evaluation: Quantification of the economic case and impacts of space technology.
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ABOUT CGI
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
CGI has more than 30 years’ experience in the Communications sector helping leading CSP’s around the world become the next-generation telecoms providers.
CGI has a focus on Network Virtualisation, Software Defined Networks, and 5G capabilities within communication.
Their industry knowledge and technological expertise accelerate their client’s business transformation by helping them improve their customer experience and satisfaction, get to market faster, generate new revenue streams, optimise operational efficiencies, and drive costs down.
They offer support in the following areas: − Digital Customer Experience − Enterprise management − Network Virtualisation and Software Defined Networks − Open Source − Tapestry − Unified management of hybrid IT environments
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Location: London Size: 10,001+ employees Founded: 1969 Web Address: www.cgi.com
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ABOUT COBHAM RAD EUROPE
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Cobham RAD Europe Ltd at Harwell offers a radiation testing capability unmatched in the UK for assessing the effects of ionising radiation on materials and components for use in the challenging environment of space. The Company specialises in building a test and measurement system around a customer’s samples in order to acquire data on their performance before, during, and after exposure to radiation. This process provides the data needed to complete the design and qualify products for space. Cobham operates its own gamma irradiation facility for total dose (TID) testing and undertakes frequent tests in other facilities, e.g. for single event effects (SEE) testing and electron or neutron testing. Offering a data acquisition service, as well as basic irradiation, means Cobham can help customers understand the radiationinduced changes that take place. This knowledge can be used to assess the design of equipment before testing so as to improve the chances of it passing the test. Cobham RAD Europe is a subsidiary of Cobham plc, a leading global technology and services innovator, respected for providing solutions to the most challenging problems, from deep space to the depths of the ocean.
Specific radiation test facilities and capabilities include:
Location: Wimborne Size: 10,001+ employees Founded: 1934 Web Address: www.cobham.com
− Total ionising dose (TID) RLAT (50 to 300 rad/sec or 3.6 to 36 krad/hr) according to: - MIL-STD-883 and -750, test method 1019, condition A - ESA ESCC 22900, standard dose rate − TID ELDRS (10 to 100 mrad/sec or 36 to 360 rad/hr) according to: MIL-STD-883 and -750, test method 1019, condition B - E - ESA ESCC 22900, low and standard dose rate − Neutron displacement damage and atmospheric neutron testing − Electron testing (1 to 23 MeV) − Heavy ion single event effects (SEE) testing (SEL, SET, SEGR, SEU, SEB, SEFI) − Proton SEE and displacement damage testing (from 1 to 800 MeV) − Gamma and alpha effects on materials − Certificated to ISO 9001:2015 and DLA Laboratory Suitability for tests where in-situ data acquisition is enabled, remote viewing of the live data can be facilitated for the customer The synergistic effect of irradiation and other factors can lead to more rapid degradation than the sum of the individual effects would indicate. Hence, Cobham also offers the possibility to irradiate in a range of gaseous environments and under vacuum, with heating or cooling, with or without electrical stress and, e.g. for solar cells, under illumination.
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ABOUT INMARSAT
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Inmarsat is a global mobile satellite communications provider who has entered into a strategic partnership with Pessl Instruments, a leading provider of advanced agriculture technology solutions, to become its sole connectivity and platforms provider. This partnership promises to speed up the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) in the agricultural sector by making it possible for customers to take advantage of IoT anywhere on the planet. Inmarsat are, however, looking to start selling products and services direct, rather than through distributors.
By partnering with Inmarsat and integrating Inmarsat’s range of IoT capabilities including LoRaWAN (LPWAN), global L-band satellite network and data platforms, with its smart agriculture technology, both Pessl and Inmarsat will be able to offer bespoke IoT solutions to their customers in even the most remote and rural locations around the world, helping them to become more efficient and increase productivity.
Location: London Size: 1,001 to 5,000 employees Founded: 1979 Web Address: www.inmarsat.com
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MiX Telematics Europe ABOUT MIX TELEMATICS
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
MiX Telematics was founded in 1996 and has offices in South Africa, the United Kingdom, the USA, Uganda, Brazil, Australia, and the UAE.
MiX Telematics products and services, designed for commercial fleet operators, enable customers to actively manage their mobile assets; from trucks and buses to vans, cars, trailers, and more.
Location: Birmingham Size: 1,001 to 5,000 employees Founded: 1996 Web Address: www.mixtelematics.co.uk
At any given moment, their customers are either enhancing their safety, reducing their risk, becoming more profitable, or lessening their impact on the environment. Solutions by MiX Telematics are delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to customers in over 120 countries. They share their success with more than 130 channel partners and tens of thousands of customers.
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ABOUT NSSLGLOBAL
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
NSSLGlobal is an independent service provider of satellite communications and IT support, committed to delivering highquality voice and data services to customers anywhere in the world, regardless of location or terrain.
Along with NSSLGlobal's world-class VSAT network, the company brings together the best-in-class satellite solutions from key market providers such as Inmarsat, Globalstar, Thuraya and Iridium, to offer options across C-, L-, Ka- and Ku-Band networks.
Location: Redhill Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 1969 Web Address: www.nsslglobal.com
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PhiPhase ABOUT PHIPHASE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
PhiPhase Limited specialises in the design of communications equipment and systems in the space industry. They offer know-how spanning Microwave/RF through to digital signal processing hardware and software. They assist clients with studies, architecture definition and design through to prototyping, integration, and testing.
PhiPhase offer numerous services in:
Location: Yateley Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.phiphase.com
Consultancy: Communications system architecture including high speed Telemetry downlinks, uplinks and TT&C, Simulation, mathematical modelling and analysis of systems from antenna to DSP. In this capacity, PhiPhase also help with technical bid preparation and technology evaluation, feasibility studies and technical analyses, as well as training. Space Electronics Design: Specialists in Digital Signal Processing, Space FPGA/ASIC hardware design and verification in VHDL, real-time embedded and model-based design software in C/C++, Java, and MATLAB. RF Design, Prototyping, Development, and Testing: They can provide or assist with prototype/breadboard development for both space and ground segment projects. Typically, prototypes are built around commercially available evaluation boards, but bespoke hardware can also be developed if required.
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Viasat ABOUT VIASAT Viasat’s UK team provides a focus for efforts in the UK and in Europe in two major areas; “Space and Communications” and “Information Assurance.” The Space and Communications team is engaged in applications, systems, and services for defence, government, enterprise, and consumer satellite communications. Viasat’s team is also working with the UK Space Agency and European Space Agency to support the growth of the space industry in Europe. The Information Assurance team design, develop, and deliver high assurance security solutions for platforms ranging from laptops, to UAVs and helicopters; and including Data at Rest (DAR) based on the Eclypt product range serving government and commercial customers.
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Location: Farnborough Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 1995 Web Address: www.viasat.uk.com
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ABOUT WIRELESS INNOVATION
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Wireless Innovation Ltd have worked extensively in the utilities market, successfully partnered with many companies across the world, and provided solutions for local authorities throughout UK. Every customer has different requirements so every solution they provide is unique, whilst backed by their years of experience. Wireless Innovation Ltd work to deliver end-to-end solutions that meet each client’s individual needs – whether that’s a wireless network for CCTV backhaul or a satellite communications system for retrieving critical M2M data from a mountain top.
With over 15 years working in wireless telemetry and SCADA, Wireless Innovation Ltd have a selection of innovative solutions in a broad variety of sectors. Wireless Innovation specialise in retrieving data from remote and hostile environments, they are network agnostic and offer consultancy and bespoke innovative solutions to real world business challenges.
Location: Churcham Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2004
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The UK has several institutions, universities, organisations, as well as private research organisations looking at innovation in Intelligent Transport. Such institutions include: University of East Anglia University of Hertfordshire University of Hull University of Liverpool University of Sussex Areas of research include on-board computers, parallel processing, man-machine interface, neutral networks, fault tolerance, smart space instruments, data compression, and evolutionary instruments. − University of Warwick − − − − −
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ACCESS TO SPACE
The UK is a world leader in the design, development
The UKs world-leading universities created a base
and manufacture of key technologies needed for
for which the extensive history of the UK space
spacecraft, spaceflight and operations. To date, this
sector has formed. These institutions provide both
has
state-of-the-art
included
large
spacecraft,
including
high
and
highly
skilled
global
engineers, physicists, mathematicians and computer
positioning and deep space exploration platforms. In
scientists. As a result, UK technology is flown in a
parallel, the UK is a world leader in small satellite
vast variety of cases, both in near space and deep
technologies, having pioneered this approach in the
space missions.
capability
telecoms,
remote
sensing,
1970s and 80s, it is now one of the world’s most prolific manufacturers of small satellite and CubeSat
With new government investment in launch services
spacecraft.
and
test
facilities,
the
UK
can
provide
a
comprehensive ecosystem of capability in creating, More recently, significant investment has been put
launching, operation and commercialising satellite
into developing the applications ecosystem, focusing
applications
on opening new markets for growing space services
timescales. This complete supply chain complements
companies. The low cost of small satellites has
the reciprocal investment in integrating these new
opened access to space to businesses small and
satellite services and businesses into the value
large, and from start-ups to universities to established
chains across a multitude of market sectors. As such,
businesses. New business models have been
access to space is deeply integrated into the
created,
industrial, government and academic ecosystems
tested,
validated,
revised
and
commercialised, resulting in significant growth to the
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services
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ABOUT AVS
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Added Value Solutions (AVS) is an international company which aims to provide technology-based services to innovative and challenging projects. Strongly focused on the development of outstanding devices, instruments, mechanisms, and structures, their expertise covers design, manufacturing, assembly, tests, and supply, providing customers services all the way up from concept to turnkey projects.
AVS conceive and develop unique mechanisms, instruments, and robotics for Earth Observation, Exploration, Telecommunication, and Science missions as well as Ground Support Equipment and In-orbit servicing applications. They are working towards a new, extensive catalogue of space products covering thermal applications, mechanisms, and Electric Propulsion systems, that enhance and create mission opportunities and capabilities.
Location: Harwell Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2006 Web Address: www.a-v-s.uk
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Alba Orbital ABOUT ALBA ORBITAL
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Alba Orbital is a British company building PocketQube satellites. Alba Orbital is the developer and manufacturer of the Unicorn-1 and Unicorn-2 satellite platforms.
Alba Orbital wants to get more people building and launching their own satellites. They provide a hub of support for the fledgling class of PocketQube satellites by not only building their own platforms, but providing parts and launch to companies, universities, and space agencies around the world.
Location: Glasgow Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2012 Web Address: www.albaorbital.com
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ABOUT ASTROSCALE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Astroscale is one of the few companies in the world proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. In addition to providing a technical solution, Astroscale is helping to define the business case for this service and are working with national space agencies, international institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies, and satellite operators to develop norms, regulations, and incentives that contribute to the responsible use of space.
Astroscale offers space debris removal services to secure long-term spaceflight safety for the benefit of future generations. Astroscale is proposing two broad solutions: − End-of-Life Services (“Don’t add any more debris to the orbital environment”) − Active Debris Removal (“Bring down large debris that are currently in orbit”) For both services, Astroscale is focused on providing an end-to-end capability, addressing mission licensing, spectrum acquisition, insurance, and operations for debris removal.
Location: Harwell Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address: www.astroscale.com
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Avanti ABOUT AVANTI
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Avanti connects people wherever they are; in their homes, businesses, in government, and on mobiles. Through the HYLAS satellite fleet and its partners across 118 countries, the network provides ubiquitous internet service to 27% of the world’s population.
Avanti has invested over $1.2 billion in Ka-band technology. This includes the launch of a Kaband satellite, HYLAS 1, and its operations to provide Ka-band services across the UK and Europe. By 2018, HYLAS 4 completed its current fleet of four operational Ka-band satellites, enabling them to serve Europe, the Middle East, and Africa with a market coverage of approximately 1.7 billion people. HYLAS 3 is currently under construction as part of a joint venture with the European Space Agency and is due to launch later this year.
Location: London Size: 201 to 500 employees Founded: 2007 Web Address: www.avantiplc.com
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ABOUT BLACK ARROW
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Black Arrows aim is to make the costs of reliable, global access to space as low as possible and by doing so, reclaim the UKs position as a space launch hardware and service provider.
Black Arrow is promoting the development and delivery of an ambitious, disruptive commercial space program to deliver low-cost, reliable, orbital launch services.
Location: Swindon Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2017 Web Address:www.blackarrow-space.uk
Black Arrow 2 will launch payloads of up to 500kg into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), with first launches planned for early 2021, from a specialist seaborne launch vessel.
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Bright Ascension ABOUT BRIGHT ASCENSION
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Bright Ascensions innovative and responsive approach is ideal for application in space ventures of all sizes, from nano-satellites through to small, and even larger, spacecraft. The unique scalability of their technology lowers development time, cost, and risk for missions from a single CubeSat to a large constellation.
Bright Ascension are space software specialists offering products and consultancy services to address the complete range of upstream software needs. They have over 30 years' experience working in the space industry, helping develop novel technologies for spacecraft, ground, and desktop. Their solutions offering covers GenerationOne, their flagship flight software development kit, through to mission control and simulation software supporting the complete development and operations life-cycle.
Bright Ascension have carried out R&D activities for organisations of all sizes, bringing together their broad expertise with a fresh and rigorous approach. They can assist or lead projects from blue-sky research studies through to development and full-scale operations.
Location: Dundee Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2011 Web Address: www.brightascension.com
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ABOUT CRAFT PROSPECTS
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Craft Prospect formed to exploit emerging opportunities within the NewSpace marketplace. As more organisations emerge able to supply CubeSat, nanosatellite, and small satellite buses, the marketplace for mission developers has facilitated a new wave of potential. These stakeholders and customers wish their payloads and missions to remain agnostic in order to maximise flights and routes to market, frequently focussed on the data rather than the vehicle: space or otherwise. Craft Prospect can act as a partner to collaborate on mission-level architecture and interface solutions together with value adding products and services to support and bridge the gap, working with innovative mission leads and principal investigators to realise niche concepts.
Craft Prospects work includes NewSpace mission and systems engineering, collaborative R&D on enabling technology, and novel downstream space applications. They aim to unlock the potential of Earth-observing nanosatellites for onboard data autonomy and deliver a higher mission return.
Location: Glasgow Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2017 Web Address: www.craftprospect.com
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Effective Space ABOUT EFFECTIVE SPACE
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Effective Space deploys and operates a fleet of small SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft to provide docked life extension services for operators of geostationary satellites.
Effective Spaces platform can position, maintain, monitor, and guarantee space assets in orbit and beyond, to further support LEO constellations, debris removal, and logistics in space.
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address: www.effective.space
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ABOUT GMV
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GMV Innovating solutions Ltd (GMV-UK) is a British company created in 2014 and registered in London, with main offices in the Harwell Campus, south of Oxford. GMV-UK addresses mainly the Space sector and is further expanding to other sectors where GMV group is very active, such as Transport and ICT. GMV-UK is part of GMV, a technology Multinational Group founded in 1984 and headquartered in Spain, with affiliates and offices around the world. GMV-UK is devoted to consultancy, engineering, software development, and turn-key systems integration.
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They provide solutions to meet the needs of their customers in a wide array of areas: Space and Ground Segment for EO and Telecoms, Satellite Navigation Systems, Data Processing, remote sensing and earth observation downstream services (i.e.: User Segment), Robotics, and Autonomy. Currently GMV-UK is developing space-based projects for clients such as the Satellite Applications Catapult, the UK Space Agency, UKRIInnovate UK, the European Space Agency, and the European Commission.
Location: Harwell Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.gmv.com
− Using GNSS, EO, and Telecom systems to provide services to the users in sectors such as: humanitarian aid, disaster risk assessment, human migrations, energy and smart grids, climate change adaptation, remote sensing of atmospheric pollution in and its effects on human health, agricultural monitoring, grasslands monitoring, and forest management − Robotics and autonomy: GMV UK is currently working in several space robotics activities and seeking the spinoff of such technologies to non-space domains. − Ground segment for EO and Telecoms: GMV UK is running projects to provide ground segment subsystems to ESA and the Catapult. The commitment of GMV to its clients is reflected in GMV’s management processes and in the possession of several of the most demanding international quality certificates. Since 2010, GMV holds the Level 5 Maturity under the CMMI model, the highest of this highly demanding quality-assurance model. In addition, GMV has been holding the worldwide standard for quality ISO 9001 for more than 15 years. GMV’s excellence on IT services management and Help Desk has been also proved by the ISO 20000-1 and ISO 27001. Additionally, GMV holds a business continuity system certification under the British standard BS25999 and UNE71599 for its whole range of services.
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ABOUT GOONHILLY Goonhilly Earth Station is seeking to develop and expand its satellite communication facilities whilst also adding new services such as Deep Space Communications, Earth Observation satellite tracking, data centre services, advanced manufacturing (electronics), training, and outreach.
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES Since 1962, Goonhilly has been at the heart of satellite communications. Being present at the birth of Intelsat (1984), Eutelsat (1977), and Inmarsat (1978), Goonhilly's place in the history of satellite communications is legendary. Fast forward, and now Goonhilly is offering a totally unique mix of carrier-grade satellite communications service, deep space communications, earth observation, tracking, monitoring, and science: − They have a wide range of Commercial Satellite Services: • iDirect Service • TV Uplink • Point-to-Point satellite service • Maritime and Aero • TT&C • ESVA Testing • Earth Observation • LEO / MEO Constellation tracking − They provide a wide range of hosting options for satellite internet solutions. − Satellite TV Uplink Services − At any given moment they are providing the communications service to fly spacecraft on behalf of a number of a number of clients offering Telemetry, Tracking, and Command. − They host 2 fully agile, remotely controllable X/S Band LEO/MEO antennas at Goonhilly and have planning permission for further expansion to support the growing market. − Goonhilly is developing the capability to support the exploration of Lunar and Deep Space for institutions and private enterprise. − They also work closely with the world's leading universities in the field of radio astronomy, supporting their research, development and innovation.
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Location: Helston Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2009 Web Address: www.goonhilly.org
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ABOUT HOR I ZON T E CHNO L OG I E S
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Horizon Technologies is a leader in airborne satellite monitoring systems for ISR applications. They continually strive to design and manufacture new products that exceed the requirements of their customers and to maintain the performance and reliability that is expected of them. Their core values drive them to do it right the first time, deliver products of unmatched quality and reliability, and to support their customers until Horizon Technologies has exceeded all expectations.
Horizon Technologies help equip numerous governments worldwide by enhancing their SIGINT capabilities. Horizon Technologies, in conjunction with its partners, has developed a new Airborne Satellite Monitoring System (ASMS): FlyingFish™. FlyingFish™ enables international government bodies to passively monitor satellite communications from a tactical airborne monitoring platform in the fight against the scourges of crime, smuggling, poaching, drug trafficking, and terrorist threats. FlyingFish™ is a UK dual-use COTS product and subject to UK export control. Their Second-Generation version of FlyingFish™ is now in full production, and being delivered, with even more advanced capabilities, to customers..
Location: Reading Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 1993
Web Address: www.horizontechnologies.eu
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Infinite Orbits ABOUT INFINITE ORBITS
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Infinite Orbits is a young company based at the Harwell Campus. The company provides in-orbit satellite servicing, satellite filing 'bring-into-use', debris removal for both LEO and GEO orbits, space situational awareness, and other market-leading spacebased services. The company is working with collaborators around the world to provide commercially attractive in-orbit satellite and debris removal services, acting as space system lean prime.
Infinite Orbits is growing its capability in advanced software for satellite guidance, navigation and control, and, working with partners in the UK and around Europe, is planning its first satellite launch in Q1, 2020. The mission will fully check out the flight-readiness of the GNC hardware. The company is supported by world-class experts from the US, Europe, and South-East Asia, having considerable experience of commercial and military satellite programmes including satellite refuelling and advanced robotic systems.
Location: Harwell Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2017 Web Address: www.infiniteorbits.io
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ABOUT INSPACE MISSIONS
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In-Space Missions Limited was established in 2015 to develop new space missions and to provide consultancy and procurement support to the space industry.
In-Space has over 21 years of experience in military, institutional, and commercial space activities covering Earth Observation, Sat Comms, Navigation, Space Science, and Space Exploration. In-Space has experience in developing missions employing spacecraft from 3 kg to 3000 kg covering the full range of activities from concept and business case development, through bidding and winning the work, to delivering and operating the system.
Location: Bordon Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.in-space.co.uk
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Kayser Space ABOUT KAYSER SPACE
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Kayser Space designs, manufactures, and qualifies systems for space applications, actively working with UK universities and research institutions to bring innovation from the research laboratory into the space domain. The company has recently been chosen for the role of Payload Developer for two of the three experiments selected for the next UK National mission on board the ISS. Kayser Space is a partner in “Bioreactor Express�, a new initiative aiming at the commercial exploitation of an incubator facility on the ISS, in cooperation with Kayser Italia and ESA.
Kayser Space have several services across Electronic Design, Mechanical Design, Assembly, Integration, Payload Testing, as well as operation Product assurance and Safety Assurance.
Location: Harwell Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2015
Web Address: www.bioreactorexpress.space
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ABOUT KEPLER
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Kepler serves the needs of earth by connecting machines all around the world using its satellites on orbit and other complementary networks. Through a host of compatible partner equipment, they make it easy to use satellite communications in their customers solution and route data over the best networks.
Kepler designs, builds, launches, and operates an advanced network of low earth orbit satellites with the ultimate goal of bringing internet to outer space. Global Data Service™ gives organisations the ability to optimise the use of their satellite bandwidth by routing delay tolerant data over an economic store-and-forward link. everywhereIOT™ provides a cellular-quality and standardised connection for Internet of Things devices through a globally available satellite service.
Location: Newbury Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2015
From cities, to villages, to the ocean, and everywhere in between Kepler's solution will ensure smart devices will connect with a single service provider.
Web Address:www.keplercommunications.com
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LIFT ME OFF ABOUT LIFT ME OFF
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LIFT ME OFF is a Space Start-up designing next-generation, in-orbit, mobility solutions for In-Orbit Transportation, Servicing, Manufacturing, and Recovery.
LIFT ME OFF expertise lies in the field of Propulsion, Robotics, AOCS, and Mission Analysis. As part of its in-house technologies and developments LIFT ME OFF is offering bolton propulsion solutions for Small Satellites to achieve new orbits in LEO, MEO, GEO, and beyond.
Location: Aylesbury Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2018 Web Address: www.liftmeoff.com
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ABOUT LOCKHEED
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Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products, and services.
Lockheed Martin brings significant space experience to the UK's Spaceflight Programme, from ground systems, to launch vehicles, to onorbit missions. The company's LM 50 CubeSat platform is an innovative and powerful platform that can be customised to a wide array of missions and payloads. It's one of four modernised satellite platforms Lockheed Martin offers its customers, including the LM 400 small satellite, LM 1000 remote sensing bus, and the flagship LM 2100 geostationary bus.
Location: London Size: 1,001 to 5,000 employees Founded: 2009
Web Address: www.lockheedmartin.com/en-gb
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Methera ABOUT METHERA
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Methera Global Communications mission is to enable governments, telecom companies, and internet service providers to deliver digital applications with fibre speeds to areas of the world where it is uneconomic or impracticable to build fibre networks. They are an innovative UK communications technology company with the vision to enable the delivery of digital applications to rural and un(der)served communities.
Central to their vision is the implementation of a Medium Earth Orbit satellite constellation that is optimised to deliver super high-speed broadband and data services to rural and un(der)served communities in targeted nations around the world. The Methera Constellation, together with the development of applications optimised for un(der)served communities, will revolutionise the adoption of digital services worldwide.
Location: Harwell Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.metheraglobal.com
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ABOUT NANOAVIONICS
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NanoAvionics is small satellite mission integrator focused on delivering new generation small satellite buses and propulsion systems for the satellite applications and services market.
NanoAvionics enables numerous space-based businesses by supplying the market with its multipurpose, high-performance, affordable, nanosatellite buses. Besides manufacturing of preconfigured satellite buses, NanoAvionics also assist its customers in mission logistics, integration, and launch brokerage.
Location: Harwell Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.n-avionics.com
OneWeb ABOUT ONEWEB
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OneWeb is a global communications company on a mission to bridge the digital divide. Through a global constellation of satellites, OneWeb will provide high-speed, affordable broadband to the world.
OneWeb are building and launching a global constellation of satellites which will be close to Earth, which will allow them to provide a highspeed, low latency service to the world allowing for better web performance that will logically interlock with each to create a footprint over the entire planet to enable access.
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Half the world's population still lacks access to the Internet. Access is critical for growing economies, starting new businesses, expanding access to health care, and providing educational opportunities.
Location: London Size: 201 to 500 employees Founded: 2012 Web Address: www.oneweb.world
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ABOUT OPEN COSMOS
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Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions to help companies solve the world's biggest challenges. They enable companies across a wide range of industries to use space applications and technologies as a tool by removing three main space access barriers: time-consuming paperwork, expensive technology, and overall costs.
− Fast and affordable one-stop-shop endto-end service. Open Cosmos take care of the entire process required to get satellites in orbit and data on our customers desks, ten times faster and cheaper than the traditional space industry. − Removing barriers to space. They provide simple and cheap (if not free) technology and applications development kits and services. Open Cosmos provides tools and services that enable organisations and individuals from all backgrounds and with all budgets to develop their own satellite-based solutions and technologies, using technology that can be easily ported from test to flight hardware. − Mass customisation. Open Cosmos focuses on supporting full space missions, moving away from providing tailored solutions and specific subsystems for one of a kind single solutions. They use standard off-the-shelf components, only developing these themselves if they are not commercially available. − Global reach. Open Cosmos has an international team with strong connections with key markets in Europe, Asia and developing countries. Open Cosmos vision is a world where the biggest challenges can be addressed with actionable information coming from satellites enabling everyone to use space technology as a tool.
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By rethinking the way a satellite is being developed, procured, manufactured, and operated, they allow their customers to benefit from significant cost and time reduction while ensuring reliability across all mission elements. This is driven by their Mass-Customisation Methodology which covers all aspects of a nanosatellite space mission, from spacecraft design to testing, from procurement to launch, and from mission definition to operations and orbital data delivery. They provide services and enabling tools for mission design and rapid payload development, allowing businesses, research institutions, and organisations from across industries to develop their technologies.
Location: Helston Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.open-cosmos.com
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ABOUT ORBEX
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Founded in 2015, Orbex is a leading private launch services company focused on supporting the needs of the small satellite industry.
Orbex offer a flexible core launch service and a wide suite of supporting services that make life easier for customers. Their advanced launch vehicle means higher reliability, more flexible mission profiles, and a regular, scheduled launch service. Orbex offers three types of launch service, depending on the kind of payload customers wish to place into orbit. These are:
Orbex has developed one of the most advanced, low carbon, high performance, micro-launch vehicles in the world. They launch customer satellites into polar and sun-synchronous low Earth orbits from a unique, modern launch facility.
− For Prime Payloads − For Cubesat Payloads − For TRL Advancement Payloads
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.orbex.space
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Orbital Micro Systems ABOUT OMS
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Orbital Micro Systems is creating a unique commercial alternative to the current supply of space-based weather observation data. With proprietary instruments and satellite systems, OMS provide 15-minute updates of weather conditions around the globe, including currently under-observed regions such as South and Central Asia, Africa, and the Polar Regions.
The OMS constellation delivers some of the most meaningful and timely weather data available on the market, giving clients the ability to make informed, proactive decisions based on direct Earth surface observations.
Location: London Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address: www.orbitalmicro.com
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ABOUT OSS
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Oxford Space Systems (OSS) is a multiaward-winning, venture capital backed space technology business that's developing a new generation of deployable antennas and structures that are lighter, less complex, and lower cost than those in current commercial demand.
OSS designs, manufactures and supplies a range of novel deployable satellite antennas, ranging from VHF up to Q-band. Combining the company’s flight-proven proprietary materials with origami engineering techniques means OSS delivers innovative, scalable products that unlock the utility and value of micro and nanosats. From its custom facility at Harwell, which boasts the largest clean room on campus, OSS supplies customers globally with a range of unique technologies.
Location: Harwell Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address: www.oxford.space
QinetiQ ABOUT QINETIQ
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QinetiQ are a company of over 6,000 employees worldwide committed to listening, understanding, and responding to customers’ needs. This enables them to use their depth of experience and their unique science and engineering expertise to equip them with powerful solutions to their most pressing challenges. They manage and operate extensive testing and evaluation capabilities for air, land, sea, and target systems. QinetiQ collaborate closely and responsively to give the UK Ministry of Defence, international, and industry customers a competitive edge through the safe and secure conduct of operational and tactical training exercises that combine both real world and simulated events.
Location: Farnborough Size: 5,001 to 10,000 employees Founded: 2002 Web Address: www.QinetiQ.com
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES QinetiQ offer customers world-class expertise in advice, services (particularly test and evaluation), and innovative technologybased products. They deploy their scientific and technological knowledge, proven research capabilities, and unique, purpose-built facilities to provide both services and products that meet the needs of a wide range of global customers. QinetiQ operate primarily in the defence, security, and aerospace markets and their customers are predominantly government organisations, including defence departments, as well as international customers in other targeted sectors.
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ABOUT RAL SPACE
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RAL Space carry out world-class science research and technology development with significant involvement in more than 210 spacecraft.
RAL Space has over 50 years of experience and expertise in space programmes. Their experts work throughout the lifecycle of space missions, from leading concept studies for future missions; developing bespoke, innovative scientific instrumentation; providing space test and ground-based facilities; operating groundstations to processing and analysing data.
RAL Space is an integral part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and is the space hub for UK Research and Innovation, supporting its mission to create the best possible environment for research and innovation to flourish.
RAL Space work with UK and overseas agencies, universities, and industrial companies on space and ground based space projects. Their unique position between industry and academia enables them to strengthen the UK space community. They do this through: − − − −
Location: Harwell Size: 201 to 500 employees Founded: 1957 Web Address: www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk
Scientific research Technology development Providing cutting edge facilities Strategic advice to external partners
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SciSys Space ABOUT SCISYS SPACE
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The SCISYS Space division are experts in integrated solutions and products for ground and on-board space systems. They provide on-site engineering and operations support for the management and procurement of space-related projects.
Within the ground segment, SCISYS is a reliable and experienced partner for monitoring and control, data processing, automation, autonomous and intelligent systems, system modelling and simulation, infrastructures, data services, and applications.
Location: London Size: 51 to 200 employees Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.scisys.co.uk
In the area of on-board systems, their activities range from complete on-board software systems to subsystems for the data processing, altitude and orbit control, as well as instrument control units. They also specialise in the provision of on-site engineering and operations support and professional consulting services for the management and procurement of space and space-related projects.
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ABOUT SEN CORPORATION Sen was founded in 2014 by Charles Black with a vision to democratize space using video to inform, educate, inspire and benefit all humanity. Sen’s mission is to stream real-time videos from space to billions of people, providing unique perspectives of our ever-changing world and future in space. Sen will capture its unique video content using both hosted video cameras and its own constellations of small satellites. Pronounced as a word rather than individual letters, Sen is an acronym for ‘space exploration network’. Sen is based in London, United Kingdom.
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES Sen will provide an open source data platform for its video of Earth to enable its partner analytics developers to build apps and analytics on the data. In addition, Sen provides integrated data solutions for businesses and organisations. For consumers, Sen will be releasing an app to watch real-time and timely videos of events on Earth. An additional use of Sen’s video streaming technology are its flight proven hosted video cameras for selfinspection of satellites. Sen’s video cameras and system can be mounted to your spacecraft to provide Ultra High Definition video of thrusters, solar arrays and other deployable structures.
Location: London Size:11-50 Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.sen.com
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Sky and Space Global ABOUT SAS
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Sky and Space Global (SAS) is the first company to plan, build, and operate a telecommunication commercial network over Nano-Satellites.
SAS operates in the field of Nano-Satellites, which is now the most popular type of satellites for diverse commercial usage. The low mass and high capabilities of NanoSatellites makes them the preferable choice for constellations and applications in the New Space industry. Follow the successful launch of its 3 first satellite (the 3 diamonds) SAS plan to launch 200 satellites, providing equatorial coverage and beyond.
Location: London Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.skyandspace.global
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ABOUT SKYRORA
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Skyrora is a UK company headquartered in Edinburgh, developing launch vehicle technology that has evolved from previous rocket systems. They aim to reduce the cost of space launches through the combination of proven technology and advanced engineering methods.
Skyora seek to take a calculated, step-by-step approach, that will see the development of a series of sounding rockets to test their technology as they build towards a future orbital vehicle. Drawing on the experience and learnings of Britain's previous launch capability heritage, future orbital launchers have a number of similarities to Black Arrow, including the use of HTP and kerosene – the ideal combination for Scottish launch.
Location: Edinburgh Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2017 Web Address: www.skyrora.com
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Spaceport Cornwall ABOUT SPACEPORT CORNWALL
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Cornwall and Virgin Orbit are committing to a partnership seeking to deliver a horizontal launch Spaceport at Cornwall Airport Newquay, UK by 2021, creating a satellite technology cluster of national importance.
Spaceport Cornwall will play a critical role in developing the UK’s space industry. With Goonhilly Earth Station, they provide a complete ‘end to end’ UK launch capability to support all aspects of launch, including suborbital vehicles and systems and those able to place satellites into earth orbit.
Location: Newquay Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2017 Web Address: www.spaceportcornwall.com
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ABOUT STI
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Founded in 1989, STI has grown steadily to become a leading player in several key industry sectors including Aerospace, Defence, Security, and Energy. They have a diverse range of customer that also encompasses the Automotive, Telecoms, Medical, Satellite, and Industrial sectors in both the UK and around the globe. Their customer base has over 90 names, with 80% of the top 25 being large public companies.
STI offers the complete set of electronics manufacturing solutions, Development, PCB Assembly, Final Assembly, Test and Integration. They also provide full Lifecycle Support, spares, repairs, and long-term obsolescence management.
Location: Hook Size: 501 to 1,000 employees Founded: 1989 Web Address: www.sti-limited.com
They are especially known for supporting highreliability industries such as aerospace, defence, and oil and gas exploration which present the most complex technical challenges in their field, often requiring the development of new techniques to support their customers’ future needs. They have developed strong links with top engineering schools at UK universities, such as Southampton and Loughborough, to support these initiatives and have recently established links with local universities in the Philippines.
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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) ABOUT SSTL
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SSTL is a world leading small satellite company, delivering operational space missions for a range of applications including Earth observation, science, and communications.
The company designs, manufactures and operates high performance satellites and ground systems for a fraction of the price normally associated with space missions. SSTL is an independent company within the Airbus Group.
Location: Guildford Size: 201 to 500 employees Founded: 1985 Web Address: www.sstl.co.uk
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ABOUT THE SURREY SPACE CENTRE The Surrey Space Centre is a world leading Centre of Excellence in Space Engineering.
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES Their mission is to create and disseminate knowledge that leads and underpins the progress of space engineering, its applications in the space sector, and to maintain their leadership in cost effective space engineering.
Location: Guildford Size: 201 to 500 employees Founded: 1979
Web Address:www.surrey.ac.uk/surrey-space-centre
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Thales Alenia Space ABOUT THALES ALENIA SPACE
MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Combining 40 years of experience and a unique diversity of expertise, talents, and cultures, Thales Alenia Space architects design and deliver high technology solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth observation, environmental management, exploration, science, and orbital infrastructures.
Governments, institutions, and companies rely on Thales Alenia Space to design, operate, and deliver satellite-based systems that help them position and connect anyone or anything, everywhere, help observe our planet, help optimize the use of our planet's, and our solar system’s resources. Thales Alenia Space believes in space as humankind’s new horizon, which will enable us to build a better, more sustainable life on Earth.
Location: Harwell Size: 5,001 to 10,000 employees Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.thalesgroup.com
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The UK has several institutions, universities, organisations, as well as private research organisations looking at innovation in Intelligent Transport. Such institutions include: University of East Anglia University of Hertfordshire University of Hull University of Liverpool University of Sussex Areas of research include on-board computers, parallel processing, man-machine interface, neutral networks, fault tolerance, smart space instruments, data compression, and evolutionary instruments. − University of Warwick − − − − −
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A BOU T AECOM
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AECOM is a global network of experts working with clients, communities, and colleagues to develop and implement innovative solutions to the world’s most complex challenges.
Delivering clean water and energy, building iconic skyscrapers, planning new cities, restoring damaged environments, connecting people and economies with roads, bridges, tunnels, and transit systems, designing parks where children play, and helping governments maintain stability and security. AECOM connect expertise across services, markets, and geographies to deliver transformative outcomes. Worldwide, they design, build, finance, operate and manage projects and programs that unlock opportunities, protect the environment and improve people’s lives.
Location: London Size: 10,001+ employees Founded: 1966 Web Address: www.aecom.com
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Ambiental A BOU T AMBIENTAL
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Ambiental is an international flood modelling and flood risk consultancy considered to be at the forefront of the flood risk industry. Key to Ambiental’s innovation, Flowroute™, their proprietary flood modelling, enables clients from the finance, commercial, and public sector to improve their flood planning and decision making.
Flowroute™ is Ambiental’s industry-leading software platform that models how and where water will travel over different terrains based on the likely amount of inundation i.e. Fluvial (rivers and streams), tidal (sea, estuary, or costal and storm surge) and pluvial (surface water). Flowroute™ models the probable depth of water and how fast it will be moving to calculate the risk of flooding.
Location: Brighton Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2002 Web Address:www.ambientalrisk.com
Flowroute™ is capable of processing multiple data sets including complex, high resolution Digital Terrain Models (DTM). Land use data to build the model comes from satellite and LiDAR imagery and is combined with soil type, rainfall gauge, tidal, and other data. Accurate data enables clients to be more agile, responsive, and better positioned to understand flood risk. It aids the insurance industry to set targeted and competitive premiums, helps government bodies prepare for flood events and set appropriate planning policy, feeds into business continuity planning, and helps developers in the property design and approval process.
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ABOUT ARGANS
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ARGANS offers satellite mission solutions across a range of services, including development of ground segment algorithms and applications, data quality assessment and validation, or operations on behalf of space agencies, while keeping a strong scientific expertise in remote sensing science.
GeoInt Service for Marine Litter is a multi-purpose platform developed by ARGANS Ltd that aims to integrate various data sources namely satellite, drones, and crowd-sourced data on a single platform. These datasets are complimentary and cover different aspects of information about marine litter. For instance, satellites can provide affordable synoptic data over large areas with a frequency in time and spatial coverage that would be difficult or impossible to obtain by other means. Drones are a very interesting complement to satellites, having an important role to survey specific sensitive or vulnerable areas. They are also good candidates to evaluate the effect of remediation and preventative actions in affected areas.
Location: Plymouth Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2007 Web Address: www.argans.co.uk
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Combining this data with accurate positioning and time, and applying Big Data techniques, this service becomes a GeoInt technology that will generate near real-time information for early warning of marine litter events. It will also support the mid and long-term monitoring of these issues over specific areas. In addition, global information will be processed to identify the level of risk in different regions under study and to create predictive models that consider natural phenomena or human activity to determine the probability of having a local marine litter event requiring intervention. The service will be accessible to the public, voluntary, and private sector with specific interest on the topic. The advantage of the service is the integration of varied data sets with very different characteristics and its ingestion to produce comprehensible reports with higher accuracy and applicability than existing alternatives, as information is currently scattered, not well classified, and lacking standardisation. This can lead to confusion during its interpretation and is one of the current challenges facing decision makers.
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ABOUT CITY SCIENCE
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City Science develops software that provides data driven analytical services, designed to help cities and urban spaces improve energy and transport provisions.
City Sciences team of data scientists, consultants, and business case experts deliver bespoke projects across a range of sectors. They are developing analytical tools for the transportation and energy sectors and provide a growing range of products in these industries.
Location: Exeter Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.cityscience.com
City Science takes a range of PNT data and assesses the feasibility of their use to provide accurate and informative outputs within transport planning that are robust, fit-for-purpose, and meet the needs of the local authority. They investigate issues such as the scheduling and impact of HGVs, the effects of congestion on bus schedules, and the distribution of journeys during different parts of the day or year by aggregating GPS data, other sources of PNT data, and integrating it with traffic simulation and modelling modules.
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Deimos Space ABOUT DEIMOS SPACE
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Deimos Space UK is a subsidiary of Spanish firm Elecnor Deimos, itself part of the large industrial group Elecnor. Launched in 2013, its business is split between satellite applications and Space systems engineering, which encompasses flight systems, ground segments, and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).
Deimos Space UK has a broad research and development portfolio in diverse satellite applications markets including precision farming, smart cities, and location-based services for onshore and offshore applications.
Location: Harwell Size: 201 to 500 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address: www.elecnor-deimos.com
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ABOUT GEOMATIC VENTURES
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With over 80% of global GDP generated in cities, forecasts indicate there will be 30 ‘mega cities’ worldwide by 2020. This implies parallel investment in underlying infrastructure at the same pace, or greater, in order to provide the improved quality of life and sustainable living that urbanisation promises. With such extreme geographic concentrations of economic output and population, there is a growing need for infrastructure resilience as the consequential impact of loss of service becomes proportionately greater.
They provide early warning indicators of potential engineering failures through absolute motion vector mapping over an asset. The business attraction of a more accurate forward-looking assessment is the significant cost reduction of targeted preventative maintenance compared to reactive corrective maintenance, which can be up to six times more expensive. Asset owners also benefit from reduced service disruption, plus associated adverse revenue impact and better Health and Safety compliance. Current assessment methods are also systematic and, hence, very manually intensive and costly, which this project seeks to reduce by identifying those assets requiring targeted inspection.
Geomatic Ventures Ltd directly addresses the increasing pressures on critical infrastructure through a new space-based methodology providing regular remote assessment of structural condition for CNI asset owners.
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Location: Nottingham Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2015 Web Address: www.geomaticventures.com
The service uses GNSS corrected geodetic control (OS Net network of passive reference stations) to ensure relative InSAR derived terrain deformation and motion rates are output as absolute units of measurement relative to a known datum (ETRS89). Creating uniform and regionally comparable risk assessments will enable fully objective risk assessments, aligned with national condition assessment standards to allow asset maintenance prioritisation at a national scale. Being independent of asset type, the technique can be applied to all forms of infrastructure deemed to be critically important, such as power stations, railways, roads, gas storage facilities, runways, flood defences, and water treatment works. The wide applicability of the technique in the public (and private) sector is a key attraction for user uptake. With an estimated global infrastructure investment of ÂŁ25 trillion required over the next 20 years to ensure sustainable urban futures, this project has enormous revenue potential.
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ABOUT REZATEC
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Rezatec applies data science to satellite imagery and geospatial data to deliver sophisticated, cloud-based analytics to customers owning and operating high value, distributed land-based assets. Rezatec data services enable improved margins, enhanced competitive advantage and optimised asset management for its customers. Rezatec customers cover the globe and are leaders in their respective industries in the water, agriculture, infrastructure, and forestry sectors. Rezatec aims to transform the way companies and governments integrate satellite and ground-based data analysis into their decision-making process to resolve complex issues caused by environmental change.
Rezatec’s single software platform reduces the cost of processing and analysing multiple data sets to deliver easy-to-use and cost-effective environmental intelligence products. The platform applies advanced modelling and statistical analysis techniques to remote sensing date source from satellites and airborne instruments along with data acquired in the field. Applications include forest carbon stock analysis for carbon credit trading, monitoring of deforestation, plantation encroachment, and land use analysis for crop planning and land procurement.
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Location: Harwell Size: 11 to 50 employees Founded: 2012 Web Address: www.rezatec.com
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ABOUT SCISYS
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Digital charting is used extensively for navigation and high-assurance “safety of life at sea�. Due to the tight configuration control of digital systems and the infrequent refresh schedule of cartographic charting information, highly dynamic layers of information are currently omitted. Unknown and uncharacterised traffic, however, increases risk and uncertainty for highvalue vessels, especially when they are required to transit congested waters where regulations may be lax or unpoliced.
Many users of SCISYS service will not be typical users of Earth Observation data for navigation and Position, Navigation, Timing (PNT), so a new and independent data source will add real insight, as well as exposing and developing new markets for satellite-derived information.
Existing services such as Automatic Identification System (AIS) can be used to build up a picture of larger commercial vessel movements around the world, but smaller vessels and private leisure craft patterns of life are less well understood. These smaller vessels can be seen on satellite imagery with their wakes potentially indicating directions of travel and speed. SCISYS novel approach involves the automatic mining through archives of satellite imagery to build up a picture of these patterns of life. The main advantage of this approach is identifying all objects of a certain size, irrespective of their type or if they are broadcasting an AIS signal, and therein delivering value-add information to existing maritime products and services.
The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office is the public-sector partner for this study. Within UK waters, additional beneficiaries could be, for example, Maritime & Coastguard Agency and Border Force. For overseas territories beneficiaries may include the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Non-Government agencies who can benefit from this are: maritime charities such as RNLI (predicting where and when clusters of leisure users typically gather), Harbour Masters and Port Authorities (understanding where small vessels operate, creating potential hazards in their approaching shipping lanes), insurance companies (better understanding risk amongst smaller vessels), hydrographic survey companies (for planning safe survey operations when waters are less crowded), and disaster recovery NGOs (knowing where potential local volunteer private vessel operators may be able to offer assistance).
Location: Chippenham Size: 501 to 1,000 employees Founded: 1980 Web Address: www.scisys.co.uk
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ABOUT STRATIAN
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Drone surveying and inspection.
Stratians process combines aerial and ground based images, and terrestrial laser scans to produce accurate measured 3D point clouds of structures and terrain. These models can be used to provide accurate visualisations of physical environments. Using high resolution imagery, they can also inspect assets faster and safer than traditional methods
Stratian uses the latest drone (UAV) technology to provide a range of aerial surveying and inspection services. Their team of engineers, surveyors, and drone pilots creates data and insight you can rely upon.
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Location: Westcott Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.stratian.co.uk
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ABOUT TWL
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Tactical Wireless Ltd (TWL) is a specialist in developing advanced communication technologies and services for practical application within the fields of telemedicine, critical incident response, and security. The company was founded by Peter Morton, an engineer with over a 20 years’ experience within the industry. TWL has developed a flagship OMNI-HUB® universal sensor and communications hub Omni-Hub.Net. These products manage data from a range of digital IP devices with transmission through an intelligent back haul router.
Omni-Hub is an integrated communications system using an intelligent bonded router which manages bandwidth utilising all the available commercial networks to ensure that the transmission of data, video, and audio from IP peripherals is reliable, secure, and economic. Omni-Hub features: − Network neutral communications bonding of commercial wireless and satellite networks − Enhanced cellular and WiFi connectivity with multiple antennas − Fully Comms on The Move (COTM) − FBI approved secure evidence system through a series of electronically watermarked jpeg’s − Multiple security layers – secure private network, enterprise grade encryption, and multiple bonded routes − Integral secure push to talk (PTT) and video conferencing − Future proof system – a dedicated network infrastructure is not required
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Location: Aylesbury Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2013 Web Address: www.tactical-wireless.com
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A BOU T WOLFRAM RESEARCH
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Wolfram Research is one of the world's most respected computer, web, and cloud software companies—as well as a powerhouse of scientific and technical innovation. As pioneers in computation and computational knowledge, they have pursued a long-term vision to develop the science, technology, and tools to make computation an evermore-potent force in today's and tomorrow's world.
Over the course of more than a quarter of a century, they have progressively built an unprecedented base of technology that now makes possible their broad portfolio of innovative products. At the centre is the revolutionary Wolfram Language, which defines a unique convergence of computation and knowledge.
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Location: Long Hanborough Size: 501 to 1,000 employees Founded: 1987 Web Address: www.wolfram.com
The Wolfram Language allows programmers to operate at a significantly higher level than ever before, by leveraging built-in computational intelligence that relies on a vast depth of algorithms and real-world knowledge carefully integrated over three decades. Scalable for programs from tiny to huge, with immediate deployment locally and in the cloud, the Wolfram Language builds on clear principles, and an elegant unified symbolic structure, to create what is emerging as the world's most productive programming language and the first true computational communication language for humans and AIs.
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AEON ABOUT AEON
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AEON is a multidisciplinary engineering consultancy providing comprehensive design, analysis, testing, systems engineering, and project management services across Scientific and R&D sectors. AEON successfully integrates commercial engineering practices to bespoke R&D projects, therefore, ensuring control of capital and risk during project development, solution synthesis, and system implementation. In addition, AEON provides lifecycle services to support operations management, maintenance, and decommissioning/expansion.
AEON offer several services in the following areas: − Project planning, scheduling, partner engagement, and relationship management. − Systems Engineering support, including requirements management, verification, validation, interface management, and integration. − Configuration Management, implementation, and auditing. − Generation of bespoke engineering solutions, including: Production of component and assembly drawings using Computer Aided Software (CAD). Generating static and dynamic Finite Element Models (FEM) (mechanical, thermal, thermo-mechanical, random vibration and stress analyses). Rapid prototyping of parts. Materials characterisation testing (metals, ceramics, polymers, adhesives and paints). Authoring design and analysis reports. Coordinating manufacture, assembly, and testing of prototypes. Verification planning and implementation (analysis and testing). Rapid manufacture of prototypes and analogous mechanical systems (rapid prototyping). Fulfilment of Integrated Logistic Support programmes, including (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, Reliability Availability Maintainability and Safety analysis, Economic Level of Repair Analysis, Support Concept advisory). Process engineering and operational optimisation. − Product Assurance including quality management, quality assurance planning, and implementation. − Troubleshooting/Project rescue planning, utilising services above (including corrective action of engineering and management activities). − Mission Assurance management and threat mitigation. − Technology transfer/exploitation and product development
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Location: Stoke-on-Trent Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.aeon-eng.com
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Aetheric Engineering ABOUT AETHERIC ENGINEERING
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Aetheric Engineering Ltd is an independent consultancy, specialising in Satellite Communications.
They provide support and advice covering both spacecraft and ground segment. All phases of the project cycle are included; Feasibility and Design Studies, RFP and Procurement, Project Management, Construction Monitoring, Integration, Test, Commissioning, and Launch.
Location: Fareham Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 1989 Web Address:www.aetheric.co.uk
Andrew Cutts ABOUT ANDREW CUTTS
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Andrew Cutts is a Geospatial and Earth Observation Freelancer. He is available to consult on a wide range of applications of Satellite Imagery and GIS. He is an experience Python trainer and writer.
Andrew Cutts provides freelance services in GIS/Remote Sensing, Python, Computer Vision, GIS Machine Learning, Earth Data Science, Technical Writing, and Training.
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Location: West Sussex Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2016 Web Address: www.acgeospatial.co.uk
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Atrium Space Insurance Consortium MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES ABOUT ATRIUM SPACE INSURANCE CONSORTIUM Atrium Space Insurance Consortium is led by Atrium’s Syndicate 609, but the experienced team is trusted by a further nine Lloyd’s syndicates which have delegated their space underwriting to the Consortium. For the 2019 Year of Accounts, the Consortium has a capacity of USD 40.5m to write on any one satellite or launch. The Consortium provides launch insurance covering the ascent to orbit, deployments, orbit raising, in-orbit testing, as well as in-orbit insurance covering the satellite for the on-going perils faced by all space risks.
Atrium Space Insurance Consortium provide launch and in-orbit insurance coverage for all types of space risks, from CubeSats and small satellites through to earth observation satellites, ISS resupply missions, and large geostationary communication satellites.
Location: London Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 1932 Web Address: www.atrium-uw.com
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ESA BIC UK ABOUT ESA BIC UK
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The European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre United Kingdom (ESA BIC UK) is a business incubator providing support to early-stage space and space-related companies. The ESA BIC UK is managed and co-funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), part of UK Research and Innovation. It is supported by the UK Space Agency through the UK’s subscription to ESA.
The ESA BIC UK provides incubatee companies with a package of technical consultancy, business advice, office and laboratory space, networking events, investor relationships, and grant funding to accelerate progress towards market. It is now in its ninth year and has supported 75 start-up companies to date, which have collectively raised equity investment of more than £57 million and created more than 500 jobs (as at July 2019).
Location: Harwell Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2003 Web Address: www.stfc.ukri.org
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Geoger Ltd ABOUT GEOGER
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Geoger Ltd. is a spatial and environmental consultancy, specialising in remote sensing and image processing, as well as environmental and spatial data analysis, computing, and project management. Geoger applies scientific methods and commercial standards to data, primarily using open-source software, and advocating the inclusion of open data. Geoger provides services to commercial and academic clients with the aim of increasing awareness of remote sensing and open source.
Geoger is highly skilled with business experience in remote sensing and image processing, GIS and spatial data, Linux, and scientific computing. Geoger also offers wholelife management of technical projects using transparent and collaborative methods, as well as data management and data processing using open source software. With a strong background in research Geoger can help you investigate new methods, data or software and help you understand all technical and environmental project components. Geoger also provides one-to-one, small group, and workshop-based training on a variety of environmental, Earth observation, and open source IT topics.
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Location: Fareham Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 1989 Web Address:www.aetheric.co.uk
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Ove Arup & Partners ABOUT ARUP
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Arup is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants, and technical specialists, working across every aspect of today’sbuilt environment. Together they help clients solve their most complex challenges, turning exciting ideas into tangible reality as they strive to find a better way to shape a better world.
Arup takes an innovative approach to every aspect of city development and improvement, from resilience to lighting, climate change to mobility. They bring together technical expertise, new funding, and policy instruments, backed by research into the relevant socio-economic trends.
Arup made its name in the twentieth century as the designer and engineer behind some of the world’s most ambitious structures. That creative strength and independence of mind continues to guide them today. Arup employs more than 14,000 people in more than 34 countries.
Arup is behind some of the most important and ambitious urban design and engineering of the modern era. They work across the globe, from revitalising waterfronts in Toronto to reclaiming 100 acres of land for a new park in Songdo, South Korea. They have also developed the masterplan for an entire carbon-free district in Muscat, Oman, and produced a blueprint for regeneration in Caracas.
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Location: London Size: 10,000+ employees Founded: 1946 Web Address: www.arup.com
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Rheinberry ABOUT RHEINBERRY
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Rheinberry is a niche consultancy offering a range of IT services with particular focus in the IoT, IIoT, and AI arena. They are IBM and Siemens Mindsphere Business Partners, giving them access to the latest products and training. In addition, they have close relationships with several IoT and AI vendors giving them access to a network of knowledge and expertise when working with user organisation. They work with clients to deliver real business value, identifying the technology best suited to an organisation’s problems and opportunities.
Rheinberry can take a project from inception through to delivery. They want to work with clients to understand their key drivers and aims to identify project objectives and scope before collaborating with the business on functional and non-functional requirements, design, and implementation. Alternatively, they can work alongside a client’s suppliers to provide governance. Their IoT expertise ranges from logistics to smart cities, often with elements of AI, to deliver real benefits to the organisation.
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Location: London Size: 1 to 10 employees Founded: 2014 Web Address: www.rheinberry.com
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