Use Cases series is part of the activities foreseen within work package (WP) 3 – Animation and Networking for innovation and entrepreneurial discovery, which are implemented throughout the entire lifetime of the project.

WP3 is the central WP for the Daily FabSpaces animation and aim to generate awareness in the academia, research centres, companies and civil society organisations about the application uses of Earth Observation data and the FabSpace platform and pilot actions. It attenuates the boarder effect between projects ideas and start up creation by encouraging FabSpace users in making the first step toward entrepreneurship.

FabSpace aims for the use cases to showcase various ideas to use EO data and tools with the aim to attract more people from different backgrounds to generate new projects and promising business plans in the future.

The first edition included seven uses cases collected from various FabSpaces partners and location such as “Epidemic Disease Mapping in Africa” developed by FabSpace Darmstadt, Germany in collaboration with Merck and ESOC at Darmstadt; “Implementation of Earth Observation image processing via Neural Networks on Embedded Architectures”, “Regional Population Estimation Using Satellite Imagery”, “Hyperspectral Earth Observation Image Processing On FPGAs” developed by FabSpace Greece; “Calculation of damage in forests using Sentinel-2” developed by FabSpace Warsaw, Poland; “Mapping deforestation in a location of interest” developed by FabSpace Toulouse, France; and “Global Warming Impact Assessment on the Bracciano Lake Surface Temperature” developed by FabSpace Rome, Italy.

The second edition included five uses cases collected from various FabSpaces partners and location such as “A Semi-Automatic Classification Approach for River Shape Extraction from Sentinel-2 Imagery” developed by FabSpace Darmstadt, Germany; “Drones for Assisting Visually Impaired People by HelixVision Team” developed by FabSpace Greece; “Ships Identification by Nodalpoints Team” – this section includes the use case developed by FabSpace Greece; “Navigation system for people with physical disability” developed by FabSpace Toulouse, France, in collaboration between the IRIT department (Toulouse Institute in Computer Science) of the University of Toulouse Paul Sabatier (France) and the University of Bourgogne, Dijon (France); and “Transcribing satellite images method for people with visual deficiencies” developed by FabSpace Toulouse, France.

Click here to download the 1^st edition of FabSpace Use Case Series.

Click here to download the 2^nd edition of FabSpace Use Case Series.