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Satelliittidatapohjainen työkalu taimikonhoitoon

Satelliittidatapohjainen työkalu taimikonhoitoon

VESA-indeksi on tehokas metsänhoidon työkalu, joka analysoi vesakoituneita taimikkoalueita. Indeksi hyödyntää tekoälypohjaista satelliittidatan prosessointiketjua ja yhdistää sen avoimeen metsävaratietoon koko Suomen alueella. Aineisto parantaa metsänhoidon ennakoituvuutta ja tehokkuutta. VESA-indeksi on saatavilla T1-taimikoille ensimmäistä kertaa maksuttomana 31.10.2024 saakka. “Vuodesta 2018 lähtien Terramonitor on työskennellyt satelliitidatan demokratisoinnin ja paremman saatavuuden

Terramonitor satellite images in media

Terramonitor satellite images in media

Terramonitor works in cooperation with various companies and organizations that want to use the information obtained from satellites in their own processes. One industry we cooperate with is media. Satellite images are an important source of information for news and media services. The largest newspaper in the Nordic countries, Helsingin

Carbon sequestration and satellite images

Carbon sequestration and satellite images

Carbon sequestration in forests is an important factor in the fight against climate change. Trees absorb CO2 from the atmosphere through the process of photosynthesis, and then store it in their leaves, branches, and roots. This helps to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, and can also provide

Electricity grid monitoring using satellite images

Electricity grid monitoring using satellite images

Power line vegetation management is the process of controlling the growth of vegetation near power lines, to ensure the safe and reliable operation of these critical infrastructure systems. This is an important aspect of maintaining the power grids, as vegetation that grows too close to power lines can interfere with

VESA-index 2023 published

VESA-index 2023 published

Terramonitor has been publishing VESA-index for Finnish spruce and conifer stands since 2017. VESA stands for Vegetation Enhanced Status Analysis. The VESA-index is used to interpret T1 and T2 conifer seedlings in relation to the harmful shrubs inside the patterns. It uses satellite images, open forest resource data, and machine

Optimal land cover sampling

Optimal land cover sampling

Land cover is defined as the physical material at the surface of Earth. Different types of land cover classes include for example grass, asphalt, trees, bare ground and water. Information on land cover is usually captured using field surveys and analysis of remotely sensed imagery. Land cover sampling is a

Satellite images and type 1 diabetes

Satellite images and type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects millions of people around the world. It occurs when the body's immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, resulting in a lack of insulin production and regulation of blood sugar levels. One possible

Satellite images in business

Satellite images in business

Like businesses, satellite technology develops at breakneck speed, satellite images have proven to be valuable tools to support companies' business operations. Accurate and widely available images captured by satellites from the earth are changing the way we look at the world, also in business life. One of the most

How good are the satellite images compared to aerial images?

How good are the satellite images compared to aerial images?

Satellite images have become an everyday part of modern life, allowing us to view our life from a bird eye perspective. But what can be actually seen from these images? Optical satellite images are captured by orbiting satellites that use various bands to detect and radiation emitted or reflected by

Introduction to radiometric calibration

Introduction to radiometric calibration

Absolute radiometric calibration is a technique used to ensure the accuracy of the radiance values measured by satellite sensors. Radiance is a measure of the amount of light that is reflected from the earth's surface, and is an important factor in the interpretation and analysis of satellite imagery.

ENABLING THE USE OF SPACE DATA FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH

ENABLING THE USE OF SPACE DATA FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH

HEDIMED aims to identify the disease mechanisms and environmental factors of type 1 diabetes, celiac disease, asthma and allergies. HEDIMED is a large EU-funded 12M€ research project that started in 2020 and lasts until 2024. In the project, we are working with 17 companies and research institutes from all over

When Space Data makes a difference

Earth observation

When Space Data makes a difference

How did we help to change how Finnish Forest Act is monitored? When we started working with Space Data, one of our first major projects was a project by the Government of Finland in cooperation with research institutes and public forest actocrs in Finland. In the project, we developed an

Forest Carbon Monitoring project moving to implementation phase

Forest Carbon Monitoring project moving to implementation phase

Forest Carbon Monitoring (FCM) is a project led by VTT and financed by the European Space Agency ESA, aiming to create a new forest carbon service for forest operators’ needs. Terramonitor is developing and integrating automated utilisation of methods for satellite-data processing and analysing for the F-TEP platform. Overall, in

Supporting ecosystems using satellite images

Supporting ecosystems using satellite images

Forests are essential in maintaining healthy ecosystem interaction and biodiversity on Earth. They are in a key role in the fight against climate change since they can restore increasing carbon stocks. Hence, several national and international initiatives (including the UNFCCC Paris Agreement and the EU LULUCF Regulation) require regular reporting

Climate change mitigation using satellites

Climate change mitigation using satellites

Forest biomass and carbon monitoring play a key role in climate change mitigation. Operational large area monitoring approaches are needed to enable forestry stakeholders to meet the increasing monitoring and reporting requirements. Terramonitor provided calibrated satellite images for a scientific research project carried out with VTT Technical Research Centre of

We're hiring - GIS Project Manager

We're hiring - GIS Project Manager

We are looking for a full-time Project Manager with know-how in some of the following fields: * Project management * Satellite data analysis * Geoprocessing * Python, GDAL, PostGIS, Machine learning If you are interested in working at Terramonitor on some of these topics, please do not hesitate to contact lauri.hame@terramonitor.com

How GIS Tech is Paving the Way for Smart Cities of the Future

How GIS Tech is Paving the Way for Smart Cities of the Future

The smart city: Though it sounds like a futuristic dream, you may have already unknowingly visited one. Currently, Singapore is the world's gold standard for smart cities, and following close behind include cities like New York, Toronto, London, Reykjavík, and Dubai. But what is a smart city, anyway?

Headpower and Terramonitor implement one million EUR development project with ESA and electricity distribution companies

Headpower and Terramonitor implement one million EUR development project with ESA and electricity distribution companies

Press release - Helsinki, Finland - 18th June 2021 The vegetation and risk management system based on satellite data developed by Headpower and Terramonitor is progressing to Pan-European piloting. In addition to the European Space Agency (ESA), 9 European transmission grid companies through ENTSO-E and Finnish distribution network companies Caruna,

Headpower ja Terramonitor toteuttavat ESA:n ja sähköverkkoyhtiöiden miljoonan euron pilottihankkeen

Headpower ja Terramonitor toteuttavat ESA:n ja sähköverkkoyhtiöiden miljoonan euron pilottihankkeen

Headpowerin ja Terramonitorin kehittämä satelliittidataan perustuva kasvillisuuden ja riskien hallintajärjestelmä etenee Euroopan laajuiseen pilotointiin. Euroopan avaruusjärjestö ESA:n tuella toteutettava hanke tähtää sähköverkon toimintavarmuuden parantamiseen. Mukana hankkeessa ovat ESA:n lisäksi yhdeksän eurooppalaista kantaverkkoyhtiötä, suomalaisista jakeluverkkoyhtiöistä Caruna, Elenia, Järvi-Suomen Energia, Nivos Verkko ja PKS Sähkönsiirto sekä kantaverkkoyhtiöiden yhdistys ENTSO-E. Eur

Terramonitor joins Forest Carbon Monitoring project with F-TEP

Continuing the presentations of projects utilizing Forestry TEP, we are excited to tell you about the new Forest Carbon Monitoring (FCM) project to be launched in July. Terramonitor (Satellio) Lab's role is to help F-TEP utilizing satellite data sources more efficiently in analysing forest carbon monitoring and reporting

Satellite images, to see or not to see

Satellite images, to see or not to see

Usually talking about earth observation we talk about optical satellite images similar to our family photos. On top of these optical images, satellite data can be produced with other bands such as synthetic aperture radar, also known as SAR or by using several different bands for example to detect heat,

The Fastest Way to Extract Values from Geospatial Data

The Fastest Way to Extract Values from Geospatial Data

A considerable part of what we do at Terramonitor can be summed up by the extract, transform, load (ETL) paradigm. This happens both in internal processes and in those that are externally triggered. And sometimes those processes are too slow.

Zero Gravity and Terramonitor to gain ESA contract for Green Buildings

Zero Gravity and Terramonitor to gain ESA contract for Green Buildings

HELSINKI, Finland. 3rd November 2020 Zero Gravity Oy and Terramonitor aligned a consortium for ESA (European Space Agency) open bidding for Green buildings - Feasibility Study during spring 2020. Green buildings are structures that reduce and eliminate negative impact on the environment by using less water, energy or natural resources.

Normalizing and classifying raster data using gdal_translate and gdal_calc

Normalizing and classifying raster data using gdal_translate and gdal_calc

No satellite-borne instrument can fully deal with external artifacts and interference. Let's take a look at how gdal_translate and gdal_calc.py can be used to normalize and classify noisy real world data.

We're hiring - GIS Project Manager

We're hiring - GIS Project Manager

We are looking for a full-time Project Manager with know-how in some of the following fields: * Project management * Satellite data analysis * Geoprocessing * Python, GDAL, PostGIS, Machine learning If you are interested in working at Terramonitor on some of these topics, please do not hesitate to contact lauri.hame@terramonitor.com