CORE BUSINESS
WASDI is a cloud platform that makes it easy for experts in Earth Observation to develop algorithms and turn them into applications in the cloud. Additionally, the platform allows them to publish their applications in a marketplace to reach end users.
With a unified interface, seamless access to data, and online tools, WASDI allows professionals to concentrate on work that matters rather than grappling with IT-related difficulties.
On top of this enabling horizontal technology, the WASDI team develops vertical applications. In collaboration with world-class partners, the WASDI team developed several vertical applications used in international initiatives in different areas (e.g., natural hazards, environmental monitoring, and urban areas). These applications enabled new services such as parametric insurance.
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
WASDI offers access to a growing number of observations (public and commercial VHR imagery), derived products (e.g., European ECOSTRESS hub, Copernicus services, VIIRS, IMERG), simulated products (ERA5), and more (bathymetry and DEM). WASDI automatically handles multiple data providers, offering reliability and speed.
WASDI supports several programming languages (Python, L3 Harris IDL, Javascript, C#, Java, Octave) and technologies (e.g., ENVI and ESA SNAP) to let the users define their processing blocks, which can in turn be triggered programmatically.
Compliant with multiple standards, WASDI is fully interoperable.
Vertical applications built with WASDI include the monitoring and mapping of floods, water bodies, urban areas, fires & burned areas, impact assessment, oil spills, and air quality. Large time series analysis is supported.
TECHNICAL MEANS
WASDI offers:
- a scalable multi-cloud federated platform for Earth Observation, connected to a growing body of data providers
- the ability to develop new Earth Observation-based applications and cloud services, thanks to the internationally acclaimed research capabilities of the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, the 20-years experience in complex software projects development of FadeOut Software and the know-how of RSS-hydro
- the capability of leading and joining tenders
MAIN CUSTOMERS
- World Bank
- SEADRIF
- Joint Research Center (JRC)
- ESA
- CIMA Foundation
- Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
- ENEL
- Telespazio
Indirect:
- Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
MAJOR SPACE PROJECTS
ESA - European Ecostress Hub
Bringing ECOSTRESS data acquired over Europe and Africa into the cloud
ESA - Telespazio, RSS Hydro - WaSCIA
Delivering Water Stress and Climate Indices through a web interface for drought and water stress management in Africa
EU - PROMPT
Preparedness for Operational Monitoring and Prediction of Contaminant Transport in the sea
ESA, eDRIFT - Expand Demand
Disaster RIsk Financing and Transfer against floods
World Bank, SEADRIF
Daily EO flood maps over Laos and Myanmar for National Sovereign Risk against flood
Asian Development Bank
EO Services to support water and food security planning & investments in Indonesia
JRC, EC - GHSL Landcover Service POC
Assessing Copernicus Data and DIAS to generate GHSL on demand
UNEP, CIMA Foundation - EIS Iraq & Haiti
Development of Environmental Information Systems (EIS)
