Department of Mathematical Modelling and Data Analysis
Educational and Research Institute of Physics and Technology NTUU "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
ACRONYM: SWIFTT
Title : “Satellites for Wilderness Inspection and Forest Threat Tracking”
Instrument (Call): HORIZON-EUSPA-2021-SPACE-02-51, “EGNSS and Copernicus applications fostering the European Green deal”
9 participants, Organizations from France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Latvia
Duration: 3 years (2023 – 2025)
Abstract: Forests are essential to life on Earth.… Continue reading
Project within NRFU Competition “Leading and Young Scientists Research Support”
The project duration: 2020 – 2022
Supervisor: prof. Andrii Shelestov
Project abstract
Digital technologies for the ecological state monitoring and city development have become important for society and various stakeholders. Thanks to the emergence of new sources of open data, there are opportunities to develop and implement services that are already used in the European Union (EU) and European cities.… Continue reading
Project within the NRFU competition “Science for the safety of human and society”
Project duration: 2020-2021
Supervisor: prof. Andrii Shelestov
Project abstract
The problem of land degradation is relevant today. Many signs of land degradation, such as declining crop yields, deforestation identification or uncultivated land cultivation, can be tracked using satellite data, in particular vegetation indices.… Continue reading
Project name: Methodology for SDGs indicators assessment
Acquirer: Group on Earth Observation
Project leader from Ukraine: PhD, prof. Nataliia Kussul
Period of execution: 2019 – 2022
Link to the program description: https://www.earthobservations.org/aws.php
About project
As part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI), the program allows remote sensing of the Earth and the creation of applications to support sustainable development, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.… Continue reading
Acquirer: European Commission
Project leader from Ukraine: Prof. Nataliia Kussul
Project Coordinator: Anthony Lehmann, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Duration: 01.09.2017 – 31.08.2020
Project Overview
GEOEssential (Essential Variables workflows for resource efficiency and environmental management) is addressing the need for trusted sources of data and information to monitor the progresses made on environmental conditions towards policy targets.… Continue reading
Acquirer: European Commission
Project leader from Ukraine: Prof. Nataliia Kussul, Prof. Andrii Shelestov
Project Coordinator: Evangelos Gerasopoulos, IERSD/National Observatory of Athens, Greece
Project Overview
SMart URBan Solutions for air quality, disasters and city growth (SMURBS) ultimate goal is to promote the “smart-city” approach, serving the need for a common approach to enhance environmental and societal resilience to specific urban pressures, through the integration of EO.… Continue reading
Acquirer: Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine in partnership with the USAID / UK aid project “Transparency and Accountability in Public Management and Services / TAPAS”, Eastern Europe Foundation and 1991 Open Data Incubator
Organisations: National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Space Research Institute NAS Ukraine and SSA Ukraine (Department of Space Information Technologies and Systems), “Government Monitoring Center”(Kyiv), “Forest Initiatives and Society – LIiS – ForestCom”(Lviv)
Project leader of department: graduate student of the Institute of Physics and Technology in 2020 Leonid Shumilo
Duration: 2020 – 2021
About the project
The project aims to implement a monitoring system of the illegal deforestation presence based on open data from the State Agency of Forest Resources of Ukraine, the State Land Cadastre and satellite data.… Continue reading