Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TERRAVISION (TERRAVISION: Integrated Earth Observation based platform for novel services to enhance raw materials mining life cycle)
Reporting period: 2024-01-01 to 2025-06-30
TERRAVISION aims to establish and deploy an integrated platform to enhance the entire critical raw materials value chain towards implementing sustainable mining practices. TERRAVISION Earth Observation (EO) Mining Services Platform will be supported by four innovation pillars: (i) the Data Ecosystem for Large scale EO mining services will link and exploit various data from key sources (e.g. Copernicus satellite/ground radar/drone/in-situ sensing data) for monitoring the entire raw materials life cycle, (ii) the Analysis Ready Data (ARD) and Raw material spectral library, will provide a novel framework for processing raw multisensory EO data to become ARD and to be combined semantically with in-situ data to enable the development of an open and standardised raw material spectral library to support the full mining life cycle of critical raw materials and the mapping of primary and secondary critical raw materials, (iii) the EO services for the mining industry will develop and deploy services critical to supply chain (e.g. mapping of critical raw materials, mineral exploration, extraction rates in opencast mines and stockpile volumes) but also enable a dynamic hazard mapping service for proactive management of risks to promote operational efficiency of mining sites, and (iv) The Green and Resilience Accountability component will promote critical raw materials supply chain resilience and sustainability based on the quantification of environmental and socio-economic impact of mining activities for different mining phases (e.g. permission, operation, post-closure). The effectiveness of the TERRAVISION EO Mining Services Platform will be demonstrated at both EU (Greece, Spain) and beyond, coupled by validation campaigns at six mining sites that will pave the way for rapid uptake of the proposed systemic innovations. Targeted dissemination, exploitation and replication activities will enhance a clear pathway for TERRAVISION towards significant EU-wide impact.
TERRAVISION objectives include:
• Objective 1: Design, develop and demonstrate a Data Ecosystem for large scale EO mining services covering multiple sources of data and being compatible with the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem.
• Objective 2: Design and develop a pipeline for Analysis Ready Data and a Raw Material spectral library acting as a basis of the development for multiple EO based mining services.
• Objective 3: To develop five EO based services adjusted to the needs of the mining industry covering all the phases of mining operations.
• Objective 4: To design and develop Green and Resilience Accountability component offering an overview in terms of sustainability and resilience of a whole mining site.
• Objective 5: To design, develop and integrate TERRAVISION EO Mining services Platform integrated with the provided services and supporting all the collected data sources
• Objective 6: Impact acceleration through standardization, clustering and targeted market exploitation activities
TERRAVISION mid-term impacts include: a) Develop and deploy innovative technologies, products and services based on satellite, airborne and ground-based remote sensing data combined with other in-situ data sources, supporting the whole raw materials value chain, b) Improve responsible supply of raw materials to Europe in line with the EU principles for sustainable raw materials. They set out requirements for sustainable raw materials and extraction and processing in Europe in terms of social, environmental and economic performance, c) Improve knowledge on raw materials resources in Europe and contribute to the implementation the EU action plan on Critical Raw Materials and d) Develop best practices and standards for innovate EO technologies, products and services for efficient permitting and environmental compliance processes. On top of these, TERRAVISION also contributes to wider societal, environmental, economic and scientific impacts.
TERRAVISION objectives include:
• Objective 1: Design, develop and demonstrate a Data Ecosystem for large scale EO mining services covering multiple sources of data and being compatible with the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem.
• Objective 2: Design and develop a pipeline for Analysis Ready Data and a Raw Material spectral library acting as a basis of the development for multiple EO based mining services.
• Objective 3: To develop five EO based services adjusted to the needs of the mining industry covering all the phases of mining operations.
• Objective 4: To design and develop Green and Resilience Accountability component offering an overview in terms of sustainability and resilience of a whole mining site.
• Objective 5: To design, develop and integrate TERRAVISION EO Mining services Platform integrated with the provided services and supporting all the collected data sources
• Objective 6: Impact acceleration through standardization, clustering and targeted market exploitation activities
TERRAVISION mid-term impacts include: a) Develop and deploy innovative technologies, products and services based on satellite, airborne and ground-based remote sensing data combined with other in-situ data sources, supporting the whole raw materials value chain, b) Improve responsible supply of raw materials to Europe in line with the EU principles for sustainable raw materials. They set out requirements for sustainable raw materials and extraction and processing in Europe in terms of social, environmental and economic performance, c) Improve knowledge on raw materials resources in Europe and contribute to the implementation the EU action plan on Critical Raw Materials and d) Develop best practices and standards for innovate EO technologies, products and services for efficient permitting and environmental compliance processes. On top of these, TERRAVISION also contributes to wider societal, environmental, economic and scientific impacts.
The main achievements of the work performed so far include the following:
• 1st General Assembly (15-16.10.2024 Seville) and 2nd General Assembly (02-03.06.2025 Seville) organised
• Preparation of the initial version of the Project Management Handbook,
• Risk registry established and updated when necessary
• Initiation of establishment of the External Experts Advisory Board
• Initial Project DMP in place
• The final UX design mockup of the TERRAVISION platform in place
• The high-level system architecture has been finalized
• Flight missions over the mining sites in Spain (THARSIS and CANTERAS) successfully completed
• Initial processing of aircraft data from THARSIS and CANTERAS completed
• Analysis of mining operations and processes, concluding with an integrated technical note on mining operations and sensor requirements, conducted
• Workshop to coordinate sensor installation organised (25.02.2025 Granada)
• Deployment of S3 object storage and STAC API Server for harmonised data discovery for the platform
• ARD Software design initiated and relevant algorithms selected
• Final tools for super-resolution for Sentinel-2, -3, -5P and PRISMA in place
• Surface field sampling over the mining sites in Spain (THARSIS and CANTERAS) completed and samples sent to ICCS for hyperspectral scanning
• Alpha version of all TERRAVISION services is in place
• Optimisation code for alpha version of surface deformation mapping dockerised and tested for several mining sites
• Joints map, landslide inventory map, initial thematic layers of event controlling parameters and bivariate statistical analysis of controlling parameters implemented for TERNAMAG.
• 1st General Assembly (15-16.10.2024 Seville) and 2nd General Assembly (02-03.06.2025 Seville) organised
• Preparation of the initial version of the Project Management Handbook,
• Risk registry established and updated when necessary
• Initiation of establishment of the External Experts Advisory Board
• Initial Project DMP in place
• The final UX design mockup of the TERRAVISION platform in place
• The high-level system architecture has been finalized
• Flight missions over the mining sites in Spain (THARSIS and CANTERAS) successfully completed
• Initial processing of aircraft data from THARSIS and CANTERAS completed
• Analysis of mining operations and processes, concluding with an integrated technical note on mining operations and sensor requirements, conducted
• Workshop to coordinate sensor installation organised (25.02.2025 Granada)
• Deployment of S3 object storage and STAC API Server for harmonised data discovery for the platform
• ARD Software design initiated and relevant algorithms selected
• Final tools for super-resolution for Sentinel-2, -3, -5P and PRISMA in place
• Surface field sampling over the mining sites in Spain (THARSIS and CANTERAS) completed and samples sent to ICCS for hyperspectral scanning
• Alpha version of all TERRAVISION services is in place
• Optimisation code for alpha version of surface deformation mapping dockerised and tested for several mining sites
• Joints map, landslide inventory map, initial thematic layers of event controlling parameters and bivariate statistical analysis of controlling parameters implemented for TERNAMAG.
The key outcomes of TERRAVISION achieved so far include the development of a Data Ecosystem for large scale EO mining services that enables the monitoring of environmental, social, and economic performance of mining operations. This Data Ecosystem incorporates weather information, satellite imagery (SAR, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2), aerial and drone-based information, ground-based radar, and in-situ sensor data. In addition, alpha versions of the five EO mining services have been developed and are ready to be further refined and scaled up for operational use. Further to that, the alpha version an Analysis Ready Data (ARD) framework and a Raw Material Spectral Knowledge Base (RMSKB), both designed to support the functionalities of the EO mining services are in place.
TERRAVISION outputs are expected to have significant social, environmental and economic impacts. They are closely related with the responsible supply of raw materials to Europe, their sustainable extraction and processing and the overall support to the implementation of the EU Action Plan on Critical Raw Materials (CRMs), At the same time, TERRAVISION outputs supports the development of best practices for innovative, efficient and environmental compliant mining operations, fostering a sustainable, resilient and socially acceptable mining sector across Europe.
TERRAVISION outputs are expected to have significant social, environmental and economic impacts. They are closely related with the responsible supply of raw materials to Europe, their sustainable extraction and processing and the overall support to the implementation of the EU Action Plan on Critical Raw Materials (CRMs), At the same time, TERRAVISION outputs supports the development of best practices for innovative, efficient and environmental compliant mining operations, fostering a sustainable, resilient and socially acceptable mining sector across Europe.