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It is a great honour to announce that our Horizon2020 project LARA, won the Madrid Challenge of the European Satellite Navigation Competition, ESNC 2017. GeoImaging from Nicosia, coordinator and technology partner of LARA project together with SignalGeneriX from Limassol, a technology partner of the project, received the prestigious award on behalf of the LARA consortium. The ESNC Awards Ceremony took place November 7, 2017 in front of an international audience during the European Space Week 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia – in line with the Satellite Masters Conference & Horizon 2020 Space Info Day. [caption id="attachment_849" align="alignnone" width="300"] Dr Stylianidis, coordinator of LARA project and Dr Tasos Kounoudes of SignalGeneriX receive the award from the Director of the GSA, Mr Carlo des Dorides[/caption] The ESNC annually awards the best services, products,…

Mr. Konstantinos Smagas of GeoImaging Ltd, coordinating party of LARA project, gave an extensive interview on the LARA project developments and forthcoming results, at the 59th issue of the research*eu. Published by the Community Research and Development Information Service of the European Union, the research*eu results magazine features highlights from the most exciting EU-funded research and development projects. It is published 10 times per year in English, and covers a wide range of scientific domains. You can download the research*eu latest issue for free and learn more on LARA project results as well as other forthcoming Galileo applications  

[caption id="attachment_842" align="alignnone" width="300"] Presenting the LARA AR module to the Malaysian Deputy Minister of Science and Innovation[/caption] A milestone event for LARA project took place the 20th of October in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur under the framework of the VSMM 2016 conference organised from 16 to 21 of October 2016. LARA consortium organised and launched a special session titled “LBS Augmented Reality System for Utilities Infrastructure Management” bringing the technology of the LARA system to South East Asia. A mixed audience of more than 50 local and international researchers, industry representatives and decision makers had the opportunity to learn more about the different technological and innovation aspects of LARA project and discuss potential applications of the technology spanning from cultural heritage to agriculture. The event was also attended…

GeoImaging Ltd, coordinator of LARA project participated in the “Researcher’s Night” event held at the FILOXENIA International Conference Centre in Nicosia on the 30th of September 2016. From 17:00 until 24:00 students and adults visitors were informed on the project’s objectives and got in touch with state of the art technologies being implemented at the moment within LARA project. Highlight of the night was the LARA augmented reality demonstrator where visitors navigating through the camera of one of the tablets of the project, augmented underground grids on a fixed panel. The “Researcher’s Night” was an event organized by the Research Promotion Foundation (RPF) in collaboration with academic and research institutions as well as other organizations in Cyprus. The event is an initiative of the European Commission and took place simultaneously…

LARA project partners had the opportunity to test and assess the performance of the integrated LARA system in Thessaloniki and Kozani, Greece from the 14th to 21st of September 2016. After an intensive week calibrating and testing the individual modules as well as the entire system in the premises of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, LARA partners moved to the nearby city of Kozani, where they conducted the first pilot of the system in real-life conditions. LARA partners navigated to the area selected for the pilot and took measurements using the GNSS based system verifying the system’s accuracy as well as responsiveness to an urban area with given locations of buried assets such as water, sewerage and heating pipelines. System setup in AUTH premises in Thessaloniki, Greece from 14 to…

In a recent interview at the geospatial engineering 2016-2017 magazine, Executive Director of GSA, Carlo de Dorides, made exclusive reference to LARA project as an initiative that uses Galileo-enabled equipment for specific solutions in surveying. Our project making use of GNSS sensors to deliver a holistic monitoring tool for underground infrastructure management, paves the way for the use of GNSS to a new range of surveying equipment. Read the full interview here: http://mag.digitalpc.co.uk/fvx/ces/16ge/index.html?pn=7

More than 70 participants attended the ISPRS special session organized by the European GNSS Agency (GSA), the European Environmental Agency (EEA) and the H2020 project LARA, that took place Wednesday 13th of July 2016 within the framework of the ISPRS 2016 conference in Prague. The session focused on the need for more synergies of the various stakeholders on geospatial and land applications and services. During the one and a half hours session chaired by Stratos Stylianidis of GeoImaging Ltd and Hans Dufourmont of the European Environment Agency, five presentations took place putting emphasis on the added value of the combination, the synergies and complementarity of geolocation services and earth observation services. The participants had the opportunity to obtain information on promising technologies making use of geospatial data such as augmented…

23-26 May 2016, Geospatial World Forum 2016, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. LARA project, as an ongoing H2020 success project of producing equipment for construction surveyors that is Galileo enabled, was invited at the GSA workshop within the framework of the Geospatial World Forum 2016 that took on Tuesday, the 26th of May 2016. The purpose of the workshop, titled “Impact of Geospatial Information on Society and Economy” (link here) was to highlight the E-GNSS status, services and key features to the geospatial community, to stimulate the dialogue on the benefits of Galileo in geospatial applications, Galileo adoption at the equipment level and ultimately open the discussion on potential usage of Galileo Authentication feature. LARA project coordinator presented basic facts as well as the current technical developments and marketing priorities of the…

LARA, a project received funding from the European GNSS Agency under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 641460, is participating in two eminent international events the next coming weeks. Firstly, LARA is participating in the Geospatial World Forum 2016, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and more specifically in the workshop “Benefits and key-features of the European Global navigation Satellite System (E-GNSS) for the Geospatial World”, organised by the European GNSS Agency on Tuesday 24/5/2016 (13:00-17:30). LARA was also invited to participate in the roundtable discussion at the end of the workshop. LARA is also participating in the European Space Solutions 2016, which is under the auspices of the 2016 Dutch Presidency of the Council of the EU. For a full working week, from 30/5/2016 until…

LARA project partners met in Limassol Cyprus on the 3rd and 4th of March 2016, to conduct their regular meeting which was combined with project evaluation for the first 12 project months. During the first day of the meeting on the 3rd of March the consortium reviewed progress and updated plans to launch the first operational system prototype. Moreover the current version of system (named LARA 0,5) integrating mostly hardware components was also put successfully into test proving a glimpse of the great potential the final system can have. The second day of the meeting a holistic review of the project’s progress for the first 12 LARA months was made. Mr. Joaquín Reyes Gonzalez, market development technology officer of the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA), had the opportunity…