Nara Space Technology will join the development of a global natural disaster response platform using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence (AI).
Nara Space Technology said on the 27th that it will join NADIR (Natural Disaster and Risk Assessment Platform), a natural disaster and risk assessment platform consortium supported by the European IT promotion organization ITEA.
NADIR is a project to develop a platform that combines satellite data, cloud computing, and AI technologies to monitor natural disasters such as wildfires, floods, earthquakes, and droughts and to assess risk levels. It aims to build a system that observes disaster situations on a daily basis and quantitatively analyzes related risk levels.
The project involves nine corporations and research institutions from five countries, including Korea, the United Kingdom, Canada, Portugal, and Romania. The project runs through Nov. 2027. In Korea, Nara Space Technology was named as a participating institution.
In the NADIR project, Nara Space Technology will develop an AI-based algal bloom detection algorithm. The company is advancing the algorithm to enable stable detection across diverse aquatic environments and is targeting more than 80% detection accuracy. The developed technology will be applied to the integrated NADIR platform and used for disaster and environmental risk analysis.
Among the consortium's joint participating corporations, Nara Space Technology is the only one that will also supply its own satellite imagery. It will provide high-resolution imagery captured by the currently operating nanosatellite Observer. The imagery will also be integrated into the Earth Data Store (EDS), a daily Earth observation platform and a distribution hub for public satellite and ground observation data.
Sim Seong-mun, head of spatial analysis at Nara Space Technology, said, "By joining this consortium, our AI algorithms and satellite imagery technology will be applied to a real global project," and added, "By conducting both data production and analysis, we have laid the foundation to improve the accuracy of disaster response technologies."
Chief Executive Park Jae-pil of Nara Space Technology said, "In environmental monitoring, data distribution and analysis standards are taking hold as global norms," and added, "Through this project, Nara Space Technology has joined the standard-setting process as a corporation that provides both satellite data and AI technologies."