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    ESA > Our Activities > Space Engineering & Technology > TTP2

    Environment and Resources Management

    Success stories

    As we move further into the 21st century we are becoming ever more aware of the need to preserve the Earth’s sensitive ecosystem, to minimize the harmful effects of our own activities on the environment, and to husband and conserve natural resources.

    Increasingly space technology is helping to supply the tools that enable us to do this. Space systems and technologies can provide effective methods to monitor climate change and the impact of land and water use and development. They can also be adapted to improve the ways in which the Earth’s natural resources and agricultural systems can be managed and recycled.

    Giant robot helps prevent landslides 

    Giant robot helps prevent landslides Fighting landslides is dangerous work, but help from space is on its way. Recent testing in Italy has shown that the four-tonne Roboclimber can secure slopes without endangering human lives, thanks to innovations from Europe's space programmes.

    Filming the 'green car' speed record 

    Filming the 'green car' speed record It was an uninspiring grey early morning on 4 November on the southern outskirts of Paris. EuroNews cameras were at the Brétigny flight test centre. But the engine revving up was not a jet fighter but a prototype racing car preparing to break a world...

    Innovative space technology

    Revitalizing forest products with space technology 

    Innovative space technology

    Revitalizing forest products with space technology Can advanced space technologies help the forest products industry? This will be the subject of a workshop, to be held in May in Stockholm, Sweden, in which representatives from the forest and wood products industry will interact and discuss issues, pr...

    Down to Earth -
    Space technology transfer for mining and minerals industry
     

    Down to Earth -
    Space technology transfer for mining and minerals industry
    Spin-off opportunities of advanced space technologies for the mining and minerals industry will be the focus of a workshop in ESTEC, The Netherlands on 26 November 2003, when ESA's Technology Transfer and Promotion Office will meet with industrial par...

    Space technology for Alpine activities 

    Space technology for Alpine activities Locating cracks in tunnel walls, monitoring landslides and providing high-insulation clothing are just some examples benefiting from space technology. Many such innovative applications will be discussed by ESA and European companies at the workshop ‘H...

    Roboclimber computer animation

    Space robot will help prevent landslides 

    Roboclimber computer animation

    Space robot will help prevent landslides One of the largest robots ever constructed will also be one of the most agile, thanks to technology derived from ESA space missions. Known as Roboclimber, this new climbing machine is designed to prevent landslides without endangering human lives.

    Last update: 19 September 2007

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