Space based services for winter road maintenance

Plough Stars is a feasibility study funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) Programme. The industrial team is led by Berner & Mattner and investigates new services and applications for improving winter road maintenance. These integrated solutions are based on existing terrestrial systems, enhanced with space-based technologies like satellite navigation, satellite communication and earth observation. Targeted users are from Scandinavia and the Alps region. In a next step, non-European users could be the target.