Dr. Lohitzune Solabarrieta was invited to give a talk within the Virtual Invited Talks organized by the European ‘ERATOSTHENES: Excellence Research Centre for Earth Surveillance and Space-Based Monitoring of the Environment’ with the acronym: ‘EXCELSIOR’, Horizon 2020 project. The presentation addressed the topic of “Ocean monitoring using remote sensing platforms” and the different installations carried [...]

Zephyr Group participates in the European SusTunTech project based on digitalization and artificial intelligence to improve the ecological and economic sustainability of fisheries. SusTunTech aims to develop new products that can help make more efficient decisions in order to limit pollution and increase digitalization on board. The employment of buoys, sensors installed on fishing vessels, [...]

Lohitzune Solabarrieta, Asier Nieto, Jon Berregi, Ainhoa Caballero, Jose A. Fernandes-Salvador The X-band marine radar was installed in Bilbao, Basque Country, on April 12, 2022, with help of the authorities of Bilbao Port, after the first experiences with the installations of the X-band radar in Higer and Biarritz. This installation took place in the [...]

Basque country has been selected as a Case Study of the study “Towards green transition in EU regions - New models to foster transformative innovation” by Claire Nauwelaers & Richard Harding, Independent policy experts contracted by the European Commission Joint Research Centre.  Prof. Xabier Irigoien (AZTI) and José Luís Jauregui (Echebastar) have been invited experts [...]

Dr. Jose Fernandes was invited to this meeting where key representatives of the traditional fishing industry in France, Portugal and Spain regularly meets to discusses issues and advances. The presentation addressed the legislative proposal Artificial Intelligence Act under review and presented several recent projects that use Artificial Intelligence in fisheries. Particularly, SusTunTech was presented as [...]

MARINA SANTURTÚN Sustainable Fisheries and Oceans Market Manager and AINHOA CABALLERO Marine Technologies researcher   To understand the future of fisheries and what the fisheries of the future will be like, we must think about the global changes the planet is facing. The effect of carbon in our atmosphere, due to the burning of fossil fuels, [...]