Our story

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  2016

  Start of BASE Platform project, combining crowd sourced with satellite derived bathymetry, and concentrating on trial areas in the Channel Islands, Waddensee, Balearics and Mauritius.
  A-Sens project with ExactEarth and the European Space Agency, trialing sending our data out over AIS and picking it up by satellite.
  Team expands with Giacomo Rutilio as our GIS expert, Nicholas Mulvey working on electronics and embedded systems, Tarisai Gundu as our app developer, Duncan Kent on Media Relations, and Shannon McGinley replaced Sarah working on Fleet Manager and Social Media.

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  2015

  Carried out a feasibility study for the European Space Agency (assisted by Telespazio VEGA UK) on combining ESA's marine space data with open source and crowd sourced data.
  Tim Thornton invited to join the IHO's newly formed Crowd Sourced Bathymetry Working Group.
  Seafront vessels and test platforms are now feeding into the TeamSurv system, and vessel tracks are being combined with Earth Observation data to provide water quality information
  Joined by Sarah Monger (now Cox) as Vessel Engagement Manager

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  2014

  Moved to Harwell for a year's support in ESA's Business Incubator Centre there.
  Film produced by the BBC on TeamSurv brings in a raft more boats.
  Work continues on transforming TeamSurv from an R&D system to production quality.

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  2013

  TeamSurv came 2nd in the UK round of the European Satellite Navigation Competition, out of 93 entrants.

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  2010

  Start of the 2 year GSA/EU supported CoSUDEC project that led to TeamSurv. Developed the core concepts and an initial working system, and carried out trials in the Solent, NW Brittany and Lithuania to show that quality data could be produced by crowd sourcing. Tim Thornton and Monika Gotsova decide to develop the concept further.