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E-CONTRAIL at the EUROCONTROL Showcase Summit: Highlights from Brussels
The E-CONTRAIL project participated yesterday in the EUROCONTROL Showcase Summit: Smart Sustainable Skies , hosted at EUROCONTROL Headquarters in Brussels. The event brought together aviation stakeholders committed to advancing climate-aligned operations, offering the perfect setting to present the project’s latest developments. During the Summit, the E-CONTRAIL team showcased the Policy Brief “Making Contrails Visible” and demonstrated the interactive E-CONTRAIL Dashboard ,
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E-CONTRAIL at the EUROCONTROL Showcase Summit: Smart Sustainable Skies
The E-CONTRAIL project will take part in the upcoming EUROCONTROL Showcase Summit. Smart Sustainable Skies: Boosting Sustainability in Aviation , held on 17–18 November 2025 at EUROCONTROL Headquarters (Brussels). E-CONTRAIL will be featured on Tuesday, 18 November, where the team will showcase the project’s Policy Brief and the interactive E-CONTRAIL Dashboard developed within the project, presentig key findings, datasets, and actionable insights aimed at supporting con
Nov 131 min read


E-CONTRAIL publishes its Policy Brief: Making Contrails Visible
Today is a milestone day for E-CONTRAIL. Making Contrails Visible: AI-Based Insights into Aviation’s Climate Impact using Satellite Imagery. E-CONTRAIL project Policy Brief. We are thrilled to publicly release our Policy Brief and the illustrated comic embedded within it, “A real contrail story…” summarizing the scientific results, key conslusions, and policy recommendations of the project. After two years of research, engineering, and iteration, we can now say it clearly:
Nov 102 min read


E-CONTRAIL Presents Key Advances at the 2025 Contrail Workshop in London
The E-CONTRAIL project participated in the 2025 Contrail Workshop , organised by Contrails.org and hosted at Imperial College London ....
Oct 71 min read


E-CONTRAIL at the 2025 Contrail Workshop: Advancing Understanding of Aviation-Induced Cloud Impacts
The E-CONTRAIL project will be presenting its latest research this week at the 2025 Contrail Workshop , taking place from 16 to 18...
Sep 161 min read


E-CONTRAIL at the Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna
Last week, the E-CONTRAIL project returned to Vienna, Austria to take part in the Living Planet Symposium 2025 (LPS25), hosted by the...
Jul 21 min read


E-CONTRAIL Project Showcased the latest Contrail Research at EGU 2025
Last week, the E-CONTRAIL project made a significant impact at the EGU General Assembly 2025 (EGU25), with three insightful presentations...
May 51 min read


Understanding the Radiative Impact of Contrail Cirrus
Contrail cirrus clouds—the high-altitude ice clouds that form from aircraft exhaust—have long been recognized as contributors to...
Apr 152 min read


Regional climate projections using a DL-based model-ranking and downscaling framework: Application to European climate zones
This study builds on the E-CONTRAIL project’s methodologies to improve regional climate forecasting through advanced deep-learning...
Mar 112 min read


Enhancing GOES-16 Contrail Segmentation through Ensemble Neural Network Modeling and Optical Flow Corrections
UC3M researcher Irene Ortiz spearheads pioneering work on the Contrail Detection and Segmentation Ensemble Model (CDSEM), an advanced AI...
Feb 82 min read


E-CONTRAIL Presents at AGU24: Radiative Forcing of Contrail Cirrus Clouds
The E-CONTRAIL project participated in AGU24 , held from December 9–13, 2024, in Washington, D.C., where Ermioni Dimitropoulou,...
Dec 19, 20241 min read


E-CONTRAIL at SESAR Innovation Days 2024
The E-CONTRAIL team participated in SESAR Innovation Days 2024 (SIDs), held in Rome from November 12–15. The SIDs, a premier event in...
Nov 19, 20241 min read


Satellite-Based Quantification of Contrail Radiative Forcing over Europe: A Two-Week Analysis of Aviation-Induced Climate Effects
A new E-CONTRAIL study submitted to SESAR Innovation Days 2024 investigates the relationship between aviation-induced contrails and their...
Oct 1, 20242 min read


SESAR Shares E-CONTRAIL's Teaser Video
This week SESAR Joint Undertaking shared our teaser video, highlighting the E-CONTRAIL project's path towards a more sustainable...
Sep 11, 20241 min read


ATMOS Conference
From July 1-5, the E-CONTRAIL project flew to Bologna, Italy, to attend ATMOS 2024, a conference organized by the European Space Agency...
Jul 12, 20241 min read


Showcasing the project's contrail detection results at EGU 2024
EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2024 was held from April 14 to 19 in Vienna, Austria. An event where the SESAR-funded...
Apr 25, 20241 min read


Connecting Europe Days 2024
From 2 to 5 April we were at the SQUARE in Brussels at one of the most important mobility events in Europe: Connecting Europe Days....
Apr 4, 20241 min read


SESAR Innovation Days 2023
The 13th edition of the SESAR Innovation Days (SIDs) took place from 27 to 30 November in University of Seville, Spain. Being the main...
Nov 30, 20231 min read


Presenting the E-CONTRAIL at the Sustainable Skies Conference
CANSO and EUROCONTROL hosted the Sustainable Skies Conference: Contrails in Focus on November 7-8, 2023 in Brussels, addressing...
Nov 11, 20231 min read


E-CONTRAIL's Breakthroughs at the 4th ECATS Conference
The E-CONTRAIL project presented its progress in tackling the environmental challenges of aviation at the 4th European Conference for...
Nov 8, 20231 min read
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