STACC received funding from the National Programme for Estonian Language Technology to develop a fully functional text mining toolkit to make sense of vast amounts of free-text data in the electronic health records. The project is derived from STACC’s long-run research stream in Biomedical Data Mining.

Copernicus Urban Development Analyser (CUDA) project, led by our scientist Kaupo Voormansik, won the biggest scholarship from Vega Fond. CUDA (Copernicus Urban Development Analyser) is an integrated service for monitoring urban growth and related processes by combining satellite monitoring with anonymous mobile positioning service (MPS). CUDA proposal already won the DLR Environmental Challenge in 2013

STACC in cooperation with Tartu Observatory and our international partners is developing CUDA – a complex information system for monitoring urbanization on global scale. CUDA uses Copernicus Sentinel satellite data for mapping infrastructure changes and anonymous mobile positioning data for mapping population and demographic processes. Information and statistics derived with CUDA is a useful input