{"id":4865,"date":"2023-10-19T10:03:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T09:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:05:23","slug":"uwe-bristol-announce-new-knowledge-transfer-partnership-with-metrea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/uwe-bristol-announce-new-knowledge-transfer-partnership-with-metrea\/","title":{"rendered":"UWE Bristol announce new Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Metrea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UWE Bristol and <a href=\"https:\/\/metrea.aero\/\">Metrea<\/a> are excited to announce that they have been successful in securing funding from Innovate UK to form a new 24-month Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/metrea.aero\/mmd\/\">Metrea Mission Data (MMD)<\/a>, a business unit within Metrea, are experts at capturing and missionising data that can be exploited at the speed of relevance to deliver information and decision advantage from the strategic to tactical level. A combination of extensive operational experience and expertise in ISR operations, Tactical Data Links, Data Analytics and Cyber Security enables them to deliver a full stack of services, delivering high-impact outcomes for our customers and partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Owen Varley, MMD\u2019s Managing Director, said <em>\u201cWe are delighted to have secured KTP funding which will not only support UWE with their research &amp; development, but also provide us with academic expertise and resources to develop our image processing techniques enabling us to enhance our products further.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project will be supervised by UWE Bristol academics Lyndon Smith, Mark Hansen and Mel Smith. Lyndon Smith is the Director of the Centre for Machine Vision and a Professor in Computer Simulation and Machine Vision, Mark Hansen is a Professor in the Centre for Machine Vision and Mel Smith is the Co-director of the Centre for Machine Vision and a Professor of Machine Vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/Metrea-Horizontal-Blue-1024x308.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4867\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3.324675324675325;width:249px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/Metrea-Horizontal-Blue-1024x308.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/Metrea-Horizontal-Blue-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/Metrea-Horizontal-Blue-768x231.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/Metrea-Horizontal-Blue-1536x462.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/Metrea-Horizontal-Blue-2048x616.png 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/Metrea-Horizontal-Blue-1200x361.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"358\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/uwe-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4003\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2;width:202px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/uwe-1.jpg 358w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/uwe-1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 85vw, 358px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Lyndon Smith commented: <em>&#8220;This project comprises an exciting opportunity for a new research direction within the UWE Centre for Machine Vision (CMV), relating to the analysis of images and video footage of Resident Space Objects (RSOs) in Low Earth Orbit. &nbsp;Metrea\u2019s work will research and test the capabilities of the latest machine vision and AI techniques for processing observations of RSOs Deep learning analysis of these distant objects will aim to enable identification, size estimation, and other characteristics.&#8221;  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KTPs integrate academic research into companies, to promote innovation and growth. The unique three-way collaboration between a business, a university and a graduate helps businesses to improve competitiveness and productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwe.ac.uk\/business\/business-services\/innovation-and-funding\/knowledge-transfer-partnerships\">Find out more about KTPs<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/KTP-logo-full-colour-RGB-1024x198.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5642\" style=\"width:538px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/KTP-logo-full-colour-RGB-1024x198.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/KTP-logo-full-colour-RGB-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/KTP-logo-full-colour-RGB-768x149.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/KTP-logo-full-colour-RGB-1200x232.png 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/KTP-logo-full-colour-RGB.png 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWE Bristol and Metrea are excited to announce that they have been successful in securing funding from Innovate UK to form a new 24-month Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP). Metrea Mission Data (MMD), a business unit within Metrea, are experts at capturing and missionising data that can be exploited at the speed of relevance to deliver &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/uwe-bristol-announce-new-knowledge-transfer-partnership-with-metrea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UWE Bristol announce new Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Metrea&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":4866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":145,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1451,1450,145,1452],"tags":[238,42,151,796,46,421,75,226,420],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge-transfer-partnership","category-knowledge-transfer-partnerships","category-ktp","category-ktps","tag-centre-for-machine-vision","tag-innovation","tag-knowledge-transfer-partnership","tag-knowledge-transfer-partnerships","tag-ktp","tag-ktp-case-study","tag-uwe-bristol","tag-uwe-bristol-research","tag-uwe-ktp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5651,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions\/5651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}