Environmental Crimes
Zero-equity co-funding for satellite services that detect and trace environmental crime.
Environmental Crimes is a European Space Agency call that provides zero-equity co-funding for satellite services that detect and trace environmental crime — corporate greenwashing and carbon-credit fraud, poaching and illegal wildlife trade, illegal fishing and dark-vessel tracking, illegal mining, illegal logging and deforestation, and illegal waste dumping — using Earth observation, GNSS or sate…
ESA wants space-based applications that tackle environmental crime -- corporate greenwashing and carbon-credit fraud, poaching and illegal wildlife trade, illegal fishing and dark-vessel tracking, illegal mining, illegal logging and deforestation, and illegal waste dumping. Proposals should detect and monitor risk areas, track goods through supply chains, or verify compliance claims using Earth observation, GNSS or satellite communications.
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