Urban Green
Funds up to €200K, 100% covered, for satellite-based urban green-space services.
This is an Open Competition Feasibility Study, run as an Invitation to Tender, under ESA-STAR reference AO10973. ESA funds 100% of costs, up to €200,000 per activity, to investigate feasibility, viability and a roadmap for Urban Green services. The Prime and all subcontractors register as bidders on esa-star and submit a Proposal under ESA's open-competition regulations, which may result in parall…
ESA wants feasibility studies on space-based applications that help cities plan, manage and monitor urban green and blue spaces -- parks, street trees, ponds and coastal zones -- covering their health status, their air-quality impact, and their integration into smart-city planning. A specific use case involves cities in Germany's Ruhr Area District providing data for the study.
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