Biodiversity Kick-Start
Funds feasibility studies for space-enabled biodiversity products and services.
Biodiversity Kick-Start is a European Space Agency programme that funds feasibility studies for space-enabled biodiversity products and services — sustainable agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture monitoring, biofuel development, and reducing the impact of transport networks on ecosystems — for companies developing a commercially sustainable product or service, not researchers alone. A Kick-start…
ESA wants proposals that use satellite Earth observation, navigation, or communications to protect biodiversity -- covering sustainable agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture monitoring, biofuel development, and reducing the impact of transport networks on ecosystems. Applicants must be companies developing a commercially sustainable product or service, not researchers alone.
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