Space for Infrastructure: Water Management
Funds feasibility studies and pilots for satellite-enabled water infrastructure.
ESA runs this as a non-competitive Announcement of Opportunity, so teams are evaluated against the call's own bar rather than against each other, under the fourth thematic area of the wider Space for Infrastructure programme. A Feasibility Study funds analysis, design and scoping of a proposed service; a Demonstration Project funds putting that service into practice, testing it in the market with …
ESA wants space-enabled services for water and waste-management infrastructure -- estimating future water demand, improving the efficiency of water treatment, monitoring waste-water infrastructure, coordinating preventative maintenance, supporting water-policy decisions, and monitoring water-grid security and threats. Proposed services can draw on satellite communications, GNSS positioning and tracking, or satellite Earth observation, including newer nano-satellite and CubeSat networks. Teams should show a real market opportunity, business experience, and domain expertise, aiming at ideas that could disrupt the existing water and waste-infrastructure market rather than merely improve it.
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