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The European Space Agency’s Organic Best Practices & Ecosystem Preservation Kick-Start Activity offers support and funding to companies looking to develop space empowered services for the preservation of our environment.
Reducing the risk of bird strikes
Aircraft coming into contact with birds is an expensive and avoidable event. Almost 75% of all these occurrences happen below 500ft during take-off and landing.
In order to reduce the risk of bird strikes, understanding where birds thrive and how this impacts aircraft is key.
With information gathered from wildlife specialists around the world, a number of key habitats likely to attract birdlife (large and small) were identified.
AUTOMATED ROAD TRANSPORT
ESA has launched an opportunity to offer funding and support to companies for the business case assessment and development of new space enabled Internet of things (IoT) services that target relevant customer needs.
IoT is already used in many parts of daily life: human-centred applications related to health & fitness, home-automation & security, smart cities & transportation, connected vehicles, retail, production or industrial work environments are some of its applications.
Tourism continues to grow in popularity worldwide, but local authorities are often faced with the conflicting challenges of both maintaining and preserving popular outdoor destinations as well as encouraging and managing streams of visitors, balancing environmental sustainability with economic development. In addition, tourists are getting more and more tech savvy, and expect to be able to use their smart-phones and tablets to both plan their journeys and get information while travelling.