UK Space Agency awards £14m rainforest monitoring deal to Ecometrica

Michael Holder
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Sustainability software and data firm wins contract to help map, assess and monitor threats to international rainforests

Ecometrica has been awarded a £14.2m contract by the UK Space Agency to monitor the deforestation threat across than 300 million hectares of tropical rainforest worldwide, it was announced today. Under...

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