$10M in prize money for mapping rainforest biodiversity
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2019/11/10m-in-prize-money-for-mapping-rainforest-biodiversity
XPRIZE has established a $10 million prize to support the development of technology that enables rapid assessment of rainforest biodiversity.
XPRIZE hopes the initiative will help address the perceived value gap between living and felled rainforest.
Current efforts to survey rainforest biodiversity often employ a combination of technology — like camera traps, audio sensors, and remote sensing from drones to airplanes to satellites — and old-fashioned boots-on-the-ground surveys.
But approaches have been limited by the challenge of hot and humid conditions, dense canopy cover, remoteness, and the sheer diversity of species of tropical rainforests.
▻https://rainforest.xprize.org/prizes/rainforest
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