Canadian Space Agency to spend $5.3M to protect North Atlantic right whale with space tech spaceq.ca

The smartWhales funding will fund five private-academic coalitions for as long as 36 months each to see if right whales can be protected from the whales’ two chief threats, which are getting snarled in fishing gear or colliding with vessels.

SmartWhales is a part of smartEarth, which uses satellite data in line with objectives from Canada’s official space strategy. Each coalition received roughly $1M in funding and will work on a specific project, to improve the detection and monitoring of the whales, and to predict and model their movement.

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