Fluvial Systems Research

SpaceOcean & Marine TechnologySurrey, BC

Metro Vancouver company building Earth-observation systems for aquatic and Arctic environments, combining AI, sensor fusion and satellite imaging; lead company on the Canadian Space Agency's smartWhales right whale monitoring stream.

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Metro Vancouver company building Earth-observation systems for aquatic and Arctic environments, combining AI, sensor fusion and satellite imaging; lead company on the Canadian Space Agency's smartWhales right whale monitoring stream.

  • Lead company of Stream 1 of the Canadian Space Agency's smartWhales programme, awarded $1,176,682 to monitor North Atlantic right whales and their habitat from satellite imagery. asc-csa.gc.ca

  • The Canadian Space Agency credits it with the first demonstration that optical satellite imagery can detect a North Atlantic right whale at species level and identify an individual. asc-csa.gc.ca

  • Continued into Accelerating EO Innovations Stage 2 for a satellite-fed right whale alert system; the CSA states Stage 2 companies received up to $780,000 each. asc-csa.gc.ca

  • Selected in the 2025 Satellite Mobilization for Biodiversity Action for Arctic marine mammal ecosystem monitoring; awards are up to $250,000 each. asc-csa.gc.ca

Government & Grants

Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.

  1. Canadian Space Agency - smartWhales Stream 1 lead company

Technology Focus

Company site: fluvialsystemsresearch.com

Terms the company uses about its own work.

Satellite imagery analyticsMarine mammal detectionArctic ice monitoringSensor fusion

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