NextGen Environmental Research

SpaceWinnipeg, MB

Winnipeg company building near-real-time satellite applications for public safety and environmental monitoring, including IceTime lake-ice hazard mapping from radar satellites, FloodFinder and BloomFinder.

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About

Company site: nextgenenvironment.ca

Winnipeg company building near-real-time satellite applications for public safety and environmental monitoring, including IceTime lake-ice hazard mapping from radar satellites, FloodFinder and BloomFinder.

  • IceTime provides near-real-time lake ice hazard information from radar satellites; FloodFinder and BloomFinder deliver flood and algal-bloom monitoring from satellite imagery. nextgenenvironment.ca

  • Awarded $499,946.71 under the Canadian Space Agency's Accelerating EO Innovations Stage 1 for a near-real-time lake ice hazard mapping service. asc-csa.gc.ca

  • Selected in the Canadian Space Agency's 2025 Satellite Mobilization for Biodiversity Action for a habitat restoration system; awards are up to $250,000 each. asc-csa.gc.ca

  • Its lake-ice work was profiled by the Canadian Space Agency in 2018 as using Earth-observation satellites to make travel on lake ice safer. asc-csa.gc.ca

Government & Grants

Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.

  1. Canadian Space Agency - Accelerating EO Innovations Stage 1 (near-real-time lake ice hazard mapping)

    C$499.9K2023asc-csa.gc.ca

Technology Focus

Company site: nextgenenvironment.ca

Terms the company uses about its own work.

Radar satellite imagingLake ice hazard mappingFlood monitoringAlgal bloom detection

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