{"id":17015,"date":"2026-07-14T20:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fa-se.de\/?p=17015"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:05:30","slug":"space4good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fa-se.de\/en\/projects\/finalised\/space4good\/","title":{"rendered":"Space4Good"},"content":{"rendered":"
Growth Capital for Space4Good<\/strong><\/h5>\n

REMOTE SENSING, GIS & AI FOR ENVIRONEMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT<\/span><\/h2>\n

Societal challenge and market<\/span><\/h3>\n
63 % of Indonesia’s territory is forest, yet the country loses roughly 125,000 hectares a year to illegal deforestation. More than half of that forest area, 54 %, sits in the hands of concession holders, and it’s the private, sustainably managed forestry concessions that show the highest willingness to pay to protect their land. Ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss put economically and socially interconnected systems under pressure worldwide: industry faces mounting regulatory complexity and tightening ESG requirements across global supply chains, while NGOs and governments often lack the verifiable evidence needed to inform policy decisions and secure funding. Satellite earth observation closes precisely this gap, delivering the environmental intelligence that makes effective risk management possible in the first place.<\/h5>\n

Solution<\/span><\/h3>\n
Space4Good<\/a> turns satellite data into an early-warning system for the planet’s forests. Satellite earth observation, radar imaging that sees through cloud cover, and AI models trained to recognize the visual signatures of illegal logging work together to flag deforestation as it happens, cross-checked against local, ground-collected data for verified accuracy. The result, embodied in the FORESTER platform, pushes real-time alerts directly to local teams, so patrols go straight to at-risk areas instead of searching at random, protecting the biodiversity and carbon stocks those forests hold before the damage is done. The same data doubles as compliance and carbon-credit documentation. Since FORESTER launched in 2024, Space4Good has helped protect over 350,000 hectares of tropical rainforest across Indonesia and Brazil, with clients reporting a 60 % reduction in deforestation rates (as of November 2025).<\/h5>\n

The team behind Space4Good<\/span><\/h3>\n
Space4Good was founded in 2017 at the European Space Agency’s Business Incubation Center. Behind the company stands Alexander Gunkel<\/a>, a serial impact entrepreneur who previously worked at ESA and co-founded two other space-tech ventures focused on environmental impact before building Space4Good as CEO. What began as an early-stage project delivery team has since grown into an established scale-up, bringing remote sensing, geospatial, and environmental expertise under one roof, with its core team based in the Netherlands. The company is B.Corp certified and was recognized as Geospatial World Forum Startup of the Year in 2024.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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