Fish Welfare Initiative Announces its Innovation Challenge Version 2: Remote-Sensing Water Quality with Satellites

June 26, 2025 | 1 min to read

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FWI staff collecting ground data at fish farms in Andhra Pradesh, India. This is the process through which ground-truth data will be collected to verify the models submitted to the Innovation Challenge.

We are relaunching the Innovation Challenge. This time around, the financial rewards on offer have been raised significantly: up to USD 100,000.

In FWI’s current main program, the Alliance for Responsible Aquaculture (ARA), our team collects water quality data from member farms. If critical water quality parameters indicate that fishes may be exposed to poor conditions, our team provides farmers with recommendations for corrective actions.

The current ARA model requires FWI staff to physically visit fish farms to measure water quality. The scalability of this model is limited by its dependency on in-field measurements, which caps the number of farms FWI staff can visit each day. The scalability limits also reduce the overall impact and cost-effectiveness of the program, and we therefore want to determine ways to assess water quality without intensive in-field presence.

To read more, please visit the Fish Welfare Initiative.