132560Satellite Prospecting for Water in AfricaClosedFeasibility StudiesInnovate UKCommercial Space Technologies Prospecting (CSTP) has developed methods of analysing satellite-derived imagery of the Earth to assist traditional prospecting companies in locating resources such as oil, gas and minerals. CSTP plans to transfer these previously established techniques to search for ground water and assist communities in Africa suffering from drought. To test this application and develop a full service that finds (and subsequently delivers) clean water, CSTP will need to collaborate with local prospecting and irrigation companies, and ally with certain state organisations. CSTP has identified South Africa as the best country to test these methods as it has responsive government departments, appropriately advanced industrial collaborators and the finances to incubate novel technologies.