What we create with Earth observation

Driving innovation through Earth observation

Transforming Earth observation through data

We turn satellite imagery and remote sensing data into actionable insights about landscapes, ecosystems, and environmental change.

Scientists

Biodiversity

Earth observation

AI and data science

Seagrass

Leveraging AI and remote sensing science to develop a scalable seagrass mapping methodology, fine-tuning remote sensing AI models for 4 pilot geographies, and creating maps of seagrass extent, change, threats, and carbon stocks.

AI and data science

Earth observation

Food

Scientists

TRACE Cattle Operations

With Climate TRACE, identified nearly 400K large-scale livestock facilities that have significant environmental impacts, including contributing to ~10% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

AI and data science

Journalists

Earth observation

Biodiversity

Mongabay Amazon Airstrips

Environmental journalists Mongabay and Earth Genome detected 67 clandestine airstrips used for transporting drugs in the Peruvian Amazon, threatening Indigenous communities and the rainforest.

Earth observation

AI and data science

Scientists

Food

Dengue risk in Costa Rica

With Stanford University researchers, we developed high-resolution, up-to-date land-use maps capable of capturing the fine-scale habitat variation most relevant to disease transmission.

Biodiversity

AI and data science

Data infrastructure

Earth observation

Policy makers

Amazon Mining Watch

Amazon Mining Watch uses machine learning to map the scars of mining activities in the Amazonian countries.

AI and data science

Data infrastructure

Scientists

Product design

Earth observation

Earth Index

Earth Index, a search tool for the environment, harnesses satellite imagery and machine learning to extract an area's "genetic signature." Obtain insights in a day, instead of months.

Pollution

AI and data science

Earth observation

Product design

Policy makers

Global Plastics Watch

Using AI and Machine Learning to identify plastic waste before they enter our oceans.

AI and data science

Earth observation

Journalists

earthrise education

Our platform uses collaborative mapping and satellite imagery to support real-world investigations for students.