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Earth Intelligence
See what changed, where, and by how much.
Detect change in satellite and aerial observation over time, and monitor environments and infrastructure against a baseline.
What is Earth Intelligence?
Satellite imagery is abundant and mostly unexamined, because the useful question is not what an image shows but what changed since the last one. Earth Intelligence establishes a baseline and reports difference — vegetation, water, built structure, disturbance — with the observations that produced each finding. It is a monitoring instrument: the output is a change, a location, a magnitude and the frames behind it.
Problems it solves
- Detect change between observations over time
- Monitor a site or habitat against a baseline
- Observe infrastructure and land use at scale
- Attach the imagery behind each finding
- Prioritise where to send people
Key capabilities
- Change Detection
- Compare observations over time and flag what changed, where and by how much.
- Evidence Trail
- Every figure carries the record it came from, so a reader can check the answer instead of trusting it.
- Risk Scoring
- Score a change, a lot or a habitat on a published rubric you can read component by component.
- Confidence Ceilings
- Confidence is capped by the strength of the underlying basis, so a weak source cannot produce a strong-sounding claim.
How it is built
- Baseline and difference
- Findings are stated as change from a baseline, not as absolute description.
- Frame-linked findings
- Every change opens onto the observations behind it.
- Magnitude, not adjectives
- Change is quantified where the data supports it.
How it works
How the work is structured, and what each step's output rests on.
Define the area
SourceState the area and period of interest.
Establish a baseline
SourceFix the reference observation set.
Detect change
ObservedCompare later observations against the baseline.
Quantify and locate
ObservedReport magnitude and location with supporting frames.
Score significance
AI-inferredRate findings on a published rubric.
Example use cases
Each example has its own page you can read and share.
Earth Intelligence
Detect what changed against a baseline
Compare observations over time and report change with the frames behind each finding.
4 minute walkthrough
- Change Detection
- Evidence Trail
- Confidence Ceilings
Earth Intelligence
Monitor a habitat or catchment over time
Track environmental condition against a baseline and surface significant movement.
4 minute walkthrough
- Change Detection
- Risk Scoring
- Evidence Trail
Earth Intelligence
Observe sites and infrastructure at scale
Monitor built assets and construction progress across many locations from observation data.
3 minute walkthrough
- Change Detection
- Evidence Trail
- Risk Scoring
Ask Earth Intelligence
Illustrative examples. Results depend on your own data.
- “What changed in this area since last quarter?”
- “Show vegetation loss around this site over the season.”
- “Which observations support this finding?”
- “Where should we send a field team first?”
Security, governance and human control
Where the software deliberately limits itself.
Governance
- Findings link to source observations
- Inference kept distinct from observation
Questions
- What imagery does it use?
- Satellite and aerial observation of the area you define. Findings link to the frames that produced them.
Related applications
Teams using Earth Intelligence often want these too.
Conservation
Turn camera-trap frames into records worth acting on.
Capabilities
- Species Identification
- Evidence Trail
- Confidence Ceilings
- Risk Scoring
CropYield
Decide irrigation and treatment from what the field is showing.
Capabilities
- Change Detection
- Evidence Trail
- Confidence Ceilings
- Forecasting
Ecology
Impact reporting that survives an audit.
Capabilities
- Evidence Trail
- Confidence Ceilings
- Risk Scoring
- Forecasting
Start with Earth Intelligence
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