Uptoearth
Uptoearth (UTE) is a German SME founded and incubated in the CESAH, the ESA Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC) of the Hessen & Baden-Württemberg region in 2019 and today is part of the ESA BIC Alumni Network.
UTE provides consultancy and develops hardware and software for services in the areas of aerospace, earth observation, agriculture, environmental protection, blue growth, and smart cities. It aims to provide effective solutions to mitigate and reverse Climate Change effects and promote more sustainable approaches and practices.
UTE’s core business is satellite monitoring of organic carbon sequestered from the soil: since 2018, it has developed expertise and know-how on soil carbon sequestration from satellites, developing several proprietary instruments and algorithms currently on the market on SOC and soil density estimation and it has created cutting-edge datasets that help companies make more accurate data-driven decisions for carbon storage projects.
Role in the project
In the project, Uptoearth is responsible for remote sensing data acquisition and analysis to issue several annual maps for estimating available biomass in TEAPOTS pilot sites.