Measuring Water, Temperature & Carbon from space
for better resource accountability.
constellr's thermal intelligence offers a radically better understanding of changing conditions across agriculture and industry.
constellr is pioneering the use of beyond-visual imaging technology to assess vegetation, soil health and industrial monitoring at an unprecedented level with our own satellites. We enable globally scalable, high-precision smart farming services, supporting global food security in a time of climate change.
Quantifying a Changing Planet
constellr's thermal intelligence offers a radically better understanding of changing conditions across agriculture and industry.
Climate change puts immense pressure on ecosystems and resources.
Measuring rather than modelling change leads to earlier and more effective mitigation.
Unmitigated water stress causes major yield losses.
Transparent data on crop stress at field level drives highly effective supply chains.
Temperature changes carry major risk in industrial systems & infrastructure
Ability to measure temperature-related risk at scale prevents major economic risk and safety issues.
Infrastructure - Use Case
Keeping check: monitoring infrastructure for risk, cost and reporting
From rail lines to power and pipelines, temperature variations impact infrastructural integrity and reduce function. Remote infrared measurements enable customers to monitor sensitive infrastructure day and night.
Whole chains of supply, logistics and trade are stimulated or disrupted by changes at industrial plant level. Understanding changing temperature conditions opens up the possibility to detect hazard risk, mitigate operational anomalies or quantify and manage economic activity.
Solution
celestR | State-of-the-art Land Surface Temperature
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celestR is constellr's Land Surface Temperature (LST) product, delivering the most accurate imagery currently available on the market. celestR offers spatially harmonized data from constellr's own and public remote sensing thermal infrared instruments.
Technical Insights:
- celestR comprises data from different sensors, processed to provide a comparable integration / input state for customers. This includes removal of artifacts, pixel alignment, time correction, etc.
- Depending on cloud cover, celestR offers sub-weekly image frequency per scene. Customers receive one LST raster, one cloud mask and meta data.
- Today's data is resampled to a 30 meter pixel size, with a radiometric accuracy better than 3 Kelvin. This improves to 1,5 Kelvin from 2024.
Agriculture - Use Case
Early warning: identifying and managing crop stress to protect yield
Detecting crop stress early is critical for the effective and timely mitigation of yield loss. Using evapotranspiration and land surface temperature data to monitor early stress symptoms across areas of productive crops provide the basis for the effective application of fungicides and biological crop protection
Different crop types respond variously to different stress conditions. Understanding the optimal balance between crop input and stress resilience in the development of hybrids is enhanced with the use of evapotranspiration data to determine suitability for alternative soil types and conditions
Solution
ETR | A granular understanding of field-specific stress risks
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constellr's global evapotranspiration (ET) database provides algorithms based on our proprietary temperature data to help detect field level ET variability. Our product provides a more cost effective and efficient method of ET monitoring than traditional in-field methods, contributing to improved irrigation management and scalable measurement of actual water usage.
Detecting and predicting water stress at the field level.
Technical Insights:
- Utilized PT-JPL and TSEB models incorporate vegetation biophysical parameters, meteorology, and radiation data.
- Today's data is resampled to a 30 meter resolution, with a radiometric accuracy better than 3 Kelvin. This improves to 1,5 Kelvin from 2024. ETR delivers instantaneous and daily estimations of ET in 50 m resolution raster layers.
Climate - Use Case
The new accountable: Measurement, Reporting and Verification
When assessing the environmental impact of their crop suppliers, trading companies face many challenges in gathering data to quantify and report against ESG targets. The ability to measure soil organic carbon using a combination of stratified sampling and an Organic Carbon Stock (OCS) value estimate reduces high field data acquisition costs, is highly scalable and quickly compares and prioritise areas for carbon sequestration projects.
Solution
socR | Steps Towards Carbon Monitoring
BETA
Soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration is considered an efficient and actionable solution for the reduction of atmospheric CO2, whilst at the same time improving chemical, physical, and biological soil characteristics. Carbon credits provide an incentive to help farmers overcome the perceived risks of adopting SOC-enhancing practices. The measurement and monitoring of SOC requires thorough soil sampling and analysis, generating costs which limit the return on investment for companies generating these credits. Our product socR provides a fast and highly scalable solution to guide and optimize soil sampling for SOC monitoring.
Technical Insights:
- Combination of soil stratification with an organic carbon stock (OCS) value range estimate.
- constellr's unique parcel stratification approach combines vegetation patterns with bare soil thermal inertia analysis and topographic information to generate strata of consistent soil OCS at the field level.
- From soil reflectance spectra and local soil profiles, socr estimates the range of OCS (t/ha) in the top 0-30 cm of the soil for each stratum, at pixel and field level, supporting efficient baseline mapping and enabling the prioritization of fields to implement carbon projects.
- High temporal resolution of bare soil images during the short inter-cropping season is crucial for achieving higher accuracy. The integration of constellr’s high resolution near- and thermal infrared data, available from 2024, will enable us to monitor bare soil spectra, thermal inertia pattern and vegetation dynamics, further increasing our capacity to support with baseline mapping and the optimization of soil sampling.
State of the Art:
Daily, field-level, global.
Level-2 georeferenced land surface temperature data.
Visual RGB Image
Why constellr?
constellr offers a radically better understanding of changing conditions and economic potential, driving productivity, accountability and sustainability.
Measurement not proxies
Science grade TIR measurements not proxies
Data superiority
Guaranteed radiometric precision with onboard stabilization and cryocooling
High resolution
Daily frequency, 30 metre native thermal infrared images
Early warning
Early warning stress symptoms instead of post-damage assessments
Optimised for agriculture
...and a wide range of other industrial applications
Industrial Monitoring & Disaster Management
constellr has been contracted to provide its high-resolution thermal infrared data to thousands of European research, institutional and public sector customers with a focus on land management, marine surveying and emergency and disaster management services.
EARLY ACCESS PROGRAMME
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Technical Insights:
- Reserve constellr's first-of-a-kind Earth Observation / Thermal Infrared / LST data before the rest of the market. No financial risk or upfront costs.
- Exclusive access to the highest precision temperature data on the market for your areas of interest.
- Technical Specs: ground sampling distance (nadir) of 30m LWIR, 10m VNIR; up to 4 days revisit time (until 2024), up to 2 days revisit time (from 2025); better than 1.5K temperature accuracy; 12 hours from data capture to delivery; global coverage.
- Our all-in data commitment provides guaranteed access to all imagery for your reserved AOI.
- Research Use Cases - Qualify for further discounted pricing and benefit from constellr’s specialist consulting and data science services
- The early access programme offers partners the assurance to obtain constellr's high-quality data at fixed, preferential prices in 2024 and 2025.
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Our Mission
As a leading provider of space-based water, carbon and temperature insights, constellr's mission is to advance understanding of the planet's ecosystems, enabling a more equitable and sustainable future governance of global resources.
Central to our mission is the provision of a robust data basis to drive 'more crop per drop' and help feed 10 billion people by 2050.
We believe in data-driven decision making in agriculture, the environement and industries for a sustainable future.
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We're a diverse and ambitious team with expertise across aerospace engineering, data science, agronomy and business. We have a shared vision to use space to leverage positive climate impact across global industrial systems.
We have office hubs in Munich, Freiburg, Berlin and Brussels.
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News
- constellr secures $10M in Seed financing co-led by Lakestar and VSquared to scale its space-based water monitoring system and safeguard global food supply.
- constellr Acquires Hyperspectral Firm ScanWorld in a Move Set to Disrupt the Use of Beyond-Visual Data in Smart Farming Worldwide.
- First light: constellr’s thermal images demonstrate high potential for enhanced agricultural monitoring from space
- German NewSpace Startup, constellr, launches their first agricultural water monitoring system into orbit.
- constellr joins NewSpace initiative from Federation of German Industries along with MunichRe, SAP & Planet
- constellr partners with cloudeo to enhance agri-insurance offering
- constellr and Mayday.ai partner for next gen disaster management
Press
- 11.22 - Badische Zeitung | Millions for Constellr
- 11.22 - Less water wastage in agriculture - How Constellr wants to help with satellites
- 11.22 - ‘constellr’ Secures $10M In Seed Financing To Scale Its Space-Based Water Monitoring System And Safeguard Global Food Supply
- 11.22 - Business Insider | This startup wants the agriculture sector to use satellites to tackle the food security crisis
- 11.22 Millions In Start-up Financing For A Satellite Start-up
- 11.22 - Techcrunch | Satellite startup Constellr wins backing to build out its water-monitoring platform
- 02.22 - constellr launches first agricultural water monitoring system