The input data (airborne and spaceborne GEDI LiDAR, Sentinel-1 and 2 satellite imagery), methods and algorithms used by all leading providers are more or less similar. Ignore words like ‘cutting-edge’, ’groundbreaking’, ‘AI/ML’, ‘unique’, ‘innovative’ or ‘state-of-the-art’ while researching providers. Please consider this instead: 1. Most competitive pricing for the high quality results. We spent years optimizing our processing efficiency to enable affordable scaling to global supply chain coverage. Thanks to scaling years ahead of competitors and learnings from proven applications with a large number of clients, we are able to offer a lower price point.

2. Lowest carbon footprint. Spending years on improving cloud computing efficiency at scale also means we require less energy to deliver results covering entire global supply chains. Thanks to Google we are able to quantify and report the limited emissions associated with our service.

3. Best input data. Having worked in cloudy and hazy tropical areas for years, we were forced to build the best image preprocessing engine in the world. Creating the highest quality cloud and haze free input pixels. We don’t process noise to create noise. Example: 3m carbon data may look fantastic, but most of what you see is noise. There is a reason the best available data is available at 10-30m resolution. As with digital camera’s: don’t fall for the Megapixel myth: more Megapixels DOES NOT mean better quality photos.

3. Contextual intelligence. You benefit from 25 years of struggling in remote areas. Measuring trees. Surveying vegetation. We know what we are talking about. We know a forest in Indonesia is rather different from a forest in Ghana or a forest in Brazil. We know what a palm oil plantation is. We know how diverse cocoa management systems can be. We know how coffee is produced. Because we have been there. We saw it with our own eyes.

4. Carbon data is not what matters. What matters is reporting your Emission Factors. So you need integration of supply chain data, commodity layers and historical deforestation data. We offer a best in class solution integrating all these components combined. Globally. Temporally consistent. Coherent.

5. We are nice people.

Other providers are limited to just carbon. Providing data, not insights. Satelligence offers crucial contextual intelligence to enable specific and relevant assessments:

Just knowing a specific patch of land stores 50 tonnes of carbon is insufficient: if it is not known whether it is associated to your supply chain, or associated with the commodity in focus, such information is worthless.

A cocoa plantation, young palm plantation, shrubland, and young regrowth forest can all have the same carbon stock. Satelligence’s exceptional traceability database and global commodity layers make carbon assessments superbly relevant.

Don’t risk overreporting of your emission reductions and removals using non-specific carbon data. And losing market share.

You may select emission factors from the literature. However, using such default values you will tremendously overestimate your climate impact! Commodity-driven deforestation can be uncovered and quantified precisely with explicit spatial data. Not with exaggerated default values from literature.

For example, if you produce or source cocoa from Ghana, why should your carbon footprint be inflated by massive emissions from nearby gold mining and logging? Using our distinctive cocoa maps we are able to limit quantification to cocoa.

Using more specific and more granular data gives precise estimates. Leading to better market access. Buyers increasingly choose low carbon density suppliers. Be one of them.

Satelligence helps you monitor and deliver. Keeping up with process innovations, new technologies, and new alliances is very demanding on your staff. Tap us to help enable skilled and knowledgeable procurement teams.

We guide you through best practice using monitoring for the implementation of sustainable business models. In order to support procurement decisions our system screens all suppliers in the industry: who are the top performers? Who need support to raise the bar?

We unburden you in engagement with suppliers, buyers and other stakeholders, saving time by automating tracking down grievances, reporting of actions taken and progress. Our highly responsive development team is flexible adapting our service to your workflows. Our customer success team is standby providing a Helpdesk for tailor-made support.

Get strategic advice on how to best integrate monitoring in your work processes. We develop state of the art approaches with leading stakeholder initiatives. Satelligence works together with a large network of local and international partners. Providing strategic advice on forest and supply chain monitoring to CGF, POCG, WCF, RTRS, IDH, GPI, Norwegian Government, Netherlands Government etc.

Satelligence is uniquely positioned to ensure that a wide network of suppliers is united, as we are involved in setting the standard, we foster cooperation and efficiency, and our client-base has the critical mass to push our work as industry-consensus.