Another Earth, an Earth Observation (EO) data company, is expanding into Brazil, one of the largest markets in Latin America. The company believes Brazil’s combination of climate pressures, rapid growth in renewable energy, environmental regulation, and large-scale agriculture makes it an important market for EO and environmental modelling technologies. The company announced the move, June 10.
The expansion follows Another Earth’s recent $4 million seed funding round and forms part of the company’s broader international growth plans.
The Austrian-based geospatial startup has proprietary technology that generates high-resolution synthetic EO data designed to help train better AI systems to analyze environmental change, infrastructure stress, and land-use patterns, as well as specific scenario simulations.
The company’s initial focus in Brazil will include energy infrastructure, forestry, biodiversity and agricultural monitoring. The company is currently working with Rio de Janeiro-based partner Novaterra on environmental and energy-related projects and is involved in discussions around a proposed initiative with EDP and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro focused on analysing solar deployment and grid pressure scenarios.
“Brazil is already seeing the effects of climate volatility and infrastructure pressure on a huge scale. At the same time, it is rapidly expanding renewable energy generation and dealing with increasingly complex environmental challenges. Most EO systems are still built around monitoring what has already happened. We are more interested in helping organisations test and simulate what could happen next. That matters for everything from energy infrastructure and flood risk to agriculture, mining and biodiversity monitoring,” Maya Pindeus , CEO and Co-Founder, said in a statement.
