Earth observation community spotlight: Saturnalia

In this article, we speak with Gianni Iannelli, Chief Executive of Saturnalia, about the challenges facing agriculture, the importance of Earth observation in crop monitoring and risk assessment, and how data provided through the TPM programme are helping Saturnalia achieve its aims.

Italy-based Saturnalia is a geospatial intelligence company that harnesses the power of Earth observation data to improve decision-making and risk management in agriculture. The company offers an easy-to-use platform that is used by farmers and agriculture insurers to better protect crops, assess exposure, and enhance productivity.

Saturnalia works with data from ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme, which disseminates data from commercial and institutional partners to European businesses participating in ESA incubation activities or developing pre-commercial applications.

Saturnalia gained access to these datasets through an ESA InCubed project, which was instrumental in enabling the development of our AI-driven processing pipeline. As part of this work, we integrated data provided by ESA TPM to prove the feasibility of the solution without incurring prohibitive upfront costs.

Read the full article on www.earth.esa.int.

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