Partners

Founded in 1961, IABG is a leading European technology enterprise with a strong heritage in aerospace, defence and geospatial solutions. Its Geospatial Solutions Department in Dresden brings together more than fifty experts in GIS, remote sensing, geo‑intelligence and cartography, supported by a modern digital infrastructure that enables large‑scale, multidisciplinary EO processing. Leveraging long‑standing collaborations with the Technical University of Munich, the German Aerospace Centre and the European Space Agency, IABG provides the overall project management, serves as the single point of contact with ESA, and coordinates all consortium communications and deliverables. Within the project IABG leads the work package responsible for the development of the EO service that maps tree‑planting efforts on degraded lands and estimates above‑ground biomass in tropical rainforests, integrates the results into ESA’s CRCF certification workflow and ensures that all outputs meet the required quality and configuration‑management standards.

Planetek, a Bari‑based European leader in geospatial data life‑cycle services, operates at the intersection of satellite data processing, spatial data infrastructures and AI‑driven analytics. With more than 130 professionals and a cloud‑native Rheticus® platform, Planetek delivers end‑to‑end information‑as‑a‑service solutions that support decision‑making in land‑use, infrastructure and environmental monitoring. Within the project Planetek leads the work package that quantifies soil‑carbon dynamics in mineral soils and agro‑forestry systems, developing high‑resolution carbon‑stock maps and predictive models that integrate multi‑sensor observations, agronomic data and machine‑learning pipelines. The partner also coordinates the interface with Treedom, ensuring that the soil‑carbon products are aligned with commercial nature‑based offset schemes and that the open‑source toolbox can be seamlessly deployed by external stakeholders.

Assimila, established in 2006 and headquartered in Reading, UK, combines deep domain knowledge of Earth‑observation systems with consultancy expertise to translate cutting‑edge research into operational information products. Its multidisciplinary team of physicists, geographers, meteorologists, EO application scientists and systems engineers specialises in physically based modelling of environmental processes and the development of hybrid physics‑informed AI/ML techniques. In this consortium Assimila is responsible for the peat‑land rewetting work package, delivering a suite of EO‑derived products that monitor hydrological restoration, surface motion and carbon fluxes across European and global peatland sites. The partner’s proven track record in the ESA WorldPeatland project and nature‑finance pilots ensures that the peat‑land solutions are both scientifically robust and directly usable by policy‑makers and carbon‑market participants.