EarthDaily Analytics

What EarthDaily Analytics does

EarthDaily Analytics is a vertically integrated Earth observation company building and operating its own 10-satellite sun-synchronous orbit constellation designed to deliver daily global imagery at science-grade calibration (radiometric accuracy better than 5%, geolocation better than 10 meters). The company was founded in 2021 in partnership with private equity sponsor Antarctica Capital and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with operating subsidiaries in the United States (EarthDaily Federal), France (EarthDaily Agro / Geosys Int-l), Brazil, and Australia. As of May 2026, seven of ten planned satellites were operational following the May 3, 2026 SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of six satellites (EDC-02 through EDC-07), with the first satellite (EDC-01) launched in June 2025 and full commercial operations targeted for late summer 2026.

The company's product portfolio spans upstream satellite operations, midstream data products, and downstream vertical analytics. Core data products include AiRD (AI-ready atmospherically corrected 9-band L2A imagery engineered for machine learning workflows), Science (10-band L1 top-of-atmosphere data for advanced remote sensing teams), and Maritime (4-band data optimized for vessel detection and coastal monitoring). The EarthOne platform provides petabyte-scale geospatial ML operations on AWS infrastructure with STAC-compliant cataloging, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs, native Python client library, and up to 1,000 parallel workers. Vertical-specific analytics products include Digital Ag and Crop ID (agriculture), Marigold and Iris (mining), AI Wildfire Probability Model and Burn Severity (forestry/insurance), Ascend and Flood Model (insurance), and Persistent Change Monitoring, Tip and Cue, and Maritime Domain Awareness (civil government and defense).

EarthDaily monetizes primarily through multi-year recurring data subscriptions and government contracts, with a hybrid go-to-market combining direct enterprise field sales to governments and defense agencies, API-first cloud-native distribution for data science teams, and channel partners for regional reach (notably Geospatial Intelligence in Australia). The company serves customers across agriculture, defense and intelligence, environmental risk and insurance, mining and energy, and civil government segments, including the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), a major U.S. defense and intelligence technology company (eight-figure data subscription), the French government (agricultural intelligence grant for Ukraine), and named insurance customers including Munich Re Specialty, Neptune Flood Insurance, and Liberty Mutual Reinsurance. The company has accumulated over 500 Pioneer Program agreements ahead of full commercial deployment, and its data products achieved CEOS Analysis Ready Data (CEOS-ARD) compliance in March 2026. EarthDaily is ISO-27001 certified, backed by Antarctica Capital, and has raised approximately $60M in equipment financing from Trinity Capital (July 2025) on top of a $150M constellation construction agreement with Loft Orbital (2022).

Name

EarthDaily Analytics

Legal name

EarthDaily Analytics Corp.

Website

https://earthdaily.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

EarthDaily Analytics operates a vertically integrated Earth observation business combining a proprietary 10-satellite constellation delivering daily global science-grade imagery with AI-ready data products (AiRD, Science, Maritime) and vertical analytics serving agriculture, defense, insurance, mining, and government customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Earth Observation Analytics

NAICS

Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services (54136), Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services (541360), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Satellite Imagery & Remote Sensing Geospatial Platforms (BPAMANAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Remote Sensing & Geospatial Vision (satellite/drone imagery) (HDAAAEAL), Satellite Imagery & Monitoring Platforms (AFAAAFAI), Remote Sensing & Geospatial MRV (Satellite, Aerial, LiDAR, SAR) (EUABACAF), Remote Sensing & Earth Observation Analytics (Satellite/UAV/LiDAR, Image Processing) (EUAHAKAD)

Keywords

• Earth observation analytics
• Satellite imagery data
• Geospatial intelligence platform
• AI-ready multispectral data
• Environmental risk analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Earth Observation Data Subscriptions: Recurring data subscription agreements providing access to EarthDaily Constellation imagery. Customers receive daily imagery covering tens of millions of square kilometers. Subscriptions are typically multi-year enterprise agreements. Includes AiRD (AI-ready), Maritime, and Science product tiers.
2. Area-Based and Enterprise Data Agreements: Flexible area-based subscriptions and enterprise agreements scaled to customer operational needs. AiRD is available through flexible subscription models designed to scale with customer requirements. Supports Pioneer Program early evaluation access as a pathway to full commercial agreements.
3. Government Contracts — Defense & Intelligence: Government procurement contracts including the $1.2M NRO evaluation contract under the Strategic Commercial Enhancements program and eight-figure defense/intelligence data subscription. Represents growing U.S. defense and intelligence market expansion. Future scalable contract framework anticipated for broader U.S. government procurement.
4. Government Grants: Non-dilutive government funding including the €480,000 French government grant to support agricultural intelligence efforts in Ukraine, focusing on crop monitoring and yield predictions using Earth observation data and AI models.
5. Platform Access and Processing Fees: EarthOne platform access fees for geospatial data processing, ML workflow orchestration, and hosted Python development environment. Provides petabyte-scale computing with up to 1,000 parallel workers. Supports data science teams and analytics providers with scalable compute.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

EarthDaily Analytics operates a vertically integrated Earth observation platform built around its 10-satellite sun-synchronous constellation, which delivers daily global multispectral imagery at science-grade calibration. It packages the raw imagery into AI-ready data products (AiRD, Science, Maritime), hosts processing on the EarthOne geospatial ML platform, and sells downstream vertical analytics for agriculture, mining, insurance, defense, and civil government. Customers consume the offering through subscriptions, APIs, and the Python client library.

Product overview

EarthDaily Analytics is an end-to-end geospatial solution provider offering a vertically integrated platform spanning upstream satellite constellation, midstream processing, and downstream analytics. The core EarthDaily Constellation (10 satellites in sun-synchronous orbit) delivers daily global coverage with science-grade imagery across 22 spectral bands. The midstream includes three primary data products: AiRD (AI-ready atmospherically corrected imagery), Maritime (ocean/coastal optimized), and Science (top-of-atmosphere for custom processing). EarthOne Platform provides enterprise-scale analytics and workflow orchestration. Downstream vertical solutions include Digital Ag and Crop ID for agriculture, Marigold and Iris for mining, AI Wildfire Probability Model and Burn Severity for forestry, Ascend and Flood Model for insurance, Persistent Change Monitoring and Tip and Cue for government/defense, and Maritime Domain Awareness for naval applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AiRD: AI-ready Earth observation data product delivering analysis-ready multispectral imagery optimized for machine learning workflows, featuring 9-band data with L2A atmospheric correction.
• EarthOne
• Science
• Maritime
• Marigold
• Iris
• Ascend
• Digital Ag

Products and services

• EarthDaily Constellation 10-satellite sun-synchronous orbit constellation delivering daily global Earth observation coverage with 22 spectral bands, 5-meter ground sampling distance, and radiometric accuracy better than 5% with geolocation better than 10 meters. Provides the upstream data feed for all EarthDaily products.
• AiRD (AI-Ready Data) 9-band L2A atmospherically corrected surface reflectance product engineered for AI/ML workloads, eliminating 60-80% of preprocessing engineering burden. Features radiometric consistency, ML-driven cloud/shadow/haze masking, sub-pixel geometric accuracy, and SLA-backed quality. Compatible with Sentinel-2 and Landsat for seamless integration.
• Science Top-of-atmosphere L1 calibrated data product delivering all 10 spectral bands including Coastal (443nm) for organizations requiring complete control over their atmospheric correction pipelines. Includes full calibration coefficients, spectral response functions, and geometric correction parameters.
• Maritime Maritime-optimized 4-band (Blue, Green, Red, NIR) 8-bit data product for vessel detection, wake analysis, and coastal change detection. 5-meter GSD with 240km swath width; supports pattern-of-life analysis and behavioral anomaly detection.
• EarthOne Platform Enterprise-grade geospatial ML platform on AWS with petabyte-scale data access, up to 1,000 parallel workers, STAC-compliant catalog integrating Sentinel, Landsat, MODIS, hosted Python development environment, and workflow orchestration for real-time geospatial event detection. ISO-27001 certified.
• Digital Ag Field-level crop intelligence platform providing real-time monitoring, vegetation indices, anomaly detection, and yield analytics for agronomists, advisors, agribusinesses, input retailers, and precision agriculture platforms.
• Crop ID

Quantifiable outcome

• Eliminates 60-80% of preprocessing engineering budgets by delivering AI-ready data requiring no specialist preprocessing
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability9 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Geospatial IntelligencecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 28 May 2026EarthDaily partnered with Canberra-based Geospatial Intelligence Pty Ltd to make science-grade satellite data and analytics available to Geospatial Intelligence's Australian government clients in defense, security, and environmental sectors. Geospatial Intelligence serves Australian federal government customers and acts as a regional reseller for EarthDaily data products.
• IoT Insider (Webinar Partnership)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 29 April 2026Don Osborne from EarthDaily participated as a speaker in an IoT Insider webinar titled 'Connecting the IoT via LEO Satellites,' alongside speakers from Globalstar (recently acquired by Amazon) and Transatel. Webinar addressed LEO satellite connectivity for IoT applications, performance challenges, and integration with terrestrial networks.
• Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 April 2026EarthDaily Federal appointed to INSA's newly formed Space Intelligence Council, which brings together government, industry, and national security leaders to strengthen U.S. mission resilience in the space domain. Council advances standards for analysis-ready data and supports integration of AI-powered geospatial intelligence into operational workflows for national security applications.
• Loft OrbitalcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022$150 million agreement (2022) for a 10-satellite Earth observation constellation using modified OneWeb platforms from Airbus. Loft Orbital provides satellite bus platform, integration, and mission management. Six satellites from this agreement launched May 3, 2026 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9. Loft Orbital is expanding from hosted-payload model to full constellation-as-a-service for EarthDaily.
• Airbus (OneWeb Platform)coreTechnology or IntegrationAirbus provides modified OneWeb satellite platforms for the EarthDaily Constellation under the Loft Orbital agreement. The 10-satellite constellation uses Airbus OneWeb platforms modified for Earth observation missions. Airbus satellite bus technology provides the foundational spacecraft infrastructure for the constellation.
• L-1 Standard and Technology Inc., ABB, INO (Calibration Partners)coreTechnology or IntegrationEarthDaily partnered with L-1 Standard and Technology Inc., ABB, and INO to achieve radiometric accuracy better than 5% and geolocation accuracy better than 10 meters. These specialist partners provide calibration expertise, reference standards, and validation services critical for science-grade Earth observation data quality.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Broad incumbents

• Spire Global: Public space-to-cloud data and analytics company operating a large nanosatellite constellation. Comparable business model of recurring data subscriptions derived from proprietary satellite assets, though primarily focused on radio frequency and weather data rather than optical Earth observation imagery.
• Maxar Technologies: Established incumbent in high-resolution satellite imagery and geospatial intelligence, serving defense, intelligence, and commercial markets. Overlaps with EarthDaily in defense and intelligence but offers very high-resolution optical imagery at different price points and is part of a broader aerospace portfolio.

Others

• Descartes Labs: Geospatial analytics company now wholly-owned by EarthDaily (acquired Oct 2024). Pre-acquisition, was a leading geospatial analytics provider for agriculture, energy, and other verticals; pre-acquisition peer, now a subsidiary product line within EarthDaily's broader platform.

Direct peers

• Planet Labs: Operates the largest commercial fleet of Earth observation satellites (hundreds of satellites) providing daily global imagery. Direct competitor in daily revisit EO data with overlapping agricultural, defense, and civil government customer bases; Planet has significant scale advantage but typically at lower calibration precision.
• BlackSky Holdings: Provides tasking-enabled Earth observation imagery and AI-driven geospatial analytics via its own satellite constellation. Directly comparable vertically integrated EO+analytics platform serving defense, intelligence, and commercial markets with similar subscription-based business model.

Emerging players

• Iceye: Operates a commercial SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. Selected alongside EarthDaily in the NRO CSO program. Comparable in being a venture-backed EO constellation company pursuing defense/intel contracts, but distinct technology (SAR vs. multispectral optical).
• Satellogic: Operates a constellation of Earth observation satellites providing daily revisit imagery at sub-meter resolution. Direct emerging competitor in commercial EO data subscriptions targeting agriculture, forestry, defense, and government markets with a similar asset-heavy growth strategy.
• Pixxel: Emerging hyperspectral Earth observation satellite constellation. Selected alongside EarthDaily in the NRO Commercial Solutions Opening program (May 2026), indicating similar positioning targeting defense/intel evaluation with hyperspectral imaging as a partial differentiator from EarthDaily's multispectral approach.
• Capella Space: Operates a commercial SAR satellite constellation offering high-resolution imagery for defense, intelligence, and commercial customers. Comparable emerging EO constellation competitor with subscription-based delivery and analytics platforms, overlapping with EarthDaily's defense and intelligence vertical.

Regional players

• Synspective: Japanese SAR satellite constellation operator providing Earth observation data and analytics. Similar vertically integrated EO+analytics platform model but focused primarily on Asian markets and government customers, with comparable subscription-based recurring revenue model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/EarthDailyA
• GitHubgithub.com/earthdaily
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/earthdailyanalytics

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A2 records

Investments

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