What Envirometrix does

EnvirometriX is a Netherlands-based deep tech company founded in 2018 in Wageningen by Tomislav (Tom) Hengl and Ichsani Wheeler. The company applies ensemble machine learning to satellite Earth Observation data (Sentinel-2, Landsat, MODIS, PROBA-V, DEM derivatives) combined with ground-based soil sampling points to deliver predictive spatial mapping of soil properties, vegetation, land potential, and Soil Organic Carbon (SOC). Its core technical differentiator is a proprietary spatiotemporal ML approach together with uncertainty-guided (Feature Space Coverage) soil sampling, which the company reports can reduce SOC prediction error by 20-30% with as few as 3-4 new samples.

The product portfolio centres on the global OpenLandMap.org data portal (ODbL / CC BY-SA licensed), the iSDAsoil 30m-resolution soil information service for Africa accessible via REST API, the open-source Landmap R package, the SOC API for soil carbon monitoring, and a professional soil sampling service. EnvirometriX also maintains the open-access "Predictive Soil Mapping with R" educational book. Customers include international organisations (UNCCD), national and sub-national governments (Government of British Columbia), conservation NGOs (Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy), agricultural development organisations (ISDA Africa), and individual farmers and collectives across multiple continents. The Horizon2020 AgriCaptureCO2 consortium (joined January 2021) and the Africa RISING programme (January 2022) anchor its regenerative agriculture and carbon quantification work.

The business model combines professional services and project-based consulting for governments, international bodies, and conservation organisations with subscription/recurring distribution of spatial data products via web platforms and APIs, supplemented by open data licensing and training programmes delivered through the OpenGeoHub Foundation. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and appears quote-driven per project; no external funding rounds have been disclosed. The team is small (~3 core personnel including a post-doctoral researcher), and EnvirometriX positions itself on the credibility of co-founder Hengl's Highly Cited Researcher status and the proprietary nature of its sampling and modelling methodology.

Name

Envirometrix

Legal name

EnvirometriX Ltd.

Website

https://envirometrix.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Predictive Soil Mapping and Environmental Analytics

NAICS

Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services (541360), Support Activities for Forestry (1153)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Forestry (800)

akta.pro primary industry

Soil & Biomass Carbon Measurement (Soil Sampling, Forest Inventory, Blue Carbon) (EUABACAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Remote Sensing & Geospatial MRV (Satellite, Aerial, LiDAR, SAR) (EUABACAF), Remote Sensing & Imagery Analytics (Satellite, Drone, Aerial) (AFABAMAB), Soil Testing & Nutrient Analysis Services (AFACAKAA), Forest Inventory, Mapping & Monitoring (GIS/Remote Sensing/MRV) (IMAMAJAB)

Keywords

• Predictive soil mapping
• Soil organic carbon monitoring
• Environmental machine learning
• Earth observation analytics
• Landscape restoration data

Headquarters

HQ city

Wageningen

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Services: Professional consulting services for soil sampling design, SOC monitoring, and predictive soil mapping for international organizations, governments, and agricultural stakeholders.
2. Data Products and APIs: Hosting and distribution of massive spatial data through web platforms including OpenLandMap.org and custom web solutions.
3. Open Data and Training: Open data portal (OpenLandMap.org) with data licensed under ODbL and CC BY-SA. Training and summer schools offered through OpenGeoHub Foundation.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

EnvirometriX provides machine-learning-driven predictive soil mapping and Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) monitoring, combining satellite imagery (Sentinel-2, Landsat, MODIS) with ground sampling data to produce high-resolution (30m) environmental data products. Its core offerings include the OpenLandMap.org global environmental data portal, the iSDAsoil Africa soil information service, an SOC API with per-pixel uncertainty, and uncertainty-guided soil sampling design services for governments, conservation organizations, and farmers.

Product overview

Envirometrix is a deep tech company offering a portfolio of machine learning-powered environmental and soil analytics products. The core offerings include OpenLandMap.org (a global environmental data portal), iSDAsoil (high-resolution African soil data service), and the Landmap R package for automated predictive mapping. These are complemented by specialized services for Soil Organic Carbon monitoring via the SOC API and soil sampling services, along with consulting for landscape restoration and customized web solutions. The company also maintains educational resources including the Predictive Soil Mapping with R open-access book. All offerings center on combining Earth Observation data with machine learning to deliver predictive analytics for soil, carbon, and vegetation mapping.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• OpenLandMap.org Global environmental data portal providing land cover, vegetation, soil, climate, and terrain information. Serves as the web-mapping component of LandGIS and is licensed under ODbL and CC BY-SA 4.0 for use by governments, researchers, and conservation organizations.
• iSDAsoil High spatial resolution (30m) soil information service for Africa covering two standard depth intervals (0-20cm and 20-50cm). Built with Ensemble Machine Learning combining Sentinel-2, Landsat, and DEM derivatives with over 100,000 soil sampling training points. Accessible via REST API and licensed under CC-BY 4.0 for digital agriculture, agronomy, and development programs.
• SOC API API service for Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) estimation that exposes spatiotemporal SOC predictions at 10-30m resolution with per-pixel uncertainty estimates. Enables causality testing by showing how SOC drops correlate with drops in NDVI and vice versa, supporting carbon monitoring for regenerative agriculture and ecosystem services quantification.
• Landmap R package Open-source R package providing automated spatial interpolation and prediction using Ensemble Machine Learning and extending the mlr package. Includes functions such as train.spLearner for ensemble modeling, buffer.dist for geographic distances, spc for principal components, and download.landgis for accessing LandGIS layers, enabling researchers and analysts to reproduce the company's predictive mapping workflows.
• Soil Sampling for Carbon Monitoring Professional soil sampling service for Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) monitoring using an uncertainty-guided sampling strategy. Includes generation of optimized soil sampling designs, standardization and calibration of SOC values, baseline estimation, and SOC flux derivation with confidence intervals, used by governments, conservation bodies, and farmers for robust carbon accounting.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3-4 new samples can reduce SOC prediction errors by 20-30%
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• OpenGeoHub FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnvirometriX is a proud sponsor of OpenGeoHub Foundation, an independent not-for-profit promoting Open Source and Open Data solutions. Through OpenGeoHub, they offer solutions and training in cutting-edge geospatial data and services. Over 12 years of summer schools and online training in Machine Learning and GeoSpatial subjects.
• AgriCaptureCO2 ConsortiumflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnvirometriX is one of 12 members of the Horizon2020 AgriCaptureCO2 project consortium (launched January 2021). Project enables farmers to adopt results-based measurement of regenerative agricultural practices. EnvirometriX develops Earth Observation data products for Soil Organic Carbon measurement.
• UNCCDcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerClient for country reporting to UNCCD for Land Degradation Neutrality.
• ISDA AfricacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSoil property / nutrient mapping and web-services for agriculture in Africa.
• Conservation InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSoil carbon assessment from country to field scale.
• The Nature ConservancycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProduction of mangrove restoration potential map.
• Government of British ColumbiacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPredictive Soil Mapping for the Alberta soil quality mapping project.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Planet Labs: Listed satellite imagery provider and Minor-tier technology partner to EnvirometriX. Comparable as upstream EO infrastructure that increasingly bundles analytics and SOC MRV services directly to ag and carbon customers, potentially disintermediating pure-play analytics firms.
• OpenGeoHub Foundation: Not-for-profit co-founded by EnvirometriX's founders and core ecosystem partner. Operates overlapping open-source geospatial and ML training programs; comparable as the open-source/community distribution arm of EnvirometriX's go-to-market.

Direct peers

• iSDA (Innovative Solutions for Decision Agriculture): Direct peer and active collaborator on the iSDAsoil platform for Africa. iSDA operates the same 30m-resolution soil property/nutrient mapping service for African agriculture, with EnvirometriX supplying the underlying ensemble ML and soil sample predictions.
• Regrow Ag: Direct peer in soil organic carbon measurement, remote sensing-based MRV, and agronomic modeling for regenerative agriculture and Scope 3 emissions. Targets the same farmer/enterprise buyer for SOC quantification and results-based carbon programs.
• Cibo Technologies: Direct peer offering satellite- and ML-driven agricultural land monitoring, including soil carbon, crop performance, and regenerative practice verification for enterprises and growers at scale.
• ISRIC — World Soil Information (SoilGrids): Direct peer producing global soil information systems (SoilGrids). Both organizations serve global soil mapping customers using machine learning on soil profile databases; ISRIC also connects through Wageningen and the global pedometrics research community.

Broad incumbents

• Bayer Climate FieldView: Broad incumbent in precision agriculture and farm data platforms. Overlaps with EnvirometriX on satellite-derived soil and crop insights, but serves a much larger grower SaaS base across input, advisory, and increasingly carbon-related use cases.
• Indigo Ag: Broad incumbent in agricultural carbon programs and microbial/soil science. Competes with EnvirometriX at the soil-carbon-crediting layer but with a much larger commercial, agronomic, and carbon-market infrastructure.
• Trimble Agriculture: Broad incumbent in precision agriculture hardware and software with farm GIS, soil sampling workflows, and variable-rate fertility tools. Comparable on the soil mapping and nutrient management layer serving global row-crop and specialty growers.

Emerging players

• Teralytic: Emerging player in in-field soil sensor hardware and nutrient analytics. Partial overlap with EnvirometriX on soil data products for agriculture, but Teralytic's hardware-first approach targets a different stage of the soil data stack.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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