Impact Observatory, founded in 2020, is a leader in AI-powered global mapping and monitoring, utilizing space data and deep learning AI. The company provides a data-as-a-service (DaaS) product that delivers high-resolution maps for sustainability and environmental risk analysis to governments, industries, and markets. Impact Observatory partners with organizations like Esri and Planet, integrating PlanetScope imagery to offer near-real-time change monitoring with high accuracy and resolution.
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Esri and Impact Observatory released a global land-use/land-cover map series based on 10-meter Sentinel-2 satellite data for every year since 2017.
Impact Observatory improved fully automated global land-cover maps developed with Esri and these maps have been independently assessed as the most accurate global land-cover maps available.
Impact Observatory offers AI-powered on-demand monitoring using PlanetScope imagery to provide near real-time geospatial insights for security, environmental, and resource mapping.
Impact Observatory unveiled an early access program for IO Monitor on 2023-05-22.
Impact Observatory announced the seed funding on 2023-03-29.
Impact Observatory raised $5,900,000 in seed funding.
In 2021 Esri partnered with Impact Observatory and Microsoft to release the first artificial intelligence-generated global land-cover map.
Esri’s map layers were developed with imagery from the European Space Agency Sentinel-2 satellite, machine learning workflows by Impact Observatory, and compute resources from Microsoft.
Esri, in partnership with Impact Observatory and Microsoft, released a 2017–2021 global land-use and land-cover map at 10-meter resolution based on Sentinel-2 satellite data.
Later in 2021 Esri and Impact Observatory will make the new land cover model available to support on-demand land cover classification for project areas as often as every week.
Impact Observatory applied its deep learning model to the Sentinel-2 2020 scene collection and processed over 400,000 Earth observations to produce the 2020 Global Land Cover Map.
Esri developed the 2020 Global Land Cover Map using a new machine learning workflow in partnership with Esri Silver Partner Impact Observatory and Microsoft.