“One of the biggest barriers to expanding global reforestation is transparency, risk management, and confidence that these projects are happening, There’s huge interest from a wide variety of public and private sector foundations to contribute to environmental causes. But as of yet, there’s no single standard, trusted transparency mechanism to …

“We recognized that if we could add in the information provided by satellite imagery into our workflows, this would provide us a more accurate perspective on what really happened at the ground level. When we ventured into space activities we had subscriptions to commercial satellites, but these presented new challenges, …