Sinergise – Partner’s Feature Presentation
Sinergise Solutions
Sinergise is an European company, acquired by Planet Labs in August 2023, building large geospatial systems based on Earth Observation data. Our mission is to democratize access to satellite imagery and to support sustainable management of our society and natural resources based on real-world data. We developed Sentinel Hub, the world’s first on-the-fly processing service for satellite imagery which now serves hundreds of thousand users every month, providing them access to more than 50 petabytes of data. We are delivering data and solutions to hundreds of companies from startups to intergovernmental agencies, enabling them to exploit Earth Observation data. Sinergise is a key partner of the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem, the new digital infrastructure for distributing and processing data from ESA Sentinel. We have developed several open source libraries that are widely used for Earth Observation data and are committed to scientific outreach and education. As a member company of ESA Partnership Initiative for Commercialisation (EPIC), we offer startups Enterprise-level access to Sentinel Hub Services. This includes a suite of API’s for streamlined in-code access to Earth Observation data, a generous package of data processing volume, and a set of online applications for browsing, analysing and processing EO data. Once a startup ourselves, we hope to catalyze the growth of new sustainable business solutions based on Earth Observation for the benefit of society.
What is your organization’s role in the project? What unique contribution does it bring to the team?
In the project, Sinergise leads a work package on data harmonization and discoverability. Sinergise’s core business model is operating and provisioning EO data processing APIs and automatic extraction of information from the EO data, powered by machine learning in the context of agriculture, area monitoring, change detection and climate change. Both the provision of data and information extraction will directly benefit from integration of Sentinel Hub in Embed2Scale, making the ML research experiments scalable, repeatable, more efficient and actionable. Sinergise plans to build on top of project’s results and integrate them to the operational level, exposed to its customers.
Why is this project important for your organization?
As the objective of Embed2Scale is to make it easier for a wider audience to exploit Copernicus data, we believe this project will raise the awareness of the data and its usability, and therefore grow the market, directly benefiting Sinergise’s business. At the same time, embeddings (e.g., for AI-compressors) are exposing a very likely solution to technical issues of combining extremely large datasets, and that could optimise computationally demanding applications of extracting usable information from the EO data.