EO Intelligence

Partnership Overview

Kartoza and EO Intelligence collaborate to deliver earth observation and geospatial analytics solutions that help organisations monitor, understand, and respond to environmental change. By combining EO Intelligence’s expertise in satellite imagery and remote sensing with Kartoza’s strength in open source geospatial software development, we offer clients a complete pipeline from raw satellite data to actionable intelligence.

What EO Intelligence Does

EO Intelligence is a Canadian geospatial company specialising in earth observation analytics. They work with satellite imagery from multiple constellations — including Sentinel, Landsat, and commercial high-resolution providers — to extract meaningful information about land, water, and atmospheric conditions.

Their core capabilities include:

• Multi-spectral image analysis for vegetation health, water quality, and soil characterisation
• Change detection to track deforestation, urban expansion, coastal erosion, and other landscape changes over time
• Land use and land cover classification using machine learning and deep learning approaches
• Time series analysis for monitoring seasonal patterns, trends, and anomalies in environmental indicators

How Our Partnership Works

Kartoza’s Role

Kartoza provides the software engineering and geospatial infrastructure that turns EO Intelligence’s analytical outputs into operational systems. We build the platforms, APIs, and visualisation tools that make earth observation data accessible and useful to end users.

This includes:

• Web platform development — building interactive map-based applications that display satellite-derived products with intuitive controls for time navigation, layer comparison, and data download
• Data pipeline engineering — designing automated workflows that ingest satellite imagery, run analytical models, and publish results to web services
• PostGIS and GeoServer integration — storing and serving large raster and vector datasets with spatial indexing for fast querying
• Dashboard and reporting tools — creating summary views, charts, and exportable reports from earth observation analytics

EO Intelligence’s Role

EO Intelligence brings the remote sensing science — selecting appropriate imagery sources, designing analytical methods, training classification models, and validating results against ground truth data. They ensure that the derived products meet the accuracy and reliability standards required for operational decision-making.

Joint Projects and Use Cases

Environmental Monitoring

Together, we build systems that track environmental conditions across large areas using regular satellite observations. Applications include monitoring protected areas for illegal encroachment, tracking wetland extent changes, and assessing post-fire vegetation recovery.

Agricultural Intelligence

We develop crop monitoring platforms that use satellite vegetation indices to assess crop health, estimate yields, and detect stress conditions across farming regions. These systems support agricultural ministries, insurance providers, and agribusiness operations.

Urban and Infrastructure Planning

Satellite-derived land use maps and change detection products inform urban planning decisions, infrastructure siting, and environmental impact assessments. Our platforms make these products accessible to planners and decision-makers through intuitive web interfaces.

Climate and Carbon

Earth observation data plays a critical role in carbon accounting and climate monitoring. We support projects that use satellite imagery to estimate biomass, track land use change emissions, and monitor reforestation and restoration efforts.

Technology Approach

Our joint solutions are built on open standards and open source technologies:

• STAC (SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog) for organising and discovering satellite imagery
• COG (Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFF) for efficient access to large raster datasets
• OGC web services for interoperable data sharing
• PostGIS for spatial data management
• Python with libraries like rasterio, xarray, and scikit-learn for analysis
• QGIS for desktop analysis and cartographic production

This ensures our solutions are interoperable, scalable, and free from vendor lock-in.