Earth-i
Satellite & Geospatial alternative data provider · 1 listed dataset
Datasets from Earth-i (1)
Earth-i is a British geospatial intelligence company that combines Earth-observation imagery with data processing, artificial intelligence, and analytical services. It supplies governments, defence organizations, and commercial users with satellite data, custom analysis, consultancy, training, and monitoring products.[1]
The company operates as Earth-i Ltd and is registered in England and Wales. Datarade independently classifies it as a United Kingdom provider of satellite, alternative, geographic-information-system, commodity, and index data.[1][2]
What It Does
Earth-i acts as both a data intermediary and an analytics provider. Its service catalogue covers consultancy, special projects, imagery supply, metals-smelting intelligence, and training. The company addresses production and supply-chain monitoring, agriculture, defence and security, land and carbon management, infrastructure observation, and mapping.[1]
Data and Methodology
The provider describes a data-agnostic approach that combines imagery from multiple satellite operators, sensors, and resolutions. Its public partner list includes commercial operators such as Airbus, Planet, Satellogic, and BlackSky, alongside public programs operated by Copernicus and NASA. Earth-i then applies preprocessing, automated analytics, and machine-learning models to derive task-specific information.[1]
Datarade describes the inputs more broadly as colour imagery and video, infrared and radar data from satellite, aerial, drone, and ground-based sensors. It says these observations may be fused with other sources for commodity, infrastructure, and supply-chain analysis. That profile is automatically generated and not managed by Earth-i, so it provides independent market context rather than a complete methodology audit.[2]
Products and Delivery
Savant is Earth-i's named metals-smelting intelligence service, monitoring activity associated with copper, nickel, and steel production. SPECTRUM is its geospatial portal for providing clients with imagery and analytical results. Other engagements are delivered as data supply, bespoke projects, advisory work, or training rather than as a single standardized dataset.[1]
Neither the company home page nor Datarade publishes a general price list. Datarade directs buyers to contact the provider, while Earth-i presents projects as custom solutions. Public information therefore does not establish uniform coverage, refresh rates, model accuracy, or licensing terms across every engagement.[1][2]
Buyers and Use Cases
Government and defence users can commission monitoring, mapping, or national Earth-observation capability work. Commercial applications include estimating industrial activity, observing production and supply chains, classifying agricultural land, and monitoring physical infrastructure. In the alternative-data context, Savant is relevant because satellite observations can provide an external indicator of industrial operations rather than relying solely on company reports.[1][2]
The available independent profile confirms Earth-i's presence in the data market but does not independently verify the performance claims displayed on the company's website. Statements about speed, global reach, monitoring frequency, and model-development time should consequently be evaluated against the specifications of a particular product or contract.[1][2]
More datasets from Earth-i
Earth-i lists 1 datasets on this encyclopedia. The most representative listings:
More about Satellite & Geospatial
Satellite & Geospatial is one of the signal families covered by The Alternative Data Encyclopedia, with 24 providers and 147 datasets listed in the register. For how the signal is generated, its caveats and the compliance considerations, and the full provider list, see the category article.
Further reading
- What is alternative data?Alternative data in investment research: what the term covers, how it differs from data format, and why provenance, timing, access and validation matter.
- Satellite and geospatial signalsCounting the world from orbit: optical imagery, SAR, aerial and drone data as investment signals, what each can see, revisit-tradeoffs, and how raw pixels become tradeable indicators.
- Free alternative data sourcesThe practical list of free alternative-data sources for investors: public filings, official statistics, satellite and earth observation, on-chain data, web archives and open registries, what each covers, what it costs in engineering effort, and where free data falls short.
- Alternative data for investingHow funds turn alternative data into an investment edge: signal families, evaluation, backtesting, compliance and the build-vs-buy decision, mapped to the datasets and providers indexed on this encyclopedia.