Uptoearth GmbH
Uptoearth GmbH
Type of organisation : Other
UptoEarth GmbH (UTE) is a German SME founded and incubated in the CESAH, the ESA Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC) of Hessen & Baden-Württemberg region in 2019 and today is part of the ESA BIC Alumni Network.
UTE provides consultancy in the areas of aerospace, earth observation, agriculture, biomass estimation for bioenergy, environmental protection, blue growth, green infrastructures and smart cities. It aims at providing effective solutions to mitigate and reverse Climate Change effects and promoting more sustainable approaches and practices.
UTE core business is satellite monitoring of organic carbon sequestered from the soil: since 2018, it has developed expertise and know-how on soil carbon sequestration from satellites, developing several proprietary instruments and algorithms for SOC and soil density estimation and it has created cutting-edge datasets that help companies make more accurate data-driven decisions for carbon storage projects.
UTE provides consultancy in the areas of aerospace, earth observation, agriculture, biomass estimation for bioenergy, environmental protection, blue growth, green infrastructures and smart cities. It aims at providing effective solutions to mitigate and reverse Climate Change effects and promoting more sustainable approaches and practices.
UTE core business is satellite monitoring of organic carbon sequestered from the soil: since 2018, it has developed expertise and know-how on soil carbon sequestration from satellites, developing several proprietary instruments and algorithms for SOC and soil density estimation and it has created cutting-edge datasets that help companies make more accurate data-driven decisions for carbon storage projects.
Application domains
- Energy and Utilities
- Sustainable urban communities
- Marine and coastal environment
- Agriculture, Forestry and other Land use
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Projects
- Soil Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Systems – Yes we carbon!
- From 2017 until 2018
- Carbon crediting has the potential to incentivise optimal nitrogen fertiliser usage on farms. This helps to avoid negative environmental consequences like climate change, and also to supplement farmer revenues.
Through the combination of satellites with blockchain technology, farmers in the carbon market will be able to use our solution to generate a credit for each unit of nitrous oxide emissions avoided by a change in nutrient application practices. This credit can then be sold to a company or other entity that wishes to offset its own emissions.
The project applies Sentinel-1 and -2 data to provide information about crop state. Sentinel-3 data is used to monitor and analyse the complete carbon cycle, and Sentinel-5p data is used to measure the amount of CO2. Together with cognitive techniques, this data will improve the traceability of a farmer’s carbon footprint. - More information on this event
- FarmBox - The farmer's toolbox for climate change mitigation
- From 2021 until 2023
- FarmBox project is funded by Erasmus+ programme (2020-1-IT01-KA226-VET-008891). The project is aimed at improving the development of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) skills for students and farmers in order to generate awareness about challenges of climate change and sensitize them about CSA benefits. The project has developed:
1.a MOOC about climate smart agriculture to provide key information about CSA and to present learners some useful practices in order to improve land management in terms of biodiversity principles and climate change adaptation needs2.an online Simulator that will allow learners, small farmers and farmholders to simulate in a virtual environment the benefits on a given area of the implementation of CSA measures presented in the MOOC. - More information on this event
- C.O.R.E. - Carbon Organic Resilient Ethereal
- From 2022 until 2023
- CORE is a Kick-Start project funded by European Space Agency (ESA). The project utilized satellite data to develop an open-source soil classification and rating map to assess the capacity of agricultural soils to store organic carbon in the past, present, and future. This map aims to support carbon farming initiatives and investments.
The final outcome is an open-source map with a 100-meter resolution, classifying each land according to the SCENARIO (Soil Carbon ProtEctioN And RestoratIOn) Index.
This index utilizes a scoring system ranging from 0 to 100, allocating a maximum of 30 points for the Past, 40 points for the Present, and 30 points for the simulated Future. The scale allows the reader to immediately visualize soil characteristics, identifying carbon-poor soils with low expectations for short-term carbon accumulation with values close to zero. - More information on this event
- SMACK - Satellite monitoring of soil organic carbon in Kenya
- 2023
- SMACK is an Eureka Innowwide project (Project No. 2022-18498/IW/CALL 1 - SMACK) aimed to develop and test Soil Organic Carbon algorithms for arable crops and assess the market feasibility of carbon assessment services in Kenya.
- TEAPOTS - Pyrolysis of Agricultural Waste and Thermocomposting for Renewable Energy in Sustainable Agribusiness
- 2024
- TEAPOTS is a Horizon Europe project aimed to give agri-food players an innovative integrated, modular, and flexible solution to meet local and seasonal energy demand through the valorisation of lignocellulosic and difficult to be treated agricultural waste while producing biochar. The project plans to meet energy demands for farmers valorising the agricultural waste reuse, reducing the associated emissions also linked with the used fossil fuels.Thanks to the incorporation of renewable energy technologies, the TEAPOTS Integrated Solution (TIS) will be able to produce renewable energy through an integrated and flexible trigeneration system to obtain heat, cold and electricity to the need.
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Opportunites
Looking for Municipalities interested in being a case study on Nature-Based carbon projectsIn the framework of a project co-funded by ESA, the European Space Agency, we are looking for Municipalities who wants to become part of our Feasibility Study. The project aims to develop a rating system for urban areas and develop baselines for Municipalities who want to start carbon projects (insetting and offsetting).
Requirements:
None! We only ask you to be available to have periodic meetings and share data about past, current, future policies and have specific needs in terms of climate mitigation and adaptation.
Costs:
None! The project is already fully funded.
Benefits:
We will provide you with data, results, maps, reports on state of art of your Municipality in terms of carbon projects and recommendations about the best practices to be implemented to achieve your adaptation and mitigation goals.
Requirements:
None! We only ask you to be available to have periodic meetings and share data about past, current, future policies and have specific needs in terms of climate mitigation and adaptation.
Costs:
None! The project is already fully funded.
Benefits:
We will provide you with data, results, maps, reports on state of art of your Municipality in terms of carbon projects and recommendations about the best practices to be implemented to achieve your adaptation and mitigation goals.
Events
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