Monitoring Climate Change with Constellations

San Francisco, after the labor day fires in 2020
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MRV you can trust: measurement, reporting, and verification as a product

Enterprises and financiers need defensible evidence of climate performance: emissions, removals, land-use change, heat risk, and more. In direct response, SmallSat constellations provide persistent, independent observation; the product is MRV—measurement, reporting, and verification—all offered as an auditable service.

The moat is credibility: transparent methods, provenance, quality flags, and third-party attestations. Fuse multi-sensor inputs with ground data, publish views on uncertainty alongside estimates, and maintain immutable records. Customers can use outputs for disclosures, voluntary commitments, and risk management.

Commercial takeaways

Offerings are described as audit-ready MRV—measurement, reporting and verification packaged with methods, uncertainty and provenance. Buyers can range from corporates with supply-chain exposure to asset managers and project developers who must defend disclosures to auditors. Products are tiered by scope, from portfolio to asset level, with optional assurance delivered through accredited partners. Data marketplaces and ESG platforms have become important discovery channels. Adoption patterns favour pilot attestations for a subset of assets, historical baselining, and integration kits that drop into existing reporting systems.

Trust is the product—bake it into the architecture, contracts, and culture.