#33: Thermal Infrared Imagery (+Hyperspectral) for Agriculture - ConstellR (+ScanWorld)

Today, I am speaking with Max Gulde, co-founder and CEO of ConstellR, Cassi Welling, COO of ConstellR and Guerric de Crombrugghe, Chief Product Officer of ConstellR and former CEO of ScanWorld.

ConstellR is an Earth observation startup, focusing on collecting thermal infrared data from space for agriculture. I find them interesting because, even though infrared data has applications across industries, they decided to focus on building products for the agriculture sector. This is what I call, "verticalization" - a growing trend in EO. What's also interesting is that ConstellR acquired ScanWorld, a couple of weeks ago. ScanWorld is a hyperspectral Earth observation startup, also focusing on the agriculture sector This was an example of another growing trend in EO - "data fusion."

In this episode, we discuss ConstellR and their plans, the importance of thermal infrared imagery and of course, their acquisition of ScanWorld.

PS. Guerric was on the podcast a few months ago - check out episode #27 to learn more about hyperspectral imagery and ScanWorld!

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01:20: Intros

05:00: State of Earth Observation Market

09:27: ConstllR: Elevator Pitch

11:30: Thermal Infrared Imagery - Overview & Significance

21:26: Is ConstllR a spacetech or agritech company?

24:25: ConstllR's go-to-market strategy - data vs insights

27:16: Recent ISS milestone and satellite plans

32:07: Acquisition of ScanWorld (welcoming Guerric de Crombrugghe)

46:12: Worries about the state of the EO today

47:33- Wrap-up