The UK Space Agency has awarded a combined £500,000 to seven projects that will use satellite data to help organisations understand, manage and respond to climate risk.
Funded through Commercial Climate Services Call 4, the projects span housing, finance, infrastructure, water, emissions, digital infrastructure, agriculture and public health. The award round is a useful signal of where Earth observation is moving beyond data access towards practical, sector-specific decisions.
Beth Greenaway, UK Space Agency’s Head of Earth Observation Delivery, said the programme is “helping new ideas move closer to market, supporting high-value commercial opportunities”.
Seven routes from satellite data to decisions
- Quantum Risk Solutions is developing Home Horizon, combining thermal and optical satellite data with open building records to help social landlords identify homes at risk of overheating ahead of heatwaves.
- WieldMore is developing CERES-Horizon, which will translate EO and climate projections into asset-level adaptation and resilience measures for investors and owners of renewable, industrial, agricultural and digital infrastructure.
- Frontierra, working with ZSL, is building a water-intelligence service to identify water-related vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure and industrial assets, including hydropower and data centres.
- Callala Ltd and the University of Strathclyde are developing PEEPS, using satellite-derived nitrogen dioxide observations to provide independent evidence of offshore oil and gas platforms’ environmental performance.
- SpaceD is applying satellite thermal data to assess the urban-heat effects of data centres, supporting better site selection for developers and planners.
- Agtelligence is developing FarmScore, an AI-assisted satellite-derived service for coffee farms that addresses deforestation risk, land-use change and climate exposure for lenders, insurers and buyers.
- Golden Mile Research and Consultancy Ltd is developing CHAQFS, a predictive service combining heat, air-quality and public-health data to forecast respiratory-health risk.
What the awards suggest for EO businesses
The common thread is not a single sensor or platform. It is the combination of EO with trusted sector data, clear customer workflows and a decision that someone can act on, whether it is a landlord prioritising investment, an insurer assessing risk, a planner choosing a site or a lender evaluating a supply chain.
That matters because climate services face a familiar challenge. Users need evidence that is sufficiently relevant, explainable and timely to support a costly decision. The seven projects are still in development, so their commercial performance and uptake remain to be proven, but the portfolios point towards buyers willing to pay for asset-level, verifiable information where climate risk has an operational or financial consequence.