Precise, Global Temperature Data for a Growing Planet

Introduction

Food security is an urgent global challenge. To feed a population of 10 billion by 2050, we must produce 50% more food despite water scarcity, loss of arable land, and climate change.

Water Stress Impact

Lack of water (water stress) severely reduces crop yields. The inability to measure water stress accurately leads to unpredictable and low-yielding harvests, impacting the entire food supply chain from farm viability to food prices.

Current Challenges

Current crop health data is not fit for purpose, leading to ineffective irrigation that consumes 70% of global freshwater.

Proposed Solution

ConstellR will provide the first high-precision temperature data at field level, daily and globally from a uniquely scalable constellation of microsatellites (HiVE). This will enable water stress detection in time to prevent yield loss.

Project Goals

The EIC project will develop and launch a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) constellation, generating the data required to:

1. Increase global food production by up to 4%
2. Reduce agricultural water waste by up to 180 gigatons
3. Avoid up to 94 million tons of CO2 emissions