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Around eighty per cent of the satellite data captured over Europe is never put to use. It is collected, archived, and left to sit — a vast, largely untapped record of our planet. The bottleneck is rarely the data itself. It is the absence of a commercial-grade DataOps layer that can turn raw observation archives into products people can actually rely on.
Why the data goes unused
Earth observation archives are enormous, technically demanding to work with, and built for science rather than for production. Most organisations that could benefit — in insurance, agriculture, environmental monitoring and the public sector — lack the pipelines to ingest, version and serve that data at scale. So it stays on the shelf.
The case for a commercial DataOps layer
This is the gap Léargas is built to close. Aligned to ESA and Copernicus infrastructure, it applies the same DataOps discipline we bring to enterprise data — versioned, monitored, reproducible pipelines — to European Earth observation. The result is decision-ready feeds instead of raw scenes, and observation data shaped into something an industry can build on.
Learn more about the platform on the Earth observation page, or see the wider research programme on our Research & Platforms page.