Environmental scientists and researchers are challenged to monitor climate change, ecosystem health, and pollution across the globe, including the most remote and inaccessible locations. Traditional monitoring relies on infrequent manual site visits, expensive helicopter or maritime deployments, and sparse data collection that often misses environmental events.
Digitalisation introduces sensors, analytics, and remote monitoring systems that enable tracking of water quality in distant rivers, ice sheet movement on polar glaciers, and atmospheric conditions in wilderness areas. This technological transformation allows researchers to capture comprehensive data and make informed conservation decisions while accessing previously unreachable locations for scientific study.
- Inaccessible Locations
- Manual readings
- Traditional Connectivity Unavailable
Extreme Environments Challenge Traditional Connectivity
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Comms Black-out in Oceanic Routes
- Patchy coverage due to terrain
- High infrastructure costs
including complete absence of cellular or internet infrastructure in polar regions, deep wilderness, and oceanic locations. The harsh conditions of these environments—from Arctic ice sheets to remote river systems—create additional challenges with extreme temperatures, moisture, and weather that can damage equipment and disrupt communication technology that has been deployed.
Connectivity gaps limit digitization in these ultra-remote locations and require analysts to continue to rely upon traditional, manual measurements, which means they are collected infrequently and offer insufficient data for ecological trend analysis
Satellites Bring Remote Locations Closer
Lacuna satellites provide a solution to the critical connectivity challenges that have long hampered environmental monitoring in Earth’s most remote and inaccessible locations.
Using direct sensor-to-satellite communication, Lacuna eliminates the need for terrestrial infrastructure, enabling real-time monitoring of water quality, flow rates, melt rates, smoke detection, sediment levels, and flood conditions in watersheds critical for environmental protection and early warning systems.
By providing reliable, low-power connectivity across these extreme environments, Lacuna satellites enable scientists and environmental agencies to maintain continuous surveillance of Earth’s most vulnerable and rapidly changing ecosystems, delivering essential data for climate research, conservation efforts, and environmental protection initiatives.
Lowest Cost Devices
- Largest Scale Deployments
- Direct-to-Satellite Links
- Long-term Dataset Capture
- Long Battery Life
- Interoperable Technology
