Yesterday, on the 55th anniversary of Earth Day, GeoOptics celebrated by publicly announcing that we are now a member of the Nature Tech Collective.

We’re an Earth observation technology company, so we recognize that natural systems on Earth and the ecosystem services they provide are critical to the biological, geochemical, and energy cycles of the planet.  We’re joining the nature tech movement because as humans, we all depend on nature for our survival – and our economies depend on it too.

Nature-based solutions are those approaches to address problems like biodiversity loss, loss or degradation of natural capital, and ecosystem function, and climate change through the protection, restoration and sustainable management of natural resources. The Nature Tech Collective is a global non-profit member alliance with a mission to advance the uptake of nature-based solutions and integrate the protection of nature into all sectors of society.

So what is “nature tech”? Nature tech is a collective term for the technologies and tools that are used to protect, restore, and enhance the natural environment. This set of technologies can help to accelerate and scale the implementation of nature-based solutions, in both pristine and managed natural systems, from coral reefs and mangroves to tropical agroforestry systems.

GeoOptics is a company made up of scientists and engineers looking to make an impact.  This spans our founding work producing groundbreaking weather data, to our newest technological innovation that pushes the frontiers of what is possible with satellite EO, using our novel approaches to interferometric SAR.  We’re newer to the nature tech space – but we believe we’ve got a lot to contribute.  We look forward to working with other innovators in the nature tech sector to protect natural capital and create strong businesses.