Part II: Tools for Optimizing Corporate Sustainability in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape

As corporate leaders face new challenges in a quickly changing world, robust data science is more relevant than ever. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing is skyrocketing at all levels of finance, and leaders and corporations face increasing pressure to be stewards of global environmental concerns.

But how do leaders ensure they avoid greenwashing? Greenwashing, or a company’s or individual’s false or misleading claims of environmental stewardship, is more than a buzzword. Companies from major industries, including forestry, fintech, and agribusiness, have the same needs: to present defensible analytics to stakeholders to provide a high level of confidence around ESG initiatives and dutifully avoid accusations of greenwashing.

“At Skytec, we understand a corporation’s needs to be aggressive in addressing environmental stewardship and support them in their efforts,” says Skytec CEO Bill Rogers. “It’s crucial sustainability officers and board members have support as they implement a plan for responsible, accurate environmental responsibility initiatives. The need for defensible analytics is massive, and there are too few places to seek help.”

In a sea of need for data analytics, Skytec’s new Ranger™ remote monitoring platform provides a figurative safe harbor for monitoring and tracking environmental initiatives.

Introducing Ranger™ for Macro and Micro Level Data Reporting

Through Skytec’s revolutionary new capabilities, Ranger combines macro and micro level data reporting and analysis for tracking around the globe to Monitor What Matters™.

“As a company, we can monitor and measure from space over time and report on change—and we bring more than three decades of experience in the geospatial and remote sensing industries,” Rogers says. “We provide this dynamic monitoring at scale because of our in-depth partnerships, including ESRI, Planet, and a global team of UAS pilots that can capture data anywhere.”

Ranger combines satellite monitoring with the highly detailed verification capabilities of unmanned systems to monitor a client’s area of interest, produce an event notification when changes are detected, and provides the option to verify with higher resolution satellite or unmanned imaging resources.

Skytec maintains a silver-level ESRI partnership, enabling technicians to employ the powerful GIS software scalable to large organizations anywhere on earth. In a similar partnership with Planet, Skytec can capture detailed satellite monitoring from space through Planet’s daily capture of satellite imagery.

“These partnerships give us a true range of capabilities to offer clients, from an organization needing additional validation and analytics to what’s going on in the field in large forestry operations to monitoring potential encroachment and plant health,” Rogers says. “Planet enables us to monitor changes and perform the analyses that an organization needs at scale.”

The Planet multispectral data feed gives Ranger users a distinct advantage. This imagery resource enables Ranger to do an almost endless amount of detailed and accurate change detection on large swaths of landscapes. When clients need data on a micro level to document a boundary encroachment or unapproved structure, Skytec can step in with its unmanned capabilities, LiDAR experience and extensive network of partners across the globe.

“Ranger provides clients with the capabilities and analytics to demonstrate a commitment to corporate sustainability,” Rogers says. “At Skytec we’re excited to arm clients with the tools to demonstrate and measure goals and progress on a global scale. We’re poised to deliver analytic results that the global community needs.”

Ready to get started with global tracking and monitoring to meet sustainability goals? Contact us today to learn more.