EarthDaily Analytics Acquires SkyForest
Move Enhances Wildfire Risk and Forestry Solutions
EarthDaily Analytics has acquired SkyForest, a company specializing in wildfire risk assessment and forestry analytics. This strategic acquisition strengthens EarthDaily’s Earth Intelligence offerings, reinforcing its position as a partner for industries and governmental organizations managing the mitigation of environmental risk.
“(T)his acquisition directly supports EarthDaily’s mission to deliver advanced geospatial analytics that help tackle today’s most urgent environmental challenges.”
Don Osborne, EarthDaily Analytics
EarthDaily says the integration of SkyForest technology will significantly strengthen its ability to address key areas like natural disaster mitigation, sustainable forestry management, insurance analytics, and critical infrastructure protection. These enhanced capabilities will be further amplified by the EarthDaily Constellation’s global data coverage and higher frequency, providing improved thermal measurements and multi-band soil moisture analytics.
“As wildfires grow in frequency and intensity, this acquisition directly supports EarthDaily’s mission to deliver advanced geospatial analytics that help tackle today’s most urgent environmental challenges,” said Don Osborne, CEO of EarthDaily Analytics. “With SkyForest’s expertise, we will empower our clients with unparalleled insights into both wildfire risk and broader forest health, driving better decisions and outcomes.”
SkyForest’s proprietary analytics technology has been instrumental in delivering near real-time, high-resolution insights for forestry and wildfire risk management. The platform provides rapid, data-driven assessments that include:
Comprehensive Wildfire Risk Assessment: Industry-leading wildfire exposure metrics for assessing risk across vast asset portfolios.
Forestry Ecosystem Analysis: Detailed insights into species distribution, timber volume, carbon sequestration, biodiversity monitoring, and forest health indicators such as insect infestations and post-wildfire burn severity.
Sustainable Forest Management: AI-driven tools to support government agencies and industry clients in sustainable resource planning and harvest mapping.
Real-Time Environmental Monitoring: Normalized, cross-regional analytics with historical coverage across Canada and expansion plans leveraging the upcoming EarthDaily Constellation.
“While wildfire risk management remains a core focus, SkyForest continues to offer a full suite of forestry analytics, empowering government agencies and industry clients to sustainably manage forests,” said Phil Green, Founder and CSO of SkyForest. “Joining EarthDaily Analytics will allow us to scale these solutions globally at a time when they’re needed more than ever.”
“SkyForest has always been committed to providing high-resolution forest insights in near real-time, enabling clients to make informed decisions about resource management and risk mitigation,” said Chris Johnson, CEO of SkyForest. “By joining EarthDaily Analytics, we’ll be able to enhance these capabilities further, combining our forestry analytics with the power of EarthDaily’s Constellation data and AI-driven platform to offer unmatched solutions to a global audience.”
These capabilities complement and realize important synergies with EarthDaily’s existing disaster risk management and natural resource monitoring services, offering clients a more comprehensive toolset for managing environmental risks and resources.
The full potential of SkyForest’s capabilities will be further amplified with the launch of the EarthDaily Constellation in 2025. The constellation’s 10 satellites will capture daily, multispectral imagery of nearly 100% of the world’s landmasses and key maritime regions, delivering consistent data for AI-driven analytics to advance broad area change detection.