Andrew Pylypchuk, global director of business agriculture., EarthDaily

Vancouver-based EarthDaily, a global Earth observation and analytics company, plans to launch nine satellites this year, designed to serve the agriculture sector, said Andrew Pylypchuk, the company’s global director of business agriculture.

“We already have one in orbit, which we launched in. June of 2025… These satellites will bring new capabilities not seen in the market. We’ll be able to get a daily image of Earth’s landmass.

The new satellites will enable markets such as India, Africa and Asia-Pacific, which have more small landholdings, to get the same insights the company delivers to North America, Europe and the Western world.

“The imagery will be collected automatically, and the other unique part of the satellite constellation is that we will have visual data, infrared data, shortwave infrared data, and thermal data -all on the same platform. Never before has any single satellite seen this breadth of spectral characteristics. We are excited about the new capabilities that we’ll bring to the market in the agriculture space,” he told businessline in an online interaction.

Better outcomes

Currently, EarthDaily, which focuses on long-term environmental intelligence, has been using several public and commercial satellites for the past 30 years. Now, it has begun to launch its own satellites. These satellites will be able to provide alerts on water, moisture and crop stresses.

Earth Daily is a software and data analytics company and is launching a series of satellites to power its data and analytics.

At the end of the day, these would result in fewer chemicals and better outcomes, he said. EarthDaily will tap into artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to get a better understanding of various events unfolding in the agriculture sector.

“Broadly speaking, a lot of algorithms have been designed in the past, but with machine learning and AI it will be more dynamic, and we’ll be able to make those links in a much larger space,” said Pylypchuk.

Understanding climate change

On the impact of climate change, he said innovations will help manage it. Data sets like the ones that the company puts out will be used to understand the best practices in climate shifts.

“For example, in Canada, where I live, we are seeing more corn, whereas typically it is a wheat and canola export nation. For our growers to manage corn as best as possible, they can use data that we collect over the US in the corn belt to help them understand these are the kinds of practices we need to utilise to maximise corn growth,” he said, adding the same is applicable across the world. The best practices of the world could be introduced in new areas.

People are trying to understand the impact of climate change on their businesses. Though there is a lot of information on it, there is also a lot of noise. However, people are beginning to understand some of the impacts, said the company’s global director of business agriculture.

Services of EarthDaily, founded in France, are available globally - Asia, Pacific, Africa and much of the Equatorial belt. Pylypchuk said in Brazil, the company is perhaps the one which is able to get 24 images in the rainy season. This will likely increase once the satellites are launched.

India strategy

Asked if Indian farmers will find EarthDaily’s services economical, he said the company will be looking at cooperatives and partnerships to work in countries such as India.

Pylypchuk said EarthDaily believes its data and other data combined will enable AI, ML, and a lot of the tools in the near future understand what is happening in the world.

“From these measurements, we can then come up with better solutions and make those decisions around regenerative agriculture and practices. It will help us understand how the world is changing and make better choices around what we grow, how we grow it, and how we deliver it to the consumer,” he said.

The EarthDaily official said the company looks at factors that impact crop health. It is helping companies and farmers direct their resources to where they should be best allocated. ”Again, if you think about just a plain farmer with several fields, we help them identify which fields are performing really well, where they might want to invest in crop protection, and we help them identify which fields are underperforming,” he said.

The company is also helping agronomists, retailers, and all sorts of commodity companies, insurance companies, and finance companies understand their portfolios from the very same perspective, said Pylypchuk.

Published on February 9, 2026