Mercury Environmental Systems Ltd. seeks to improve the security of natural resources and the environment through scalable, science-based ecological and environmental monitoring tools. The company was built around a novel crop yield and carbon forecasting system. Based on crop modelling and satellite observations, the system has the capacity to predict wheat yields, for example, up to 4-5 months in advance of harvest. The system can also provide advanced diagnostics on crop growth and health, along with wider environmental monitoring services (e.g., carbon accounting and forecasting). This forecasting system has the potential to have a significant impact on arable farmers, and for broader agriculture, forestry, and emerging environmental markets in Scotland and worldwide. Innovative, data-driven forecasts will help farmers to improve productivity and help reduce carbon emissions. Carbon forecasting and monitoring services will be a critical tool in helping to plan and verify land-based carbon sequestration projects at local to regional-scales.
Mercury Environmental Systems Ltd. is a commercial organisation developing value-added applications from space-based data. The company’s core offering is the provision of data to aid farming, ecological and environmental decision-making, which is produced via a crop model that is constrained by satellite data.
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