Summary
Lobelia Earth is an SME based in Barcelona, specializing in satellite technology and climate science. We rely on computational intelligence and data visualization to promote climate action. Lobelia Earth was born in November 2018 as the downstream-services unit of isardSAT Group, a leading expert on satellite technologies, satellite mission design and implementation as well as on proprietary algorithms for the application of satellite technology for both the climate and the environment since 2006. Droughts, floods, atmospheric pollution and climate are activity domains tackled by Lobelia. Both geospatial data and infrastructure-based services are supported by the organisation, that counts with a product development team specialized in data management and visualization, with scientists, engineering developers, designers, and business developers working hand by hand to provide valuable products in a timely and reliable manner. Lobelia has placed two products on the market: TeroMaps© technology, serving the visualisation of Copernicus and Sentinel data in the WEkEO DIAS cloud and CMEMS MyOcean Viewer. The Lobelia Air© service, an operational air quality monitoring and forecasting prototype that has revolutionised air pollution action plans in Barcelona and Madrid, and was presented in COP25 officially in favour of sustainability and smart mobility strategies. Lobelia is an active partner of the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment, (CCRI), a UN COP26 Flagship, where the company acts as a climate risk data provider to several end-to-end pilots addressing drought and extreme precipitation. In line with our mission of exploiting science and technology to enrich society, Lobelia has developed innovative and engaging initiatives for science dissemination like the UTCI story hub, the Past Climate Explorer or the stories about Marine Heatwaves and the evolution of the Arctic sea-ice. Lobelia is a pioneering company that develops insightful platforms grounded on scientific knowledge and radically new software technologies, and paves the way towards a zero-carbon economy.
Brief biography
Laia Romero is Co-founder and Managing Director of Lobelia Earth. She is responsible for systems development and operational services. Over the last 15 years she has worked extensively in Earth Observation with radar technologies, in the development and procurement of geoinformation systems, deployment and execution of services. Before joining isardSAT, Laia was Director of New Business and Innovation at Altamira Information (CLS Group), where she managed the division of R&D and Data Management Solutions. Prior to that, she held the position of Information Systems Manager, in which she managed the development life cycle of operational contracts such as the Copernicus Marine Service and commercial international contracts involving the development, integration, verification, and operations of large information systems. Laia has solid experience in project management and technical coordination in numerous ESA contracts. She has vast experience with Copernicus data and Information, and cloud infrastructure services, such as the TEPs and the DIAS. Suso Peña-Izquierdo is a Climate Data Scientist, graduated in Physics, PhD in Physical Oceanography, he has 12 years of experience in climate science research having worked in different international institutions (ICM, SCRIPPS-SIO, UNSW-CCRC, UCM, BSC). During his early years as oceanographer he specialized in large-scale ocean circulation developing an extensive expertise in working with diverse types of data sources including; acquisition and process of in-situ measurements in oceanographic cruises, collection and analysis of heterogeneous historical observations and generation of lagrangian simulations from numerical models. All this experience working with data led him to work within one of the first international attempts of establishing a standardized quality control framework for the massive and heterogeneous collection of climate datasets included in the Copernicus Climate Data Store. He was the leader of the reanalysis evaluation team (evaluating popular products such as ERA5 or UERRA) in charge of developing and implementing a pre-operational quality control service. He has been progressively interested in applied science, so he extended his data analysis expertise with a postgraduate education on machine learning which he has successfully applied in fields like weather nowcasting, downscaling of climate models and river discharge prediction. With this spirit, he joined Lobelia Earth in 2020 aiming to apply his scientific experience to solve real-world problems transforming data into actionable insights.