Environmental Intelligence

Building a digital understanding of the natural world.

Coan integrates drone, satellite, and sensor data using AI to measure, model, and monitor ecosystems — from fine-scale 3D structure to landscape-scale change — supporting carbon, biodiversity, and environmental risk assessment.

Delivered for

Defra UK

Academic background

University College LondonQueen Mary University of LondonUniversity of CambridgeRoyal Holloway, University of LondonInstitute of Zoology, ZSLForest Research

Where we work

Developed on the Isle of Man.
Applicable everywhere.

Based on the Isle of Man — one of the world's first UNESCO Biosphere Reserves — we use this living laboratory to develop and validate AI systems for environmental monitoring at scale.

From ancient uplands to coastal margins, the island's ecological complexity makes it a rigorous test bed for deep learning applied to real, dynamic ecosystems.

Isle of Man imagery

Environmental Mapping

AI-driven habitat and land cover mapping from LiDAR, aerial, and satellite data.

Point Cloud Analysis

3D analysis of terrestrial and airborne LiDAR — tree segmentation, canopy metrics, structural parameters.

Custom ML Pipelines

End-to-end machine learning pipeline development for environmental datasets.