Disaitek
Disaitek applies AI to very-high-resolution satellite, radar and multispectral imagery, delivering EUDR compliance evidence, illegal dumping detection, civil works progress tracking and a Pleiades Neo foundation model to importers, public authorities and infrastructure owners worldwide.
What is Disaitek?
Disaitek is a French Earth observation company, founded in 2017 and based in Paris according to its home page, that turns satellite imagery into environmental and regulatory evidence. Its origins are in space rather than on the ground: the founding team built deep learning models to identify variable orbital exoplanets, technology validated by NASA, applied to the Kepler exoplanet database to remove false positives and now part of the European Space Agency's PLATO programme. In 2021 the company redirected that expertise towards Earth, biodiversity and climate change.
The raw material is imagery. Disaitek works with sub-metre very-high-resolution optical imagery, radar time series, and multispectral and hyperspectral data. Radar matters here because it operates regardless of cloud cover and has imaged the surface every twelve days since 2016, which makes it possible to date an event rather than merely notice it. On top sits the AI layer: deep learning, foundation models trained on VHR images, high-precision semantic segmentation and a deliberate effort to cut how much annotated data a new application needs. The company frames all of this around three pillars: remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and environment and regulation.
Four product lines are on sale. EUDR Compliance certifies sourcing polygons and monitors deforestation risk. Illegal Dumping monitoring detects and tracks fly-tipping and illegal landfills across wide territories. Civil Work and Environment follows construction progress, biodiversity and ground deformation on major infrastructure projects. The PNEO Foundation Model is pre-trained on Pleiades Neo imagery for teams building their own applications. Two further services complete the range: methane monitoring and BAMS, a Biodiversity Alert and Monitoring Service aimed at nature projects.
Delivery is either through a secure web application with named credentials, or through an API that pushes polygons and metadata straight into the customer's GIS, with full processing of each satellite acquisition inside 24 to 48 hours. Disaitek describes itself as a recognised French Young Innovative Enterprise and has been through ESA and IncubAlliance incubation and BLAST acceleration. Its home page shows Airbus, CNES, ESA BIC Nord France, EARSC, SCSNE (Canal Seine-Nord Europe), PLATO and others among clients and partners, and names a six-person team led by CEO and co-founder Anthony Graveline.
What it does
- Certify sourcing polygons in advance for the European market, ready to be used in a Due Diligence Statement (Stock Compliance).
- Declare and analyse the polygons attached to a container before shipment, with a status per polygon and for the container as a whole (Shipment Compliance).
- Monitor deforestation and degradation around plots and receive a quarterly risk report.
- Fix invalid polygons and convert formats, for example GPX to the GeoJSON required by the EUDR register.
- Detect and track fly-tipping and illegal landfills, from a four-square-metre dump to a full illegal tip.
- Measure construction progress in elevation and volume against project targets, and map trees, shrubs, hedges and biodiversity areas to metric precision.
- Produce millimetric deformation velocity maps by radar interferometry, estimate methane flow per source, and fine-tune a Pleiades Neo foundation model for your own applications.
When to use Disaitek / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Disaitek is the right fit.
When to use Disaitek
- Operators and traders subject to the EU Deforestation Regulation who must certify sourcing polygons and file a Due Diligence Statement.
- Local authorities and environmental agencies dealing with fly-tipping and illegal landfills across territories far too large to patrol on the ground.
- Owners and project managers of major linear infrastructure works who need to evidence progress, earthwork volumes and environmental compensation.
- Data and AI teams that would rather fine-tune a Pleiades Neo foundation model than annotate a very-high-resolution imagery corpus from scratch.
- Environmental and industrial teams needing source-level methane flow estimates or biodiversity monitoring over areas where field surveys and drone flights do not scale, from a few square kilometres to several thousand.
When not to use Disaitek
- Buyers who want to sign up, test and pay online: nothing is sold or trialled self-service, and every path leads to a sales conversation.
- Teams that need a budget figure before talking to anyone, since no price of any kind is published.
- Consumers and general-purpose users looking for a content generator or a mainstream app; there is no mobile application either.
- Anyone expecting continuous real-time surveillance: the cadence is 10 to 20 acquisitions a year for waste, monthly stereo for civil works and radar every 12 days.
- Procurement and compliance buyers who require published contractual commitments, such as terms of service, a privacy policy or a GDPR data processing agreement, before onboarding a vendor.
How to use Disaitek
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Start from the contact form: there is no online sign-up, and every call to action on the site leads there.
- For EUDR, ask for the free sample of polygons and its report; Disaitek's experts assess your supply chain data and identify the gaps.
- For civil works, ask for the complimentary project assessment and its recommendations.
- Supply your polygons or areas of interest, or your own existing imagery, which the platform can integrate and process.
- Alternatively, let Disaitek programme the satellite acquisitions on your behalf.
- Agree an acquisition strategy: zones segmented into low, medium and high density, at a cadence of 10 to 20 acquisitions per year.
- On construction projects, hand over the technical drawings to be digitised and georeferenced (BIM exports are supported), before monthly stereo imaging and comparison of the surface models against project targets.
- Read the results in the secure web application, with credentials per user and no limit on the number of users, or consume them through the API.
- Receive instant notifications when data is integrated or delivered by API, then export in any format or straight into your existing GIS.
- Use the support and training provided to all end users, request the documented EUDR protocol, and receive quarterly Deforestation Risk Assessment reports plus custom reports on demand.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Uniform coverage over tens of kilometres with no field logistics and no repeated drone flights.
- Radar works regardless of the weather, with an archive back to 2016 and a 12-day revisit, so an event can be dated and not merely spotted.
- A foundation model that sharply reduces annotation needs, cutting both the cost and the lead time of a new application.
- A complete chain on EUDR, from cleaning up polygons through to certification usable in the Due Diligence Statement.
- API delivery and export in any format, so results land in the existing GIS without changing tools, with an unlimited number of users and shared access between stakeholders and no per-seat billing announced.
- Processing finished 24 to 48 hours after acquisition, with an acquisition plan modulated by zone density, or reuse of the customer's own imagery.
- Public recognition and a large-scale reference anyone can check: the 2025 Greentech Innovation label from the French Ministry for Ecological Transition, selection by Airbus and CNES for the first Pleiades Neo Application Campus cohort, an award at the Assises Nationales des Déchets, and the Canal Seine-Nord Europe project.
Cons
- No public pricing at all: the Wix "Plans & Pricing" page reads "No plans available".
- No legal document is published: no terms of service, no privacy policy, no legal notice and no cookie policy.
- No mention of the GDPR, no data processing agreement, no sub-processor list, no retention period and no hosting country for customer data.
- No postal address and no full company name anywhere on the site, not even on the contact page.
- No public API documentation: the API is advertised on three pages and described on none.
- No self-service trial and no online demo, so everything goes through a form.
- Observation cadence is limited by the satellite, so this is not continuous surveillance; the site is English-only; the footer still reads "(c) 2019 by disaitek.com" and carries a leftover mailto to a third-party domain; and the French register lists a team of 3 to 5 employees.
Pricing & Plans
No price is published anywhere on the site, and no free plan is offered. A page titled "Plans & Pricing" does exist at /pricing-plans/list: it appears in the sitemap, is linked from no menu, and displays "No plans available". The only commercial terms stated anywhere are on the illegal dumping page: "Flexible Subscription Options: Choose between an annual subscription or a one-time analysis tailored to your needs." A quotation therefore has to be built with the sales team. The variables the site does disclose are the acquisition strategy, meaning how many acquisitions per year and how zones are segmented by density, and whether you bring your own imagery instead of having Disaitek programme the satellite acquisitions. An unlimited number of users is advertised, so no per-seat billing appears. The EUDR page argues for open and affordable access to geospatial data "without prohibitive costs", but attaches no figure to that claim. Two pre-sales services are free of charge: a sample of polygons with a full report, and a project assessment.
- No named tier
- no price and no rate card is published anywhere on the site.
- Illegal dumping monitoring is offered either as an annual subscription or as a one-time analysis
- with no amount attached to either.
- Stock Compliance
- Shipment Compliance and Deforestation Risk Assessment.
- Civil Work
- Environmental
- and a Risk Management domain announced as coming soon.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Disaitek handles your data.
GDPR overview
The words GDPR and RGPD appear nowhere on the site. There is no privacy policy, no legal notice, no data protection officer, no Article 27 representative, no data processing agreement, no sub-processor list and no stated retention period. What can be established is jurisdictional rather than documentary: Disaitek is established in France, therefore in the European Union, so the GDPR applies to it as a matter of law, which says nothing about whether it complies. The marketing site itself runs on Wix.com Ltd. (AS58182) and resolves to 185.230.63.107, an anycast node in New York, but that concerns the showcase website, not customer data. Day to day the platform handles satellite imagery and parcel polygons rather than personal data, the contact form and mailing list being the exceptions. The only published point of contact is contact@disaitek.ai.
Who owns the data?
Disaitek publishes no terms of service, no privacy policy and no legal notice; the site's sitemap lists nine pages, all commercial. No contractual clause therefore states who owns the imagery, the polygons or the detections derived from them, and ownership can only be settled in the contract you negotiate. Two commercial statements come closest. The EUDR page promises: "Your data security is our priority. We protect sensitive supply chain information while maintaining the level of transparency required for regulatory compliance." The illegal dumping page invites customers to integrate and process their own existing imagery within the platform, without saying what becomes of its ownership once processed.
Reuse rights
Nothing on the site describes how data is used. With no privacy policy and no terms of service published, there is no statement about reuse rights, no permission rules and no restriction on what a customer may do with the polygons, reports and exports delivered, even though the site does advertise export in any format and API delivery into the customer's own GIS. A search across the archived pages for GDPR, data protection, personal data, opt-out or training returned no match at all. The only visible collection of personal data is a Wix contact form and a mailing list sign-up, neither carrying a usage notice, alongside a Wix member area (Log In, My Account, My Subscriptions, Notifications) that implies accounts exist without any published conditions. The AI is presented as trained on satellite imagery, from Pleiades Neo, radar and multispectral sources, and not explicitly on customer data, but the site neither confirms nor rules out the latter. Treat all of this as undocumented rather than permitted or forbidden.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The site says nothing about where customer data is hosted: no country, no region and no hosting provider is named. A search across the 23 archived files for hosting, hosted in, data center, servers located, AWS, Azure, OVH or Google Cloud returned no match. The only established hosting fact concerns the showcase website and not customer data: disaitek.ai is served by Wix.com Ltd. (AS58182), and the IP address 185.230.63.107 resolves to an anycast node in New York. That is a CDN edge for a Wix-built site and must not be read as the location of a customer's imagery, polygons or reports. The closest the site comes to describing its own platform is a commercial line: "Secure Online Platform: Access our secure platform online, using personalized credentials for each end-user." The publisher is established in France, so EU law applies to it, but nothing published allows anyone to say in which jurisdiction the processing and storage of customer data actually take place. It is a question to put in writing before contracting.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Disaitek.
- No public contractual commitment: no terms of service, no privacy policy, no data processing agreement and no sub-processor list, so data ownership and processing terms exist only in whatever contract you sign.
- No postal address and no full legal name on the site; the footer carries "(c) 2019 by disaitek.com", which is a domain name and not a company name.
- A leftover mailto to Tommy@TWTechVentures.com sits in the footer of every page: a third-party domain with no visible connection to the publisher.
- The API is announced on three pages but never documented, so its real scope has to be pinned down at quotation stage.
- The .ai top-level domain belongs to Anguilla and says nothing about where the publisher is; Disaitek is French.
- The site's IP address geolocates to the United States, but that is an anycast node belonging to the host Wix, and it is no indication of where customer data is stored.
- The "Plans & Pricing" page exists and is empty: do not read it as a rate card in preparation. Likewise, the domain was registered on 16 December 2017 and the first Wayback snapshot dates from 22 July 2019, but the company's actual incorporation date is not published on the site.
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low to moderate, depending on how you consume the output. Nothing is installed: the web application is reached with named credentials. On your side you need your polygons or areas of interest, or an imagery set to integrate; on construction projects, the technical drawings to be digitised and georeferenced, BIM exports accepted. Disaitek handles satellite tasking and processing. API integration is the demanding part and needs a GIS or development team, all the more so as no public API documentation exists: technical scoping happens with the team. Support and training are provided to all end users.
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Should you pick Disaitek?
Disaitek is a niche tool, and technically a serious one. Its four product lines, EUDR compliance, illegal dumping, civil works and environment, and the PNEO foundation model, all rest on the same technical brick: semantic segmentation of very-high-resolution imagery combined with radar time series. That coherence is the company's strength, and it is backed by references anyone can check: the Canal Seine-Nord Europe project, selection by Airbus and CNES for the first Pleiades Neo Application Campus cohort, and an exoplanet detection heritage that ended up inside the European Space Agency's PLATO programme.
The weak point is not the product, it is the shop window. There is no price, no terms of service, no privacy policy and no API documentation, even though the API is advertised on three separate pages. No postal address and no full company name appear anywhere, not even on the contact page. For a buyer used to assessing software on published commitments that is a real gap, and it means every question about data ownership, retention or GDPR obligations has to be raised and answered in the contract rather than read beforehand.
Buying here is necessarily a guided process: a conversation, a scoping exercise, a quotation, and, to Disaitek's credit, a genuinely free first step, either a sample of polygons with a full report or a complimentary project assessment. That suits the audience the company aims at: organisations facing environmental regulatory compliance or the monitoring of very large territories, where field surveys and drone flights simply do not scale. The target is narrow, but it is well served.
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