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EarthDataInsight
EarthDataInsight is Latitudo 40's web platform turning satellite imagery into twelve environmental layers — land surface temperature, urban heat islands, flood risk, carbon storage and more — so cities, insurers and investors can measure climate exposure and plan accordingly.
What is EarthDataInsight?
EarthDataInsight, shortened to EDI, is the geospatial platform built by Latitudo 40, an Earth Observation company based in Naples. It exists to turn satellite imagery into something a city technician or an underwriter can act on without being a remote sensing specialist: twelve ready-made environmental layers, computed continuously over any chosen area, and read through a browser.
The layer catalogue is the heart of the product. Land surface temperature is delivered at 10-metre resolution in degrees Celsius, and a second version supplies four measurements a day. Around it sit surface urban heat island, surface reflectivity (albedo), a heatwave risk index scored from 0 to 100 that combines hazard, population exposure and urban morphology, park cool islands ranked by their cooling effect, a microclimatic performance index for green infrastructure, carbon storage, tree cover density, tree height, building height and flood risk. The flood layer draws on Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, elevation models and ERA5 reanalysis.
Latitudo 40 describes a four-stage chain behind these outputs. Acquisition blends open data from ESA Copernicus and NASA with high-resolution imagery bought from Planet, Airbus and Satellogic, plus meteorological data and ground sensors. Processing applies machine learning and generative AI to fuse those sources, detect patterns and generate synthetic data — the publisher's flagship example being a super-resolution NDVI layer rendered at one metre from Sentinel-2 imagery natively captured at ten. Analysis produces risk identification and forecasting. Visualisation is offered three ways: an interactive web dashboard, API integration, and custom reports and charts.
Commercially the platform is sold as a subscription. A customer starts with a single layer and adds others during the term; the imagery period is freely chosen, historical archives included; nothing is installed. There is no published price and no self-service sign-up — every route leads to a quote request.
EDI is one of two live products. EarthDataPlace, a marketplace for satellite datasets, runs on its own domain, and two further products, LAURA and EnviroSensing, are announced as forthcoming. Named deployments include ENEA, Statistics Canada, Dinapsis in Benidorm and the Urban EVOLUTION pilots in Naples, Catania and Perugia.
What it does
- Measure land surface temperature at 10-metre resolution, up to four times a day
- Map the surface urban heat island effect and score heatwave risk from 0 to 100
- Identify flood-prone areas from Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, elevation and ERA5 data
- Quantify CO2 stored by vegetation and measure tree cover density and tree height
- Assess how green infrastructure performs against urban heat with a microclimatic index
- Track how a territory has changed over months or years using historical imagery
- Upload proprietary layers and cross them with satellite-derived environmental data
When to use EarthDataInsight / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if EarthDataInsight is the right fit.
When to use EarthDataInsight
- Urban planning departments mapping land use, heat islands and green infrastructure
- Climate resilience and adaptation officers in municipalities and regional authorities
- Insurance underwriters and claims teams pricing heat and flood exposure
- Banks, investors and ESG analysts assessing the climate risk of a property portfolio
- Agronomists and farm operators needing 1-metre super-resolved vegetation health data
When not to use EarthDataInsight
- Individuals looking for a consumer map, a navigation app or a basemap
- Buyers who need a published price and self-service sign-up — every path runs through a quote
- Teams needing minute-by-minute imagery, which satellite revisit cycles cannot deliver
- Anyone needing indoor, sub-surface or otherwise non-observable data
- Organisations that require a signed DPA or a privacy policy covering the platform itself
How to use EarthDataInsight
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open the product page and use "Send a request" or "Get a quote" — there is no self-service sign-up
- Fill in the contact form (name, company, email, role, phone, country, message) or email info@latitudo40.com
- Discuss scope with the vendor, who returns a subscription proposal
- Choose the environmental layer or layers you want to start with
- Define the geographic area to be monitored
- Open the web platform in a browser — nothing to install or download
- Select the imagery period to analyse, historical archives included
- Upload your own layers to cross them with the satellite-derived data
- Read the results in the interactive dashboard: maps, indices and charts
- Add further layers during the term, and pull custom reports or connect the API integration
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Unusually broad coverage: twelve environmental layers on a single platform
- High resolution for Earth Observation — 10 metres, down to one metre on super-resolved NDVI
- Historical depth: change can be tracked over months or years, not just observed today
- Incremental model — start with one layer, add others during the subscription
- Nothing to install; access is browser-based and continuous
- Verifiable public references, including ENEA, Statistics Canada, Dinapsis and the IRIDE programme
- Named, publicly identifiable technical team and institutional backing (ESA BIC, EUSPA Cassini, ERDF, PNRR)
Cons
- No published price and no self-service sign-up: every purchase runs through a quote
- Neither a free trial nor a free plan is announced anywhere on the site
- API integration is advertised as a delivery channel, yet no public API documentation exists
- No terms of service of its own; the only terms reachable govern the publisher's other product
- The published privacy policy covers the marketing website, not the platform
- No DPA, no subprocessor list, no hosting jurisdiction and no security certification published
- English-only interface, no mobile application, and the product page still links a development environment
Pricing & Plans
No free plan is announced, and no free trial is announced either. Latitudo 40 publishes no price whatsoever for EarthDataInsight: there is no pricing page — the paths /pricing and /plans return a genuine 404 — and no amount appears anywhere on the site or in the application. The product is presented as a subscription ("Subscription as a Service", "a flexible subscription model"), but the entry ticket is set case by case: every commercial call to action is "Get a quote" or "Send a request". Prospective buyers should expect a fixed-term subscription negotiated on the number of layers and the size of the area covered.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how EarthDataInsight handles your data.
GDPR overview
Latitudo 40 is an Italian company and therefore falls under the GDPR, but it never claims compliance in so many words, and never denies it either. The published privacy policy is an iubenda document last updated on 10 February 2026 and titled Privacy Policy of www.latitudo40.com: its scope is the marketing website, not the EarthDataInsight platform. Within that scope it lists the full set of data subject rights — withdrawal of consent, objection, access, rectification, restriction, erasure, portability and complaint to a supervisory authority — and names the third parties involved: Google, Webflow, Cloudflare, SiteGround and Microsoft. No data protection officer is designated, no Article 27 representative is needed since the publisher is established in the EU, and no minimum age is stated. Nothing is published about how platform users' data is handled.
Who owns the data?
No contractual document specific to EarthDataInsight is published. The only terms reachable from the product — found in the application bundle — are headed Terms and Conditions of app.earthdataplace.com and therefore govern Latitudo 40's other product, its data marketplace, not this platform. Those terms reserve every intellectual property right in the platform's content to the publisher and its licensors, and state that ordered products do not become the user's property until the price is paid in full. On the personal-data side, the published privacy policy names Latitudo 40 s.r.l. as owner and data controller, reachable at info@latitudo40.com — but that policy covers the marketing website alone. Ownership of the geospatial outputs delivered to a customer is nowhere addressed.
Reuse rights
The site sets out no licence, no reuse clause and no redistribution terms for the geospatial outputs a customer receives, so what a subscriber may do with a delivered layer or report cannot be established from published material. The only terms that exist reserve intellectual property to the publisher, and they belong to a sibling product. What the product page does state is the opposite direction of travel: users may upload their own layers and combine them with satellite-derived data inside the platform, and access is continuous and cloud-based with "no downloads, no delays" — a phrasing that puts the emphasis on consultation rather than on exporting and reusing data elsewhere. Anyone planning to redistribute, resell or publish outputs should settle the point in writing before subscribing.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
No hosting information is published for the EarthDataInsight platform: no country, no region, no data centre and no jurisdiction clause. What the privacy policy does disclose concerns the marketing website alone — it names SiteGround Hosting Ltd. and Webflow as the site's hosting and platform services, and Google, Microsoft and Cloudflare as third-party services, with places of processing given as the United States and Ireland. Those locations describe trackers and analytics on a brochure site; they say nothing about where a customer's geospatial workspace lives. Technically the website is served by Webflow behind Cloudflare, while the application runs on a separate domain on AWS infrastructure, but neither the publisher nor the documentation states a hosting jurisdiction. The one firm point is that the publisher is established in Italy, and therefore within the European Economic Area. Anyone with a data residency requirement should obtain a written answer before subscribing.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting EarthDataInsight.
- No price is published anywhere: total cost cannot be anticipated before the quote arrives
- No terms of service exist for this product — the only terms reachable govern a different Latitudo 40 product, so nothing contractual is enforceable from published material
- The published privacy policy covers the marketing website only; nothing is stated about how platform users' data is processed, retained or hosted
- Nothing is said about whether customer data is used to train models, nor about any opt-out
- The derived indices — heatwave risk, microclimatic performance, flood risk — are model outputs whose uncertainty is not published, and they do not replace ground survey
- Acting on a satellite layer alone for a planning decision or an insurance price exposes you to an undocumented model error, and the apparent precision of a map invites exactly that
- The registered office in the trade register differs from the address published on the site, and the product page still advertises a previous product generation
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Technically light, commercially slow. There is nothing to install: the platform runs in a browser, and the vendor states "no downloads, no delays", with an interface it claims suits everyone "from data scientists to urban managers". Initial configuration — area, layers, imagery period — is done with the vendor, and training sessions, workshops and online courses are offered. The real friction is upstream: there is no self-service sign-up, so getting started means a quote and a human exchange. Using the API integration requires development resources, and interpreting the derived indices requires some remote sensing literacy.
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Behind EarthDataInsight
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Frequently asked questions
What is EarthDataInsight?
What can it actually measure?
Where does the imagery come from?
What resolution should I expect?
How much does it cost?
Is there a free trial or a free plan?
Is there an API?
Can I look back in time, and can I add my own data?
Is there a mobile app, and which languages are supported?
Who publishes the tool?
Should you pick EarthDataInsight?
EarthDataInsight is a mature product wrapped in an opaque commercial shell. On the data side there is real substance: twelve environmental layers computed from a genuine mix of open Copernicus and NASA imagery and paid high-resolution feeds from Planet, Airbus and Satellogic, a super-resolution technique that pushes vegetation data to one metre, free choice of the imagery period, and public deployments that can be checked — ENEA, Statistics Canada, Dinapsis in Benidorm, the ESA-funded IRIDE programme, and heat pilots in three Italian cities. The publisher itself is easy to verify: an Italian company registered in Naples in July 2017, a named team, identifiable investors and national press coverage.
What is missing is everything a buyer normally uses to compare. There is no published price, no trial, no free plan and no self-service sign-up. There are no terms of service for this product — the only terms reachable govern the publisher's sibling marketplace — and the published privacy policy covers the marketing website rather than the platform. No data processing agreement, no subprocessor list, no hosting jurisdiction and no security certification are published, and nothing is said about whether customer data feeds model training.
That combination points to a clear conclusion. This is not a tool you evaluate by signing up on a Tuesday afternoon; it is bought as a project, through a conversation, and the contractual and compliance terms have to be extracted in that conversation rather than read beforehand. For a municipality, an insurer or a fund with a defined climate-risk mandate and a procurement process, that is a normal way to buy. For a small team wanting to test satellite layers quickly, the door is effectively closed.
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