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On this edition of the Ex Terra podcast, we talk with Jacek Strzelczyk, CEO of SATIM, a Polish company that provides insights based on day and night satellite radar imagery that is acquired in all types of weather.

More and more, companies and individuals rely on satellite images of Earth. If you\\u2019ve ever used Google Earth, you are a consumer of such technology. Demand for such imagery, and a growing number of radar-equipped microsatellites, is driving an increasing demand for ways to use such imagery by governments and industry.

The SATIM mission is to support business decisions by transforming satellite-based radar imagery of Earth into actionable knowledge. And for that the company is building unique software that allow automatization of extraction of information on objects and changes from complex radar images.

The company works with a variety of commercial and governmental entities providing data relevant to such industries as mining and shipping to agriculture and the environment.

SATIM has been commercially delivering SAR-based results using different SAR sensors ... mainly Sentinel-1, but also TSX, Radarsat-2, ALOS. Members of the team earned their PhDs at the AGH University of Science in the field of remote sensing, computer science, geology and geodesy. The team has completed several ESA courses on interferometry and polarimetry.

Their practical experience is based both on execution on several ESA-funded R&D projects, as well as on provision of commercial services. SATIM has already served dozens of different customers, ranging from small business, local authorities, up to large businesses. Many lessons have been learned.

SATIM is affiliated with Techstars Starbust Space Accelerator program. This year, in a group of 9 other companies, they worked closely together within the Techstar network. Mentor and sponsors are institutions and companies such as NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lockheed martin, Maxar Technologies, SAIC, Israel Aerospace Industries North America and the U.S. Air Force, with support from The Aerospace Corporation.