Hydrosat

45Mixed / Improving· Provisional

0 followersSatellite water monitoring·Washington, US·Founded 2017

Hydrosat uses thermal infrared satellite imagery to measure crop water stress and evapotranspiration at field level, enabling precision irrigation recommendations and drought risk management for agriculture and food security.

45/100

Mixed / Improving· Provisional

ClimateTicker Green Score · how it's calculated

Greenwashing risk: mediumData confidence: medium

Why it's on ClimateTicker

Hydrosat provides genuine climate adaptation value by delivering thermal infrared satellite imagery that enables precision irrigation, early drought detection, and crop water-stress monitoring at field level — core tools for agricultural resilience in a warming world. The product is real, technically differentiated, and backed by credible customers including NOAA and Bayer. However, Hydrosat is primarily a data intelligence company with a significant and growing defense/intelligence revenue line (NRO, U.S. Air Force contracts), no published sustainability report, no SBTi targets, no CDP disclosure, and no third-party ESG verification, meaning its own operational climate credentials are essentially unverified.

adaptationHydrosat monetises through subscription-based and contract-based sales of high-resolution thermal satellite imagery and analytics to agribusinesses, government civil agencies (NOAA), and defense/intelligence agencies (NRO, U.S. Air Force); it also licenses data via API and sells field-level irrigation management services through its IrriWatch platform.

Controversy & Greenwashing Watch

lowLead investor Hartree Partners is a global commodity energy trading firm

The lead investor in Hydrosat's $60M Series B, Hartree Partners, is primarily a merchant commodities firm specialising in energy trading — a governance-level association that may create tension with Hydrosat's climate resilience positioning.source ↗

lowDual-use defense revenue alongside climate positioning

Hydrosat markets itself as a climate adaptation and food-security company while holding active imagery contracts with the National Reconnaissance Office and the U.S. Air Force for national defense applications — a revenue-mix tension not disclosed in its climate-facing communications.source ↗

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