Agriculture
Soil health monitoring at the plant level. Know exactly when and where to irrigate, fertilize, or intervene.
Autonomous earth intelligence
Ground truth at planetary scale.
Satellites see the surface. We touch it. TerraFirma builds autonomous drones that land, sample, and verify what is actually happening on Earth, with centimeter precision and on-device AI processing.
Problem statement
The data gap is costing us the planet.
Climate models are only as good as their inputs. Satellite imagery delivers 30-meter resolution on a weekly cadence. By the time you see the data, the fire has spread, the crop has failed, the carbon estimate is wrong.
TerraFirma closes the gap. Our autonomous flying wing drones deliver sub-centimeter resolution with daily revisit capability, combining vision language models with direct physical sampling. They do what satellites cannot: land, deploy a soil probe, analyze terrain and vegetation through on-board visual AI, and capture direct environmental measurements. This is ground truth — verified, timestamped, and ready for action.
Solution overview
Direct measurement. On-device intelligence. Global reach.
Direct Soil Sampling
Our retractable soil probe captures subsurface conditions directly from the ground. Direct measurement eliminates inference. You know what is in the ground because we sampled it.
On-Device Processing
Every drone carries vision language models and edge AI for autonomous operation. Imagery is analyzed, classified, and fused with sensor data on-board — processed, verified, and compressed before it ever leaves the aircraft.
Extended Endurance
Our blended wing body achieves exceptional flight efficiency for extended mission duration. When efficiency compounds across large-scale deployments, the economics become transformational.
Bandwidth Optimization
We use intelligent data compression for real-time decisions and model refinement. This architecture works over satellite, cellular, or mesh, anywhere on Earth.
Applications
Built for high-consequence field decisions.
From precision agriculture to carbon verification, conservation and restoration, wildfire intelligence, forestry, mining, environmental monitoring, infrastructure, and conservation, the platform is designed for repeatable ground truth.
Carbon verification
Direct biomass and soil carbon measurement for verifiable credits. No more satellite proxies and model uncertainty.
Conservation & restoration
Track ecosystem recovery with consistent, high-resolution baselines. Detect invasive species before they spread.
Wildfire intelligence
Sub-minute thermal updates during active fires. Ground-truth data that guides evacuation and suppression in real time.
Trust signals
NDAA compliant. US manufactured. Built in Santa Barbara.
We are building the fleet that will map, monitor, and protect the planet. If you are solving problems that require ground truth at scale, we should talk.
