Founded in 2001, HYGEOS is a worker cooperative company specialized in processing, analysis and validation of Earth Observation data.

HYGEOS carries out research and development activities in optical remote sensing. Thanks to its expertise in radiative transfer in the atmosphere, in the ocean and over land, HYGEOS performs prospective studies to help define system requirements of future satellite missions and develops in-house methods, software, tools and products to exploit the satellite imagery information.

HYGEOS is constantly innovating in connection with research institutes and academic world. This strong association guarantees state-of-the-art scientific algorithms supported by the most recent technologies to process large datasets. HYGEOS is also investing in the training of Ph.D students.

HYGEOS is participating in environment monitoring projects focusing on open ocean and coastal water, land ecosystem, solar energy, air quality, meteorology and climate.