Agentic geospatial intelligence, made in Hannover
The intelligent layer between orbit and ground.
We build AI agents that connect satellites, sensors and people in the field into one system that sees, understands and acts. We start on the ground today, with centimetre-accurate surveying and Earth observation, and build towards orbit.
- Location
- Hannover, Germany
- Coordinates
- 52.3759° N, 9.7320° E
- Focus
- Agentic GIS, RTK surveying, Earth observation
- Contact
- engineering@oortlabs.space
One platform, every landscape.
Sectors we work in
- AgricultureCrop monitoring, field boundaries, drainage
- ForestryStand inventory, canopy change, storm and bark-beetle damage
- EcologyHabitat mapping, biodiversity plots, restoration monitoring
- WaterFloodplains, wetlands, river banks and drainage
- Infrastructure and energyCorridors, solar and wind sites, utility networks
Agentic GIS
The survey office, running on agents.
Agents do the repetitive work. Qualified people make the decisions. Every step is logged, repeatable and signed off.
Raw files stay on the controller until someone is back in the office.
Points stream to Oort Earth the moment they are measured.
Manual import, cleaning and coordinate transformation, days later.
Agents check every fix, remove outliers and transform coordinates on arrival.
Spot checks, if there is time.
Every point is compared with imagery and earlier surveys, and anything odd is flagged.
A PDF and a DXF by email, out of date by next season.
A live layer, exports in every common format, and an API.
Another phone call, sometimes another site visit.
Ask the data in plain language and get the answer on the map.
Four agents, one workflow
In development on top of Oort Earth, with a person in the loop for every decision that matters.
Planning agent
Turns a site and the latest satellite view into a survey plan: points, route and the accuracy each point needs.
Processing agent
Checks every RTK fix, removes outliers, transforms coordinates and builds clean layers.
Quality agent
Compares field data with imagery and past surveys, and flags anything that does not add up.
Analyst agent
Answers questions such as “where has the canopy thinned since last spring?” with the map to prove it.
Services
Three ways to work with us.
Software, field work and advice, built on the same platform and the same open standards.
Oort Earth
Earth observation and agentic processing, delivered as the files your tools already use.
- Open catalogues and commercial imagery on one map
- Vegetation indices and time series for every field, forest stand or habitat
- GeoTIFF, COG, DXF and KMZ in your coordinate system
- Organisations, roles and an API
Oort Survey
Centimetre-accurate RTK surveys around Hannover, processed by our agents and delivered straight into Oort Earth.
- RTK base station and rover on site
- Field boundaries, control points, levels and assets
- Results appear as a live layer next to your satellite data
Sovereignty consulting
Independent advice on keeping your geospatial data, positioning and processing under your own control.
- Dependency audits and exit plans
- Open architectures, EU-hosted or on your own servers
- Galileo, Copernicus and your own reference stations
Oort Survey
Surveying, plugged into the map.
We measure with an RTK base station and rover. Our agents process the data as it arrives, and the points, lines and areas appear in Oort Earth next to the satellite layers. No file juggling.
- MeasureBase station and rover on site. Every point is fixed to centimetre accuracy and logged with a photo and a note.
- ProcessAgents check every fix and transform to ETRS89 / UTM 32N with DHHN2016 heights, or to the system you work in. A qualified person signs off.
- DeliverResults arrive as a layer in Oort Earth, with exports in DXF, GeoJSON, Shapefile, CSV and KML.
- Accuracy
- Typically 1–2 cm horizontal, 2–3 cm vertical with an RTK fix
- Coordinates
- ETRS89 / UTM 32N (EPSG:25832), DHHN2016 heights, or yours
- Formats
- Oort Earth layer, DXF, GeoJSON, Shapefile, CSV, KML
- Area
- Hannover region; further across Lower Saxony on request
What we measure
- Field, forest and plot boundariesFor farm, forest and site management
- Ground control pointsFor drone and aerial mapping
- Ground-truth and sample plotsTo calibrate crop, forest inventory and habitat models in Oort Earth
- Levels and slopesDrainage lines, ditches and water flow
- Stake-outPlanned points and lines set out on the ground
- AssetsTrees, wells, drains, fences and monitoring stations
We do not carry out official cadastral surveys (Liegenschaftsvermessung). In Germany those are reserved for publicly appointed surveyors and the cadastral offices.
Book a surveyConsultancy
Technology sovereignty for geospatial data.
Who controls your maps, your positioning and your satellite data? We help European organisations keep geospatial data and its processing under their own control, without giving up modern tools.
Who it is for
- Municipalities and public bodies
- Utilities and infrastructure operators
- Farming, forestry and conservation organisations
- Engineering and survey firms
We practise what we advise: Oort Earth runs on PostGIS, STAC and open formats, in containers that can be hosted in the EU or on your own servers.
GDPR, NIS2 and the EU Data Act are part of the design from day one, not an afterthought.
Dependency audit
Where your geodata lives, which vendors could change terms or switch it off, and what that would cost you.
Open architecture
Designs on open standards such as OGC services, STAC, COG, PostGIS and QGIS, running in an EU cloud or on your own servers.
Step-by-step migration
Move from proprietary platforms to open ones without breaking the workflows your team relies on.
European space infrastructure
Positioning and Earth observation built on Galileo, EGNOS and Copernicus, backed by your own reference stations.
Research and roadmap
Where we are heading.
The same agents, reaching further: from the field, up to orbit.
Oort Position
RTK corrections from our own reference station, streamed over NTRIP to tractors, drones and rovers, with space-weather alerts.
Oort Link
Low-cost soil, water and microclimate sensors that report over satellite IoT from fields, forests and wetlands with no mobile coverage.
Oort Edge
Vegetation-stress, wildfire and anomaly models running on satellite onboard computers, so alerts arrive minutes after a pass instead of days.
Oort Clear
Clear-sky forecasts for each ground station, so laser downlinks and optical imaging are scheduled when the sky is open.
Where this goes
Orbit and ground, acting as one system.
- 01
Rovers and field sensors stream measurements as they happen.
- 02
Agents turn every measurement into an answer.
- 03
Satellites decide for themselves what to look at.
Contact
Talk to the engineers.
A survey to book, a sovereignty assessment, or an idea for orbit? Write to us. You will get an answer from the people who build the systems.