What We Do
"Having the support of concerned citizens, members of the public and community groups, in the evolving of Earth System Observations from space, will help 'more securely' improve the lives of Indias small holderfarmers, in our goal to enhance the worlds understanding of the vital role 'soil-carbon-sequestration' plays, in tackling the impacts on global food production and the Arctic Sea Ice due to human induced changes to earths climate."
- Donald Leonardo Banks, Icestein X Co founder
Smallholder Farmer Carbon Sequestration Tokens
Validation of Indias smallholder-farmer ‘soil carbon sequestering’ natural farming practices, can now be done through the integration of Blockchain technology, Small Satellite'Earth-Observation, and Smart Phone Camera Imagery from Small Holder farmers. This removes the need for intermediaries in the carbon markets, and allows the connecting of carbon sequestration natural farmers, directly with private climate finance funders. This has allowed the creation of our own Blockchain carbon credit registry, for the issuance of ‘SurfCO2’ (Surface CO2) ‘Earth observation-verified’ small holder farmer generated ‘smart-contract-biomass-carbon sequestration-tokens.’ Our SurfCO2 tokens are funded by members of the public and small to medium enterprises wanting to fund 'Carbon Sequestration', and deliver additional income to 'Indias low income farmers', thus helping tackle poverty reduction whilst helping combat climate change.
Our 'BIOSATS' High Resolution L and P Band Space Radar and HyperSpectral Small Satellite imaging constellation will provide 'unprecedented' biomass change monitoring of 'India' from space. This will deliver verifiable, highly accurate, and timely observations of how much small holder natural farming biomass CO2, is sequestered through Indias farmers in the most economically feasible manner, using remote sensing. From 2025, when we launch, this will be done through leveraging advancements in the algorithmic processing of our own ‘SurfCO2SAT constellation satellite data streams’. When combined with our 'geotagged camera imagery generated from farmer smart phones’ of detailed crop phenology patterns, the insight derived, forms ‘the backbone’ of our social-impact ‘smart contract blockchain digital monitoring and reporting evidence based CO2 soil sequestration EO platform’.
SmallSatellite Carbon Sequestration Measuring
Our role is to provide robust immutable Remote Sensed Earth observation insight on smallholder farmer agriculture to allow millions of those involved in 'natural farming practices’ that absorb atmospheric carbon in the battle against to sequester atmospheric CO2 emissions, to validate ‘directly’ with concerned citizens and small/medium businesses all over the world, exactly what amounts of CO2 they have sequestered on annual basis, and earn more income for their farming families. Our ‘high resolution’ digital monitoring, reporting and verification information covers detailed crop phenology, weather phenomena affecting seasonal planting activity plans, and provides extensive analysis of the overall soil health and amounts of CO2 sequestered, into the soil of small holder farms, across swathes of Indias agricultural regions. Our EO4AI insight allows the countries farmers to get paid directly by individuals and small to medium sized businesses from all over the world for absorbing the excess atmospheric CO2 emissions
Small Holder Farming Earth Observation