Phase I
The sovereign platform
Ingests and serves the foundational base across agencies, in-territory, with team-scoped access. Explore →
Cartos · Vision
Geospatial equity, sovereign by design.
Cartos isn't only a product — it's the system that lets a nation stand up sovereign geospatial capability without building it from scratch. The same platform that runs a city's operations can give an entire continent an even footing to use space data for the things that matter most: how people live, how food is grown, and how they're governed.
Bringing it together
From a platform to a public good.
The three-phase arc is the engine. These initiatives are the destination: foundational geospatial capability, delivered sovereignly, where the need is greatest — at national and continental scale.
Access to high-quality geospatial and Earth-observation data is profoundly uneven — between nations, and between agencies inside a single government. That gap compounds into uneven outcomes: weaker planning, slower disaster response, lower agricultural productivity, less transparent governance.
The barrier has never really been the satellites. It's the system to ingest, govern, reason over, and serve that data to the agencies that need it — sovereignly, affordably, and without a multi-year build. That system is Cartos.
Flagship initiative
Map Africa — an even footing for every nation.
Continental scale
One foundational base. Equal opportunity to build on it.
The Map Africa initiative aims to give every African country a common, foundational geospatial base — the same starting line to use space and geospatial data to improve living conditions, drive sustainability, manage settlements and urban growth, and raise crop yields.
Cartos's role is to ease the barrier to entry. Rather than each ministry assembling its own stack, Cartos is the sovereign system that multiple agencies within a country share — one substrate, many mandates, all in-territory. A country starts producing intelligence in weeks, not after a multi-year procurement.
Living conditions
Sustainability
Settlement management
Crop yield
Disaster resilience
Government capacity
Envisioned partner categories
Sovereign capability
Development finance
Cloud & AI scale
A continental effort needs aligned backing across sovereign capability, development-finance institutions, and cloud / AI partners. Shown as envisioned partner categories for an initiative of this ambition.
Flagship initiative
UAE Base Map — the same idea, brought home.
National scale · all seven Emirates
A high-quality foundation that serves the people of the UAE.
The UAE Base Map initiative establishes a single, high-quality geospatial data and imagery foundation spanning every Emirate — a shared, authoritative base on which federal and local agencies build.
Because everyone works from the same trusted picture, government can better serve the public and operate with greater transparency. Cartos is the sovereign system that ingests that foundation and serves it across agencies, with the access controls and audit trail the public sector requires.
Public services
Government transparency
Shared authoritative data
Planning & infrastructure
Cross-agency coordination
The central partner
Space42 at the center — ingest, fuse, deliver.
Space42 sits at the heart of these initiatives: ingesting imagery from its own constellation and partners, fusing it with open and field-collected data, and delivering sovereign, results-based solutions through Cartos — where they're needed most.
One system, many agencies
A single sovereign substrate serves every mandate inside a government — no per-agency rebuild, no data leaving the territory.
Results, not just data
Outcomes are the deliverable: better settlement planning, higher crop yields, faster response, more transparent governance.
Lower the barrier to entry
Nations stand up capability in weeks. Cartos turns space and geospatial data from a specialist asset into shared public infrastructure.
How the arc serves it
Every phase makes the mission real.
Phase II
Turns data into decisions
Detects change, builds 3D, and writes auditable reports — the outcomes funders and agencies can measure. Explore →
Phase III
Reaches the ground
Puts capture in the hands of a field workforce — the ground truth that keeps the base map current and the AI honest. Explore →
Partner with us
Build foundational geospatial capability — sovereignly.
Whether it's a national base map, a continental program, or a single agency's mandate, Space42 can be the central partner to ingest the data and deliver where it's needed most. Conversations run under NDA.