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Skysense

Skysense is an agtech company that enhances agriculture by using scientific imaging from above with AI to get critical insights.
01-05-2020
Nov-50
11-50
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
  • AgTech
  • Construction and Mining
  • Crop Production Process and Equipment

Innovation

Industry Problem

Satellites may have long revisit times or insufficient real-time resolution, while aircraft are costly for persistent wide-area observation.

R&D Focus

Airship-type high-altitude platform systems; Earth observation; stratospheric endurance; optical, infrared and radar sensing.

Innovative Solution

The Japanese SkySense is developing a solar-electric stratospheric airship based on transferred JAXA technology to provide persistent high-resolution observation data.

Solution Effectiveness

The company reports a 2026 proof of concept at roughly 8 cm resolution, design coverage of 1,700 km2 per day and a goal of more than six months continuous flight. These are prototype/design metrics.

People

Founders

About

All-in-one AI solutions AI for Roofing Generate advanced rooftop analysis reports. Detect rooftop size, height, and condition. Find rooftops for repair and solar panel or HVAC installation. AI for Mapping & Drones Easily upload and process images from a drone flight into a smoothly stitched together orthophoto map. Create interactive maps and filters such as NDVI and VARI plant health, and surface models. Use AI models to count objects and classify them to reveal new business intelligence like tracking inventory and inspecting problems remotely. Learn More Custom AI development Full service solution for developing custom AI, including data collection, labeling, training, evaluation, and deploying AI models. Cloud hosted and self-hosted solutions available, specifically designed for Japan’s business and regulatory environments. Data Collection For customers without data, we can introduce a drone piloting service, find data providers, source publicly available data online, and offer a suite of data upload and management tools integrated with our data labeling and AI model deployment tools. Labeling Tools Use our full service data labeling solution provided by our professionally trained and closely supervised workforce or use our self-service data labeling tools to better manage your own internal data labeling workforce.

Products

Product

Airship-type HAPS observation platform and future observation-data service.

Star Product

SkySense HAPS airship – the sole core product and foundation for the company’s roadmap.

Demo Product or Complete Product?

Prototype/PoC stage. Roadmap shows test aircraft in 2026-2028, production/type certification around 2029 and domestic operating units from 2030.

Future Plan

Market Expansion

Roadmap targets three domestic units by 2030, six by 2031 and overseas expansion toward roughly 400 units by 2032.

Awards and Recognitions

Awards

Tokyo Institute of Technology university-origin venture certification; a founder holds a JSME Miura Award, which is a personal award.

Participations

KDDI MUGENLABO UNIVERSE support programme for a spaceport sea-area monitoring demonstration.

M&A and Collabs

Collab

JAXA – technology transfer relating to airship design, materials, control and operations.

Collab

KDDI and ASTRO GATE – demonstration for monitoring restricted sea areas around rocket launches.

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