Satellite Monitoring, Marine Ecological Expertise

Turn satellite data into evidence you can act on

Marmoris supports life below water from space. We help offshore energy developers, conservation programmes, and aquaculture operators use satellite monitoring of coastal water to make decisions they can actually rely on. These are geospatial decisions: where to start a project, how to monitor it, what to change, and how to quantify impact.

Alumnus of the ESA Business Incubation Centre Noordwijk
Where we work today Netherlands Caribbean Mexico

Why we exist

Coastal ecosystems store carbon, sustain biodiversity, and support the people who depend on them, yet they remain among the least monitored places on the planet. We make them visible.

Healthy water underpins every coastal economy, from offshore wind to fisheries to the reefs that protect a coastline. Marmoris brings continuous satellite monitoring of coastal water to the parts of the sea that in-situ monitoring reaches only rarely, so the people responsible for it can act on evidence rather than assumption.

What Earth observation makes possible

One continuous view of coastal water, four things it lets you do

Satellites revisit the same stretch of coast again and again, in conditions a survey vessel cannot always reach. We turn that record into something a regulator, a funder, or an operations team can use.

Plan

Establish what has changed over time, and where, so you know what is worth monitoring and where a new project should focus.

Monitor

Track water quality, turbidity, chlorophyll, and surface temperature over time, across an area far wider than in water sensors can cover on their own.

Detect

Screen for the early signals of harmful algal blooms, ecological stress, and change, so a problem is visible while there is still time to respond.

Prove

Build a defensible, time stamped baseline that stands up in an environmental assessment or a funder report, grounded in the BACI framework, the scientific standard used in environmental impact assessment.

Built on evidence

A specialist team that works the gap between satellites and marine ecology

Most environmental data providers specialise in one part of the picture, either satellite monitoring or ecological expertise, but rarely both. Marmoris exists specifically in that gap. Our methodology is developed with academic partners and grounded in frameworks that regulators and financiers already rely on.

  • A methodology developed together with research groups at our partner universities and organisations.
  • Grounded in the BACI framework, a before and after, control and impact design used in regulatory environmental work.
  • Exploring how satellite indicators and eDNA sampling can work together to catch biodiversity effects standard surveys miss, through our IBIS project.
  • Alumnus of the European Space Agency’s Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC) Noordwijk.

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Supported by

ESA Business Incubation Center Noordwijk
Copernicus Accelerator
Netherlands Space Agency
Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)
ITC, University of Twente
NL Space Campus

Tell us what you are working on

Every project is scoped individually. Start with a short conversation and we will tell you honestly whether Earth observation is the right tool for your problem.

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