Why we exist.
Soil moisture is vital to our planet. It is essential for the four billion acres of crops that feed eight billion people. It drives natural disasters, including wildfires, droughts, landslides, and floods. And until recently, there was no practical way to measure it at scale and high resolution.
We looked at the commercial radar satellite landscape and saw that every existing system operates in the same frequency band. Frequency diversity is important, and leads to new insights and fundamentally different sensing. Low-frequency radio signals are unique in their ability to penetrate vegetation canopy and into soil itself. Aperture was founded in 2023 by Zach Kabelac, MIT PhD, on this insight.
NASA NISAR, now in orbit, is our inspiration. Landsat and ESA Sentinel created billions of dollars in economic value, and we believe the golden age of L-band SAR will too.
