CYNTHIA - Landscape 2 Product

From environmental landscape risk to product environmental passport, a pipeline.

September 8, 2026 · 1 min · 10 words · Arjen

WALTER - Environmental Supply Chain Risk Radar

A quarterly decision radar for navigating environmental risk in global supply chains Environmental risk in commodity supply chains is hard to understand. Regulations are emerging and changing. Climate and ecological conditions are shifting. New satellite, geospatial and AI capabilities are producing more data. Commodity supply chains increasingly intersect with questions of water, forests, biodiversity, land degradation and ecosystem resilience. At the same time, companies, investors and consultants are being asked to turn all of this complexity into practical decisions. ...

September 8, 2026 · 1 min · 182 words · Arjen

Conference Notes: Stanford AI, OGC Helsinki, and Digital Twins

Conference time. Two conferences, serendipity, long form essays, the future. I didn’t go to a lot of conferences the past few years. Let alone speak at conferences. But then I got invited to speak at 2 conferences last spring. Many good things came from both. I made a lot of notes but reviewing them I realised they don’t make much of a coherent story. But who needs coherence? Instead I present you observations, impressions and random thoughts. ...

September 2, 2026 · 10 min · 2005 words · Arjen

Why Feature Data, Not Models, Is Geospatial AI's Real Bottleneck

Scanning the surface. A preview edition. More to come. Always. There’s always more to come. And always later. Interesting stuff 1 I got an email from one of our IT service suppliers about how they joined another company for scale and efficiency reasons and how they made some changes in management. So far so good. So far all generic text and reassuring language. “Nothing will change for you”, “you can be sure you receive the quality you deserve” or something along those lines. ...

February 11, 2026 · 4 min · 689 words · Arjen