# LETO SPACE: consulting for space-enabled solutions LETO SPACE is a strategy consultancy for Earth observation, satellite navigation, satellite communication and AI. We guide cities, regions and companies from the first question through requirements and provider selection to a solution in operation, and we develop the discovery platform Spacegraph. **Organisations we have worked with:** European Space Agency (ESA), European Commission, UNOOSA, BMIMI, FFG, Brazilian Space Agency (AEB), Microsoft for Startups, AWS Activate, GitLab for Startups, AI Factory Austria AI:AT, Covenant of Mayors, Science Park Graz, Vienna Geospace Hub, REGEA, energap, Codema, Digital Findet Stadt, ICLEI Europe, Burgenland Energie, LogServ, ReqPOOL, JKU, GeoVille, Floodlight, ubicube, Latitudo 40, PERI, Urban Innovation Vienna, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, GeoSphere Austria, SISTEMA, World Data Lab, University of Vienna, University of Salzburg, Sysparency, Stadtwerke Amstetten, Vilnius, Stadt Essen, Reykjavík, Stadt Wien, Braga, Guimarães, Alba Iulia, Cluj-Napoca, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Velenje, RER Emilia-Romagna, City of Treviso, Linz, Innsbruck, St. Pölten, Leonding, Tulln an der Donau, Dornbirn, Steyr, Gleisdorf, St. Veit an der Glan, Amstetten. ## Satellite data is available. Putting it to use is the hard part. Satellite data and space-enabled services are available and increasingly affordable. What holds organisations back is finding the right solution, translating it into their own requirements and procuring it. ### Finding it Providers are spread across many sectors and countries, which makes it hard to see which solutions already exist for a given problem. ### Translating it The difficult step is turning what the data can do into requirements for your own task, so that the result supports a decision someone can defend. ### Funding and buying it Fragmented funding, scarce internal capacity and demanding procurement rules slow adoption. ## From the first question to a solution in operation. Our [consulting](https://leto.space/consulting/) covers four stages, from finding the use case to introducing the solution. You can start at any stage, and each passes its results to the next. ### Find the use case Where satellite data and AI can help with a task you already have, and where they cannot. [Practice area: Strategy and use cases](https://leto.space/consulting/strategy/) ### Specify what you need Requirements that providers can answer, written with the people who will use the solution. [Practice area: Requirements and procurement](https://leto.space/consulting/procurement/) ### Procure the right solution A market scan, a tender and a clear comparison of the offers. [Practice area: Requirements and procurement](https://leto.space/consulting/procurement/) ### Introduce it into daily work A pilot with KPIs agreed at the start, provider steering and training for the team that runs the solution. [Practice area: Implementation](https://leto.space/consulting/implementation/) In our consulting work we are vendor-neutral. - [Our consulting](https://leto.space/consulting/): Four practice areas from a business problem to a solution in operation, and the choice between buying, partnering and building. - [Skills and workshops](https://leto.space/consulting/workshops/): Innovation workshops and training for the people who will run the solution. [Book an initial call](https://outlook.office365.com/book/LETOSPACE@leto.space/) ## Four kinds of client, one question each. ### Cities and regions Which solutions exist for heat, flooding, emissions and land use, and how do we specify, procure and fund them? [Climate and planning tasks we support](https://leto.space/cities-and-regions/) ### Companies Where does space data add value to sales, planning, operations and reporting, and how do we get from an idea to a pilot? [Industries we work in](https://leto.space/industries/) ### Funding agencies and ministries What does our funded portfolio contain, and what evidence supports programme design? [About R\&D Compass](https://leto.space/funding-agencies/) ### Solution providers How do buyers outside the space sector find us? [List your solution on Spacegraph](https://leto.space/spacegraph/#for-providers) ## Cities and climate: where we speak the language of administrations and tenders. Cities and regions are our main field of work. [How we help cities and regions](https://leto.space/cities-and-regions/) ### Spacegraph, our discovery platform Spacegraph helps cities, regions and companies find space-enabled solutions through a marketplace, market intelligence and the Spacegraph AI Compass. The AI Compass prototype won the "Accelerate Urban Green Transition" challenge of the ESA Acceleration Days 2025. ESA supports Spacegraph through a cooperative agreement, in coordination with the European Commission's DG CLIMA and the Covenant of Mayors. Feedback on Spacegraph from organisations in Italy, Ireland and Croatia. The statements refer to the platform, not to our consulting. **Supported by:** European Space Agency (ESA). **In coordination with:** European Commission, DG Climate Action; Covenant of Mayors. Source: From Space to City: How Space-Enabled Solutions Support Urban Green Transition, Session 2 > A truly innovative solution for public administrations. It provides rapid answers to policymakers and takes environmental and territorial challenges as its starting point - precisely the challenges the European Community is calling on us to address. > > City of Treviso, Italy > AI signposting to relevant data repositories and tools is really valuable. > > Codema, Ireland > High potential. An interesting tool for everyone. > > REGEA, Croatia ## Projects with companies in four sectors. All four are real client projects, shown without client names. All four use Earth observation and AI, and the mobility and logistics project also uses satellite navigation and satellite communication. [Industry pages for all four sectors](https://leto.space/industries/) ### Automating the sales of renewable energy systems. - **Sector:** Energy and utilities - **Technologies:** Earth observation, AI ### Supply-chain planning through analysis of global outdoor storage sites. - **Sector:** Construction and real estate - **Technologies:** Earth observation, AI ### Monitoring global traffic hubs for critical logistics processes. - **Sector:** Mobility and logistics - **Technologies:** Earth observation, AI, Satellite navigation, Satellite communication ### Automatic enrichment of an industrial company's CSRD reporting. - **Sector:** Industrial manufacturing - **Technologies:** Earth observation, AI ## Tools we built from our market work. Alongside our consulting we develop three products: [Spacegraph](https://leto.space/spacegraph/), [R\&D Compass](https://leto.space/funding-agencies/) and [LETO Academy](https://leto.space/academy/). Building them keeps us close to what providers offer and to what cities and research programmes need. [All products](https://leto.space/products/) [Spacegraph](https://spacegraph.com): Our discovery platform for space-enabled solutions, with a public marketplace and free sign-up. [R\&D Compass](https://rnd-compass.leto.space): A searchable knowledge graph of Austria's FFG-funded research, built for funding agencies and ministries. [LETO Academy](https://academy.leto.space): Our self-paced courses on AI, digital skills and space-enabled solutions, in English and German, some open, some by invitation. ## What space technology can do. A selection from our use-case library. Each page answers one question, names its sources and states the limits. - [Use-case library](https://leto.space/use-cases/): The full library, one question per page. - [What are space-enabled solutions?](https://leto.space/knowledge/space-enabled-solutions/): A short definition for readers new to the topic. * [Mapping urban heat islands with satellite data](https://leto.space/use-cases/urban-heat-islands/): How thermal satellite data shows where a city overheats, which data and satellites it uses, what a heat map delivers and where its limits are. * [Flood risk mapping and early warning with satellite data](https://leto.space/use-cases/flood-risk-mapping/): How satellites support flood risk mapping, flood forecasts and the mapping of flooded areas, which Copernicus services a city can use and where the limits are. * [InSAR ground motion monitoring with satellite radar](https://leto.space/use-cases/ground-motion-insar/): What InSAR is, how radar satellites measure millimetre ground motion under infrastructure, and what the free European Ground Motion Service offers. * [Fleet tracking by satellite beyond mobile coverage](https://leto.space/use-cases/fleet-tracking/): How vehicles, containers and vessels are tracked without a mobile network: GNSS for the position, satellite links for the transmission, and the limits of both. * [Satellite IoT use cases: connecting remote sensors](https://leto.space/use-cases/satellite-iot/): How remote sensors send data via satellite: gateways with satellite backhaul, direct-to-satellite IoT and NB-IoT over satellite, with delays and limits. * [AI satellite imagery analysis and GeoAI](https://leto.space/use-cases/ai-imagery-analysis/): How AI turns satellite images into information: object detection, land cover classification, change detection and geospatial foundation models, with limits. ## The people behind the work. Founder and managing director [Patrick Pils](https://leto.space/about/patrick-pils/) works with a core team and brings in a network of subject-matter experts for projects. - [About LETO SPACE](https://leto.space/about/): Founder, team, milestones and the organisations we have worked with. - [Press kit](https://leto.space/about/#press-kit): Logos, portrait and company descriptions in English and German. ## Latest from our LinkedIn page. Events, projects and our view of the market, as posted on the LETO SPACE company page. Page: