Alternative data vendor QuantCube has created a slew of environmental intelligence products using satellite data sourced from the European Space Agency combined with other alternative data sources. As well as creating four environmental and social economic indicator services, the Paris-based company has also incorporated the new information into its benchmarking and analytical overlays. The offerings are the fruit of a two-year collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the French Space Agency (CNES), which gave the company access to its Earth observation data through its business application programme. Using data beamed from the Copernicus programme's Sentinel satellites, QuantCube is providing its clients with four environmental indicators at macro-level: The data is processed by artificial intelligence software after being harvested from orbiting technology that can take detailed images down to 30 square centimetres on the Earth's surface. Satellite technology can also identify concentrations of greenhouse gases and pollutants, including carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulphur dioxide (SO2).