The Fléttan project was launched in December 2021 when we won the first place at the Cassini Hackathon, supported by the European Commission’s CASSINI Program. The team, comprising diverse expertise in biology, GIS, entrepreneurship, and programming, stood out among 70 startups and 300 participants from 10 countries. Fléttan’s winning solution focused on using satellite imagery to address soil erosion in Arctic ecosystems. This innovative approach, blending remote sensing with machine learning, won recognition from the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland (Landgræðslan) and marked a notable start for Fléttan’s journey in the “Life on Land” category.
