Mai Intelligence

Gothenburg company monitoring forest health from Sentinel-2 satellite data and building its own CubeSat to spot bark beetle attacks earlier.

Satellite & remote sensingGothenburg, Sweden

Mai Intelligence is a Gothenburg company that uses Sentinel-2 satellite data to monitor forest health for private forest owners in Sweden. It is developing its own CubeSat aimed at detecting spruce bark beetle attacks earlier than current satellite services, with support from Almi and Region Västra Götaland. The company has also started a smallholder farm advisory pilot in East Africa.

What Boreal Tech Brief reported

  1. #05811 Aug 2026 · News

    Mai Intelligence moves from renting satellite eyes to building its own

    Mai Intelligence AB (m-ai.earth) watches Swedish private forest on Copernicus Sentinel-2 today, around 5,400 hectares by its own count, backed by Almi and Västra Götalandsregionen. The company says phase two takes it down the stack into its own sensing hardware: founder Selvin Jayakumar has brought in Simon Håkansson to build an edge-AI CubeSat, with a prototype going up over Värmland soon. The target is spruce bark beetle caught while the crown is still green, and that first flight goes to the stratosphere rather than orbit.